Tag Archives: CS3

Flattening Transparency Properly When Using Layer Appearances in Adobe Illustrator

Posted on April 17, 2009 by George Coghill

For longer than I can remember, I have been flustered with the Flatten Transparency feature in Adobe Illustrator CS3 and CS4. Very often I use the excellent Layer Targeting feature introduced into recent versions of Adobe Illustrator, however I found … Continue reading →

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Photoshop Cheatsheets and Reference Cards: Free Downloads

Posted on November 25, 2008 by George Coghill

Great resource for Adobe Photoshop users — reference cards for quick overviews of Photoshop’s interface, specific and often-used tools. Includes links to versions for Photoshop CS3 and CS4 as well as both Macintosh and Windows versions. Some of the “cards” … Continue reading →

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Creative Suite CS4: Custom Keyboard Shortcut Woes

Posted on November 13, 2008 by George Coghill

Just a quick tip for those out there getting ready to upgrade to the new Adobe Creative Suite CS4: I discovered after the upgrade that CS3 customized keyboard shortcut files do not transition into CS4. This is a huge bummer, … Continue reading →

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10 Free Adobe Illustrator Scripts

Posted on October 9, 2008 by George Coghill

Vectips has a post with 10 Free and Extremely Useful Illustrator Scripts. Illustrator supports scripting from AppleScript, Visual Basic, JavaScript, and ExtendScript. What’s a script you ask? We’ll they’re kind of like plug-ins, kind of like Actions. Basically they are small … Continue reading →

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Setting Up Bleeds For Print Design In Creative Suite

Posted on August 27, 2008 by George Coghill

Although technically these tips apply to any graphics software, this particular tutorial over at Spoon Graphics focuses on the exact steps to set up bleeds for print design in your document within Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. The method to do so in … Continue reading →

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Adobe Software: Switching From Windows To Mac (or vice versa)

Posted on August 25, 2008 by George Coghill

I didn’t know about this – and don’t ever plan to switch to Windows – but I thought it might be worth passing on the info that you can indeed switch from Windows to Mac (or Mac to Windows if that’s … Continue reading →

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Free ‘Flatting’ Photoshop Plugin For Comic Artists

Posted on July 30, 2008 by George Coghill

Just stumbled across these handy – and free – Photoshop plugins which should be a huge time-saver for comic artists who ink & color their pages in Photoshop. A process also known as ‘flatting’. These have to be a huge … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X 10.5.4 fixes Adobe CS3 ‘Save To Networked Volume’ Bug

Posted on July 1, 2008 by George Coghill

Update to my previous post about the bug in Photoshop CS3 and other Adobe CS3 apps under Mac OS X 10.5.3 where saving a file to a networked drive will result in a corrupt file. Supposedly this has been fixed under … Continue reading →

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Photoshop Bug: Corrupt Files When Saving To Network Volume On Mac OS X 10.5.3

Posted on June 18, 2008 by George Coghill

I just came across a serious bug in Photoshop CS3 under Mac OS X 10.5.3 (the newest version as of this post). Seems saving a file to a networked drive will result in a corrupt file. I found this out … Continue reading →

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Mac Vector App Showdown

Posted on May 14, 2008 by George Coghill

A good, informative post over at TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) comparing low-cost vector software applications for Mac OS X by indepedent developers. The review is specifically comparing tools and techniques available in Adobe Illustrator CS3. The comparison covers four applications: … Continue reading →

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InDesign CS3 & Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”: The Good, The Bad & The Not-Too-Shabby

Posted on May 6, 2008 by George Coghill

A while back I was ranting about the myriad issues I had been reading about concerning Adobe InDesign CS3 and Apple’s (then) new operating system Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”. I am happy to report that upon upgrading to 10.5, and using InDesign CS3, everything has … Continue reading →

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Fill Vector Paths Old-School Paint Bucket Style in Illustrator CS3

Posted on January 31, 2008 by George Coghill

If you are like me and you are wondering why in the world Adobe decided to eliminate the previous functionality of the Paint Bucket tool in Illustrator CS3 with the introduction of the new ‘Live Paint Bucket’ tool, fear not … Continue reading →

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Even More CS3 & 10.5 Leopard Issues: Photoshop CS3

Posted on January 15, 2008 by George Coghill

I just stumbled across some more Creative Suite 3 issues on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, on the Adobe support site Photoshop page. Supposedly this will be fixed by an OS X update, not an Adobe update (and Adobe and Apple … Continue reading →

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Essential Adobe Illustrator Plug-in: Select Menu

Posted on January 13, 2008 by George Coghill

A plugin that I always forget to tout, since the functionality it provides seems so intrinsic to Illustrator once it’s installed, I forget it’s a third-party enhancement. Select Menu for Adobe Illustrator (Mac and Windows, free) from Graffix Software is available … Continue reading →

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More CS3 Problems On Leopard

Posted on January 10, 2008 by George Coghill

James Demsey over at design blog The Creative Mac (formerly The Creative Guy) posted some additional issues with Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Mac OS X 10.5. Seems in addition to the Open/Save/Place issues I mentioned earlier, copying vector art from … Continue reading →

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