Hmmm. Unknown or just “little known”.
Photoshop:
- Need a placed photo thats part of a PDF, or multiple photos in a PDF? When you open the PDF in Photoshop, It defaults to rasterizing the whole page, instead select “image” instead of “page” at the top of the dialogue window, voila, images only.
InDesign
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Placing other InDesign layouts into an existing Layout like you would a photo.
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Using GREP in find/change is insanely useful on long documents. Can take some time to get the hang of it. But once you wrap your head around it, its useful.
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“Fake” duotones can be created by placing a black and white PSD or TIF file. Place the file and use the direct selection tool to select the placed image, notice the fill is black, change it to any other color.
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Find and change for types of formatted text, not content. Bring up the dialogue box and click in the find format box. You can search for anything from character styles, paragraph styles, character colors, font size, etc. then click in the replace box and change whatever you want. For example, you can find all underlined text, and change it to a different font and color.
Illustrator
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Appearance palette!!! See this GDF post or this post
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Have a PDF that someone didn’t outline the fonts, but you need them outlined? Place the PDF in Illustrator (not open, place), then click on the PDF, and choose Object/Flatten Transparency from the top menu, make sure that the “Convert All text to Outlines” box is checked and say OK. Voila, outlined font, even if you didn’t own the font.
Those are just a few that come to mind. I’m sure there are more though.