Increase the texture memory used for OpenGL rendering to 80% of the installed video RAM (VRAM) on your video card. The default of 200 MB is quite small for modern video cards; values in the 400-800 MB range are appropriate for modern cards with 512-1GB of VRAM. Choose After Effects (PC: Edit)>Preferences>Previews, click OpenGL Information, …
For keeping you and your clients on top of exactly what Web technology is hot (or not) and optimizing your bids, you can now use the SiteCatalyst NetAverages service to track current Web trends in browser usage, JavaScript and Flash penetration, technology, and more. Just choose the NetAverages option from the CS Live services menu …
ere are the photos I took at the Utah Summer Games Paddleboarding event. There were 1, 3 and 5 mile events, and sub-divisions for board length. You can click on the main photo area to be redirected to a site where you can purchase prints or downloads. Please CONTACT ME if you have any questions. …
Create a depth-of-field effect on your 3D object with the 3D Zoom Camera tool (nested with the 3D Rotate Camera tool [N]). Option-click (PC: Alt-click) the area where you want to set the distance or focal plane of focus. You can also manually set the Blur and Distance parameters in the Options Bar. (The Blur …
The new Tool Hints panel (Window>Utilities>Tool Hints) lists all the hidden modifier key behaviors available for the currently selected tool. For example, look at the Tool Hints panel when the Selection tool is active to discover that to select an item in a group, you no longer have to switch to the Direct Selection tool …
n June 18th, 2011 six of us set out on a one day, 16 mile adventure on Muddy Creek. The creek is purely runoff, and is not navigable most of the time by boat. I received a message from Ken about Muddy Creek (which I had never heard of) asking me and Nicole if we …
One of the biggest timesavers to ever learn with Illustrator is using the X key to switch between the current Stroke and Fill. Use this, along with the Forward Slash (/) key for no Fill or Stroke, and your life will be so much easier.
Photoshop CS5 is now capable of running in native 64-bit on both Mac and Windows. This means Photoshop can now address hundreds of gigs of RAM (instead of just 4 GB). The results are speedier operations-the bigger the file, the bigger the difference. The 32-bit version is on the same disc, so if your third-party …
The Project panel can display any XMP metadata fields you choose, not only the clip data fields. Choose Metadata Display from the flyout menu to select which metadata columns to display, add properties to a schema, and change the order of columns. Adobe Premiere Pro saves your choice of columns in the workspace, so you …
With all the new dynamic design features for PHP-based applications in Dreamweaver CS5, you might think we forgot about the hand-coding pro. Not the case at all. Go to Site>Site-Specific Code Hints, and if you’re using Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla!, Dreamweaver will pre-configure your code hinting to pull in all the right include files, directories, …