Reset Mac OS X Lion's 'annoying' page scrolling
July 21, 2011
I wouldn't exactly call myself an old-fashioned guy, but I'm a little surprised at how long it's taking me to get accustomed to one of the minor little tweaks in OS X Lion, the new version of Apple's Mac operating system that launched today. I'm talking about page scrolling, which Apple has just inverted by default, and the newly tweaked feature can take more than a little getting used to.
Historically, in most desktop operating systems, rolling a mouse wheel or sliding your fingers on a trackpad has made the contents of your active window scroll in a consistent direction. Rolling the mouse downward (toward you) scrolled up, while rolling it upward (away from you) scrolled down. In Lion, this has been inverted so that rolling the wheel (or sliding your fingers on the trackpad) downward moves the content down, and rolling upward moves the content up.
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QuarkXPress 9 tip: Create an outline style
May 20, 2011
If you want to create a custom indented list style, choose Edit > Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles, then choose Outline Style from the New button in the resulting dialog box.
The Edit Outline Style dialog box displays, giving access to nine levels for each outline style. You’ll see that each level of the outline style has an indent value, which can be changed. Each indent is applied cumulatively and all outline style indents are applied on top of paragraph indents. There’s also the choice of Bullet or Numbering style (or None) and a number separator setting for each level.
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QuarkXPress 9 tip: Bullets, numbering, and outline lists
May 19, 2011
Instead of manually inserting bullets and numbers and then manually formatting paragraphs to accommodate them, you can select your list and click on the Paragraph Attributes in the Measurements palette.
Click on the menu next to the •123 icon for options to choose a bullet, number or outline list (with a further choice of numbered, bullet and plain styles). You can also control how such lists behave by choosing Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles from the Edit menu and choosing Edit. You can choose how the element should look, what formatting it should have, how far it should be from the text, and how it should be aligned.
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QuarkXPress 9 tip: Blio Interactivity
May 18, 2011
To add an interactive slideshow to a Blio ebook, draw a picture box on your active layout.
In an external folder, number the picture files in the order you want them to appear. Using the Save Picture feature (File > Save Picture), resize and crop the pictures so that when you import them at a scale of 100%, they fit perfectly in the picture box. Select the picture box and choose Item > Digital Publishing > Edit Interactivity. Choose slideshow from the Type drop-down menu in the Interactive Attributes dialog box. Click Attach and select the folder that contains the picture files, then click OK.
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QuarkXPress 9 tip: Unlink with Linkster
May 17, 2011
Linkster offers a new and more advanced way to unlink text content.
First, select the items you want to unlink. Next, choose Utilities > Linkster to display the Linkster dialog box. Click Selection, click Unlink, and then choose one of four options. The first option creates three stories: one for the boxes before the selected box, one for the selected box, and one for the boxes after the selected box. The other three options create two stories by combining the stories before or after the selected box, with or without the selected one – the dialog box displays icons that simplify your choice of options.
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QuarkXPress 9 tip: Build catalogues with ImageGrid
May 16, 2011
The ImageGrid feature in QuarkXPress 9 can automatically build catalogues of images with a variety of layout and labelling options.
To create such a grid within an active layout, choose Utilities > ImageGrid to display the ImageGrid dialog box. You can specify how many rows and columns should be included in the grid, manually specify the size of the boxes, or click AutoSize to allow the application to size the boxes to fit automatically. Using the Add picture info checkbox, each image can be captioned with its filename, resolution, dimensions, colour model, and format. An automatic drop shadow can also be added to the picture boxes.
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Video Tip: Extract still images from any video
April 6, 2011
This might sound familiar. You’re recording video on your digital stills camera, pleased that it has a movie capability as well as its stills photo facility.
Then, when you get home, you pause the video mid-edit and realise that a particular frame would make a great picture. If only you could save that single frame as a still image, you’d have a usable picture. Fortunately, there are several ways to do just that.
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Photoshop Tip: Give your artwork a comic book look
March 24, 2011
Thinking of making a comic book out of your artwork or photos? Maybe you’d like to make a calendar with a gritty vibe? With minimal effort, you can approximate the print style of old comic books. These steps are for Adobe Photoshop CS5, but they’re similar for earlier versions.
1. Open your photograph or artwork in Photoshop CS5. (Always make a backup of your original.) The image can start out at any size; however, once you’ve applied the technique, you can downsize the image.
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Photoshop Tip: Top of the stack
February 9, 2011
It’s easy to lose track of elements and effects in Photoshop’s or Illustrator’s layer stack if you’re not careful.
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Photography Tip: Capture amazing images in Raw mode
February 3, 2011
There are many advantages to shooting Raw images, from making edits that are impossible with JPEG images, to the ability to easily alter white balance.
The term Raw simply refers to the fact that the data in a Raw image file has not been processed by the camera. To turn that into a usable image, you must still put the file through all the processes your camera employs when you shoot in JPEG mode (calculating colour, determining white balance, sharpening), but these steps are performed through raw converter software, such as Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto, or Photoshop Camera Raw.
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iMovie Tip: How to use News and Sports themes
February 1, 2011
Simply click the File menu and choose New Project and iMovie opens the Project Themes window, which includes News and Sports themes with all the titles and fancy transitions you need to get started.
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iMovie Tip: How to fix wobbly video
January 31, 2011
A moving camera may produce distorted results.
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iMovie Tip: How to add one-step effects
January 28, 2011
There’s a selection of funky effects you can access from the Clip menu.
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iMovie Tip: How to edit audio
January 27, 2011
With a project loaded, click the new Audio Waveforms button at the bottom of the window.
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iMovie Tip: How to make drag and drop trailers
January 26, 2011
Open the File menu and choose New Project and you’ll see 15 trailer templates under the iMovie Project Themes.
Tip of the Day | Rob Beattie | Read more...
iMovie Tip: Analysing video for people
January 17, 2011
iMovie can recognise people, but it’s a two-step process.
Tip of the Day | Rob Beattie | Read more...
iMovie Tip: Find people
January 14, 2011
You can now click the purple person button to show or hide segments of video that don’t have people in them, or be more specific by opening the iMovie menu, choosing Preferences, then selecting Show Advanced Tools.
Tip of the Day | Rob Beattie | Read more...
iMovie Tip: Facebook videos
January 13, 2011
Want to share your finished movie with friends on Facebook?
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iMovie Tip: Use the timeline view
January 12, 2011
By default, iMovie displays Projects in the top window and Events at the bottom.
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iMovie Tip: Add audio effects
January 9, 2011
We’ve already seen how to alter volume levels in iMovie ’11, but you can also add effects such as reverb and echo.
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