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How Team Lightspeed Works from Home

Team Lightspeed has always been a remotely connected crew. We communicate constantly through Slack and our project management tools, via regular team video calls, onsite at client events, and a few times a year at team retreats to continue to improve our processes and workflow. For those of you who are new to the work from home or remote environment, our crew is here to share some of the most valuable things we’ve learned to make our work time productive and keep our team connected.

Read on for ideas to set up your workspace in a way that’s optimal for that work hard-replenish your creative energy source-get back at it to crush another project-life. Take a peek into the offices of the Lightspeed team and mine our setups to set yourself up for success with real #workfromhome life in mind.

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5 Skills to Master Photoshop Artboards for Your Next Social Campaign

When you create graphics for social campaigns, you often want to post in multiple channels like Facebook, Instagram, and ­LinkedIn. Unfortunately, one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to social media. Each of these channels has their own unique image dimensions that look best on their platforms. You want to put your best foot forward to get the most engagement possible from your campaign, so that means you have to create multiple versions of the same or similar graphic.

Creating different sized graphics used to take multiple PSD files, which meant swapping back and forth between them to ensure design cohesiveness. Luckily, Photoshop now allows for the use of artboards. That allows you to work with multiple canvases of varying dimensions all within a single file. How’s that for convenience?

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Light Wisdom: Packaging Files for Press in Adobe InDesign

This might be the easiest InDesign tip/tutorial you’ve ever read. Let’s package some files!

If you work with publication, brochures, or any sort of layout projects you have probably requested packaged files or been asked to provide them. Packaging your files is crucial to ensuring that your file renders as expected when sent to someone else. When you don’t package your files, you run the risk of broken lines, fuzzy images and fonts not being installed on the system opening the file – causing a replacement font to be used. In other words – packaging files secures and protects your hard work.

Even if you don’t need the document sent to be printed, packaging final files is ALWAYS a good practice for archiving. If all final files are packaged, you can go back to them in 10 years and they’ll still be perfect and just as you left them. With unpackaged files, once you start moving images around, organizing fonts, etc on your system – your image will slowly start falling apart because it is linking out the these images and fonts. Once packaged, they’ll live locally in the packaged folder and you’ll no longer have to worry about anything breaking.

A brief overview is shown below, or check out our video tutorial here.

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Light Wisdom – Wrapping a Macbook Cord

You’ve been doing it wrong. The Macbook cord that is perpetually knotted and uncoiled in the bottom of your laptop bag makes you look like a fool. But we are here to help. Pull out that perfectly wrapped Macbook cord with confidence. Business partners, friends and clients alike will know you are not to be trifled with after Billy Matiernan of #teamlightspeed walks you through the process of properly wrapping your Macbook cord.

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