- Customizing iDVD Themes
- Dec 1, 2005
- Want to break free of the iDVD pre-set themes and create your own disc menu screen for your DVD masterpiece? From choosing background music to creating your own screen layout, Jaemi Loeb will help you take the best of what iDVD has to offer and make it distinctly yours.
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- Dave Cross's Top Ten New Photoshop Elements Features
- Oct 15, 2004
- Photoshop Dream Team Instructor David Cross narrows down the many possibilities to come up with the top ten features of Adobe's popular image-editing software.
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- David DuChemin on Taking Compelling Photographs from Vision to Expression: Antarctica
- Jan 10, 2013
- David DuChemin went to Antarctica with expectations and a notion of what he hoped to communicate with the resulting photographs, and those expectations were so thoroughly shattered that he was forced to completely change his intent for his photography, as he explains in this excerpt from his book.
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- Dealing with Lightroom Disasters (Troubleshooting)
- May 1, 2015
- Scott Kelby explains what to do if your hard drive crashes or your computer dies or gets stolen (with the only copy of your catalog on it) by managing these potential disasters in advance, and what to do if the big potty hits the air circulation device, in this excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC Book for Digital Photographers.
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- Demystifying iCloud Photo Library
- Sep 24, 2015
- iCloud Photo Library is the glue that connects the Photos apps on iOS devices and the Mac, but from the beginning it's been a cloud full of questions. Jeff Carlson, author of Photos for OS X and iOS: Take, Edit, and Share Photos in the Apple Photography Ecosystem, cuts through the fog about Apple's photos-everywhere service.
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- Designer's Toolbox: DVD Hardware and Software Overview
- Nov 23, 2005
- In this chapter, we'll review the hardware and software categories necessary, or at least helpful, for you to produce your own assets and assemble them onto a finished DVD.
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- Designing Camera Shots
- Apr 23, 2004
- Sherri Sheridan talks about how to create interesting camera shots in a digital film.
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- Developing Raw Files with Lightroom 5 Smart Previews
- Jun 14, 2013
- Adobe Lightroom expert Dan Moughamian describes the new Smart Preview concept available in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5. Smart Previews provide photographers with the means to “develop” their imported raw pictures, even when the computer they’re using is not directly connected to those pictures. You’ll see how easy it is to create these previews, and then integrate them into your workflow.
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- Digital Photography Foundations
- Nov 1, 2010
- Learn the difference between using your digital camera as a nifty gadget and using it as powerful creative tool. This chapter covers important settings and menu options, fundamentals of photography and how they relate to digital cameras, and some of the important concepts and practices that form the foundation of making good photographs.
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- Digital Scrapbooking 101
- Jan 28, 2005
- Helen Bradley teaches the ins and outs of digital scrapbooking including harnessing the power of Photoshop for photo editing and finding online resources like background, fonts, and even complete page layouts.
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- Digital Video Editing Tips: Organizing Your Video
- Oct 27, 2008
- this chapter will guide you in how to label tapes, take notes efficiently, and prepare for editing should you decide that’s what you want to do.
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- Do Not Fear the Layer Mask: Tips for Using One of Photoshop's Most Powerful Tools
- Mar 21, 2008
- Matt Kloskowski takes the fear out of learning to use layer masks with quick, fun tips that show you how to make the most of one of Photoshop's most powerful tools.
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- Don't Move! How to Add Motion to Your Movies
- Jan 19, 2007
- One of the advantages of a small camera is that it easily moves with you. However, when you're shooting, motion can become a character in its own right. Slowly moving across a scene imparts a different feeling than quickly scanning your surroundings, for example. This chapter addresses the most common ways of moving the camera to add motion to your movie, including the number one rule: don't move.
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- Drones, Whales, and Volcanoes: An Interview with Photographer Eric Cheng
- Dec 10, 2015
- In this interview with Eric Cheng, author of Aerial Photography and Videography Using Drones, Eric talks about the most interesting thing he’s photographed with a drone, safety considerations for new drone users, and some drone gift giving tips.
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- DV Technology and the Camcorder
- Dec 30, 2005
- This chapter covers the basics of shooting digital video, from the various digital video cameras available to the settings you should use to get the best quality captures from your camera.
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- Editing Essentials: How to Develop Your Photos in Lightroom
- Sep 7, 2007
- Intimidated by Lightroom's Develop module? Don't be. Scott Kelby shows you how to manipulate all of those scary-looking buttons, checkboxes, and sliders to improve your hard-to-fix photos.
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- Editing Essentials: How to Develop Your Photos in Lightroom 2
- Jan 14, 2009
- Don't fear the Develop module! Scott Kelby shows you what you need to know, including setting the white balance, using clarity, making your colors more vibrant, and using the Quick Develop panel.
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- Enhance Your Images with Lightroom 2's New Adjustment Brush
- Jul 29, 2008
- The Adjustment Brush tool is the best new feature in Lightroom 2. Until now, Lightroom was limited to making adjustments to the entire image or to specific areas of tone or color. With this new tool, adjustments are nondestructive (they can be undone at any point), and the file size doesn't increase as you make adjustments. Chris Orwig shares some great techniques on how to use this killer new tool in your workflow.
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- Enhanced Spot Removal in Lightroom 5
- Jun 13, 2013
- Adobe Lightroom expert Dan Moughamian shows how the enhanced Spot Removal Brush in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 can clone or heal regions of pixels using the traditional “spot mode,” as well as the new freehand brush strokes. This enables a more natural, Photoshop-like workflow when retouching odd-shaped spots, linear groupings of pixels, and other challenges.
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- Essential Image Editing Fixes: Noise and Sharpening
- Sep 16, 2005
- Digital images that come from digital cameras or scanners typically suffer from one of two problems. Either they're too soft and require sharpening or they're too crisp and require blurring. In either case, adjusting the sharpness of your image and managing digital noise is crucial to creating a quality image. While these types of adjustments can be the most technical, they're also the most essential. But don't worry—we'll make sense of it all for you.
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