Quick Tip: Option-Erase
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Hold down the Option key when erasing, and you'll get a marquee that you can drag to erase a perfectly rectangular area:
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Hold down the Option key when erasing, and you'll get a marquee that you can drag to erase a perfectly rectangular area:
Duplicating a gradient with Gradient Mesh
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Let's say you have a gradient-filled object. For whatever reason, you want to duplicate the look of the gradient, but you want it to be a Gradient Mesh. Do you laboriously start from scratch and fill in every single point on the mesh? No! Simply rasterize the object (Object>Rasterize), then choose ...
Quick Tip : Fun with Distort
Monday, May 26th, 2008You like surprises? Try painting a stroke with a custom Brush, then increase the point size to double-digits, then apply a Distort effect. Here, the venerable "Fude" brush is used. On the left is a one-point stroke, on the right is the same stroke at 50 points, with a -47 ...
Quick Tip: Outer Glow Effect
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Why does my Outer Glow get washed out, or even disappear? Since the default Blending Mode for the Outer Glow effect is Screen, whatever is underneath the glowing object affects the appearance of the Glow. In mathematical terms, Screen mode inverts the foreground and multiplies it by the background, then adds ...