Quick Tips from The Design O'Blog
By Niki Brown
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Podcast Description
Quick tips are focused on providing helpful design tutorials packed with helpful information in less than 5 minutes!
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoHow To Quickly Make All Caps Text In Photoshop | In this quick tip I'll show you how to change the case of existing text in photoshop. | 2/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoClients From Heaven, Clients From Hell – Design Chat With Liz Andrade | In the wake of the popularity of the Clients From Hell site I thought it would be appropriate to talk about good experiences with clients. I had a chance to have a chat with Liz Andrade from CmdShiftDesign and discuss the topic. | 2/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoQuick Tip #46 How To Create Actions In Photoshop | In this quick tip I’ll show you how to automate some of your workflow by creating actions in photoshop and using keyboard shortcuts to execute actions. | 11/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoQuick Tip #45 Finding That Special Font | In this quick tip I’ll show you some font identification tools to help you find that special font. | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoQuick Tip #43 Quick iPhone scrolling | In this quick Tip I show you how to quickly scroll back to the top on your iPhone. Also check out the new fullscreen feature with blip.tv - yay! | 9/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoQuick Tip #42 How To Create A Dotted Line In Illustrator | In this quick tip I show you how to create a dotted line instead of a dashed line in illustrator. Also check out the new fullscreen feature with blip.tv - yay! | 9/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoQuick Tip #41 Creating Slices From Guides In Photoshop | In this quick tip I show you how to quickly create slices from guides in Photoshop. | 9/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoQuick Tip #40 Eazy IE6 PNG Fix! | In this quick tip I show you how to use the fastest, easiest, and quite possibly BEST ie6 png fix out there! | 8/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoQuick Tip #39 How To Make The Apple Logo In 2 Seconds | In this quick tip I'll show you a magic keyboard shortcut to make an apple logo in Photoshop. | 8/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoQuick Tip #38 Move Your Dock With 1 Click | In this quick tip i'll show you how to easily move your dock around on your mac with 1 click. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoQuick Tip #37 Drawing a Gear In Illustrator | In this quick tip I show you how to make a simple gear illustration using the transform tool. Let me know if you have any requests for quick tips! | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoQuick Tip #36 Making Badges In Illustrator | In this quick tip I show you how to quickly create badges in illustrator using the distort and transform effect. | 7/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoQuick Tip #34 Rounding The Corners | In this quick tip I show you how to create divs with rounded corners in FF and Safari. | 6/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoQuick Tip #33 Make A Thumbnail Web Gallery In Photoshop | In this quick tip I will show you how to generate a thumbnail web gallery in photoshop. | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoQuick Tip #32 Aligning In Illustrator | In this quick tip I show you some tricks and tips of the align tools in illustrator. | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoQuick Tip #31 Adding Details With A Photo Overlay | In this quick tip I show you how to add details to a boring web banner with a photo overlay | 5/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoQuick Tip #30 Buttons, Buttons, Buttons! | In this quick tip I’ll show you how to add some subtle detail to a button in photoshop. | 4/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoQuick Tip #29 Pathfinders And Donuts! | In this quick tip I show you how to use the pathfinder tools to draw shapes…and even a donut! | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoQuick Tip #28 Ready, Set, Actions! | In this quick tip I'll show you how to make an action for batch resizing images. Time saving FTW!!! | 4/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoQuick Tip #27 Page Wrangling in InDesign | In this quick tip I’ll show how to wrangle all your crazy pages in InDesign. | 4/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoQuick Tip #26 Find and Replace | In this quick I show some of the lesser known options for find and replace in Dreamweaver. | 3/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoQuick Tip #25 Screenshots Ahoy! | In this quick I show you a few ways to take screenshots on a mac - very handy! | 3/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoQuick Tip #24 Contact Sheets In Photoshop | In this quick tip I show you an easy way to create a sheet of thumbnails from a folder of photos. Photoshop does all the heavy lifting for you! | 3/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoQuick Tip #23 Change YOUR case | In this quick tip i show you how to quickly format the case of your text. | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoQuick Tip #22 Let Photoshop Guide You | In this quick tip I show you some different ways to control guide placement in Photoshop. | 3/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoQuick Tip #21 Custom Keyboard Shortcuts | In this quicktip I will show you how to create a custom keyboard shortcut. This comes in handy and saves a ton of time. I use the stroke feature of photoshop on a daily basis, but it does not have a default keyboard shortucut. | 2/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoQuick Tip #20 Drop A Cap In Your Paragraph | Today I’m going to show you a quick and easy way to add just a little bit of ‘flair’ to your paragraphs. Yes we are going to tango with our old friend the drop cap. Super easy to create in print media thanks to InDesign, but CSS has some selectors up its sleeve to help us out. | 2/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoQuick Tip #19 Text Re-sizing, Kerning, and Leading… Oh My! | Hitting you up with a sweet tripple whammy of useful keyboard shortcuts this time! This quicktip shows you how to quickly resize text, adjust kerning and leading with ease! | 2/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoQuick Tip #18 Rectangular Marquee Magic | In this quick tip I’ll show you how I make quick changes to a screenshot of a site with the marquee and transform tools. | 2/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoQuick Tip #17 Select A Color… Any Color! | Have you ever wanted to select a color with your eyedropper tool that is not within your photoshop document? Now you can learn how to with this super amazing quick tip! | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoQuick Tip #16 Super Simple Pie | In this quick tip I show you how to add an RSS feed to a non-blog page! | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoQuick Tip #15 Photoshop Text Reflection | In This quick tip we show you how to make a quick text reflection with the transform tool and some feathering. | 2/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoQuick Tip #14 Photoshop Extract Tool | In This quick tip we show you how to cut out an image from a background with the extract tool. | 2/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoQuick Tip #13 Paragraph Styles in InDesign | In this quick tip we cover setting up paragraph styles for quick test formatting. | 1/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoQuick Tip #12 Animated Masking In Flash | This quicktip covers a simple masking method with animation in flash. | 1/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoQuick Tip #11 Keep On Scrollin! | Scrollin…..scrollin….scrolling on the internet river… Hmmm ok nevermind. This quick tip is just something cool I discovered in FF and Safari. | 1/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoQuick Tip #10 - Opacity In Photoshop | In this quicktip we cover a nice keyboard shortcut for opacity in Photoshop. | 1/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 37 Episodes |
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