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InDesign
Find out how to turn off (or on) automatic hyphenation on your text in your Adobe InDesign documents. Hyphenation is on by default, but you may not want to use it. You can turn hyphenation ON/OFF in InDesign at paragraph-level, but that can create a lot of manual work.
Xara
Xara Designer Pro X isn't a full 3D program, but it includes a surprisingly capable 3D extrusion tool that lets you create 3D shapes and text without leaving the application. If you need a quick 3D effect for a logo, heading, or graphic element, this tool handles it
Cloudflare
CloudFlare is not a very new player in the Content Delivery Network (CDN) game, but they do lots of things well and brag that thay have more customers than Akamai and Amazon CloudFront combined (a 35% market share they say, as of March 2018, protecting 7,000,000 websites)! That
Xara
The Shadow Tool in Xara Designer Pro X (shortcut Ctrl+F2) creates three types of shadows: wall, floor, and glow. Each serves a different purpose and can be fine-tuned with blur, transparency, and color controls. Wall Shadow The most common type — creates a shadow parallel to and behind the object.
Xara
Xara Designer Pro X can create seamless repeating patterns by combining bitmap copies with the Fill Tool's repeating tile mode. Here's the workflow for turning any design element into a tiled pattern. Step 1: Design the Pattern Base Create the basic unit of your pattern. For
camtasia
Want to make an object orbit along a circular path in Camtasia? While Camtasia doesn't have a built-in "motion path" tool, you can achieve smooth circular animation using Custom Animation keyframes and a clever grouping technique. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to animate
Whether graphics are your passion, the artistic muse gives you a nudge now and then or you are a design professional, you can always do with some free software. Or maybe you can't afford an investment in graphics and design software right now, if you are just starting
Xara
Xara Designer Pro X includes several tools for cutting out objects and creating selections: the Region Painter tool, Marquee selection, Magnetic Lasso, and shape-based methods. This tutorial covers all of them with practical examples on both vector shapes and photos. Watch the full tutorial: The Region Painter Tool Found in
YouTube Articles
YouTube announced a really cool feature that allows you to link channels together easier than before, by @mentioning them.
Xara
The Selector Tool is the most fundamental tool in Xara Designer Pro X — it is how you select, move, resize, and rotate objects. This beginner's guide covers everything from basic selection to precise dimensioning and rotation. Watch the full tutorial: Selecting and Resizing Objects Click any object to
Xara
This is a comprehensive introduction to the entire Xara interface. Xara Designer Pro X is a powerful, affordable all-in-one design tool that combines the capabilities of a vector editor, page layout application, photo editor, and web design tool in a single package. Watch the full tutorial: What Is Xara Designer
Adobe Photoshop
When Photoshop introduced layers, it revolutionized photo editing. Layers let you stack elements on top of each other while keeping them separate — you can move, edit, or remove any layer without affecting the rest of your design. In this beginner's guide, I'll walk you through the