Monday, February 14, 2011

InDesign CS5 - Put to use

www.thebookdesigner.com

www.isuu.com (the you tube for magazines)

www.Lonnymag.com

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Some Interesting functions of various tools

Here are some more addition to the bag of tips and tricks.
Pencil Tool
You can get to the Pencil tool option by double clicking the pencil tool icon. Divided into two neat sections-
Fidelity i.e.  the amount of anchor points that are drawn as you make your strokes.
Smoothness i.e. the percentage to which the illustrator will try to smooth out the line that you make.

Wondering why is this guy so much excited about the pencil tool. Well read on.
As long as your pencil tool is selected you can easily rework on any selected path which may or may have not been drawn by the pencil tool. Cool! :)




Align and Distribute
If you have two or more objects on your artboard and you want to align them together Vertically or Horizontally to one of the objects you can do the following -

1. Select all the desired objects/shapes
2. Click another time on the object/shape you want to align to - now this becomes your source object
3. Click on any of the align functions and the operation will happen in respect to the source object.


Transform Tool


At first glance the Transform tool (E) could seem to you as a plain old tool to rotate and scale up and down. But - wait a minute, there is more to it. If you hold down the Alt key you would scale from center outward. If you press Ctrl key you would distort it giving it a little bit of perspective. If you hold down all your modifier keys then you would end up constraining your Perspective angle to One Point Perspective.
Sweet - isn't it?

Thats all Folks! :)