Being a technical writer who takes many, many (many) screenshots, one of my favorite features of Photoshop is its ability to automatically create new documents of exactly the size I need. When you take a screenshot on your computer using the PrintScreen button on Windows or CTRL+CMD+SHIFT+3 on Mac, you take a snapshot of your…

Recently I explained how to exact a single image from a PDF so that the image could be reused in other applications. That method is ideal when you need only an image here and there, but if you need more than a handful of images seemingly locked away inside a PDF, it’s better to batch…

New free plug-in for InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3 puts keyboard shortcuts within easy reach.

For Web graphics work, some people prefer ImageReady’s very Photoshop-like interface to FireWorks’s obviously Flash-esque controls and interface. Fans of droplets–ImageReady’s desktop icons onto which raw images could be dragged and dropped to instantly output Web-ready PNGs, GIFS, or JPEGS–are also disappointed to see that functionality absent from FireWorks. Alas, ImageReady was retired after version…

Have you ever wanted to extract an image from a PDF and get it into Photoshop, Illustrator, or somewhere else? It’s a common enough need. For example, smaller clients of graphic designers often have difficulty tracking down high-resolution or resolution-independent versions of their logos, leaving a designer scouring through the client’s previously published material in…

Replacing Word with InCopy may have revolutionized your office’s workflow, but odds are not all of your clients, partners, vendors, or freelancers have yet seen the light. How can you work with collaborators still on Word? Easily. Turn InCopy stories into a format Word users can read. Select File > Export. In the Export dialog…