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| - How to Communicate on Your iPad Using Mail and Messages
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By
Jeff Carlson
- May 15, 2012
- Jeff Carlson shows you how to use the Mail app on the iPad so you can quickly read and reply to messages and dash off notes you may have otherwise ignored because of the hassle of doing it on the computer. He also covers the Messages app, which brings instant messaging to the iPad.
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| 2.
| - Use Symmetry to Improve Your Photographs
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By
Roberto Valenzuela
- May 15, 2012
- Symmetry is all around us and has always been associated with beauty, so why not use it? Depending on how you are holding the camera and how much of a scene you choose to show, you can strengthen or weaken the symmetric properties of an object or scene. Roberto Valenzuela shows you how.
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| 3.
| - Creating and Applying Paragraph and Character Styles in Adobe InDesign CS6
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- May 9, 2012
- This excerpt from Adobe InDesign CS6 Classroom in a Book shows you how to create and apply paragraph and character styles.
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| 4.
| - How to Use the Field Blur Filter in Photoshop CS6
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By
Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas
- May 9, 2012
- This excerpt from Photoshop CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide shows you how to use the Field Blur filter, which is handy when you need the most flexibility and control in blurring specific areas of an image while keeping other (more important) areas in sharp focus.
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| 5.
| - Using the Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6
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By
Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas
- May 9, 2012
- This excerpt from Photoshop CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide shows you how to reset the Crop Box and choose preview, shield, and overlay options from the Crop Tool.
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| 6.
| - Working with Paragraph Composers and Tabs in Adobe InDesign CS6
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- May 9, 2012
- This excerpt from Adobe InDesign CS6 Classroom in a Book shows you how to apply the Adobe paragraph and single-line composers, set tabs, and add a rule above a paragraph.
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| 7.
| - How to Preview a Website for Mobile Screens in Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- May 5, 2012
- Learn how to preview a website for mobile screens, including how to locate the finished layout using the Files panel, which lets you browse files without leaving Dreamweaver. You’ll also try the Multiscreen Preview, which lets you see how your site looks at multiple sizes at once.
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| 8.
| - Designing Responsive Web Pages Using a Fluid Grid Layout in Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- May 3, 2012
- In the following excerpt from Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Classroom in a Book, you’ll work on two pages of a prototype website in Adobe Dreamweaver. You’ll learn how to quickly set up a web page layout that adapts to different screen sizes, and preview the design in a web browser.
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| 9.
| - Interactive Project Management: Best Practics for Communicating the Right Message Using the Right Medium at the Right Time
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By
Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker
- May 3, 2012
- Learn how an effective project manager handles communication: what good communication looks like, the common types of communication and what they’re good for, and best practices for communicating effectively.
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| 10.
| - Setting Up Layout Rules for a Mobile App Design in Adobe InDesign CS6
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- May 3, 2012
- This excerpt from Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Classroom in a Book shows you how InDesign lets you work with alternate
layouts and helps you adapt your layouts with Liquid Layout rules.
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| 11.
| - Project Objectives and Approach for UX Designers: Know Which Star to Navigate By
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By
Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler
- May 1, 2012
- This chapter covers forming objectives for your project and offers some questions that will help you solidify those goals. You'll also learn some common project approaches (or methodologies) and how they may influence the way you work.
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| 12.
| - Adobe Flash CS6 Classroom in a Book: Publishing for a Mobile Device
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- Apr 23, 2012
- Learn how to publish Flash content for mobile devices running on Android or on Apple’s iOS using the mobile device simulator available with Adobe Flash Professional CS6.
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| 13.
| - Creating a Page Layout with Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- Apr 23, 2012
- In this lesson from Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Classroom in a Book, you’ll learn the basics of webpage design, how to create design thumbnails and wireframes, insert and format new components into a predefined CSS layout, use Code Navigator to identify CSS formatting, and check for browser compatibility.
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| 14.
| - Creating and Editing Your Site Map in Adobe Muse
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- Apr 23, 2012
- The best way to begin working on your site is by editing your site map. In this excerpt from Adobe Muse Classroom in a Book, you will edit your site map in Plan mode.
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| 15.
| - Creating Graphic Symbols in Adobe Fireworks CS6
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- Apr 23, 2012
- In this excerpt from Adobe Fireworks Classroom in a Book, you will learn how to convert a simple logo graphic into a graphic symbol.
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| 16.
| - Creative Lighting Effects with Adobe Photoshop CS6
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By
Dan Moughamian
- Apr 23, 2012
- Lighting Effects has been around a long time, but the Lighting Effects filter in Photoshop CS6 is essentially a brand new feature in the sense that it has been completely remade. This article provides a general overview of the filter (including its new interface), and demonstrates how you can use Lighting Effects to dramatically impact the composition or look of your photographs.
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| 17.
| - Extending and Shortening Musical Selections in Adobe Audition CS6
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- Apr 23, 2012
- In this excerpt from Adobe Audition CS6 Classroom in a Book, you’ll learn how to select a portion of a waveform for editing, cut, copy, paste, mix, and remove silence audio, eliminate unwanted sounds, use multiple clipboards to assemble final audio from individual clips, extend and shorten pieces of music, add new sounds to an existing piece of music using Mix Paste, create loops with music files, and fade audio regions to create smooth transitions, and remove pops and clicks.
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| 18.
| - Optimizing Raw Workflow with Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw 7
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By
Dan Moughamian
- Apr 23, 2012
- This article will give you a taste of how powerful Adobe Camera Raw 7 is, by taking one shot from a series of bracketed exposures (originally used for HDR imaging), and restoring the important details in both the highlight and shadow regions.
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| 19.
| - Recomposing Picture Elements with Content-Aware Move and Content-Aware Patch in Adobe Photoshop CS6
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By
Dan Moughamian
- Apr 23, 2012
- This tutorial provides two examples of how these new Content-Aware additions in Photoshop CS6 can help you to recompose or remove elements in your pictures that are slightly out of place, or that are not as easily removed by other methods.
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| 20.
| - The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes: General Techniques
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By
Scott Valentine
- Apr 23, 2012
- This excerpt from The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes familiarizes you with the basics of blend modes.
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