Flash: select single keyframe in new tween

In Flash, to select a single keyframe of the new tweens, hold down the command key and click.

Download entire site on Mac

http://osxdaily.com/2009/03/19/how-to-easily-mirror-an-entire-web-site-locally/ 1) download MacPorts 2) sudo port install wget 3) wget -m http://www.guimp.com/ (with your desired url here) 4) saves folder to your main drive for the user. with name of site as part of the folder name. *) can download deep vacuum for a gui http://www.hexcat.com/downloads.html http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12760/deepvacuum _____________HTTRACK____________ Other options include installig httrack http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=2AUAx1hYRKg sudo port install httrack then httrack http://www.yoursite.com commands are here: http://www.httrack.com/html/fcguide.html examples of implementing commands httrack -O ~/070208_ httrack_com -n -j -http://www.httrack.com/page/* +http://www.httrack.com/page/7/* http://forum.httrack.com/readmsg/15816/15608/index.html?q= I used these commands to bypass robots.txt httrack http://siteaddress/ -s0 *p3 *R100000 -k _____________downloadthemall firefox________________ Or for lesser downloads in firefox "download them all" works. They all work on Lion.

jumpcut

just works. access to a list of things in the clipboard http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net

unhide folder to place jsfl in lion

The library is hidden, so first in terminal: chflags nohidden /users/"usernamehere"/library then put them here: Macintosh HD/Users/userName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS6/language/Configuration/Tools

Screenshot to Clipboard

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/06/mac-101-take-screenshot-and-copy-to-clipboard/ If you don't need the files piling up on your desktop and just want to paste a picture somewhere, pressing Control + Command + Shift + 3 for a full screenshot (or 4 for cross hair selection tool).

delete key on Mac

In the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane you can change shortcuts in any app so long as you know the command name exactly. For what you want, click the plus sign and select Finder. Then put "Move to Trash" in the field and make whatever shortcut you want (like just delete or delete/backspace). (Use f13 key if delete won't work) The Mac OS X Delete Key: It Goes Both Ways One of the biggest pet peeves for users who switch to Mac from Windows is the Delete key, because it feels backwards. To make matters worse, the vast majority of Mac users don't use the full-size keyboard (which has Delete keys for both directions). Here are a few quick shortcuts to set the matter straight for everyone, but especially for those macbook users out there. Photo by Matt McGee. Deleting text in front of the cursor with the regular Delete key can be done by holding down the Function, or fn key while pressing it. You can also do this by pressing Control + D. You can delete the entire word behind the cursor by pressing Control + Delete or Option + Delete. You can delete the entire line of text or paragraph behind the cursor by pressing Command + Delete.

color profiles for the web

from http://www.bigspaceship.com/2009/04/color-unity-adobe-vs-html/ APRIL 22ND, 2009 Color Unity: Adobe vs. HTML Working with colors can be a very difficult. It is hard to determine what is perceptual, what is consistent, and what is offset by outlying factors. Things can get pretty hairy when trying to synchronize colors between the web standards and Photoshop. There are a lot of options ( including: proof setups [view menu] and color profiles [edit menu] ) in Photoshop that you may forget about that will stand between you and that perfect color. This test is interesting because the eyedropper tool in Photoshop is only accurate for actual colors, but it does not represent perceptual colors. When loading PSDs, you have the option to set color profiles, discard color profiles, and convert color profiles. These colors will all look very different visually, but the eyedropper color sampling will see them just the same. A deep red seen through a Windows proof setup may actually translate to a burnt-orange in HTML. The left side of these charts is the eyedropper sample taken from a PNG screenshot. The right side is an HTML “#D33432″ background color. For every single proof listed below, the PSD reported the color as being “#D33432,” which means they should match up identically. After looking at these samples, they are clearly not all “#D33432,” at least in the way we’d want them to be. After all, I did say proof. Note: This test required only one .psd using sRGB IEC61966-2.1. Use profile Convert profile Discard profile Every color in the above chart of 12 colors is supposedly “#D33432″ according to the color sampler. The only setup that seems to be accurate with regards to the web is removing all color profiles. If you are starting out a project, it can be easy enough to say, “Everyone just disable color management on these PSDs.” There is a separate issue when you have an existing profile that needs to be converted. We’ll get into that later. Photoshop vs Screen produces adverse, yet logical, effects. If you take a screen capture of a PSD with no color management and paste it back in to your document, there is no strange color shifting; the colors are exactly as they’re supposed to be. Below is a test showing what happens when you do a screen capture on a PSD that uses a color profile. The colors continuously get darker as you paste them back into your document. Saved PNG: #1: Original color. #2 is a capture of #1. #3: is a capture of #2. The big deal: The top is an open PSD, the bottom is a saved PNG24 version of the open PSD. The shades get lighter upon save. This is a little hard to follow, and for that I apologize. The point here is that the saved PNG is lighter than the color-managed PSD following the ratio of screen-capture color difference. The “#c12221″ of the exported PNG is actually the same color as the “#d33432″ in the PSD. Get a color picker and try it out. What this means is that … If you are working off a color managed PSD, your HTML colors will be a screen-capture shade lighter than what you see in the PSD (assuming you’re NOT proofing colors). In order to get the exact color of the image, you must take a screen capture of the color you want, then sample that. It will look darker, but when it gets translated to HTML… it will match.

HTML Entity Reference for Common Characters

http://www.impressivewebs.com/html-entity-reference-common/ Name Character Entity Numeric Copyright © © © Registered ® ® ® Trademark ™ ™ ™ Curly Open Double Quote “ “ “ Curly Closed Double Quote ” ” ” Curly Open Single Quote ‘ ‘ ‘ Curly Closed Single Quote ’ ’ ’ Big Bullet/Dot • • • Small Bullet/Dot · · · Square Dot ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ En Dash – – – Em Dash — — — Cents ¢ ¢ ¢ Pound (Currency) £ £ £ Euro (Currency) € € € Not Equal To ≠ ≠ ≠ Half (Fraction) ½ ½ ½ Quarter (Fraction) ¼ ¼ ¼ Three-Quarters (Fraction) ¾ ¾ ¾ Degrees ° ° ° Left Arrow ← ← ← Right Arrow → → → Up Arrow ↑ ↑ ↑ Down Arrow ↓ ↓ ↓ Lowercase “e”, Grave Accent è è è Lowercase “e”, Acute Accent é é é Lowercase “c”, Cedilla ç ç ç Ellipse … … … Triangle Down ▼ (none) ▼ Triangle Up ▲ (none) ▲ Triangle Left ◀ (none) ◀ Triangle Right ▶ (none) ▶ Name Character Entity Numeric Final Notes In HTML5, as far as I understand, you could technically just copy and paste the character right into your document and it will validate just fine (and as pointed out in the comments, this is the strongly preferred method). If you’re concerned about how these characters are handled when entered into a database or form, then you might want to check out this article on Smashing Magazine, along with the comments.

Illustrator Quick Tip: How To Copy Appearances Between Objects

http://www.vickiwenderlich.com/2012/01/illustrator-quick-tip-how-to-copy-appearances-between-objects/

Illustrator Quick Tip: How To Copy Appearances Between Objects

Often you have an image with several shapes in it, all which need to have the same Appearance (this just means the combination of Fills and Strokes applied to an object, and it’s found in the Appearance panel). Most of the time you aren’t quite sure what the appearance should be ahead of time, or you need to change the appearance – either way, you will need to copy the appearance of one shape over to several other shapes.
Even if the appearance is easy, let’s say a single Fill color and Stroke, this will take up too much time if you go to each shape and change its appearance manually in the Appearance panel.
If you have a complicated Appearance, like a gradient fill, a texture fill on top, and a drop shadow, it would take even longer.

All of these need the same Appearance
For example, see the clouds to the left.
I created the shapes with a simple white fill, and then played around with the appearance.

Fortunately, it's easy to copy this Appearance over to the other shapes.
Finally, I decided that the appearance needed to be as shown to the left, with a gradient fill and a white transparent gradient fill with an Offset Path Effect applied (to create a gradient stroke effect).
Then I needed to apply that Appearance to the other shapes.

Doing this manually would be a huge pain!
Fortunately there is an easy way in Illustrator to copy Appearances between shapes.

Easy as pie, thankfully!
Go over to your Layers Panel, and find the shapes. Here, the three objects with white thumbnails are our clouds.
See the circle to the right of each shape name? That is its Appearance circle.
In (1), you can see that one of the paths has a filled-in grey circle, and the other two cloud shapes have a white circle. The filled-in circle means that the Appearance is more than just a simple Fill and Stroke. We want to copy this Appearance to the other two paths
To copy the Appearance of the third path to the other paths, simply hold down Option and drag from the filled-in circle to another circle (2). Do this for any shapes you want the Appearance copied to.
The Appearances will now be the same (3).
If you do not hold down Option, you will simply move the Appearance from one shape to another rather than copying it.
As you can see below, all three clouds now have the same Appearance – and it took only seconds to make the change!

Now you can easily copy the appearance to as many shapes as you want!

Category: Illustrator, Tutorials
Tags: Illustrator, tips, tutorial

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test text with all the fonts on your computer

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/fontlist.htm?text=%E2%98%82+-+Enter+a+character+or+sentence+and+see+what+your+computer+fonts+look+like

Best little video on converting images to Black and White, desaturated and Sepia

http://layersmagazine.com/photoshop-black-white-images.html

Method 1:
-Image-mode-grayscale
-Adjustments-brightness/contrast

Method 2:
-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation
-slide Saturation to nil.
(also nice for mostly desaturated images)

Method 3:
-Channel Mixer
-click monochrome
(this is a very popular method and is great on landscapes)

Method 4 (sepia):
-Actions-Flyout-Image Effects

copy layer into a mask of another layer

Paste a layer(A) into a layer(B) mask. In 4 easy steps:
1. select the layer A and copy it to clipboard (Cmd/Ctrl+a, Cmd/Ctrl+c)
2. go to the layer B, make it active and click the Layer Mask
3. go to your Channels Panel, there is your mask in the bottom, set it active and visible, paste the clipboard content (Cmd/Ctrl+v)
4. make the mask channel invisible again and the RGB channel (top) active


From: http://pehaa.com/2009/02/photoshop-paste-a-layer-to-a-mask/

adjustment layer to only affect layer below it

alt+apple (control) + G
and it auto clicks to the layer below the adjustment layer.

Photoshop Text Box resizing

http://www.theblog.ca/photoshop-textbox

Peter on his blog wrote (as was my experience): "Trying to tweak every conceivable Photoshop option and using ctrl+click, shift+right-click, scream-at-computer-click, etc. got me nowhere. So thanks for nothing to Google and thanks for nothing to my brain.

Yeah, I could have just created a new text box, but that would have meant giving in. So, after an hour I sent the file to Derek (smart guy) and complained. He replied: “I don’t have the problem — I can resize the text box and the font size isn’t changed.”

What!?!? Is this a joke!?!? I went back to Photoshop and… ah… for some reason a light finally turned on: I should have simply resized while using the Text Tool; all along, I was trying to use the arrow to resize the text box."

Simple, yet essential.

Photoshop Layer shortcuts

Make all layers visible (yes, I searched and searched for this one, because if you use alt click on more than one layer, layers within a folder won't become visible again.

Right click on eyeball/ then show/hide all layers


Found this here, which might just be the best collection of Photoshop shortcuts I have found. Ok, my logic is flawed, but I couldn't find the above shortcut anywhere else...

http://jkost.com/pdf/photoshop/cs3/PSTips&Tech.pdf

Preparing Photoshop files for hand-off

http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/preparing-photoshop-files-for-web-developers.html

a great article. Comments are helpful too. I agree with the bit about keeping more layers rather than flattening everything thus allowing the developer to slice as they will and to make edits as necessary.

And this is a nice list of things that a designer can hand to the developer to make their life easier (from one of the comments):

I follow almost all of the tips listed. Some additional ones I add are:
1. Always include a flattened version as a support/reference files in case of any shifting
2. High level call out for dynamic content and areas that are fluid/flexible
3.Pixel specs – similar to old school print specs – a file with:
- hex color call outs
- font stack, type size, line height, hex colors, style, – weight, letter spacing etc
- border widths, hex colors
- container heights/widths
- padding
Some may wonder why so detailed – if I can provide that to my dev he/she can produce the CSS in half the time. The other reason is it leaves little doubt for color shifting since I’ve spec’d it out.

color profiles for webdesign

http://www.rumblingskies.com/blog/?p=46#more-46

When pasting, you are prompted to assign a profile: use working rgb: iec61966=2.1

Convert to profle engine: Adobe ACE
and relative color metric

check "use black point compensation"
check "use dither"

Set color profiles to sRGB.
If your monitor profile matches, click of "convert to sRGB" in the "Save for Web and Devices" dialog
working with sRGB is recommended by the smashing ebook "mastering photoshop for web", but then you will need to work with a soft proof
view->proof setup, then change the setting to Monitor RGB
then make sure that view-proof color is checked.
This is identical to how the image will appear in the browser
then it doesn't matter if "convert to sRGB" is on or off but make sure that "embed color profile" is off.

Video dimensions Chart

import from CS4 text to CS5 workflow

workflow to preserve classic text:

1. create slides in il.
2. paste into cs4 (as many as you can at once) I once got 7. Sometimes one or two. Put them all into one slide if using TC's system
3. save them and reopen in cs5
(aside: in audacity, remove all long tails and split audio at the slide breaks.)
4. put slides together so that audio breaks where it should stop.
5. copy each slide and synch the images to the slide.
6. Watch through and start putting the animation in.

illustrator shortcuts to integrate (for swatch colors

X Toggle between Fill & Stroke
Shift-X Swap Fill & Stroke
D Default Fill & Stroke (white fill/black stroke)
< Fill or Stroke w/Color
> Fill or Stroke w/Gradient
/ Fill or Stroke w/None