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Automated Online Estimated Tax Payments For Freelancers & Self-Employed

Published on April 22, 2008 in productivity and tools. 0 Comments Tags: art, business, freelance, productivity, resources, taxes, tip.

Just a quick tip for the freelancing and self-employed — that pain you feel paying all your taxes at once because you’re too lazy or forgetful to dole out your quarterly tax payments to Uncle Sam? It’s over. If you’re like me, and 99% of your banking and bill-paying is done online, there’s a tax payment solution for you.

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Quick Overview on Adobe Illustrator’s Reshape Tool

Published on December 26, 2007 in tips. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, illustrator, technique, tip, vector.

Another quick Adobe Illustrator tip over at design blog BittBox, this time a quick overview on using the Reshape tool. In short, the Reshape tool helps keep the overall ‘feel’ of a vector path without having to manually tweak individual anchor points.

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Adobe Illustrator’s Tilde Key Trick

Published on December 26, 2007 in tips. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, drawing, illustrator, keyboard shortcuts, technique, tip.

Just saw this over at design blog BittBox: when drawing with the Shape tools in Illustrator (rectangle, circle etc.), holding the tilde key (the squiggle key to the left of the 1 key on U.S. keyboards) and then dragging the mouse will result in lots of duplicates of the shape following the trail of your mouse pointer.

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Illustrator CS3 Tip: Create A Color Group From Selected Artwork

Published on September 20, 2007 in productivity. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, Creative Suite, CS3, design, graphic design, how-to, illustrator, productivity, resources, technique, tip, vector.

A great quick tip, from the excellent design blog BittBox, to create a color group of all the colors in an Illustrator document: Select all the art in your document, go to the Swatches fly-out menu and choose “New color group” – you now have a color group folder of all the colors in the artwork. Very cool!

Since color groups are a CS3 feature, this tip is Illustrator CS3 only.

via BittBox

Cartoon Art & Halftones Tutorial: From Inkjet Printer to Photocopier

Published on September 19, 2007 in art and productivity. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, bitmap, cartoon, graphics, grayscale, halftone, Illustration, illustrator, inkjet, Mac, photocopy, Photoshop, print, printing, process, resources, technique, tip, Tutorials, vector, walkthrough.

A cartoon illustration & design project for a friend’s party required the resulting art to be suitable for reproduction on a photocopy machine. After some trial, error, Google search, trial, error, Google search, trial, error I discovered the magic combo that allows you to create a halftone in Photoshop for an image and print it out on your inkjet printer so the art will be perfect for photocopying.

This technique is perfect for flyers, newsletters or any other short-run printing needs you have where the cheapness of a photocopy is desired, but so are grayscale images.

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