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Cursorcerer: Hide Your Cintiq Cursor

Published on January 30, 2009 in software. 0 Comments Tags: Cintiq, customization, Mac, OS X, productivity, software, utility, Wacom.

I don’t own a Wacom Cintiq graphics tablet, but I have heard quite a bit of grumbling from Cintiq owners about the way the cursor is displayed: I guess it’s offset a bit with the idea that your hand would obscure the cursor so Wacom has offset it a bit, which takes some getting used to.

But those Cintiq users are in luck: there’s a utility out there that might just ease your pain.

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Video: Photoshop CS4 Drag-Resize Brush Keyboard Shortcut

Published on January 14, 2009 in Tutorials, software and video. 5 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, artist, cartoon, Creative Suite, CS4, drawing, how-to, illustrator, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, Photoshop, productivity, screencast, shortcuts, sketch, software, technique, tool, tutorial, upgrade, vector, video, Wacom.

Another brief video in my series introducing some great new features in Photoshop CS4 for artists, cartoonists, illustrators and anyone else who sketches or draws using Photoshop.

This video features the excellent new keyoard shortcuts that allow you to drag-resize the size of the brushes using the mouse pointer.

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Adobe Illustrator Eraser Brush Tip: Option-Erase

Published on January 8, 2009 in software and tips. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, illustrator, productivity, software, tip, workflow.

Hold down the Option key when erasing using the Eraser Brush, and you’ll get a marquee that you can drag to erase a perfectly rectangular area.

Bonus Eraser Tool tip: edit the keyboard shortcuts so the Eraser uses the “E” key, and remap the Free Transform tool to Shift-E (essentially swapping the keyboard shortcuts for the two tools). Seems much more intuitive this way.

Both tips via FreeTransform

Twitter: The Creative Collective

Published on December 26, 2008 in misc. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, Bob Ostrom, cartoon, cartoonist, illustrator, Photoshop, software.

Illustrator & cartoonist Bob Ostrom mentioned me — George Coghill — on his new freelancing podcast Creative Independence in regards to getting help from other creatives on the addictive social networking service Twitter.

Bob was stuck trying to figure out how to accomplish a technique with Adobe Illustrator, and sent out a plea for help. I dropped a line and we hooked up via iChat to work through his issue.

Bob mentions in the podcast how he was instantly sold on Twitter after the experience. Twitter is a great resource if you follow other illustrators and socialize with them – tapping the collective creative community can be a great resource if you are stuck on how to do something with your software.

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Video: Photoshop CS4 Spring-Loaded Keys

Published on November 27, 2008 in video. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, art, artist, cartoon, CS4, illustrator, keyboard commands, keyboard shortcuts, Photoshop, sketch, software, Tutorials, video.

Another brief video in my instructional series introducing some great new features in Photoshop CS4 for artists, cartoonists, illustrators and anyone else who sketches or draws using Photoshop.

This video features the excellent new Spring-Loaded Keys feature that allows you to access a tool temporarily by holding down the key for that tool, similar to using the Spacebar for the Hand tool – only for every tool in Photoshop now.