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Screen-based Thinking: Let’s Make an App! By Golden Krishna Mar 2, 2015 In this excerpt from The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology, Golden Krishna takes a second look at today’s screen-obsessed world—how we got here, why we’re still here, why this awful trend is so awful, and how people are moving beyond screens and breaking off their love affair with mundane apps.

Creating Vector Art with Adobe Shape and Adobe Illustrator By Brian Wood Feb 26, 2015 With the release of Adobe Shape, capturing inspiration in the form of vector art just got easier. Adobe Shape traces images you capture from different sources and the resulting vector artwork can be shared with others or brought to Illustrator and edited. In this article, web developer Brian Wood looks at how Adobe Shape works and follows an Adobe Shape to Illustrator workflow.

Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Support Essentials 10.10: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X Yosemite: Keychain Architecture By Kevin M. White, Gordon Davisson Feb 25, 2015 The authors of Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Support Essentials 10.10: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X Yosemite discuss keychain architecture and understanding local keychain files.

Design Fundamentals: Texture and Pattern By Rose Gonnella, Max Friedman, Christopher Navetta Feb 23, 2015 Using their unique, quirky style, the authors of Design Fundamentals: Notes on Visual Elements and Principles of Composition explore the concept of texture, the active surface quality of a dot, line, shape, or form.

Preparing for the Shoot When Hacking a Digital Print By Bonny Pierce Lhotka Feb 19, 2015 In this chapter from Hacking the Digital Print: Alternative image capture and printmaking processes with a special section on 3D printing, Bonny Lhotka shows you how to make filters and screens by hand to alter a scene, including making a bracket to hold filters, using two tripods, combining images, and creating custom tools.

Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Support Essentials 10.10: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X Yosemite: User Account Essentials By Kevin M. White, Gordon Davisson Feb 18, 2015 Every single file and folder on a Mac computer’s hard disk, every item and process, belongs to some type of user account. Consequently, a thorough understanding of user accounts is necessary to effectively administer and troubleshoot OS X. This chapter from Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Support Essentials 10.10: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X Yosemite covers user account essentials.

Does Swift Live Up to Its Name? By Boisy G. Pitre Feb 17, 2015 Boisy G. Pitre, author of Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design, points out the significant features that make Swift a particularly quick programming language to learn, earning its name. But being easy to grasp at basic levels doesn't mean that Swift is just for beginners. This language can hold its own at the playground with C and Objective-C, Ruby and Python.

Top 10 Tips for Working in 3D in Photoshop By Steve Caplin Feb 16, 2015 Steve Caplin, author of Adobe Photoshop for 3D Design and Printing: Learn by Video, shares techniques and shortcuts for being more productive and saving time when working with Photoshop's 3D capabilities.

Creating Special Effects in Photoshop By Glyn Dewis Feb 12, 2015 In this chapter from The Photoshop Workbook: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, Glyn Dewis shows you techniques for turning day into night, creating a cartoon/painterly effect, and making your own dust, debris, snow, and rain brushes. Plus, he shows a quick and easy black and white conversion technique, and how to fake the wet look.

The Best Interface Is No Interface: An Interview with Golden Krishna By Golden Krishna Feb 12, 2015 User Experience Designer Golden Krishna talks to Peachpit about his new book, The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology , why the screen isn't always the best answer, imagining more elegant answers beyond the screen, and the best and worst examples of user interfaces.

Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Support Essentials 10.10: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X Yosemite: Recovery Utilities By Kevin M. White, Gordon Davisson Feb 11, 2015 Find out which functions you can access from the OS X Utilities window in OS X Recovery, in this excerpt from Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Support Essentials 10.10: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X Yosemite.

Working with Charts and Data in Pages By Mark Wood Feb 11, 2015 Pages, like Numbers and Keynote, can handle data intelligently: Tables can be used to run calculations, and charts can display and readily update statistical information. In this excerpt from Apple Pro Training Series: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, Mark Wood shows you how to work with charts and data in Pages.

10 Things You Might Not Know About FileVault 2 By Richard Trouton Feb 9, 2015 Rich Trouton, author of FileVault 2 for Mac OS X Decoded Learn by Video, has learned about a number of helpful (and largely undocumented) features of FileVault 2 in Mac OS X. This article details 10 of his most useful discoveries.

Transition or Animation: Which One Should You Use? By Steven Bradley Feb 5, 2015 CSS animations and transitions can be used to create a variety of effects on websites. In fact, you can usually create any effect from either a transition of animation. Steven Bradley helps you decide which one should you choose and why.

A Plea for Photoshop–Browser Harmony By Dan Rose Feb 4, 2015 When it comes to responsive web design, using the right tool, at the right time, for the right purpose, helps us extract more out of said tool than normal. Knowing when to use Photoshop is the only thing that can logically keep it in our workflows. Using it too often, too early, or for the wrong purpose produces frustration, wasted time, and potentially wasted money, as Dan Rose explains in this chapter from Responsive Web Design with Adobe Photoshop.

Video: Top 5 Features of Adobe Illustrator CC (2014 release) By Chad Chelius Feb 2, 2015 Adobe Certified Instructor and Learn by Video presenter Chad Chelius shares his top 5 features of Adobe Illustrator CC (2014 release).

Expressive Painting with Luscious Wet Oils in Painter 2015 By Cher Threinen-Pendarvis Jan 29, 2015 With the extensive set of brushes in Corel Painter 2015, artists can achieve results onscreen very much like those they produce with traditional oil paints on canvas. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Painter WOW! Book, walks us through the process of creating one of her own paintings, demonstrating the amazing capabilities of Painter's Artists' Oils brushes.

Urban Exploration Photography: When to Shoot By Todd Sipes Jan 27, 2015 Light is the key to every photograph. Photography itself is technically just the art of capturing light. Within the genre of UrbEx photography, when you choose to capture light will directly correlate with the quality of your final photo. Whether you’re shooting at blue hour, at golden hour, in broad daylight, or under a full moon, the quality of light can make or break a great composition, as Todd Sipes explains in this chapter from Urban Exploration Photography: A Guide to Creating and Editing Images of Abandoned Places.

Web Design Basics for Adobe Dreamweaver CC By James J. Maivald Jan 26, 2015 Whether you use thumbnails and wireframes, Photoshop or just a vivid imagination, Dreamweaver can quickly turn your design concepts into complete, standards-based CSS layouts. In this chapter from Adobe Dreamweaver CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release), James J. Maivald covers the basics of webpage design, how to create page thumbnails and wireframes, and how to use Photoshop to generate site image assets automatically.

Expressive Drawing with Pens and Particles in Painter 2015 By Cher Threinen-Pendarvis Jan 22, 2015 Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Painter WOW! Book, explores ways to use the improved pens and exciting new Particles brushes in Corel Painter 2015 to create vivid drawings onscreen.

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