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Creating Graphics and Text in Adobe Animate: By Russell Chun; Apr 17, 2024; Author Russell Chun, explores the essential skills for digital drawing and animation in Adobe Animate.

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.

CSS Basics: By Jim Maivald; Mar 10, 2020; Familiarize yourself with CSS and learn CSS (cascading style sheets) terms and terminology, the difference between HTML and CSS formatting, different methods for writing CSS rules and markup, how the cascade, inheritance, descendant, and specificity theories affect the way browsers apply CSS formatting, and new features and capabilities of CSS3.

Customizing the Application: By Lisa Fridsma; Jan 2, 2023; Customize your workspace in Adobe Illustrator and start creating impressive vector artwork today.

Dada: In favor of irrationality: By Nigel French, Hugh D'Andrade; May 11, 2021; In this sample chapter from The Type Project Book, Nigel French and Hugh D'Andrade discuss the avant-garde art movement known as Dada. Learn how to use the Touch Type tool, experiment with scale, and apply overprinting effects to create your own Dada-inspired poster using Adobe Illustrator.

David Airey on Laying the Groundwork for a Successful Brand Identity Design Project: By David Airey; Sep 22, 2014; Without knowing specific details of your client’s business, his reasons for seeking a brand identity, and his expectations of the process and final design, you can’t possibly be successful with the project. In this chapter from Logo Design Love: A guide to creating iconic brand identities, 2nd Edition, David Airey shows you how to lay the groundwork to achieve project success.

Design for How People Learn: How Do We Remember?: By Julie Dirksen; Jan 26, 2016; Memory is the foundation of learning. There’s a lot we still don’t know about the nature of memory, but we do have some ideas and models for how it works. In this chapter from Design for How People Learn, 2nd Edition, Julie Dirksen looks at how we pay attention and encode information into memory. Second, she looks at different types of memory.

Dimensioning: By Jim Bethune, Nathan Brown; Jul 3, 2023; Discover how to add and manage dimensions in SolidWorks drawings using covering key conventions, the Smart Dimension tool, and tips for accurately dimensioning holes, fillets, and complex shapes.

Dodge & Burn: By Scott Valentine; May 10, 2021; Learn how to dodge and burn photographs using Adobe Photoshop. In this sample chapter from The Hidden Power of Adobe Photoshop: Mastering Blend Modes and Adjustment Layers for Photography, Scott Valentine teaches how to selectively lighten (dodging) or darken (burning) individual areas of an image to regulate exposure.

Drawing with AutoCAD: Conference and Lecture Rooms: By Beverly L. Kirkpatrick, Hossein Assadipour, James M. Kirkpatrick; Mar 31, 2022; Follow along interior design and space planning projects and start to draw conferences and lecture rooms using AutoCAD 2022. Learn essential commands and settings, draw using polar tracking, and use Point Style to set the appearance of points.

Dust, Mold, and Texture Removal: By Dennis Dunbar, Katrin Eismann, Wayne Palmer; Dec 1, 2018; In this sample chapter from Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, 4th Edition, dive into the feather-dusting tools in Photoshop to learn how to clean digital camera files, work with the Clone Stamp, and more.

Editing and Combining Shapes and Paths: By Brian Wood; Mar 6, 2021; In this sample chapter from Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2021 release), author Brian Wood teaches you how to edit and combine paths and shapes to create more complex artwork. You will learn to cut shapes and combine them with the Shape Builder tool and Pathfinder effects.

Emotional Data Visualization: Periscopic's "U.S. Gun Deaths" and the Challenge of Uncertainty: By Alberto Cairo; Apr 3, 2013; Alberto Cairo discusses Periscopic's "U.S. Gun Deaths" infographic, which merges the emotional power of visualization with its ability to enhance understanding. In the process, it also prompts you to think about certain challenges that designers will need to address sooner rather than later.

Essential Transformations in Adobe Photoshop: By Nigel French, Mike Rankin; Oct 25, 2022; Nigel French and Mike Rankin go through how to transform images with techniques like Free Transform, Warp, and Content-Aware Scale in Adobe Photoshop

Exploring Neural Filters in Adobe Photoshop: By Conrad Chavez; Apr 17, 2024; Conrad Chavez explores the integration of machine learning with traditional Photoshop algorithms to enhance image processing.

Exploring Neural Filters with Adobe Photoshop: By Conrad Chavez; Jun 23, 2023; Conrad Chavez dives into the Neural Filters workspace, showing how to apply them to your images with ease, combine multiple filters, and unlock limitless creative potential in Adobe Photoshop.

Expressive Strokes: By Sharon Steuer; Jul 20, 2019; In this sample chapter from The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC, 2nd Edition, author Sharon Steuer shows you how to create organic strokes, hand-drawn lines, painterly effects, shading, and much more.

Features and Macros in SolidWorks: By Ibrahim Zeid; Apr 7, 2022; Learn CAD/CAM basics using SolidWorks, from feature-based modeling to macros that aid in design automation. Step-by-step projects teach you how to construct a spur gear, create a compression spring, and more.