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Design tip bits: June 2009

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Friday, June 12, 2009. Illustrator tip: Resizing your artboard in CS4. This tip is only for CS4 users. (IMHO it's worth getting if you don't have it yet ). Say you've made an illustration on an A4 sized artboard, but your illustration is a lot smaller and you want to get rid of the excess white paper. That can easily be solved. In the example below the black stroke is the A4 paper. 1 Draw a rectangle on top of the illustration. This will be your new page size. Make sure the rectangle is selected.

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Design tip bits: January 2009

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Monday, January 19, 2009. In this first blog I will show you a few useful tips for keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop. Comand / Control means Mac users hold down the command key and PC users the Control key. New layer with dialogue box - Shift Command/Control N. New layer with out dialogue box - Shift Alt Command/Control N. Move layer down - Command/Control [. Move layer up - Command/Control ]. Move to bottom most layer - Command/Control shift [. Move to top most lay er - Command/Control shift ]. Hard light...

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Design tip bits: May 2009

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Live paint is an function in Illustrator which in my opinion doesn't get enough attention and it is a powerful tool. Pathfinders cut the shapes into separate shapes whereas live paint leaves the objects editable it's non destructive. Here's a simple example of a simple info graphic illustration made with live paint showing the average beer consumption. 1 I drew a typical dutch beer glass. 2 With the pen tool i drew a line marking the top of the beer (beer line). Ik geef direct to...

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Design tip bits: November 2008

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008. What a time saver the Autocorrect function has become for someone like me who has never had a formal typing class. Although I do use more then 2 fingers, I doubt I am even half as fast as the worst typist, on sleeping pills. 1 In the InDesign menu go to Preferences Autocorrect. 2 Check the Enable Autocorrect button. 3 Select your language and make sure your document is also set to the same language. 4 Click Add and fill in the fields and click OK. Okay, so check spelling may...

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Design tip bits: October 2008

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Friday, October 31, 2008. Now before the fun stuff, (it is Friday), I would like to ask you a question. In Photoshop there is a preference that I do not really see the benefit of. The Use Grayscale Application Icon. You can find it in Preferences Interface …. The only thing that turns gray is the little PS icon. Does anyone know what the reason is for this preference? And now some "fun" and cool sites. From here you can go to the crumpler bags site which is a lot of fun. Tuesday, October 28, 2008. Of cou...

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Design tip bits: Fun Friday

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Friday, January 22, 2010. My thanks to plan2ontwerp. Have a great weekend. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Graduate of Parsons School of Design, New York and now working and living in Rotterdam. Started a design company with my partner and design guru Rudi. Our work can be seen at www.5up.nl. View my complete profile. Http:/ www.5up.nl. Illustrator tip. Quick cool waves.

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Design tip bits: March 2010

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Drawing twirls in Illustrator. In Illustrator you can make your own brushes which makes it so much easier to draw twirly branches and twirls in general. Here's a tut about how to make fancy twirls in Illustrator. First of all draw a nice curvy line with either the pen tool or which ever tool you prefer. Illustrator will join the two lines. If the anchor points are on top of each other then a 'Join' panel will appear. Select the option smooth. Now we are going to make a brush.

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Design tip bits: January 2010

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Friday, January 29, 2010. It's fun friday and this film is sooo funny. We see it all the time on TV. The clicking sound of a keyboard and then 'Access denied' flashes across the screen. I don't know about you, but I have never seen that (but it could be a mac thing). And then the exclamation 'Yes, I'm in'. In where? And don't we all love it when they enhance the image or zoom in on a low res picture and the image becomes so clear that they can identify the suspect in the reflection of a window. Double cl...