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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Find Out Which Type of Procrastinator You Are [Infographic]

If you are reading this, you are probably procrastinating. Then again, it’s probably better that you are procrastinating on us than on any social network sites. On the serious side, if deadlines are always out of reach, your work is riddled with errors, and it is common for you to have no new progress to update your team leader with, you might have a problem.

Of course you know you procrastinate (who doesn’t, online?) but the pressing question here is, can you fix it? We have an infographic that might be able to help.

Here is a fun Q&A infographic by parcelhero that will help determine the type of procrastinator you are. Once you have identified yourself as belonging to any of the groups: daredevil, self-saboteur, ostrich, chicken or perfectionist – get the tips you need to better cope with your work, and time, and who knows, you might be able to shed that procrastinator label off you. Eventually.

Recommended Reading: 7 Ways to Stop Procrastinating on the Job

Find Out Which Type of Procrastinator You Are [Infographic]

Friday, June 19, 2015

Find Out Which Type of Procrastinator You Are [Infographic]

Of course you know you procrastinate (who doesn’t, online?) but the pressing question here is, can you fix it? We have an infographic that might be able to help.

Recommended Reading: 7 Ways to Stop Procrastinating on the Job

Find Out Which Type of Procrastinator You Are [Infographic]

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Glyphs Come to Photoshop, Type Lovers Rejoice

Today is a huge day if you’re an Adobe CC subscriber, because everything has been updated to a 2015 version, bringing with them all sorts of new changes and added features. Now we could spend all day talking about Adobe Stock, linked Smart Objects and more, but let’s touch on one of the cooler features for PS CC 2015: Glyphs.

Ever buy a font that has cool glyphs — those extra characters that you can use to create fun flourishes or other details — but can’t find a way to access them? Well you could in Illustrator, but if you wanted to do the same in Photoshop, you were out of luck. Now you can.

Let’s use an example with a font that I personally own, Ballistic by thirtypath. Ballistic uses glyphs in creative ways, so that you can stack letters and do cool things with tails.

Here’s my fancy example:

Now I need to open up the glyphs for the font, which is as easy as going to Window > Glyphs, just like you’d expect.

With that done, I now have a Glyphs panel on the screen, showing me all of the cool options that my chosen font has in store for me. To replace a letter, I highlight it, double click the glyph I want to use, and then I’m done.

Glyphs-example

Or, if I just want to insert the glyph, I just double click on it and it’s magically dumped into my text. Also, if I just want to see the available glyphs for one character, I highlight the letter, select “Alternates for this selection,” and that’s exactly what it will show me. And to punctuate that even more, here’s a video on how the whole thing works:

If you’re an Illustrator user, this is all old hat for you. But for Photoshop people, this is a potential game changer.

Now get out there and make some cool designs using glyphs!

Kevin Whipps is a writer and editor based in Phoenix, Arizona. When he’s not working on one of the many projects in his queue, he’s looking for fun and irreverent things online to share with his friends.

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