Design Tools Weekly

Learn a new design tool, technique, or feature every week.

New This Week

• SketchUp on iPad

Introduction

• Welcome to Design Tools Weekly

1. Summer 2020

• Going analog: Favorite pencils
• Photoshop iPad update
• Discover Rebelle
• Creating color harmonies
• Animated GIFs in Photoshop
• Checking artwork works for color-blind users
• Curvature Pen tools, a smoother way to draw
• Making brushes in Adobe Capture
• Behance: Moodboards
• Origami for Illustrator
• Creating vector shapes in color
• InDesign Publish Online
• Variable fonts

2. Fall 2020

• Adobe Camera Raw 12 overview
• Photoshop iPad new features
• Find the font
• Make patterns with Capture
• Astute Graphics InkFlow
• Considering a graphics tablet?
• Artificial intelligence in page layout
• Multipart/layered fonts
• Adobe Fresco: Any good for design?
• Using layered/multipart fonts in InDesign
• Putting your work out there with Behance
• Adobe Capture in Photoshop
• Font pairing made easier

3. Winter 2021

• More Sensei in Adobe InDesign
• Visual reference applications
• Illustrator on the iPad
• Easy live streaming from the iPad
• Interview with Rob Garrott
• Karst: Paper that isn't paper
• Adobe Dimension: Easier 3D
• Making patterns in Photoshop
• Illustrator Recolor Artwork
• Create a voice-interaction prototype
• Adobe Fresco on iPhone
• Neural Filters in Photoshop

4. Spring 2021

• Rebelle 4
• Chairs: “Are we sitting comfortably”?
• Trimble SketchUp
• Interview: Sarah Coleman
• Photoshop iPad update
• Boris FX Optics
• XMPie
• Designer-friendly Acrobat
• Going analog: Monoprinting
• Fresco check-in
• InDesign dynamic review
• Adobe Color and CVD
• After Effects 3D gizmos

5. Summer 2021

• Cloud documents in Adobe design apps
• AG Architect plugin from Astute Graphics
• Create a texture brush in Illustrator
• Custom shape options in Photoshop
• Interview with Dan Mumford
• Vector trimming in Adobe Fresco
• Autodesk SketchBook
• Touch Type tool in Illustrator
• InDesign Calendar Wizard
• Sky Replacement in Photoshop
• The three essential blend modes
• Isometric drawing with Nimbling SSR30
• Using an image stack to unify adjustments
• Custom brushes in Photoshop iPad

6. Fall 2021

• Super Resolution in Adobe Bridge
• The Astute Graphics Reform tool
• A Wand tool in Photoshop iPad
• Free-rotate artboards in Illustrator
• Adjustment layers in Adobe Fresco
• New caption workflow in Premiere Pro
• More skies for the Photoshop Sky Replacement edit
• The Astute Graphics AG Architect plug-in
• The Astute Graphics AG Splatter plug-in
• Adding captions in Adobe InDesign
• CI Hub for Creative Cloud

7. Winter 2022

• New in Photoshop on the iPad
• Vectorize in Illustrator on the iPad
• Animation in Fresco
• 3D and materials in Illustrator
• Blend objects in Illustrator on the iPad
• Take a look at Trimble SketchUp
• Audio capture in Adobe Capture
• Vector jitter brushes in Fresco
• Photoshop's Object Finder
• New Puppet Creator for Character Animator
• Create an Art Brush in Illustrator on the iPad
• Perspective grids in Fresco
• Illustrator on iPad Shape Transform tool

8. Spring 2022

• Interview with Peter Blascovic
• Rebelle 5
• Rebelle 5 NanoPixel
• Making Xence
• What's new in Fresco?
• Masking in Lightroom
• Capture in InDesign
• 3D sculpting apps on tablets
• Gradients in Photoshop
• Reference layers in Fresco
• Fun with Neural Filters in Photoshop
• ICYMI: Select>Same text in Illustrator
• The CI Hub Connector in Microsoft 365

9. Summer 2022

• Illustrator 3D effects update
• Photoshop iPad essential updates
• Photoshop in browser
• Liquify in Photoshop on the iPad
• Illustrator text handling in Photoshop
• The Randomino plugin for Astute Graphics
• The Magic Wand tool in Photoshop on the iPad
• Sky replacement upgrades in Photoshop
• Export 3D objects from Illustrator
• Power up Photoshop with multithreading
• Get started with animation in Adobe Fresco
• Using neural filters in Photoshop to colorize video

10. Fall 2022

• Making Lottie files in After Effects
• Editing video in Lightroom
• Photoshop: Cylindrical transform warp
• Colors: Print vs. screen
• Preserve hair details in Photoshop
• Premiere Pro: Friendlier than ever!
• Autoadjustments in Photoshop iPad
• Finally, bullets and numbering in Illustrator!
• Fresco: Color dynamics in pixel brushes
• Tried a Photoshop "kwika" yet?
• ICYMI: New 3D options in Illustrator
• Adobe Express overview

11. Winter 2023

• Adding captions in Premiere
• Using the Intertwine feature in Illustrator
• Non-modal Gaussian Blur in Photoshop
• Auto Style in InDesign
• Astute Graphics' Reprofile tool
• Photoshop generative AI backgrounds
• Creating backgrounds in Amberlight
• Substance materials in Photoshop
• Illustrator to Dimension to Aero!
• Character animation in Adobe Express
• One-click Delete and Fill in Photoshop
• Motion path controls in Fresco
• New gradients in Photoshop

12. Spring 2023

• Generative AI (Part 1)
• Generative AI (Part 2)
• Multicolor Brushes in Adobe Fresco
• Illustrator Twist and Taper
• Rebelle 6
• Cloud vs. device in Photoshop
• New thicker oil paint in Adobe Fresco
• Get started with Sketchup
• Astute Graphics: Gradiator
• Astute Graphics: Gradient Forge
• A simple project in Adobe Aero
• Adobe Firefly
• Intertwine update

13. Summer 2023

• Adobe's new color accessibility tools
• Illustrator 3D to Aero
• Making Brushes for Concept Art in Photoshop
• Creating Mockups with Adobe Substance 3D Stager
• Freeform
• Photoshop iPad updates
• Layer comps in Illustrator
• Xencelabs: Latest innovations
• Behance: Streaming and subscriptions
• Artlandia SymmetryMill
• New in Adobe Fresco
• Create a seamless texture in Photoshop

14. Fall 2023

• New in Illustrator on the iPad
• Generative Recolor in Illustrator
• Generative Fill in Photoshop
• Generative Expand in Photoshop
• Improved Image Trace in Illustrator
• The new Adobe Express experience
• Illustrator Retype
• Using ChatGPT with After Effects
• Lightroom mobile and desktop updates
• Using InDesign Style Packs
• Faber-Castell Repaper Tablet
• Adobe Fresco Paint inside
• Illustrator beta mockup

15. Winter 2024

• New Adjustments Presets in Photoshop
• Illustrator Smooth command
• Photoshop Remove tool
• Get Started in SketchUp
• Illustrator Retype
• Halftone effects in Illustrator
• Photoshop watercolor
• Image to Material in Sampler
• Photoshop gradients
• Efficient keylines using appearances
• Multistate objects in InDesign
• Animate from audio in Express
• Embroidered patch, part 1

16. Spring 2024

• Embroidered patch, part 2
• Astute Graphics Reform Text
• Photoshop in browser
• Radim Malinic, part 1
• Radim Malinic, part 2
• Radim Malinic, part 3
• Lottie Creator (beta)
• Astute Graphics AutoGlue
• Placing movies in InDesign
• Creating buttons in InDesign
• Generative AI in Photoshop iPad
• Illustrator on the web (beta)

17. Summer 2024

• Drawing the Lottie Saucer SVG
• New generative features in Photoshop (beta)
• More new features in Photoshop (beta)
• Generative AI in Substance Stager