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Tips for Creating Realistic HDR Imagery
Tips for Creating Realistic HDR Imagery

In this excerpt from his FuelBook, The Realistic HDR Image, Tim Cooper shares a few tips that will help guide your hand while you are creating your HDR images.

Photoshop CC Update: Linked Smart Objects
Photoshop CC Update: Linked Smart Objects

Photoshop educator Dan Moughamian brings you up to date on another new feature that’s part of the Photoshop 14.2 update, available to Creative Cloud subscribers. Smart Objects have always been a valuable part of the Photoshop workflow, whether you're a graphic artist or photographer. However, (embedded) Smart Objects can have a downside in that they can substantially increase the file size of your documents. Dan shows you how Smart Objects just got smarter, allowing images to be linked to one another rather than being embedded, providing several advantages.

Professional Audio Techniques for Adobe Premiere Pro
Professional Audio Techniques for Adobe Premiere Pro

In this chapter from Adobe Premiere Pro Studio Techniques, Luisa Winters will help you start to generate great audio in your program. Because you don't always get to work with perfect audio, this chapter also features a section on how to fix common audio problems using Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition CC. From setting up your working environment to adjusting levels to adding effects, you'll work with audio just like the pros do.