Creative Tip: CSS Cheatsheet Reference Cards. Free.

Reference cards are concise guides you can keep handy when mastering a new skill. They are cheatsheets on steroids.

DZone produces an attractive weekly series of RefCardz, including this great two-part series on CSS web design:

Link: Core CSS: Part 1
Link: Core CSS: Part 2

The RefCardz series is geared towards developers — however these two free guides are a great resource for web designers deepening their CSS skills.

Note: DZone requires you sign up for a free account to download your guides.

Source: Long-time readers know that we love cheatsheets. Here's another great CSS cheatsheet we wrote about years ago.

Tech Tip: Make Extended Print/Save Dialogs the Default.

In OS X Leopard, Apple provided simpler, minimized, save and print dialog boxes which hide all that confusing detail — like where you want to save your files, or how you want to print your documents. For access to the full information, click the small inverted arrow in those dialog boxes.

This annoyance fades as applications remember your preference. Visit the full version of this tip for a couple quick terminal commands that make expanded print/save dialogs the default.

Full Tip: Make Extended Print/Save Dialogs the Default.

Source: At CreativeTechs, we incorporate this twist when building new base images for larger creative teams. These terminal techniques were also covered in recent posts at TUAW.com and OS X Daily.

CS4 Video: Flash CS4 – 3D Transformations.

Each week we bring you a new CS4 video from Luminous Works trainer Steve Laskevitch. This video is my personal favorite. He is showing off Flash, which is one of the few Adobe applications where Steve is NOT an expert.

His enthusiasm provides hope for other designers who have struggled to break into Flash before. CS4 may be the version that finally gets you past the Flash wall.

Flash CS4: Star Wars Text
InDesign CS4: GREP Styles

iTunes Podcast — You can get these CS4 clips as a video podcast in iTunes as they are posted each week: Subscribe in iTunes.

October 29 — The InDesignSecrets Guide to Adobe InDesign CS4. David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción are hosting a special InDesign CS4 eSeminar. They'll preview their favorite new CS4 features; a few “Gotcha’s” you should watch out for; and discuss why you might (or might not) want to upgrade. The eSeminar is normally priced at $59, but readers of this newsletter can get in for only $39 if you sign up this week and enter the discount code ctechs.

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