“How to” blog posts about graphic design, web development, and software and tools that help designers and developers be productive.
As a designer working in print publications, getting your quote marks correct is imperative for good typography. As a rule of thumb, in your print graphic designs, you always want to use the typographer’s quote, or the curly quote. Here's how to ensure you’re using the right quote marks in Adobe InDesign.
By default, WordPress menu settings are limited, and the options to see more are hidden. Here's where to look to find optional additional Menu property settings.
Sometimes a little digital clean-up is just what the doctor ordered. Today included tackling removing unneeded Google Chrome profiles.
In this scenario, I needed to record a virtual meeting that had a physical phone number call-in and a Teams login for sharing the presentation. Here's how I did it using Google Voice, Microsoft Teams and Quicktime.
Learn how to quickly be able to import webm video formats into Adobe Premiere on your Mac.
As a designer, I'm asked more than I'd like to admit if I can please send the PDF and the Word document for review. In this scenario, my designs typically come from Illustrator, InDesign, and sometimes are coded websites. But...did you know I always quickly (and easily) give my clients exactly what they asked for -- a PDF and a Word document. Here's how.
I've been using Photoshop for almost 25 years, so changes sometimes throw me for a loop. Recently, in my version 23.3.1 release, new documents stopped automatically sizing to what I had in my clipboard. Ugh. I find this a frustrating change! Fortunately, there's a way to get back the old functionality!
In August 2022, my classic Google Analytics started to show increased traffic to my kid's activity blog. Unfortunately, the traffic was from Czechia and Seychelles with 100% or 99.72% bounce rates. Disappointingly, the bump was not from real traffic. Here's how I created a managed challenge with Cloudflare to block the spam traffic.
Short answer: Your options for Show Rulers and Show Guides are grayed out in Adobe Premiere because you do not have the Program window/panel selected and active. Read on for more details.
This post includes How-To videos that I use when I'm teaching beginner undergraduate Graphic Design students about Color. The Illustrator Color Wheel uses the HSB color mode and Live Paint Bucket tool. The Photoshop Color Wheel uses an RGB additive technique the brush tool. Enjoy! Happy Designing!