Creative Toolbox

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If only Adobe would open source the codebase or at least listen to the users and incorporate the features they miss into Illustrator. Paste as Mask still doesn’t quite work as easily as it always did in FreeHand.

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People probably think I'm a little nuts for following this practice as well, but once you see it, you can't unsee it.

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This is great. I've been looking forward to trying out Proto for a while.

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Adobe HTML Apps Working Together

I'm really excited to see Adobe Proto come out and Adobe Edge is looking like a really interesting tool.

Mike McHugh wireframes a mobile site using Adobe Proto & opens the HTML output in Adobe Edge to add animation. He then creates some SVG graphics in Illustrator, applies animations, and roundtrips the graphics back to Illustrator. (Skip past the first minute.)

John Nack on Adobe : Demo: Adobe HTML apps working together.

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Adobe Proto to Edge and Illustrator

Watch the future of web design as this video shows how you can use Adobe's Touch App, Proto, in concert with Edge and Illustrator to make your web design ideas come to life in a matter of minutes.

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35 Adobe InDesign Tutorials - Enhance your Print Medial Skills

35 Adobe InDesign Tutorials - Enhance your Print Medial Skills | Tutorial Lounge.

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Create a halftone-dot effect in Illustrator

Accomplishing a halftone dot effect in Photoshop my be pretty easy but creating this effect in Illustrator may be a bit more tricky to figure out. This tutorial walks you through the steps to achieve this effect.

Create a halftone-dot effect in Adobe Illustrator.

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Adobe Announces Even More New Features for Photoshop

Adobe Announces Even More New Features for Photoshop at Event in NYC | Psdtuts+.

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Free Fully Layered Macbook Air in Photoshop

A nicely crafted and fully layered Photoshop document of a MacBook Air. This is my Mac of choice these days and can't say enough of how great they are now.

Jonathan designed this PSD at a much larger size than you see in the preview, the screen area is 820px x 530px which should give you plenty of options.

Free Fully Layered Macbook Air PSD | Premium Pixels.

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Photoshop Touch hits iPad 2 for $9.99

Photoshop Touch comes to iOS for the iPad 2. This is an exciting release. It doesn't have everything in Photoshop for the desktop of course but that's pretty much what's so great about it.

The first in a series of six touch-optimized apps (the other five are Collage, Debut, Ideas, Kuler and Proto), it supports Photoshop layers—arguably the basic and most-oft used Photoshop feature. With simple finger gestures, users can combine multiple photos into layered images, make popular edits, and apply professional effects. It also provides advanced selection tools and adjustments.

Adobe Photoshop Touch hits iPad 2 for US$9.99 | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence.

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Working with Guide Tool in Illustrator

The guide tools have been around for quite a while in Illustrator. They are extremely flexible since they go well beyond your traditional horizontal and vertical guides. In this tutorial, learn how to take advantage of the lesser known uses for guides.

Graphic Identity: Working with Guide Tool in Illustrator.

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How to Whiten Teeth in Photoshop

Photoshop may be able to help you with whiter teeth but it's not going to help you with fresher breath.

Contributor Tutorials: How to whiten teeth - YouTube.

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10 Resources to Download Free Fonts

If you haven't had a chance to look into this, it turns out that technology and a bit of cleverness has finally made it possible to use custom fonts on the web. What's more, there's tons of great free web fonts resources to get you started with your next project.

10 Websites to Download Free Fonts: | Concept Dezain.

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Design a Vector Ticket Icon in Illustrator

Here's a great tutorial on designing a movie ticket from scratch in Illustrator. Included are some great tips on using the Pathfinder feature with Compound Paths.

Create a Vector Ticket Icon in Illustrator | Vectortuts+.

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Sneak Peek 4: Photoshop CS6 Content Aware Fill

Some really amazing new features find their way into the already amazing Content Aware features in Photoshop CS6.

Sneak Peek #4 - YouTube.

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How to Make Your Type Appealing on the Web

This is a great write up about how to really think about the visual hierarchy of your design when it comes to content and layout.

It’s not uncommon for a designer in today’s world to pay little attention to how type is laid out, especially with the ever-so-convenient default settings of heading tags and web safe fonts found universally on the web.

How to make your type more appealing on the web | Webdesigner Depot.