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10 Practical Logo Design Tips
Oct 14, 2014
David Airey, author of Logo Design Love: A guide to creating iconic brand identities, 2nd Edition, shares ten tips that will help you think about how to design better logos.
10 Reasons to Switch to Mac OS X Lion
Jul 21, 2011
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has a slew of brand-new features and improvements. Tom Negrino offers ten reasons why you should upgrade.
10 Things to Know Before Enabling Apple's Family Sharing
Apr 21, 2015
Sharing all of your music, movies, and more across the range of Apple devices owned by your family sounds like a no-brainer. Why wouldn't everyone want this option? Maybe because it's not quite as beautifully simple as it sounds. Jeff Carlson, co-author of The Connected Apple Home: Discover the Rich Apple Ecosystem of the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV, explains 10 important points you need to consider before you decide to enroll your gang in Family Sharing.
10 Things You Might Not Know About FileVault 2
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.
10 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Keynote
Apr 2, 2015
Mark Wood, author of Apple Pro Training Series: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, offers 10 tips for making effective - maybe even genius! - Keynote presentations.
10 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Numbers
Mar 26, 2015
Mark Wood, author of Apple Pro Training Series: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, shares 10 ways to harness the real power of Numbers.
10 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Pages
Apr 7, 2015
Mark Wood, author of Apple Pro Training Series: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, provides real-world time-savers (and occasional pitfalls) in Pages.
10 Tips for Painless Photo Albums: A Guide for Professional Photographers
Sep 3, 2013
For a lot of photographers, album design is synonymous with headache. The hours (and hours!) spent designing are usually followed by weeks (or even months) of revisions, making for a painful experience for everyone involved. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Khara Plicanic, author of Album Moxie: The Savvy Photographer's Guide to Album Design and More with InDesign, offers ten tips to make the album creation process a joy.
10 Tips to Improve Your Landscape Photography
Jun 5, 2012
Rob Sheppard offers ten tips that will help you stay focused on your photography so that you can shoot any landscape better.
10 Ways to Build a Following on Google+
Aug 13, 2012
Google+ is a terrific social network for photographers to connect with clients, fans, and others who share their love of the visual arts. Colby Brown should know. The author of Google+ for Photographers has built a huge following on Google+. He shares 10 of the best ideas he has learned from his experience - expertise that can help you to build your own network, hang out with great new friends, and get your photography noticed.
10 Ways to Drive Customers Away from Your Site
Nov 9, 2001
There are lots of ways to make money with your web site. There are also lots of ways to keep from making money. If you REALLY don't want to make money, try the 10 ways in this article.
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People: There's a Special Part of the Brain Just for Recognizing Faces
May 19, 2011
People recognize and react to faces on Web pages faster than anything else on the page. In this chapter from her book, Susan Weinschenk explains how understanding this concept can help you design better web pages.
100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People: The More Uncertain People Are, the More They Defend Their Ideas
Jun 18, 2012
When a belief is deeply ingrained, it will be hard to change. Susan Weinschenk offers some tips on presentation methods that can be used to overcome this obstacle.
12 Principles to Create Realistic Animation the Disney Way
Dec 18, 2014
Transitions and CSS animations can help make websites friendlier, but their movement can be mechanical and somewhat unrealistic if not handled well. Website designer/developer Steven Bradley shows how designers can take a cue from the animators at Disney and the 12 principles of animation they follow, and apply to all their work.
13 Nifty Things About Macaw: The New Application for Designing Responsive Websites and Prototypes
Jan 20, 2015
If you’ve been looking for a more visual way to build responsive websites and prototypes, it’s time to check out Macaw, and the book Getting Started with Macaw. In this article, Joe Chellman looks at some of most interesting aspects, big and small, of this new web design application.
16 How-To Tips for Using Photoshop Camera Raw
Jan 19, 2009
Chris Orwig offers 16 Camera Raw tips, including setting the white balance, using split toning, and making localized adjustments.
20 Tips for Shooting Great Video
Jun 16, 2009
20 tips for shooting great video, and four methods to transfer or capture your video to your workstation.
32-bit Imaging with HDR Toning in Photoshop CS5
Feb 28, 2011
High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography has been a hot topic lately, with debates ongoing as to how useful a process HDR is for serious photographers. Count Dan Moughamian, author of Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6, among those who believe HDR can be a very useful process for photographers, provided they understand its real purpose.
3D in Photoshop CS4
Apr 13, 2009
Photoshop includes many improvements to 3D workflow, such as a more powerful rendering engine and the ability to create and manipulate various kinds of lights and materials. This excerpt explains them in detail.
3D Modeling Basics
Jan 17, 2003
Through theory and then tutorials, Mark Giambruno introduces you to basic modeling tools and also offers suggestions for planning out the best modeling approach and developing good work habits.

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