I didn't know this myself

Here's something I learnt today! Less than a minute long.

Cheers, Danny

PJ Remix release 1.13

This morning we all sat down and had a chat about release 1.13...

What we've changed;

What we've developed;

What we've fixed.

Click here to download the full video (11mins)

To replace, or not replace?

We recently talked about how aligning images can be tricky, but a Shift key shortcut makes it easier.

Here's another shift key tip...

Sometimes you'll align your images just right only to decide that, actually, you'd prefer a different image there after all.

We've made it easy to swap the images out. You can replace an image by dragging a new image over the top of the existing one (even if the aperture is locked).

Now that's pretty handy, but what if you don't want to replace an image? Instead you want to drop an image on top of a background image

Again, easy. Hold the Shift key while you drop the image on the page and it won't replace the background image, it'll just drop nicely on top of it.

“Fast as a dealer in Vegas”

We offered you PJ Remix free for twelve months in return for a review on your blog or forum, and we've noticed quite a few already. Thank you!

But Karen Dahlquist went the extra mile. Karen is an album designer with lots of professional experience using both Retro and Remix, and she offers lots of thoughtful commentary. Thank you Karen. If we say so ourselves, it's worth a read.

Apologies to Woodsy for messing with his image.

Fine Tuning

Accurately aligning images with a mouse can be tough.

So when I'm designing a layout, I use the mouse to place the images roughly where I want them, and get back to where I'm comfy, the keyboard.

Using the arrow keys allows you to nudge an aperture in very small (1px) steps - if you hold the shift key while you nudge, the image will jump in bigger (10px) steps.

And, to make it even easier, the alignment lines also show up when you use the keyboard.

HTH

Danny

P.s once you get it just right, you should think about locking the aperture. 

Where in the world is PJ Remix?

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Where in the world is...

Always on my mind in Thailand.

Where in the world...

Defending you against the slings and arrows of outrageous workflow.

In G33ks we trust?

The boss blogged about trust the other day. Stephen is a volunteer fire fighter and medical first responder, and he used two medical emergencies to examine the importance and limits of trust.

In his first story the patient's trust in his uniform meant he "could be effective without wasting time". (Stephen was glad to see the paramedics arrive, though, because he knew he could trust them!)

He thought his second patient was having a heart attack, but the guy responded so quickly he wondered whether he'd got it wrong (the patient's wife thought it was asthma).

Long story short, the paramedics noted both Stephen's volunteer status and his uncertainty and went with the asthma option. Wrongly as it turned out. "Later that day, while on another job with that crew, they told me I’d been correct and the man had in fact had a heart attack."

And the lesson is? It's just as easy for geeks to distrust users. It's very common, and it's a bad attitude. When you send in a bug report our support team review it carefully. Sometimes what they're dealing with is a bug. Sometimes it's a feature request. Sometimes they need more information to understand the problem. Sometimes what's called for is a little light education! What we never do is ignore you.

If you ever feel ignore or dismissed by us please let me know.

Cheers, Danny

Power users do it on their keyboards

Power users really like keyboard shortcuts, especially in winworld it seems, so here's a list of Remix's many keyboard shortcuts from our online tutorial pages.

Next week we'll post about right-click and modifier-key functions.

HTH, Ian