I was thinking that with all this adobe talent around here, a tip of the day would be nice and handy. Sharing our knowledge of those little (and big) things that makes our life easier when working with adobes products.
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Adobe Acrobat professional:
If you want to gather several pdfs into one. Simply open one of them, click the pages tab. Then drag and drop the other pdf's in where you want them to nest.
great suggestion n-gen.dk 
Photoshop Tip:
saved Presets like Brushes, Shapes, Actions or Script can be alternately loaded by dragging their respective files directly onto an open document... example, Brush Presets are saved in .abr files, if you create a shortcut to a folder containing these files, loading them by dragging onto your document may just seem faster than navigating Photoshop menus
Illustrator pdf tip:
If you save an illustrator file as pdf, it is much larger than if you print from illustrator as pdf.
Worth noting, any multi-page pdf is saved as a single page if you "save as", but is compiled as separate pages if you "print as".
Either version is much smaller than saving as ai, however, and by default preserves all vector/ gradient info AND embeds fonts - much better than trying to email an ai file to someone.
Photoshop will open JPEGs in the Adobe Camera Raw interface, which makes tasks such as tweaking white balance a MILLION times easier.
Edit | Preferences | File Handling | Prefer ACR for JPEG
Could you, would you, with a goat?
here's one everyone prolly knows...
I find I prefer working in Full Screen Mode
the "F" key will cycle into or through Screen Modes...
however, the tip I was thinking of is...
Ctrl+Tab cyles through open documents [great trick once you are in Full Screen Mode]
Free Transform (Ctrl/Cmd+T) is the only transformation you need in Photoshop. It will perform any transformation there is: flip, rotate, skew, scale, distort, etc., by either right/control-clicking or using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, etc.) while transforming.
Could you, would you, with a goat?
Placing any adjustment layer (levels, curves, etc. etc.) over a photo and setting that adjustment layer to a new transfer mode (e.g. Screen) will perform exactly the same way as placing a duplicate of the original photo in the same transfer mode, but without the document size overhead.
Could you, would you, with a goat?
Imagenomic Noiseware rocks!
The free version only works with JPG, but it's great nonetheless. I think I paid $40 for the PS plug-in, and I really love it. Does a GREAT job on noise and grain.
Could you, would you, with a goat?
Originally posted by: mclarkson
Photoshop will open JPEGs in the Adobe Camera Raw interface, which makes tasks such as tweaking white balance a MILLION times easier.
Edit | Preferences | File Handling | Prefer ACR for JPEG
Originally posted by: arigato
Illustrator pdf tip:
If you save an illustrator file as pdf, it is much larger than if you print from illustrator as pdf.
Worth noting, any multi-page pdf is saved as a single page if you "save as", but is compiled as separate pages if you "print as".
Either version is much smaller than saving as ai, however, and by default preserves all vector/ gradient info AND embeds fonts - much better than trying to email an ai file to someone.
Originally posted by: mclarkson
Free Transform (Ctrl/Cmd+T) is the only transformation you need in Photoshop. It will perform any transformation there is: flip, rotate, skew, scale, distort, etc., by either right/control-clicking or using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, etc.) while transforming.
Originally posted by: arigato
Never even thought of using the alt key, good tip
Props to Walt for helping me find that open JPEG as RAW thing.
Could you, would you, with a goat?
David Blatner offers a couple of nifty plugins on his site at www.dtptools.com
one will install and give you a David Blatner Tip for Adobe InDesign each time you launch InDesign dtptools.com/product.asp?id=btid
and another will install a nifty InDesign keyboard Shortcuts panel or palette in InDesign dtptools.com/product.asp?id=ksin
Illustrator... Metal/Metallic Colours
Layers magazine Tip of the Day
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Tip – Use the Colors of a Metal
A few months ago I was working on both the layout and artwork for a charity dinner ad journal. As part of the ad page design, I had to create metallic borders in gold, silver, and bronze to designate various levels of donations. As a starting point for my metallic borders, I decided to take advantage of some of the vast new color resources available in Illustrator CS3. I looked under the Options menu of the Swatches panel>Open Swatch Library>Metal and discovered a panel containing Color Groups for various kinds of metal. Clicking on the folder icon of any Color Group in the panel added it to the Swatches panel. With these Metallic Colors Groups, plus some Metallic Gradients found under the Options menu of the Swatches panel (Open Swatch Library>Gradients>Metals), I had a great start on rendering my metallic borders.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider. AdobeAce@comcast.net.
acrobat.com/#/bw/BuzzwordBegin/
Adobe on Monday is set to unveil the next version of its Adobe Acrobat software, which adds support for the company's Flash multimedia technology. The company also plans to launch a new Web site offering users free hosted services for document creation, sharing and storage.
The move positions Adobe competitively against Microsoft, Google and other companies offering similar services online and signals Adobe's first major move into the hosted-services arena for business documents.
Combined, the two announcements support Adobe's broader strategy to offer rich-media capabilities through Flash and other technologies for both online and offline documents.
Adobe's new Web site, called Acrobat.com, offers beta versions of several hosted document services. They include Adobe Buzzword, a word-processing service that the company acquired from Virtual Ubiquity in September.
Adobe also is offering Adobe ConnectNow, a service that offers free Web conferencing for up to three people, and an online repository for documents. The company also provides guidance for converting documents to PDFs and will let users convert up to five documents into PDF for free on the site.
Adobe says Acrobat.com is a place where users can work with documents in the cloud, a definition that is similar to how Microsoft and Google are positioning online services they offer for free.
Even as Adobe rolls out hosted document services, Adobe Acrobat 9, the company's packaged software for document sharing, is expected to ship in late June or early July, said Kevin M. Lynch, vice president of product management and marketing for Acrobat. The software will allow users to incorporate Flash content in documents that can be converted to PDF, so any
I just ran across this one... seemed like it was slick as snot
I just hope I remember it next time something like this comes up
Layers magazine Tip of the Day
Adobe InDesign CS3 Tip – Alphabetizing a List Made Easier than A, B, C
I have a multi-page list containing hundreds of movie listings that have been typed in a totally random order. Each movie listing is in a separate paragraph. Is there a quick way to alphabetize this list for a guide that I'm designing? Yes and you can actually accomplish this tedious task automatically with a Script that comes with InDesign. Just go to Window>Automation>Scripts to open the Scripts panel. Click in any of the Linked Text Frames containing your list with your Text tool (T) and press Command+A (Control+A on PC) to select the entire list. In the JavaScript folder in the Scripts panel, simply double click on the "SortParagraphs.jsx" Script and the entire list will be alphabetized faster that you can say A, B, C.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider. AdobeAce@comcast.net.
Originally posted by: mclarkson
Free Transform (Ctrl/Cmd+T) is the only transformation you need in Photoshop. It will perform any transformation there is: flip, rotate, skew, scale, distort, etc., by either right/control-clicking or using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, etc.) while transforming.
