Photoshop
Illustrator 
Dreamweaver
Flash
InDesign
After Effects
Premiere Pro
Is there a command that allows you to jump to any page in InDesign like there is in Quark? Yes! But don’t expect a dialog to open like in QuarkXPress. Simply press Command + J (Control + J on PC), which highlights the page number at the bottom of your window. Then type in the [...]
Unlike InDesign, in Illustrator, all Guides are locked. What if I have to select and move a Guide? How can I Unlock it? The key to unlocking Guides is hidden under the View menu > Guides > Unlock Guides. After the Guide is Unlocked, it can be selected and moved like any other Illustrator object. [...]
The Tools palette doesn’t retract into the side of the screen like other palettes. Some users find it to be too wide and it’s constantly getting in their way. To trim down the palette to a thinner size, simply change your Preferences. Go to the InDesign menu (Edit on PC) > General, and in the [...]
I was drawing a series of white-Filled shapes with red Strokes of various widths. At a certain point, I decided to apply an Effect to the Strokes of all the shapes. I selected all of the objects (Edit > Select All) and immediately discovered a problem. There was a question mark in the Fill Box [...]
You just copied eight pages of text from an existing InDesign document and would like to paste it into a new InDesign document which has a single page with a Master Text Frame (which of course is locked). How can you paste the copy into the new document so that it will flow from page [...]
As part of a recent design project, I needed to draw a bunch of rectangles, ovals and Text Frames. The problem was that these objects needed to be drawn at a 45° angle. Of course, I could have rotated all the objects after drawing, but that takes extra work. Is there an easier way? A [...]
I have four text frames running vertically down my page. I’d like to have an equal amount of space between my blocks of text. I’m sure the Align palette (Window > Object & Layout > Align) will have just what I need. First, I go to the Options flyout menu of the Align palette to [...]
InDesign users who are just beginning to use Illustrator might find adding Spot Colors a little confusing. Unlike InDesign where you can add a Spot Color by going to the New Swatch Color under the Options menu of the Swatches palette, in Illustrator you need to open a whole Spot Color palette to add one [...]
Hidden under the Type menu, inside the Insert White Space submenu, you’ll find all the space you could ever want. I will be covering lots of these exacting spaces in upcoming tips, but today I will concentrate on just two – the Em Space and the En Space. You could assume, like I did, that [...]
You could format bullet copy the traditional way by using a Left Indent and a negative First Line Indent in the Paragraph palette. But there is a faster, more powerful way to format the most elaborate bullet styles hidden under the Paragraph palette’s Options arrow menu: Bullets and Numbering. Select it and see for yourself. [...]
