Show Thumbnails for Adobe CS2/CS3 files

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Posted by Simon | Posted on 05-04-2008

Category : Adobe

When i moved to CS2 and then CS3 I noticed that the thumbnail views for Illustrator and Photoshop files had been disabled since the introduction of ‘Bridge’ (which I don’t like by the way).

Heres the instructions.

1. Download this zip file.
2. Shut down any open Adobe programs.
3. Set a ‘system restore point’ (just incase).
4. Unzip it to ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell’.
5. Run both .reg files included.

Thats it! Just a matter of enabling the thumbnail view in explorer and look at all those pretty icons.

Use Illustrator to fill a path with text

Posted by Simon | Posted on 07-09-2007

Category : Adobe

A little option called ‘Envelope Distort’ is what your after. Create your letters in the appropriate font. Make sure the path is the top object and choose the following:

Object > Envelope Distort > Make with top Object

Its best to duplicate the path layer before using the Envolpe Distort function and apply no fill and no stroke. Also, you may want to do a negative offset in order to leave a gap between the letters and the edge of the path:

Choose Object > Path > Offset Path

Making .ico files with Adobe Photoshop

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Posted by Simon | Posted on 25-07-2007

Category : Adobe

Download the following Windows package, which you can also get by clicking here:

http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/icoformat-win-1.3b3.zip

Now all you have to do is extract icoformat.8bi to your plugins folder in adobe. Now the next time you start Adobe you will have the option to save, make, create, and load .ico files!