DesignInDesign Understanding the Hierarchy of Object Transparency If you select an image with the Direct Selection tool, you can lower the Opacity and change the Blending Mode of just that image without ... jeff witchel November 21, 2006 0
DesignIllustrator Making a Ghosted Panel for Text With Transparency included as a feature within InDesign, it’s easy to create a ghosted panel as a design element in your layout. But, if you ... jeff witchel November 20, 2006 0
DesignInDesign Solving the Case of the Changeable Frame I drew a Graphic Frame with my Rectangle Frame tool (F) as a placeholder for a photo that I would be placing later as a ... jeff witchel November 17, 2006 0
DesignIllustrator Export AI to PSD You can open an Illustrator file in Photoshop, which rasterizes it into pixels with beautiful results. So why would you want to Export it instead? ... jeff witchel November 16, 2006 1
DesignInDesign Who Needs a Frame Anyway? If I’m Placing a lot images in a document, sometimes I’ll inadvertently forget to draw a Frame to contain an image before I go to ... jeff witchel November 15, 2006 0
DesignIllustrator Using an Illustrator Logo as Part of a Photoshop Image I’m constantly incorporating my client’s logos into Photoshop images – on the sides of trucks, on road signs, on buildings, and most recently, on the ... jeff witchel November 14, 2006 0
DesignIllustrator Getting Around the Problems of Convert to Grayscale If you’ve been reading my tips for a while, you may remember one I wrote about Convert to Grayscale. If not, let me refresh your ... jeff witchel November 10, 2006 0
DesignIllustrator An Outline of Efficiency When I first started working in Illustrator, Outline mode (Artwork mode) was the only way to work on a file. No work could be done ... jeff witchel November 8, 2006 0