Curly Quotes

My Macintosh (using New York font) makes quotation marks angled only one way. How can I produce the opposing quotation mark?

Here's how to produce "curly" quotes from the Macintosh keyboard:

For this character	Press these keys
"	Option-[
'	Option-]
"	Option-Shift-[
'	Option-Shift-]

Flash encoding symbols...

are here.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14143.html

Obscure Illustrator Shortcuts

1. New Layer:
   The first, and by far the most important one, is the “New Layer…” keyboard command (Command-L). How this one eluded me for so long is a major mystery, but man am I glad I found it. It seems so obvious now that I know what it is, but the odd thing is that it doesn’t show up in the Layers palette flyout menu. Normally an enabled shortcut will reveal itself in the menu item. Maybe this is only on OS X. Add the Option key to open the layer Options dialog box before creating the layer. Bonus: add a new layer underneath the selected layer by Command-Option clicking the new layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.
2. Lock Others:
   We all know about the Command-2 shortcut to Lock an object, and Command-Option-2 to unlock all. The new coolness is the ability to lock all the other items that aren’t selected using Command-Option-Shift-2. You can also Lock All Artwork Above the selected object with Command-Shift-2, but you’ll have to add that shortcut manually.
3. Hide/Hide Others:
   This is one of those features that I wasn’t even aware of, let alone know about a keyboard command for it. Seems you can Hide a selected object using Command-3, and Show All using Command-Option-3 (a nice analogue to the Lock items). Same applies here for Hide All Others: Command-Option-Shift-3. This could be very handy.I know some of you are wondering why I left out Command-Shift-3 for a Hide All Above, similar to Lock All Above. Well, it seems OS X uses that one for screenshots, and while you can turn it off in the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences, it’s something non-standard. If you want to turn it on, just disable the shortcut in the System Prefs and then go back and add it as a custom shortcut in Illustrator.
4. Send To Current Layer
   Well, this is another one that has no default keyboard command assigned to it, so you’ll have to make your own here. I chose Command-Shift-, since it was similar to the Send Forward/Send Backward key commands (Command-[ or ] respectively).
5. Highlight Font (in Character Palette):
   Here’s another one I just found… been looking for this one for ages! Command-Option-Shift-M (or F) to highlight the font name field. If someone out there in Adobe world is reading this – add this to InDesign pronto. It would be very handy there as well.

opacity and blend mode shortcuts

I applied a shortcut like in photoshop in the numeric keypad : 0=100% opacity, 1=10% opacity, 2=20% opacity ... and

Shift + or - to Next blend mode and Previous blend mode.

Mac & html Symbol Keyboard shortcuts

http://modmyi.com/forums/mac-tips-tricks-mods/328131-100-mac-keyboard-shortcuts-creating-symbols.html

77    ©    Option-G   
78    ˚    Option-K   
79    ø    Option-O   
80    œ    Option-Q   
81    ®    Option-R   
82    †    Option-T   
83    ™    Option-2 (Trade Mark)   
84    ¶    Option-7   
85    •    Option-8 (Bullet)   
86    ¡    Option-1   
87    –    Option-Dash[-]     88 æ    Option-Single Quote[']
89    '    Option-Close Square Bracket[']']
90    "    Option-Open Square Bracket['[']
91    Å    Option-Shift-A
92    Ç    Option-Shift-C
93    Ø    Option-Shift-O
94    Œ    Option-Shift-Q
95    fi    Option-Shift-5
96    fl    Option-Shift-6
97    °    Option-Shift-8

for html unicode check out www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp or www.unicode.org/charts

more typography shortcuts

Switch Selection Tools Ctrl+Tab Insert Hyphen Shift+Ctrl+- Point Size Up Shift+Ctrl+. Point Size Down Shift+Ctrl+, Font Size Step Up Alt+Shift+Ctrl+. Font Size Step Down Alt+Shift+Ctrl+, Kern Looser Shift+Ctrl+] Kern Tighter Shift+Ctrl+[ Tracking Alt+Ctrl+K Clear Tracking Alt+Ctrl+Q Spacing Alt+Ctrl+O Uniform Type Shift+Ctrl+X Highlight Font Alt+Shift+Ctrl+F Highlight Font (Secondary) Alt+Shift+Ctrl+M Left Align Text Shift+Ctrl+L Center Text Shift+Ctrl+C Right Align Text Shift+Ctrl+R Justify Text Left Shift+Ctrl+J Justify All Lines Shift+Ctrl+F

Illustrator Typography shortcuts

_____Why? Because if you are intuitively working with the tools rather than dialogs, you can access more of your creative brain.

____What? Shortcuts

cmd-Shift-< or cmd-shift>  shrinks or grows your font by one point. Works for groups of fonts too.

alt arrow kerns by amount set in preferences/type
alt arrow up/down is leading
select your text and alt left and right for tracking

these three are sometimes referred to as the holy trinity of typography

Is there a shortcut for changing font?

Cntrl shift D

--------why?

Its a great way to save lots of steps. It can take on symbol or many and place them all on different layers.

----------how?

select any number of symbols and hit cntl shift D

----------what to know?

the layers will appear in the order you made them. Oldest on bottom.

Rounded Corners in Illustrator

-----------Why?

Using the rounded corner tool in Illustrator has huge drawbacks.
1. reshaping the box warps the corners
2. making new boxes that are different sizes match is hard.

----------What and How?

Better to use effects>stylize>round corner

If making more than one box, put box into stylize and reuse it on future boxes.

----------For further exploration:

Check Mordy Goldbergs lesson on making boxes with only 3 round corners.
Learn to do compound graphic styles

Using Firefox to resize images (mostly for webwork - Flash)

-------------What?

Use Firefox and screencap to resize images.
For use in Flash

-------------Why?

Firefox has a really nice image resizing engine.
Faster than photoshop
Better resolution than when resizing in Flash

-------------How?

Open an image in the folder, drag to the browser - have it set at any size you will reuse.
Use screencap to bring it into Flash

-------------To really trick it out:

A script to set the image size

Intention

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