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My Two Favorite Photoshop Shortcuts

Design

Everyone uses Photoshop differently, it is one of the great things about a well designed tool. I love showing a new Photoshop user a few basic tricks and watching them tackle problems in completely unique ways.

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05/08/201906/15/2020 nickfolz Tagged Design, Photoshop, Shortcuts

Spot Color

color, Design, Printing

Spot colors can be a super useful tool, especially as a cost saving device for the customer.

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04/27/201906/15/2020 nickfolz Tagged Design, Layout, Pre-Press, Printing, Spot Color

Fonts: Time to Get Personal.

Design, Fonts

Everyone suddenly has a lot of opinions about fonts. It used to be designers and artists trashing Comic Sans and Bradley Hand, after a few years Helvetica had a pop culture following. People got tattoos, it was serious.

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04/13/201906/15/2020 nickfolz Tagged Design, Fonts, Layout, typography

Cut the Repetition: Image Processing with Actions.

Design


So you inherited a file with thousands of high res jpegs that need to be resized for web use, great. You could spend the week mindlessly resizing them one by one, or do it once and have Photoshop do the rest of them. 

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04/12/201906/15/2020 nickfolz Tagged Actions, Adobe, Design, Graphic Design, How to resize multiple images at once, Photoshop, Resizing images, Scripts, Time Saving Tips

Rich Black: How to Print Better Looking Blacks.

Design, Printing

Ever print something that had a large black graphic that looked terrific on your screen but dull and grey on the print out? Time to learn about Rich Black, or how to get your darks their darkest.

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04/12/201906/15/2020 nickfolz Tagged Black, CMYK, Design, How to print black darker, offset, Print, Rich Black

Why a Bleed Costs More and When to Splurge

Printing

Ever see those slick one-sheets that are covered with a photo that runs all the way to the edge of the paper? That’s because it was printed with a bleed.

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04/11/201906/15/2020 nickfolz Tagged Bleed, Full Bleed, Paper Weight

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