- UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 3: Visualizing Interactions with Animation
- Sep 10, 2012
- Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, takes us on a whirlwind run through creating animations to test interactions in Illustrator. Hold onto your hat!
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- UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 2: Creating Vector Icons
- Sep 3, 2012
- Wish you had an efficient way to create custom icons in multiple sizes for use on your websites and in your applications? Adobe Illustrator CS6 grants you the power, as demonstrated by Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator.
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- "The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with Alberto Cairo
- Aug 28, 2012
- Underneath the packaging, an infographic serves a very simple purpose—to educate. Alberto Cairo, professor of information graphics and visualization at the University of Miami and author of The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization, talks about the importance of making infographics work on an instructional level.
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- Attitude Adjustment: Camera Raw's Adjustment Tools
- Aug 27, 2012
- Scott Kelby talks about the adjustment tools in Camera Raw, including dodging and burning, retouching portaits, fixing skies, fixing color problems, reducing noise, special effects using Camera Raw, and some Photoshop killer tips.
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- UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 1: Flipping Wireframes
- Aug 27, 2012
- Adobe Illustrator makes it easy to create wireframes and then seamlessly flip them to final art. Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, demonstrates how to use Illustrator's symbols, graphic and character styles, and the Find Font tool to turn a sample user interface wireframe into a presentation-ready design.
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- The Building Blocks of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator
- Aug 23, 2012
- This chapter takes a look at the basic features that Illustrator provides for the building blocks of UI design.
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- Color Correction and Enhancement in Adobe Photoshop CS6
- Aug 16, 2012
- By analyzing the most important tools in Photoshop and determining in which situations they might help you, you can achieve a more thorough understanding of color correction.
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- How to Use Filters in Photoshop CS6
- Aug 16, 2012
- Learn some cool techniques for applying filters in Photoshop CS6, including using the Filter Gallery and Smart Filters, and use filters to make a photo look like an oil painting or tinted drawing.
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- "The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with Maggie MacNab
- Aug 14, 2012
- Maggie Macnab, author of Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, shares some of the wisdom passed down by her father and how it impacted her career in a life-changing way.
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- Working with Interactive and Multimedia in Adobe InDesign CS6
- Aug 6, 2012
- Sandee Cohen shares the wealth of features in Adobe InDesign that let you create interactive elements for electronic documents.
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- The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes: A Recipe for Hard Mix Contrast
- Aug 1, 2012
- Scott Valentine shows you how to use this method to increase contrast and saturation in otherwise dull images. However, it can quite easily blow out highlights, and darker images will tend to oversaturate in some areas.
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- "The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with Erik Spiekermann
- Jul 31, 2012
- Erik Spiekermann, author of Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, 2nd Edition, shares the advice that has influenced his career the most.
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- Why Adobe InDesign CS6 Is Now the Best Desktop Typesetting Program
- Jul 24, 2012
- In this chapter, you'll learn about InDesign’s typesetting features including character formatting, paragraph formatting, and formatting using character and paragraph styles.
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- "The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with David Airey
- Jul 17, 2012
- David Airey, author of Logo Design Love, shares some advice that has helped him create his best designs.
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- Working withTabs and Indents in Adobe InDesign
- Jul 9, 2012
- Robin Williams explains that tabs and indents in InDesign are extremely dependable and reliable and logical (yes, logical). So this chapter teaches you how to take advantage of their dependability.
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- Transparency: Working with Effects in Adobe InDesign CS6
- Jun 11, 2012
- You can apply transparency by using the nine transparency effects in InDesign. This excerpt from Adobe InDesign CS6 Classroom in a Book shows you how.
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- Creating a Horizontal Layout in Adobe InDesign CS6
- Jun 7, 2012
- Learn how to create an alternate layout in Adobe InDesign CS6 for the landscape (horizonal) orientation that you'll need for a mobile device’s multiple orientations.
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- Removing Distortions with the Adaptive Wide Angle Filter in Photoshop CS6
- Jun 7, 2012
- Photoshop CS6 offers improvements across the full spectrum of photographic workflows. In this article, Dan Moughamian discusses the Adaptive Wide Angle (AWA) filter, which you can use to modify the different types of lens distortions (like a fisheye distortion) that may be present in your pictures.
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- Why You Should Be Using Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) with Photoshop Elements
- May 29, 2012
- Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) is the program inside Photoshop Elements that is specifically for processing raw camera files. ACR is simple to use, and the results can be pretty amazing. Jeff Revell shows you how to use it.
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- Creating and Applying Paragraph and Character Styles in Adobe InDesign CS6
- 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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