Create More Styles in InDesign

Are you an InDesign user"  Well, here 's such a great video on creating super styles and nested styles by Jeff Witchel, certified Adobe Trainer.

InDesign's Super Styles from Jeff Witchel on Vimeo.

Google Forms data are stored in forms now - a new option

Announcement from Google - Features launching on June 11th, 2013

"Google Forms: Users now have access to a new version of Google Forms. Just as with Docs, Sheets and Slides, you can now collaborate with others in real-time. Multiple users can work on the same form simultaneously. Unlike the previous version, forms are no longer tied to a specific spreadsheet. Responses are collected and stored only in the form. If owners prefer to see the data in a spreadsheet, they can specify a destination spreadsheet for the data at any time."

Check it out further from their blog.

Google's Gmail has a new Inbox feature- check it out here

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-new-inbox-that-puts-you-back-in.html

Great blog to follow!

Oh No! Picasa Web Album is going away...

I just got redirected to the Google+ Photos when I tried to upload my new photo album of my trip to Picasa Web. Ah!! Google has a plan to retire Picasa and is auto syncing my past photo albums to Google+. Another change... some concerns have been expressed with people wanting to have an album for an organized group, which will not be possible anymore. Are you in that category? Read the two links below for more info: 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57572553-93/google-now-redirects-picasa-web-albums-to-google-photos/ 

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/05/picasa-web-albums-are-officially-dead-now-redirect-to-google-photos/

WuFoo Online form with Payment Features

Here's a site I want to share with you to create an online interactive form - www.Wufoo.com. The interface allows you to design a form with text fields, paragraph fields, checkboxes, multiple choices, drop list, conditionals and even incorporating online payments. Free accounts are available for users with minimal needs for users, fields, and entries. You can always upgrade your subscription to get more storage, more users, unlimited forms, unlimited reports and entries.

iBooks Author update

If you have not been interested in the early version of iBooks Author, the latest version might lure you to take a second look at it.

There are newly-added Apple templates in the categories of crafts, cooking, photography and biographies. The new portrait-only templates, which are fixed width, allow navigation, table of content, and interaction as should be available to a landscape book in landscape orientation.

On top of the existing widgets where users can include photo galleries, interactive quizzes, 3D objects, keynote presentations, and movies, there are two new widgets for improved interactivity - Scrolling Sidebar and Pop-Over. Besides those, users can embed custom fonts and have better support for mathematical expressions using LaTeX and MathML notation now. Media are automatically optimized when embedded, and iBooks Author now supports all media and audio formats supported by Quicktime.

One can always preview your book on your iPad anytime, or submit published work to Apple Bookstore after an improved workflow of automatic sample book creation and pre-publish checking.

Adobe InDesign Tutorial on 'Liquid Layout'

Here is a very nice video on InDesign CS6 by Anne-Marie Concepcion on 'Working with Liquid Layout'. Enjoy!



Resource: Adobe TV

PS Clipping Mask basics

Here's a great tutorial by Eric Renno who has his own blog TipSquirrel.com.  He was a finalist in The Next Adobe Photoshop Evangelist and Deke’s Techniques Photoshop Challenge. 

How to OCR a PDF to Editable Text on Mac

Mac users needing to edit text from a scanned PDF, you will need to use a OCR converter.  Here's a suggested one for free download. (Source from www.alifesoft.com)

Free Mac PDF Converter Pro:
How to OCR a PDF to Editable Text on Mac