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…