Yes, I actually talk about stuff relating to art direction and offer Stupid Art Director tips from time to time, imagine that. There are two simple things I just picked up, and I thought I knew it all. One for Photoshop and the other for Powerpoint.
In Photoshop, to select any color on your screen, including windows in the background, do this: open any doc > click on the eye dropper tool > click, hold and drag the eye dropper across the entire screen to select a foreground color. To get a background swatch color, hold down the “option” key then click, hold and drag across the screen. (Useful when you want to sample a color of a stock photo without downloading then opening it.) This may not work on all Photoshop versions and operating systems. Tip courtesy of Lifehacker.
As for PowerPoint, it can be annoying to have to hit the ‘down arrow’ key to advance to page 600 in a 642-page deck during a presentation. Not any more kids. To view a master list of all the slides in your presentation at once, make sure you’re in Slide Show mode, and simply right click your mouse – the list pops up.
Tags: Photoshop tips, PowerPoint tips
Thursday, March 23, 2006
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