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October is abuse awareness month. It is meant to bring an awareness to domestic violence. This painting illustrates the struggle it takes to make the call to “911″. It is a very emotional painting, and I pray that it can be of inspiration to those suffering from domestic violence.

“One Phone Call” by Digital Artist, Aman Anderson

Written by Franklin Morris
Monday, September 13, 2010 at 8:46am

I’m very thankful that a digital artist named Aman Anderson has created more awareness to a daily, weekly, or monthly occurence that is often left unspoken.

Domestic violence is a real issue that needs to be spoken against! As I shared the mindset of an abusive man in my Ladies Beware series, he thrives on women who don’t know their self-worth and who are willing to put up with the constant abuse.

But when that woman understands her value as it is in Christ Jesus, that man will be afraid to touch her because she can make one phone call to get a restraining order and etc. from the police.
I looking forward to writing more about domestic violence for my upcoming ebook called “Ladies Beware: How to Successfully Maintain a Young, Christian Woman in an Abusive Relationship.”

Right now, I’m studying about Saul and Abuse in preparation for my first ebook.

I have collected a bunch of keyboard shortcuts over the years and sometimes it is very hard trying to remember them all when you don’t use a program for a while. But I have tried to store shortcuts in my brain from the following programs: InDesign, Photoshop, Bridge, Komodo, Safari, Firefox, Mac OSX, Illustrator, Apple Logic, and other creative programs. I’ll be honest and say that it really speeds up production to memorize the shortcuts from all the creative applications. It’s like playing a video game with the keyboard. There are more that I can list, but it would take up the whole website, lol! For a whole list click here.

My Commonly used shortcuts in InDesign:
option+page down or page up – To go from spread to spread
command+option+0 – To show whole spread
command+0 – Zoom out to single page
Z – Zoom Tool

V – Selection tool
A – Direct selection tool
command+- or = – Zoom in or out
command+shift+page up – Go to cover or first page
command+j – Go to specific page number
command+option+shift+y – Overprint Preview or High-res preview
command+option+shift+r – Redefine style
command+shift+a – Deselect object or text (can also use ESC)
command+option+shift+y – Overprint Preview
command+shift+] or [ - Move object to front or back
command+] or [ – Move object up or down one layer
command+z – Undo
command+shift+z – Redo
spacebar+click and drag – Pan view
option+click and drag – Pan view with text selected
command+click – Click object behind an object
option+left or right key – Kern text or de-kern
option+double click – Open file in editing program. i.e. Photoshop or Illustrator

Concerning Adobe. It would be a lot easier if they made the shortcuts match. But I guess since they aquired programs at differnet times we have gotten so used to certain shortcuts form certian applications. Sometimes I wish the pen tool in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator all worked the same. Funny huh, it’s all the same tool. But this video was a test of the new ScreenFlow software im demo’ing. I have been using iShowU since last year, but I really wanted a zooming feature which ScreenFlow has. Check out the video! And be sure to check out ScreenFlow by clicking here.