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Can’t Decide on a Font? Here’s a simple way to solve the "what font family to use" dilemma. With a type layer active, create a new action and use the arrow keys to scroll through all the fonts in your type menu in the Options...
Improved Shearing There are a couple of things that can improve results with the Shear filter (Filter>Distort>Shear). First, since the Shear filter only works in one direction, you’ll often have to rotate the image 90 degrees (Clockwise...
Center that Guide If you drag a guide from the ruler onto the page and you want to make sure it’s centered horizontally or vertically, try this: Press Command Option-; to unlock the guides. If necessary make sure that only one guide is...
Seeing Red If you’re working on artwork that contains lots of red, the red View Box in the Navigator palette (Window>Navigator) might be a little difficult to see. In this situation (or if you just don’t like the color red), you...
Change the Blend After you’ve created a blend (and it’s still "live"), you can change the number of steps in the blend mode by going to the Object menu and choosing Blend>Blend Options (or double-clicking the Blend tool...
Transform By Number With all transformation tools, such as Scale, Rotate, and Shear, you can transform manually by dragging the mouse – or numerically. Double-click on any transformation tool to get a dialog for a numeric transformation. By...
Grab Only the Color By default the Eyedropper tool picks up "everything": fill and stroke color, stroke attributes, transparency, etc. (These options are set by double-clicking on the eye-dropper tool in the Toolbox.) To pick up only...
One Color Gradient To create a gradient using only one spot color, youÕll get better printing results if you create a gradient that goes from 100% to 0% out of the same color (rather than using white as the second color). Just drag your spot...
When Select All DoesnÕt Work If you use the Select All command (Command-A), it may not actually select ÒallÓ your artwork. If you have locked or hidden objects on sublayers, these objects will not be selected. To make sure that the Select...
Delete all Tabs To delete a tab stop in the Tabs palette, you click and drag it off the Tab Ruler. Rather than manually dragging every tab stop to delete them all, hold down Command and click-and-drag the left-most tab stop off the Tab Ruler....
