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Summary: AppClinic (formerly Quicktips for designers) covers many of the major titles in professional graphic, web and media design software in a video tutorial format. Covered are tips, techniques and best practices to enhance your design workflow and knowledge of the applications.
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We'll look at how to format a large splash page image for quick loading. We covered optimization of images for teh web a few weeks ago, and some of this will be review, but we will also epxlore cutting an image up into pieces for faster load times, as well as discuss the difference between DPI and PPI. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
Another method to creating different shapes and compound paths is to use the pathfinder panel in Illustrator. Quickly add, subtract, divide and much more to the objects on your artboard. Then remember to expand the object for maximum editability. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
Compound paths can get kind of tricky when dealing with type, or other objects that may have already been included in a compound path themselves. In this episode we'll take a look at a couple examples of tricky situations and how to work around them to get the result we're looking for. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
Getting around in tables to manipulate data isn't always the easiest of tasks. It can actually be a very time consuming process to populate table cells, so here are a few tips to get you moving more quickly. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
That's right, Image Ready is no more as of CS3, so how can you make a simple, image-based navigation in Photoshop. Sadly, you now need Dreamweaver to aide you in this process, but its still very simple. Watch to find out how! Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
Here are some keys commands you need to know to speed up your typographic functions in InDesign. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
Here are some of the steps I go through to get my images to a small size yet still looking good for insertion into web pages. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
A couple episodes ago, we talked about retrieving windows or sessions in Firefox. Well one of our viewers Matt Petrowsky one upped me and suggested a better way to do it with an addon (thanks Matt)! Check this out as well as one of my favorite addons that is a must-have for web designers and developers. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
Check out this online resource Free for anyone to use. It claims to vectorize all bitmapped images and actually does a pretty darn good job if you ask me. you can find the site here: Vector Magic. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
Here's an interesting, kind of obscure tip that can help you in times of disaster and can also be used to your advantage. iIf you want to save windows in Firefox, but don't really want to bookmark every page, watch this episode. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.
