Best Workflow CS5: The Ideal Color Settings for Photoshop and CS5. Submitted by deke on 11 May 2010 - 12:15pm.
All of my One-on-One products---whether videos or books---begin by encouraging you to adjust your Creative Suite color settings and load my custom keyboard shortcuts. The color settings file goes by the name Best Workflow (because, I argue, that's the resulting environment); the keyboard shortcuts are dekeKeys. I've received requests to distribute both. Which is the purpose of today's post. I explain how to make your own Best Workflow color settings today. (For you impatient ones, dekeKeys CS5 is similar to the dekeKeys II file that I posted as part of Martini Hour 057, In Which Deke Gives You Part of His Brain. This post is devoted to walking you through the process of creating your own Best Workflow file and then applying it to the Creative Suite as a whole, if you own the Creative Suite.
But first, let me address why color settings are important: RGB is a subjective color space. Photoshop is now ready to go. That's it. Adobe Flash FLA to HTML. 16 Fresh Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers. With the ease of development & multi-platform support, Adobe AIR is a getting-popular choice for creating desktop applications.
There are many beautiful applications built with it including the ones that are functional for the designer & developer community. Months ago, a post published at WRD was sharing 27 Adobe AIR Applications – Handy For Web Designers. Since then, there are various great applications created. And here they are, 16 Fresh Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers: ImageSizer ImageSizer is a batch image processor tool which can resize, optimize and rename multiple JPG files.
Once the images are processes, they can be exported as a single .zip file. JustResizeIt! A batch image resizer that works with drag'n drops. The application is great for anyone sending photos with e-mails, requires batch resizing & more. Xe-IMG Editor It supports multiple image types, image-from-URLs & SWF files as images to be edited. .merlin – Font Organizer Contrast-A Dot3D. ImageSizer updated, and now with a Crop tool. ImageSizer is now up to version 0.4.6.
If you’re paying attention to the number of updates I’ve been putting up here, that’s a noticable jump from the last update, so I guess it’s time for a roundup of all of the features that have been introduced in this, and the other recent updates I forgot to mention. If you’ve been running ImageSizer then hopefully you’ll have seen the automatic updates announce themselves, but here they are with a features list and pictures! The first thing you’ll notice is that the interface is looking a little bit brighter – with those helpful #1, #2, #3 markers.
They’re designed to make it easier to identify the process you need to take to use the application. We’ve also added more instructions to the application, in a simpler language (hopefully). The encoding screen: It’s only a visual thing, but it looks nice. Technically, this whole process has also been rewritten. The output screen: Again with the visual and textual overhaul. The Crop tool.