QT: Take advantage of the sample files!
This is quite a universal quick tip to all of the Creative Suite applications. Take advantage of the sample files that comes with all of the applications in the suites. Under the program folder there is most often a folder called Samples where you can find sample files for many of the tools. Perfect if you are exploring new tools or if you teach the software. If the user has a copy of the program, the user will have the sample files!
QT: Dreamweaver extensions - Useful stuff!
Many don’t realize that Adobe Dreamweaver has got a lot of cool and useful extensions over at the Adobe Exchange site. Many can speed up your workflow a lot and add many useful tools to the program! Some of the extensions even add complete site elements!
QT: Camera Raw preferences in Bridge
Did you know that you can change the preferences for Camera Raw handling inside of Bridge? You can, if you on the PC go under the Edit menu, and on the Mac under the Bridge menu, you have an option called “Camera Raw Preferences” right above the bridge Preferences.
QT: Use the global light as blend mode in Photoshop
Did you know that you can use the global light as its own blend mode and not only in many blending options?
Just go to Layer > Layer Style > Global Light and change the default angle and altitude right there and you’ll be making a change to just the global light of the document you are in!
QT: Foreground and Background colour shortcuts in Photoshop
Some quick colour shortcuts in Photoshop that works in more of the Creative Suite applications as well! Lets say you want to switch your foreground and background colours around, instead of going to the little swap icon next to them in the toolbar, just hit the “X” key on your keyboard. If you want to default them back to the default black and white, just hit the “D” key on the keyboard!
QT: Is your marquee tool in Photoshop showing up with a crosshair?
If your marquee tool selection icon on your document, or in any other selection tool icons are showing up as a crosshair that is because your caps lock key is pressed and activated. Deactivating the caps lock will make the tool icon go back to its normal state in your document.
QT: Save lightroom edits to metadata!
If you want to save out your lightroom made edits to your photograph, just press Command + S (PC: Ctrl + S).
QT: Always open jpeg in Camera Raw
If you always want to open your .jpg files inside of camera raw, go under the Photoshop preferences, down to File Handling and tick the box “Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEG Files”.
QT: Adobe labs panels in Illustrator CS3!
Did you know that you can access two panels for services that are in the Adobe Labs. The knowhow and kuler panels are available from the Window > Adobe Labs menu!
QT: Clean up code in Dreamweaver
If you want to clean up some code quickly inside of Dreamweaver CS3, just go into Commands > Clean Up XHTML and configure to your needs.
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