Web, Print and Motion toolbox, guides and tips

Meska

Post your useful reference links for web, print & motion here.

To start you off:

Web & Programming Toolbox + Links

chris

link isn't clickable?

it IS clickable!

middigit

~ using opera here, highlighs, clicks, hey presto

was this posted on bb - i have this ookmarked already

good one though

chris

http://davidseah.com/archives/2005/11/12/the-printable-ceo-series/

i'm starting to use similar things here now.

chris

http://www.designerstoolbox.com/

and this one, if we are to carry on the 'toolbox' theme :)

Meska

Indesign Secrets

Customise your default documents in Illustrator CS3
This is different from previous versions of Illustrator - normally the default documents were stored in the Plug-Ins folder.

Photoshop Lab

middigit

Web Developers Handbook

Meska

Complete CS2/CS3 and older Automator Action Pack

Meska

Test out your webpages on a PC, without a PC!

Meska

Access Google Warehouse 3D objects through Plug-in for PS3 Extended

overbyte

meska:Test out your webpages on a PC, without a PC!

über

Meska

Designing on a dime - CSS Tips/Tutorials

middigit

pantone chart

Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Pantone, CMYK, RGB Hex)

middigit

AjaxDaddy

squapple

I dont know if we've got a useful links thread here so I presume this is the right place to put this little gem which I posted in BB.

http://www.thedreamer.com.br/

enjoy

middigit

http://www.ajaxrain.com/

middigit

http://www.kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/favorites/webdesign.htm

middigit

http://dezwozhere.com/links.html

Meska

Brilliant link. Use it folks!

http://www.lovelyasatree.com

overbyte

meska's one with link ;P

urbansurgeon

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/

urbansurgeon

Test Everything

• CSS and HTML validators
• SEO tools
• Social services
• Web proxies
• Network tools
• Text tools
• Image tools (works only with Image URLs)
• Miscellaneous tools

urbansurgeon

Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting

micky

urbansurgeon:Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting

absolutely lovely link. thanks for that.

squapple

Agreed. Cheers Urban

Meska

Stencils for Omnigraffle

http://graffletopia.com/

Thanks to Tao!

squapple

thousands of resources here
thousands of website refs here

peace

middigit

CSS Help Pile

silent

^ fanks mid!!!

middigit

dunno whether this qualifies, but found this http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/paper_rulers/

middigit

Stock Photography Links

Free stock photos, cheap stock photos and stock photo searching links at Powstock

middigit

here's a couple of nifty online tools if you want a quick calendar fix

http://www.pdfpad.com/calendars/

http://tools.netshiftmedia.com/calendar/

middigit

http://builder.yaml.de/

chris

Paula Scher creates (good) default designs for everyone, courtesy of HP.

middigit

good selection of online tools and resources

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/a-z/yuppi/links/onlinetools.html#top

middigit

some free flash tutorial at CartoonSmart

also some free .fla resources too

Meska

Amazing Indesign CS3 plugin to open PDFs in Indesign

Product page

middigit

125 Code Snippets For Web Designers

middigit

Sound and Vision Specification Sheets and Templates

jussi-k

Prepare to be BLOWN AWAY!

videocopilot.net

Meska

Old school Photoshop reference

Meska

Sew broken text paths in Illustrator – useful when opening previous older versions of Illustrator docs...

squapple

very useful. Cheers, mesk

mick

this was new to me (yeah, yeah.. i know....)

many of the things i have printed come out looking like a watercolour. the paper is WET.

Ink Limit is the amount of Ink of each color you put on the paper when printing. If your color in a document is 100% Cyan, 100% Magenta, 100% Yellow and 100% Black - you have a 400% ink limit (sometimes called density). Understanding and adjusting your ink limits can improve the quality of your printed piece.

MOST commercial printers like to have between 280%-300% ink limit. That means that if you want a nice deep black, you can run something like 60% cyan, 60% magenta, 40% yellow and 100% black - which is a 260% ink limit (or density). Using a higher ink limit, such as a CMYK setting of 100% of all four colors, will generally result in a muddy image, or wrinkled paper. At the very least, you may experience ink offset and extended dry times on your print job.

you can read more at The Graphic Mac

Meska

Have you ever wanted to:
* Apply a keyboard shortcut to a color swatch, a layer, or any style?
* Automatically convert unstyled text to true paragraph and character styles?
* Find which graphic in your InDesign file contains a particular spot color?
* Remove the local text formatting from a whole document?
* Compare two similar paragraph styles to see how they're different?
* Place a script in a menu for easy access?
Now You Can!

Yes, you can do all this and a lot more with Blatner Tools, a plug-in suite designed by InDesign guru David Blatner and developed by DTP Tools.

Grab Blatner Tools public beta now

mick

making sure that you all know about Adobe's free pdf storage and exchange.

you get your own online storage where you can upload high-resolution PDF files. You can notify your client and printer via email that a PDF is ready to download. And the email even contains a preview of the PDF. If you don’t want Adobe to email your clients, Acrobat.com lets you create a short URL to include in your own email. You can create an online “vault” if you wish, but no log-in or registration is required by default for your client or printer to access the PDF. You can even share PDF files on your website or blog using the embed code provided.

You need an Adobe ID to log in (I signed up years ago with a hotmail addy; it's still good), but people can access your files with just the url.


Adobe Share

nimmot

this isn't really an application tip but this always bugged me in OSX 10.5...

after i printed something, the print queue window wouldn't auto close. here's how to fix it!

Meska

Web Design Resources and Links

GearedUp

Wow, that list is great!

nicko

Lorempixum
Placeholder images for print / web. Just put the custom url in your code like this, eg: <img src="http://lorempixum.com/400/200" />
http://lorempixum.com/

peak'

nicko said...Lorempixum
Placeholder images for print / web. Just put the custom url in your code like this, eg: <img src="http://lorempixum.com/400/200" />
http://lorempixum.com/

Nice