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Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1; What’s New Pt. 3

Part 3: Font Filtering and Searching With each new version of Photoshop working with fonts continues to improve. The addition of Typekit and filtering font names as you type have both been great additions. With the latest update, November 2015, a few more choices emerge. …

Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1; What’s New Part 2

Part 2: Customizable Toolbar The toolbar has been a part of Photoshop dating all the way back to version 1.0, released for the Mac in 1990. It has gone through a variety of changes over the past 25 years, most of them involving arrangement …

Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1 What’s New

Part 1: Start and Recent Files Workspace After installing the November release update to Photoshop CC 2015 the first thing (actually the second, cause the first is the new splash screen) you will notice is a new default workspace. The new Start workspace provides access …

5 Tips for Photoshop Users

Sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference. Tip 1: We’ve all used the ever popular Save As to prevent messing up a photograph and not being able to go back afterward and edit out our changes. A much simpler approach to work …

Using Adobe Bridge Instead of Windows Explorer

Adobe Bridge CC is a separate application that can be downloaded as part of your Creative Cloud subscription. For years it has been an additional application that came with familiar programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign. Its real purpose escaped me for years and I …

New, Active, Default Features

Have you ever opened the latest version of an application and discovered that a new feature was a default setting? This one goes all the way back to 2010 when Adobe released their fifth version of the Creative Suite. Many applications have some sort of …

Typography: Part 3

In Part 1 we began with a simple classification of the different typefaces used today.

In Part 2 we took a simple look at some of the basic character components.

In Part 3 we want to make the users of Adobe products aware of a wonderful service that is available through the Creative Cloud.

Back in 2009 Jeff Veen, Bryan Mason, Ryan Carver, and Greg Veen, all originally part of the Measure Map/Google Analytics team began a company called Small Batch, Inc. Its purpose was to make font usage on the web far more accessible by introducing a product called Typekit.

Designers had been painfully aware of the limitations associated with font usage online since the webs beginning. At best there were about 14 fonts most designers could count on being installed on the average user’s computer. Did you think everyone was really that crazy about Times New Roman, Arial, or Verdana?

Typography: Part 2

In Part 1 we began with a simple classification of the different typefaces used today. We kept things simple and broke them down into 5 different groups; serif, sans-serif, monospace, handwritten, and decorative. In Part 2 we will take a simple look at some of …

Typography: Part 1

This will be our initial look into the world of text. All those letters that we string together to form books, online articles, blog posts, and the like.

Most mere mortals pay little attention to the how and why of assembling all those words into a form worthy of consumption.

“Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.” ― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

This series will begin with a simple classification of the different typefaces used today. To keep things simple I, and many others, have chosen to break them down into 5 different groups; serif, sans-serif, monospace, handwritten, and decorative.

Serif

Making a Font Selection in Photoshop CC 2014 or Later

This isn’t about choosing the perfect font to enhance a brochure or flyer. It is much simpler than that. In most applications today when we want to change the font being used, we make a choice from a long list of fonts installed on our …