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Basic Photo Corrections in Photoshop CS2: Jun 9, 2006; Adobe Photoshop includes a variety of tools and commands for improving the quality of a photographic image. This lesson steps you through the process of acquiring, resizing, and retouching a photo intended for a print layout. The same basic work-flow applies to Web images.

Be Warned: A Guide to Warning Dialogs In Photoshop CS2: Sep 16, 2005; Some dialogs are self-explanatory, others cause raised eyebrows, but many of these warning dialogs can be avoided. Here are the most common warning messages you're likely to run into in Photoshop CS2 (and a few you may not see all that often), the reason why the warning appears, how to fix the problem, and—when possible—how to prevent the warning from appearing in the first place.

Beauty Retouching in Photoshop: Nov 7, 2003; Take a peek at Tinsel Town's newest plastic surgeon. Watch this glittery gal perform virtual nose jobs, eye-lifts, and collagen injections right before your very eyes thanks to the magic of Photoshop.

Before and After Graphics for Business: Creating a Successful Logo: Sep 29, 2006; A successful logo can’t be just creative or clever. Because a logo ends up being an important guest at many occasions, it absolutely must perform and behave well no matter what. It is a tricky balancing act, but one that you can achieve. All you have to do is consider what makes a logo effective. Make sure your design follows these guidelines.

Beginning Designer's Guide to Working with Photographs: Nov 22, 2006; Photographs almost always add interest to a design and emphasis to a message. Extra-large or extra-small photos, dramatic cropping, interesting filters, or special digital effects can transform a ho-hum layout into a creative visual solution. In this sample chapter, best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett present some basic guidelines for planning your photographs and incorporating them into your design.

Bert Monroy on Creating Photorealistic Reflections and Shadows: May 9, 2008; In this excerpt from Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Digital Painting, author and celebrated digital painter Bert Monroy shares techniques he used to create a painting of a shoe shop in Photoshop, with tips on how to create realistic reflections and shadows.

Beyond the Medium. Toward the Goals.: Jun 17, 2009; As designers, we should be willing and able to move fluidly from medium to medium. In order to do this, however, we must first identify the overarching conceptual goals of our design practice. Curt Cloninger asks, have you considered the purposeful development of a lifelong design practice?

Blend Shape Animation Basics with Maya 4.5: Mar 14, 2003; Jim Lammers discusses the basics of Blend Shape animation, with a focus on using Blend Shape deformers and animating facial expressions.

Blending and Feathering with Pastels in Painter 2015: Nov 12, 2014; Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Painter Wow! Book, Tenth Edition, shows how to combine pastels with the Hard Media capabilities in Corel Painter 2015 for brushes that give you richer, more expressive drawings.

Bokeh 2: Adding Soft Background Focus: Oct 3, 2011; Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian explains how Alien Skin Software’s Bokeh 2 provides intuitive and powerful options for selectively blurring your digital photos. Common uses include blurring unwanted background details, creating the “bokeh effect” behind a close-up subject, and creating faux miniature cityscapes and landscapes.

Bookmarks in Acrobat: Mar 19, 2004; In this article, the authors of "Real World Adobe Acrobat 6: Pro and Standard" show you how to nest, create, and edit bookmarks.

Born This Way: Is Creativity Innate or Learned?: Dec 27, 2012; Callahan Creek Creative Director and Creative Boot Camp author Stefan Mumaw finds a carnivorously-dressed collaborator to help demystify that age old question: Where does creativity come from?

Bring Ideas to Life Through Rich, Interactive PDFs: May 6, 2011; If you find yourself working with PDFs often, you can discover many things you can (and can’t) do to them to make them more interesting, and at the same time more user-friendly and useful. Adobe expert Brian Wood explores some of the most widely used interactive features that you can add to a PDF.

Brush Strokes: Making Natural Pen and Ink Drawings: Mar 1, 1999; Peachpit art

Building a Flash Message Board System: Jan 24, 2003; This sample chapter shows you how message boards can be deployed using Flash MX and a backend server-side system to great effect.