“How to” blog posts about graphic design, web development, and software and tools that help designers and developers be productive.
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!
Today, I was trying to follow instructions from Apple on how to Screen Record on my iPhone. The instructions said to open my Control Center. I didn't know what Apple considers my Control Center. In case this is you too, here's a quick description and instructions for customizing and accessing your iPhone's Control Center.
Ever looked at your downloads and realized you have five files with the same name and then parenthesis with numbers? What are those? Does a file with (5).pdf in the name mean there are five of the same files on your computer? Read more to find out.
Ever had a PhotoShop file with many, many layers and wished there was an easy way to find the named layer you're looking for? Well, there is! Adobe Photoshop allows you to search for layers by name, search for layers by kind, search for layers by effect, search for layers by mode, search for layers by attribute, search for layers by color, search for layers by smart object, search for layers by...
If you use Photos.app with multiple library files, then sometimes it can be confusing which library file you're viewing. Here's how to determine your Photos Library file name.
Learn the three-key command that allows you to permanently delete photos from your Photos Library, even from within albums.
Submitting sitemaps via Google Search Console is an important step in ensuring your website is listed in Google search results. Sometimes, a sitemap that you know is valid and fetchable doesn't work in Google Search Console. In this case (which is likely a bug on Google's side) try this trick.