The Über-Droplet: Tidy Your Work Folders

Note: This extremely simple mini-tutorial was written for Adobe CS3. Hopefully CS4 handles everything the same way.

I personally have an intense fear of two things: a) losing image data and b) having disorganized folders. I always keep hi-res versions of any image separate from the final comp, and I most definitely always keep my .psd finals. However, for any web graphic, you also will need the flat jpeg version. However, if you use this technique, you’ll keep your work folders clear of those redundant jpegs.

I’m sure everyone has some form of coping mechanism for the .psd/.jpeg glut, but for what it’s worth, here’s mine. It’s possibly the simplest tutorial ever, but I hope it helps you out.

A Normal Person’s Guide to Quicksilver

(This is an old article from a previous version of the website that I thought deserved reprinting here. I attempted to explain QS in terms that anyone can follow, and as such, the article is far too long. I hope you enjoy anyway. - C)

Here’s what’s going to happen: I’m going to teach you how to install and set up Quicksilver. Once we’re done here, you will be ready to use it every day, and almost immediately, you will wonder how you ever got by in OSX without it.

This goes for all of you — but this article is specifically for those of you that have never heard of it (heretofore arbitrarily referred to, for the sake of clarity, as “normal people”). The rest of you can do what I did and slog through one of the dozen or so instructionals online.

I am forewarning you: This article will be long, but that’s because I’m making it easy. Fear not! I’ll walk you through every step — this is a guide for laypeople such as yourself, and it’s based precisely upon my personal experiences with slogging through the aforementioned tutorials.

Alright, enough hype-talk. Before I even tell you what Quicksilver is, let’s answer a more important question: