Why InDesign Colors May Change When File is Outputted to PDF
Spotting Out of Gamut RGB colors and Utilizing Soft Proofing in InDesign
Blending Live Paint Group Objects to Create SWF Animations
How to use Live Paint and Blending in Illustrator to Animate a Graph
Importing Illustrator Gradients into InDesign
"Illustrator has tons of cool gradients, but I want to use them in InDesign! How do I get them across?"
Scaling Images in Illustrator
I used to be able to drag to scale objects and images up and down in Illustrator. But suddenly I have lost that ability. Help!
Duplicating Transformations in Illustrator
Question: I've been a life-long, 17-year user of FreeHand and this is just killing me. In FreeHand I could "Cmd-C" an object to move it then "Cmd-D" would repeat that to create simple patterns. How do I do that in Illustrator? I...
Swapping Colors in Illustrator
I'm working on a 4 color-process job in Illustrator that uses a blue that is our corporate blue. Well now the job is almost ready for press and they decided to make this a 5-color job. I know there is an easy way to make all this...
Custom Symbols Libraries in Illustrator
I have a question about Symbol Libraries. I have managed to create a library for a website I am working on. The library has a few logo ideas and I would like to be able to add to it when I am in another Illustrator document. It...
Use colors from photos in Illustrator
I was wondering if there is a way that I can automatically create a group of swatches from a placed Photoshop image? There is an easy way to do it in Photoshop (converting the image to Indexed color, etc.), and I'd love to know...
Clipping Masks in Illustrator
QUESTION: I am using Illustrator CS3, and I have a picture that I'd like to place multiple text objects and possibly vector images over and make a clipping mask utilizing all of the objects at the same time. I can't figure out a...
Get Kuler with Pantone
In this episode special guest Mordy Golding shows how to use Kuler and get the Pantone colors you need in Adobe Illustrator CS3.









