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Con­tact Sheets in PDF in Bridge replace the older InDe­sign plug-in

Bridge CS3 has a very nice fea­ture that makes it easy to make con­tact sheets of pic­tures directly to InDe­sign. This fea­ture was removed as of Bridge CS4 and is sorely missed by many.

If you are still get­ting pissed try­ing to find this fea­ture under Tools in Bridge, you should know that there are at least two great options you have.

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Sim­ple way to con­trol your email – your own way

Blogs and arti­cles about per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity have been very pop­u­lar last few years. They present ways to make life a lit­tle eas­ier by look­ing into every cor­ner of our daily activ­ity, ana­lyz­ing our behav­ior and try to find bet­ter solu­tions for every action.  

I have read quite some of these. My main prob­lem with all this good advise is that I some­times have a feel­ing that the author is tak­ing his own nat­ural behav­ior and tries to make a sys­tem out of it. Then tries to get oth­ers to adapt to their sys­tem. I find a lot of those great ideas just too strict. Too much work to make the sys­tem and too much work to main­tain it. And what I really hate is: There is no way for me to keep that kind of a tidi­ness up on a daily basis. Don’t get me started on Empty Inbox, please.

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Start­ing off with RGB workflow

An old dream of mine is com­ing through these days. That is RGB work­flow for print­ing. In fact it’s more than 10 years, prob­a­bly almost 15 years, since I real­ized that this was the next step in in the printing/prepress pro­ce­dure. It’s been a long wait.

When the com­put­ers took over in graphic design a lot of things that had been done in the print­er­ies came with it. It was all fine to the graphic designer except the color man­age­ment. Ner­vous design­ers try­ing to get their col­ors right are now being saved by the pro­fes­sion­als at the print­er­ies who know how to do this stuff.

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RGB verk­flæði – gamall drau­mur að rætast.

Gamall drau­mur, mjög gamall reyn­dar, er að rætast þessa dagana. Í stað þess að hön­nuðir séu skjál­fandi á bei­n­unum við að bög­glast með að lit­greina myn­dir, oft í tómri óvissu, er þessi hluti vinnslun­nar að færast aftur til prentsmið­janna, þar sem fagfólk sér um hana. Við erum sem sagt að færa okkur úr CMYK verk­flæði yfir í RGB verkflæði.

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16 Pre­press Tips for Graphic Designers

I recently wrote my first guest-blog, called Pre­press Tips for Graphic Design­ers on David Airey’s blog. If you are a graphic designer you should go over there and have a look. A print­able mini-poster of the arti­cle is avail­able too from a link in the comments.

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Con­vert­ing col­ors between dif­fer­ent color systems

[This is a trans­la­tion of the arti­cle I wrote over a year ago in Icelandic.]

Con­vert­ing RGB col­ors to CMYK for print­ing pur­poses or Color Man­age­ment, is some­thing we designer have to deal with almost every day. It’s easy to get infor­ma­tion about Color Man­age­ment in books and on the web. I am not going to go through that here but con­cen­trate on other less com­mon con­ver­sions. Con­tinue reading…

The Cir­cle – a sim­ple ToDo Sys­tem to Get more Things Done

I love to use To Do appli­ca­tions and GTD pro­grams on my mac. At least try them out. Things, iGTD, Omni­Fo­cus and many more. All have their pros and cons. Most peo­ple try a few and then stick to one. Oth­ers use one but keep look­ing for bet­ter solu­tions. And then still some peo­ple can­not be helped — they try every­thing but get noth­ing done. Maybe they are look­ing for the appli­ca­tion which will do the job for them. Con­tinue reading…

Skissub­ækur – kompur

Ég er ekki hæt­tur að tala um skissub­ækur eða kom­pur. Þær eru ein­faldlega van­metnar af þeim sem ekki nota þær.

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Safari : Bókamerki á bar­num – Book­marks Bar

Allir sem á annað borð nota tölvur nota for­rit eins og Safari meira eða minna allan daginn með öðru. Það er því ekki úr vegi að benda á nokkur atriði sem geta gert ráparann að enn skil­virkara tóli í verk­færak­istunni. Það sem kemur hér á eftir miðast við Safari en á ein­nig við aðra rápara með litlum til­færslum, eins og til dæmis Firefox.

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Safari : Gluggastærðir

Þegar maður opnar nýjan glugga í Safari, Fire­fox eða hvaða rápara sem er, verður sá gluggi jafn stór og sá síðasti sem opnaður var. Con­tinue reading…