I was thinking that with all this adobe talent around here, a tip of the day would be nice and handy. Sharing our knowledge of those little (and big) things that makes our life easier when working with adobes products.
Adobe Acrobat professional:
If you want to gather several pdfs into one. Simply open one of them, click the pages tab. Then drag and drop the other pdf's in where you want them to nest.
great suggestion n-gen.dk 
Photoshop Tip:
saved Presets like Brushes, Shapes, Actions or Script can be alternately loaded by dragging their respective files directly onto an open document... example, Brush Presets are saved in .abr files, if you create a shortcut to a folder containing these files, loading them by dragging onto your document may just seem faster than navigating Photoshop menus
Illustrator pdf tip: If you save an illustrator file as pdf, it is much larger than if you print from illustrator as pdf.
Worth noting, any multi-page pdf is saved as a single page if you "save as", but is compiled as separate pages if you "print as".
Either version is much smaller than saving as ai, however, and by default preserves all vector/ gradient info AND embeds fonts - much better than trying to email an ai file to someone.
Photoshop will open JPEGs in the Adobe Camera Raw interface, which makes tasks such as tweaking white balance a MILLION times easier.
Edit | Preferences | File Handling | Prefer ACR for JPEG
here's one everyone prolly knows...
I find I prefer working in Full Screen Mode the "F" key will cycle into or through Screen Modes...
however, the tip I was thinking of is...
Ctrl+Tab cyles through open documents [great trick once you are in Full Screen Mode]
Free Transform (Ctrl/Cmd+T) is the only transformation you need in Photoshop. It will perform any transformation there is: flip, rotate, skew, scale, distort, etc., by either right/control-clicking or using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, etc.) while transforming.
Placing any adjustment layer (levels, curves, etc. etc.) over a photo and setting that adjustment layer to a new transfer mode (e.g. Screen) will perform exactly the same way as placing a duplicate of the original photo in the same transfer mode, but without the document size overhead.
Imagenomic Noiseware rocks!
The free version only works with JPG, but it's great nonetheless. I think I paid $40 for the PS plug-in, and I really love it. Does a GREAT job on noise and grain.
Originally posted by: mclarkson Photoshop will open JPEGs in the Adobe Camera Raw interface, which makes tasks such as tweaking white balance a MILLION times easier.
Edit | Preferences | File Handling | Prefer ACR for JPEG
awesome
Originally posted by: arigato Illustrator pdf tip: If you save an illustrator file as pdf, it is much larger than if you print from illustrator as pdf.
Worth noting, any multi-page pdf is saved as a single page if you "save as", but is compiled as separate pages if you "print as".
Either version is much smaller than saving as ai, however, and by default preserves all vector/ gradient info AND embeds fonts - much better than trying to email an ai file to someone.
That's handy to know!
Originally posted by: mclarkson Free Transform (Ctrl/Cmd+T) is the only transformation you need in Photoshop. It will perform any transformation there is: flip, rotate, skew, scale, distort, etc., by either right/control-clicking or using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, etc.) while transforming.
Never even thought of using the alt key, good tip
Originally posted by: arigato Never even thought of using the alt key, good tip
another Alt Key tip related to the Tranform tools
when the Transform tool has been invoked, the Center point is marked by a Crosshair icon... the Crosshair icon can be dragged to reposition the "center of rotation" for your Transformation
here's the tip... oftimes, when trying to reposition the Crosshair icon or center of rotation, clicking on the icon and dragging simply repositions the whole object
try Alt+Clicking the Crosshair Icon... doing so will allow repositioning of the centerpoint
Props to Walt for helping me find that open JPEG as RAW thing.
as far as I know, for all Adobe apps...
Cmd/Ctrl+K brings up the Preferences dialog
David Blatner offers a couple of nifty plugins on his site at www.dtptools.com
one will install and give you a David Blatner Tip for Adobe InDesign each time you launch InDesignhttp://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=btid
and another will install a nifty InDesign keyboard Shortcuts panel or palette in InDesign http://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=ksin
Illustrator... Metal/Metallic Colours
Layers magazine Tip of the Day
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Tip – Use the Colors of a Metal
A few months ago I was working on both the layout and artwork for a charity dinner ad journal. As part of the ad page design, I had to create metallic borders in gold, silver, and bronze to designate various levels of donations. As a starting point for my metallic borders, I decided to take advantage of some of the vast new color resources available in Illustrator CS3. I looked under the Options menu of the Swatches panel>Open Swatch Library>Metal and discovered a panel containing Color Groups for various kinds of metal. Clicking on the folder icon of any Color Group in the panel added it to the Swatches panel. With these Metallic Colors Groups, plus some Metallic Gradients found under the Options menu of the Swatches panel (Open Swatch Library>Gradients>Metals), I had a great start on rendering my metallic borders.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider. AdobeAce@comcast.net.
https://www.acrobat.com/#/bw/BuzzwordBegin/
Adobe on Monday is set to unveil the next version of its Adobe Acrobat software, which adds support for the company's Flash multimedia technology. The company also plans to launch a new Web site offering users free hosted services for document creation, sharing and storage.
The move positions Adobe competitively against Microsoft, Google and other companies offering similar services online and signals Adobe's first major move into the hosted-services arena for business documents.
Combined, the two announcements support Adobe's broader strategy to offer rich-media capabilities through Flash and other technologies for both online and offline documents.
Adobe's new Web site, called Acrobat.com, offers beta versions of several hosted document services. They include Adobe Buzzword, a word-processing service that the company acquired from Virtual Ubiquity in September.
Adobe also is offering Adobe ConnectNow, a service that offers free Web conferencing for up to three people, and an online repository for documents. The company also provides guidance for converting documents to PDFs and will let users convert up to five documents into PDF for free on the site.
Adobe says Acrobat.com is a place where users can work with documents in the cloud, a definition that is similar to how Microsoft and Google are positioning online services they offer for free.
Even as Adobe rolls out hosted document services, Adobe Acrobat 9, the company's packaged software for document sharing, is expected to ship in late June or early July, said Kevin M. Lynch, vice president of product management and marketing for Acrobat. The software will allow users to incorporate Flash content in documents that can be converted to PDF, so any
I just ran across this one... seemed like it was slick as snot I just hope I remember it next time something like this comes up
Layers magazine Tip of the Day
Adobe InDesign CS3 Tip – Alphabetizing a List Made Easier than A, B, C
I have a multi-page list containing hundreds of movie listings that have been typed in a totally random order. Each movie listing is in a separate paragraph. Is there a quick way to alphabetize this list for a guide that I'm designing? Yes and you can actually accomplish this tedious task automatically with a Script that comes with InDesign. Just go to Window>Automation>Scripts to open the Scripts panel. Click in any of the Linked Text Frames containing your list with your Text tool (T) and press Command+A (Control+A on PC) to select the entire list. In the JavaScript folder in the Scripts panel, simply double click on the "SortParagraphs.jsx" Script and the entire list will be alphabetized faster that you can say A, B, C.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider. AdobeAce@comcast.net.
Originally posted by: mclarkson Free Transform (Ctrl/Cmd+T) is the only transformation you need in Photoshop. It will perform any transformation there is: flip, rotate, skew, scale, distort, etc., by either right/control-clicking or using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, etc.) while transforming.
Speaking of...I discovered the Free Transform tool in Illustrator...about 3 days ago.
I don't know how long it's been sitting there but for anyone else who's been stupidly using a combination of 3D transform and Warp, it looks like this:
It will change your life. (also don't tell anyone when you get excited because chances are, they've known about it for years and they'll think you're an idiot)
I thought this one was pretty darn nifty:
Adobe InDesign CS3 Tip – The Keys to Unlocking the Power of the Control Panel
Is there a way to select the first field in the Control panel without reaching for your mouse? Sure if you use the secret keys! Simply press the Command and 6 keys **(Control+6 on PC) **and the first field in the Control panel will be highlighted. Why is this a great time-saving tip? Once you have the first field selected, you can navigate through the entire Control panel by pressing the Tab key until you get to a field you wish to change. After making the change, press Tab again to apply and jump to the next field. If you're typing and you can make changes in the Control panel without your fingers leaving the keyboard, you'll save lots of time throughout the workday. And you'll have coworkers scratching their heads wondering how you're working so quickly.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider. AdobeAce@comcast.net.
That is nifty. Thanks!
another tip I could have used about a bazillion times, if only I'd've knowed
Adobe InDesign CS3 Tip – Creating Horizontal and Vertical Ruler Guides at One Time
You've selected a rectangle with your Selection tool (V). Is there a way to create both a horizontal and vertical Ruler Guide at one time and snap them to the upper left corner of the object? You bet! Hold down your Command key (Control on PC), then click and drag from the intersection of the two Rulers in the upper left corner of the document window. When the newly created Ruler Guides snap to the upper left corner on the rectangle, release your mouse. You'll have created both a vertical and horizontal Ruler Guide at one time that line up perfectly with the top and left sides of the rectangle. You can repeat the same simple process to create vertical and horizontal Ruler Guides that line up perfectly with the bottom and right sides of the rectangle by dragging the Guides to the lower right corner of the selected rectangle.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider. AdobeAce@comcast.net
Nice again.
I just tried it in Illustrator and Photoshop - no go. But works perfectly in InD.
Incidentally - that trick works in CS2 InD as well.