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Color Inspiration using the Kuler panel in Illustrator
Video Length: (3:35)
Covers: Illustrator CS3+ (and other Adobe apps)
I find myself wanting color inspiration and looking on the web for it. Well, built into Adobe Illustrator is a panel called the Kuler panel. This panel allows you to search color themes for inspiration that you can download s swatches into your Illustrator artwork. You can even share your colors with the Kuler community!
In this Illustrator video tip, I'll show you how to access the Kuler panel, search colors, use them in your atrwork and upload your own colors for sharing.
Play YouTube videos in a PDF!
Video Length: (6:46)
Covers: Acrobat 9+
There's LOTS of cool things we can do with PDF files, especially from Acrobat 9 and later with Flash running natively. I found a widget for Acrobat made by Joel Geraci (http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/2011/05/youtube-widget-for-acrobat-updated-finally.html) that allows you to play YouTube (using the embed code) in a PDF! I'll show you how easy it is to get working. It requires Acrobat 9 or later.
Keyboard shortcuts for perspective drawing in Illustrator
Video Length: (6:53)
Covers: Illustrator CS5+
The Adobe Illustrator CS5 perspective grid feature is one of my favorites. I can't always force it into a project, but when I can use it, it can go much faster if you use shortcuts.
In this video tip, I'll show you how to use shortcuts to show/hide the grid, duplicate content, duplicate and move objects perpendicular, pasting inside of objects on the grid and more.
Apply effects shortcut in Adobe InDesign
Video Length: (1:54)
Covers: InDesign CS4+
If you work with Effects within InDesign, then you probably have wanted to apply the same effect(s) to other content within your InDesign document.
In this short video tip, I show you how you can drag and drop effects onto objects.
Turn off object highlight with Selection tool in Adobe InDesign
Video Length: (1:16)
Covers: InDesign CS5.5
If you have InDesign CS5 or CS5.5 and you work with the selection tools (duh), then you probably noticed that when you position the pointer over an object, it's frame highlights. This can be useful at times, but you should be able to turn it off, right? In InDesign CS5.5 (new), you CAN turn it off (unlike CS5. I'll show you how (it's an easy preference setting).
HTML email styling shortcuts in Dreamweaver
Video Length: (5:20)
Covers: Dreamweaver CS4+
For those of you that work with HTML email in Dreamweaver, there are lots of ways to work faster using the built in tools.
In this video, I'll take you through inline styling with CSS using the editing tools.
I'm a seasoned web developer and web and print technology trainer, and an Adobe Certified Instructor in Acrobat X Pro, Illustrator CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, InDesign CS3 and Photoshop CS3.
