I’d bet money you’ve received art from a client that is an over compressed JPEG and looks like a checkerboard! Thanks to Photoshop CC 2022 there might be a magic fix for you.

Finally Adobe has given us the ability to control the size of our interface in InDesign while keeping our monitors on high resolution. In this short Episode I’ll show you how to set it all up.

The new Select Subject & Sky feature of Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, Adobe Camera Raw, and Photoshop isn’t a toy. It’s a powerful selection and masking tool that WORKS.

We've all seen it, the dreaded red eye in a photo. Now it's easier than ever to fix, thanks to Adobe's adding the function to Lightroom, in addition to Photoshop and Camera Raw.

If you've relied on PDF proofing workflows in the past, this new feature of InDesign could make things a lot easier for you.

This new feature tucked inside Text Wrap is a game changer, simplifying something we've had to do manually for too long.

The Object Selection Tool isn’t new. What IS new are some improvements the Adobe God’s gave us in this CC 2022 release. Check out how easy it can be to select specific objects in a busy photo.

I'm so happy to report that Illustrator now has a History Panel. In this Episode we'll see how simple it is to use, and how limited.

If you like a shallow depth of field when you shoot with your camera, you probably find shooting with a smart phone frustrating. Then let's all celebrate the newDepth Blur Filter in Photoshop CC 2022.

The desire to colorize B&W photos is nothing new, really. They’re even doing it in movies now. But what IS new is how easy it can be thanks to the improved Neural Filter in Photoshop CC 2022.

If you've ever had to create a bullet or number list in Illustrator, you know how bad it was. But now, with Illustrator's new Bullets & Numbers features, it's a snap.

Welcome to the first Digiversity.tv Newspaper Technology Roundtable!

Adobe just released the 2023 upgrade of the Creative Cloud Apps and, just like each year, Julia and Russell get to dig through the feature graveyard to find what's new, improved, fixed, and forgotten.

Transform your photos with Russell and Julia on Digiversity.tv LIVE. Learn storytelling through imagery, master camera settings, and optimize Adobe tools.

Today we go beyond technology and aesthetics of design to discuss the ability of designers to tackle social issues.

In this livestream Julia will show you her best tricks and smartest workflows to turn urban photography into geometric and minimalistic illustrations with lots of atmosphere and depth.

Using CC Libraries, Adobe Stock Vectors, and InDesign? You may run into a snag. Let us show you the cause and the solution to this mystery.

Join us today as we get to chat with Comic Book Artist Ivan D. Saboya live on Digiversity.tv

We are now in Kansas City and we have LOTS of photos to go through. Join us as we explore the many Adobe tools to get the job done.

Join Julia and Russell as they show you how to use, edit, and maximize the power of Illustrator's Symbols and Graphic Styles.

Julia and Russell share the many times the humble Opt + Drag shortcut can be used to save you time and energy.

Option + Drag is one I a shortcut I use all of the time to duplicate something in the Adobe world. But where ELSE can I Option + Drag to get an unexpected surprise?

In case you didn’t notice, the Adobe Gods recently gave us some new features in a bunch of the Creative Cloud apps. Join us as we have a look.

It's time to take your Behance Profile up a notch and get noticed! Join Julia and Russell as they show you how!

We’re going to watch Julia jam on her iPad using Procreate to bring characters from a Blues Brothers cover band to life.

It's late and I'm on deadline for a project. This is a real project for a customer. The first step is reworking the provided art so I can use it how I want to.

Yes, we ARE going to design a car wrap for Julia's mom's business. And we ARE going to get the files ready to go the rapper...uh wrapper.

Stop getting surprises AFTER you’ve sent your files to the printer. InDesign’s built-in Live Preflight can solve a lot of problems before they are problems.

How much time can one good tip save you each week. Take that over a year....? This episode is FULL of tips, tricks, 'n' stuff to help you work faster, and smarter.

Believe it, or not, Von Glitschka is joining us live and we'll all be talking about Illustrator...and stuff.

Do you have Type 1 fonts you use regularly? The impending death of them, announced by Adobe, is coming up. There are solutions, and we'll cover that in this episode.

Are you wanting to add some dimension to your art and design projects? Let's see how far we can take Illustrator's 3D tools!

Join us in the office as we take the International School of Luxembourg's yearbook cover design and make it ready for print.

If you ever need to create documents larger than a flier, this show has some great info on how to work faster, make changes faster, and have more consistent designs.

InDesign's default settings don't really help us get started quickly. Learn some ways to set it up so you can get to work faster.

We're on the road but that isn't stopping us from streaming. Join us in Minnesota as we have some Fun with Type today!

Have you ever had to create multiple InDesign files for one project? In this Episode we'll see how to make them work together...almost as one.

Learn optimal photo cropping in Photoshop. But what if you didn't need to crop? Explore flexible cropping for layouts in our show, discussing efficient techniques across Adobe tools.

Let's stop building photo pages the hard way. There are ways to automate things so you spend less time in front of your computer.

Get your BINGO card (https://bit.ly/3rJyJGz) and get ready for a run down of the best, and worst, new features of Adobe's new CC 2022.

It’s time to take some time to learn how to save some time while using Adobe’s Creative Cloud Apps.

Would you like to turn any sketch into a realistic ink painting without getting your hands dirty and missing out on the fun of traditional painting? The secret is in the brushes.

If you think you're fast at building photo pages in InDesign, but don't know Gridify...I'll race you!

If you’ve ever tried to open a placed file in InDesign to edit it in the original software, but it opens in something else, you know what this Episode is about. Find out how to set things up here.

These tools makes Copy/Paste so passé. See how to collect multiple items from multiple pages and place them in other parts of a document or totally different document.

Do you spend way too much time creating captions/cutlines under photos? You're not alone. See how InDesign's Captions feature, and some trickery, can automate your work.

This question from Mark wants to know what to do when you have an object that has Text Wrap applied and you try to put text over it...and it disappears.

Have you ever been given a Photoshop file as the final art for print? There are challenges, but it's possible. See how to get a .ps file ready for print.

Jonathan in Zurich wants to know if the PNGs he received from his photographer, which backgrounds knocked out, will work okay in his InDesign project.

Aaaaargh! Why isn't Photoshop letting me simply save this file as a .jpg like it used to!!!!

Yes, it's true that Adobe is killing support for Type 1 fonts in January of 2023. Don't get caught off guard. See the many options for you in this Episode.

Tom in Missouri wants to know if he's knocking out the backgrounds the hard way! YES...yes you are!

Image resolution is a huge factor in image quality. Does the format I choose to save my images as affect resolution?

Carly in Minnesota wants to learn how to build the graduation pages of her newspaper faster, which also would be how to build used car ads, realty ads, and more faster.

Do you open PDFs in Photoshop to convert to CMYK or Grayscale? There are other tools and techniques that may give you better results.

Do you spend way too much time creating captions/cutlines under photos? You're not alone. See how InDesign's Captions feature, and some trickery, can automate your work.

Time to play a little joke on our Photoshop using friends with a simple setting in the Rectangle Marquee Tool.

Working with Character Styles can be tricky. It's important you know how to avoid tripping yourself up...and how to use it to trip up your coworkers.

You may have played this joke on yourself, by accident, so even if you're not a prankster, this episode is worth a watch.

This kind of hidden feature is one of those things that makes life easier, like cup holders in a car. You can highlight or hide menu items for a better interface...and a a joke on coworkers.

Let's join Julia as she sketches some concepts for our new children's book character Roadrunner Rikke.

Join Julia and Russell as they recap the road trip they just finished to research their new project, and to get inspiration.

What a relaxing day to play with clay and develop concept drawings of Roadrunner Rikke into something 3D.

Have you ever converted from RGB to CMYK and watched the colors in your photo just drain away? This tip will help you anticipate that and adjust in advance.

This is just weird! Sometimes when typing certain words with certain character combinations using certain fonts…those letter combinations disappear. Well, there’s a reason and I’ll show you why.

I LOVE showing this “trick.” Many of us create colors with overlapping colored frames and transparency. But how do we find out the color values of the transparent areas? Check this out.

Here is a simple, useful tip which shows you how to quickly copy links placed in InDesign to a new location so you don't have to hunt them down, copy and move.

Have you ever wanted to select the contents of several photo frames on a page so you could delete them and reuse the frames? Doing it one at a time isn’t fun. But there is a way that IS!

In this Episode I show you how to quickly change the frustrating default settings that prevent us from making a simple two-page spread. There are a few ways to do it and I show you them all.

See you easily you can take multiple pieces of art on a single artboard and create mulitiple artboards and/or files.

Have you ever had a bunch of HEIC files that wouldn't place in InDesign? What about JPEG2000 files, or Camera Raw? This Episode shows you a way to quickly convert them.

Illustrator is a totally different animal than Photoshop. To simplify: Illustrator is Vector. If you don't know what that means, you should watch this episode before you start the series.

The Paintbrush Tool can be deceiving. By itself, it’s not very impressive. Add the Brushes Panel, and a whole new world of design opportunities opens up.

I know this Series is called Illustrator Kindergarten, but to understand some of the techniques, we have to learn a few higher level things…like what a Compound Path is.

Yep, the name of this tool pretty much gives away what we're going to be creating in this Episode: spirals. Let's all see how to use the Spiral Tool.

Time for recess! Let’s take a break from our studies and play with some tools that are a bit…warped. That’s right, the Warp Tool and it’s siblings.

The Shaper Tool is relatively new to Illustrator and brings with it a new way to create, edit, and combine paths for new paths. It’s fun and powerful.

So you know, the Rectangular Grid Tool also makes square grids. Now you know. See how, and much more, in this Episode.

You can almost pretend this tool is a magic wand that you wave over paths to create new art. Really! You don’t have to dress up as a Wizard, or anything, just pretend for a bit.

I need a bullseye right now, what tool should I use? Hmmmm...how about the Polar Grid Tool. Oh, what about a process diagram? Yep? Target? Yep. Check it out in this Episode.

This is NOT just a “paint fill” tool. No, it’s much more powerful than that. It not only fills closed paths, but it can fill overlapping open paths, even with a gap. #truth

This is one of my favs right here: the Pencil Tool. See just how powerful it is as we create and edit paths quickly and easily.

Drawing a line segment shouldn't need a whole episode, right? Well, you might be surprised. Have a look...it won't take long to learn something new.

If you miss X-Acto knives and want to cut some pieces of art apart, Illustrator has just the tool for you: the Knife Tool. You’ll see just how fun it is to cut things apart digitally in this Episode.

Just erase it, you say. Yes...and then some. The erasure tool is usable as an erasure, but also as a creator of cool results.

At first glance this looks like just another “paint” tool…but it’s not. It’s a different animal, altogether, and after watching this Episode, you’ll see what I mean.

You may think you have no use for the Arc Tool, and you may be correct. But it never hurts to know what a tool can do for you, just in case. In this short episode you’ll see it in action.

This has become a handy little tool I reach for when needing to add or create a curved line in a graphic. Simple to use, yet powerful in the right instance.

We see it everywhere: Photos in text. We see it on billboards, in magazines, on ads, and on cheesy bumper stickers. Now learn how to easily do it in Illustrator.

You’ve made your path, maybe a square or a circle, with the shape tools, now what. Now what? Now is when the fun begins as you learn the many ways to modify a path to create new shapes.

Sometimes you just don't have art for your project. So use some type and make art out of it. You'll see how in this fun Episode.

Well, we can’t use circles for EVERYTHING. We surely need to make squares and rectangles on occasion. In this class you’ll see how to make rectangles, rounded rectangles, and squares with ease.

"Star" is a pretty vague term for any number of shapes that have multiple points. Well, if you know how to use it, the Star Tool gives you all of the options you need.

The name of this Episode says it all, we’re going to make Polygons and Triangles. But HOW are we going to make them is what’s really going on here.

New to Adobe Illustrator? This episode gets you up and running in no time. We'll quickly look at creating a new document, show some shortcuts, dig around the interface, and save a file.

Creating a path is step 1, but the fun begins when you fill the paths with color, gradients, or patterns. See how in this episode.

Now that you know what a path is, how do we change the look? One way is adding Strokes...and there are so many cool options. Let's have some fun!

Illustrator has so many ways to create and apply color, that one might actually get confused. In this Episode, we won’t cover EVERYTHING, but we’ll give you enough to get you well on your way.

There are a few tools which allow us to erase paths, and they each behave differently. So which one should we use? You’ll see in this Episode how they work so you can decide.

Creating paths is fun and easy, but to create more complex shapes, it’s time to call out the Pathfinder. Using the Pathfinder and overlapping paths opens a whole new creative world.