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Keying and Compositing Green Screen Footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6: This excerpt from Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium Classroom in a Book explains how to convincingly insert a subject recorded in front of a green (or blue) background into a scene, thereby creating the illusion to the viewer that the subject is actually part of that scene.

The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes: These excerpts from The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes offer some great tips to improve your Photoshop techniques.

General Techniques
Removing Vignetting
Photographic Effects and Compositing

UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6: The Illustrator Workspace: The Adobe Illustrator workspace is designed to allow you to be as creative as you want without a lot of distractions. In this excerpt from UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, Rick Moore shows you how to choose the right measurement units, select the optimal color space, and create artboards and organize your work.