Here is a list of 10 useful time saving tips to use in Adobe Illustrator. Some of these tips may mean you have to break from your normal use of Illustrator, but getting use to them can be very rewarding in the long run. You may already know a few of these tips, or you may have some more to suggest, if you do then please leave your tip in the comments section below.

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10 Time Saving Tips for Illustrator

1 – Save and Load your Custom Colour Swatches

Do you find yourself constantly searching for your usual colours or just overwhelmed with the number of available colours when you only need 3 or 4? You need to create yourself a custom swatch. Creating one could save you lots of time in the future and can be easily switched if your colour needs change. Here’s how to do it… Read the rest of "Illustrator Training: Top 10 Time Saving Tips"

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Posted by Aaron Charlie in Illustrator Training on April 28th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

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Traditionally software for digital imaging serves two purposes:

1. applications for cataloging and organizing your photos
2. powerful applications for editing individual images.

Photoshop Lightroom does both, it is a powerful way to organize, export, print and develop RAW images – the default file format for most modern DLSR cameras.
Photographers use the RAW file format to capture image data in its least processed form. Most consumer cameras compress or slightly tweak a photo as soon as it’s shot, and RAW skips this step. The file sizes of RAW images are larger and the photos don’t look as “finished,” but working with RAW files also offers more control over the final product.

Lightroom is designed to make it easy to quickly organize all your image files, RAW or otherwise, highlighting, ranking and tagging the ones you like. You can also apply enhancements and corrections to the photo before exporting it to another application or directly to the web or print.

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Posted by Heather Buckley in Lightroom Training, Photoshop Training on April 17th, 2009 | No Comments »