Hidden Productivity Gems Adobe Fireworks Batch Image Processing

Hidden Productivity Gems: Adobe Fireworks Batch Image Processing

No doubt about it, Adobe Creative Cloud apps are all kinds of useful. Most arts managers tend to work with the Big 3: InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator but if you have access to the full suite or additional stand alone apps, one hidden gem waiting to be discovered is the batch processing tool inside Fireworks; even if you never use Fireworks for anything other than the batch processing tool, you’ll still boost your productivity by ...

Stupid Google Trick: RGB to Hex

You probably know that Google search performs a number of functions natively, giving you information without requiring you to visit one of the search results that come up. For instance, you can enter in an equation such as 1716 + 216 into a Google search field, and you’ll get the answer above the search results, as well as an inline calculator for additional equations. Or as another example, you can type in “7 litres to gallons” ...

Using Listening Maps In Program Books

Map Quest: Using Listening Maps In Program Books

Let’s talk about program books. I love looking through them at other organizations’ performances or exhibits, but they are a pain to pull together.  There is an ungodly amount of information that must be gathered from every department, organized and formatted, that somehow needs to all fit into an eight page, black and white program section that needed to be to the printer yesterday. One section in the books that many symphony and opera companies include ...

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