Thursday, April 29, 2010

Shortcuts

Photoshop: Shift + Arrow Key moves objects 10 pixels

in reference to:

"Shift + Arrow Key to move objects in Fireworks and Photoshop will move the object in increments of 10 pixels"
- Grid-Based Web Design, Simplified | Design Informer (view on Google Sidewiki)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Saturday, April 3, 2010

To get mismatched divs to line up

When the div's just won't line up and Dreamweaver isn't giving the yellow highlight clue:
In Dreamweaver:
- click the left menu "format source code" (the "paintcan" icon)
- click "code format settings"
- set the indent to 10 spaces or so and click ok.
- "format source code"
The indents are now so wide, incorrect indents should be obvious.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Crop the Art Board in Illustrator

Often the art board is too big. To crop:
1. Click the Crop tool in the toolbar (looks like a gray pound sign #).
2. Click on the square handles to move the art board in.
3. Click on either of the arrow selection tools, not the art board which resets it back.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Problems creating PDF from Photoshop

While trying to save a document as a pdf in photoshop, I received this error: "could not save a copy because of a program error" on two computers. No matter if I tried to print to Adobe or save as PDF.

Quick research online had me try to write to a different drive, and another suggested to rename the preferences file.

The first definitely didn't work. Perhaps getting rid of the perferences helped but not right away.

One change I definitely made was uncheck the bounding box and fool around with various other settings. Got it working on one computer (HP laptop). Tried to recreate the situation, but will just leave it for good enough now.

By the way, the document was my resume. Note I didn't claim expertise in pdf creation.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Interesting analytics service

http://www.radabg.com/url/whitehouse.gov/

A site that includes an analysis of the number of malicious websites also hosted on the same servers that host the site in question. (Not so relavent for the white house.)