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Filling Shortcuts
You can fill the contents of a selection or a layer in Photoshop using the Fill option within the Edit menu, but there is a quicker way. By holding down the Alt (PC)/Option (Mac) key and pressing the Delete key you can fill the selection area or layer with the current foreground colour. Holding down the Control (PC)/Command (Mac) key and pressing Delete will fill the selection area or layer with the current background layer. You can invert the foreground and background colours by pressing the X key.

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Designing food packaging
Food packages come in all shapes, sizes and materials, but the design principles remain the same whatever the product. Peskimo shows you how to liven up any label

Mastering InDesign preferences
InDesign is not just a tremendously powerful layout package, it’s also hugely customisable. Susannah Hall explains how to change the default settings to suit you

Creating a cardboard character
For a unique promotional item, there’s nothing like creating a cardboard character. Mark James, the man behind CardBoy, shows you how it’s done

Promo items with impact
Create an effective and technically complex piece of packaging that will launch a product in style

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TODAYS TOP FEATURES

Toy packaging then and now
The modern day strategies for packaging toys encompass pretty much every trick in the packaging designer’s arsenal. But has this always been the case? Dom Hall breaks open the bubble pack and finds out…

Wide-format printers - supersize your creativity
Wide-format printing used to mean outsourcing to a printer. Richard Wentk investigates whether the technology is a worthwhile in-house investment