Adobe Creative Suite

Looking For A Creative Business Holiday Card Idea?

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Business holiday cards can be a tricky task: you can always opt for safe/bland or cutesy/meme but doing something that reinforces your actual business relationship can be a tall order. Fortunately, I came across an idea years ago that does a great job at finding that sweet spot: the personalized infographic card. The infographic card does a great job at presenting shared accomplishments while simultaneously demonstrating that you’re following the client’s progress. The template I designed for users of my web development agency focuses on some key performance indicators (KPIs) from their Google … Read more

Breaking Up With Adobe

Breaking Up With Adobe

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It’s not you, Adobe. It’s me. You see, I am a long time Adobe software user. I started using the institutional licenses in school at the University of Missouri, and Adobe Creative Suite 3 was one of the first pieces of “pro” software I ever purchased. After CS6, when Adobe moved to the Creative Cloud subscription plans, I was torn. On one hand, it was going to be expensive. On the other hand, I used this software an awful lot, and I always got excited about new features when they became available. … Read more

String Substitution

Hidden Productivity Gems: Using Adobe Bridge To Remove Unwanted Characters From Filenames

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Adobe Bridge CC, a digital asset management app, is not only a hidden productivity gem, it’s one of the rare Adobe apps that is 100 percent free. If you don’t already use it, swing by the Bridge CC page and download a copy. Once you do, you’re going to save yourself an amazing amount of time cleaning media file names using this little trick. Batch Rename If you already use Bridge CC, you probably know about the Batch Rename tool. Using it is very straightforward, so long as you want to add … Read more