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Flipped Textbooks: Engaging Student Learning by Design: By Rose Gonnella; Nov 11, 2015; Rose Gonnella, co-author of Design Fundamentals: Notes on Type, describes the thinking process behind the creation of the 'flipped' textbooks in the Design Fundamentals series, a new concept in book design.

Vector Basic Training: Getting to the Points: By Von Glitschka; Nov 9, 2015; A Bézier curve or path is only as elegant, graceful, or accurate as the anchor points that control and shape it. To better control and edit anchor points, you first need to understand and recognize what qualifies as a good anchor point and path, a bad anchor point and path, and an ugly anchor point and path.

So Many Typefaces. So Little Time: By Rose Gonnella, Max Friedman, Christopher Navetta; Nov 5, 2015; Get a peek at the brilliant, wacky, inspiring pages from Notes on Type, and maybe learn something about typefaces, too.

Audio: Introduction to The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine: By Chris Orwig; Nov 4, 2015; Author Chris Orwig introduces his book, The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine, and talks about why the creative spark is a complex and unpredictable force.

Using Your Studio Like a Pro: Build It From Scratch, Then Take It Up a Notch.: By Scott Kelby; Nov 2, 2015; Scott Kelby teaches you everything you need to know to build your own photography studio from scratch, including details on lighting, positioning, backgrounds, and tips on lighting subjects as diverse as large groups and athletes.

Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People: Peripheral Vision Determines where Central Vision Should Look: By Susan Weinschenk; Oct 29, 2015; In this excerpt from 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk explains why you shouldn't base design decisions solely on eye-tracking studies, and why it would be a mistake to leave peripheral areas blank. Instead, include information that helps people decide where to look (with central vision) next.

The Creative Fight: Grit and Glory: By Chris Orwig; Oct 27, 2015; In this chapter from The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine, Chris Orwig explains that, like rock climbing, creativity is a subtle sport that’s easy to miss.

Organizing Media in Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2015 release): By Maxim Jago; Oct 22, 2015; Once you have some video and sound assets in your project, you’ll begin looking through your footage and adding clips to a sequence. Before you do, it’s well worth spending a little time organizing the assets you have. Maxim Jago shows you how in this excerpt from Adobe Premiere Pro CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release).

The Creative Fight: Nothing to Lose: By Chris Orwig; Oct 20, 2015; The prospect of death can help us dream. In this chapter from The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine, Chris Orwig explores how our mortality can fuel our creativity.

Maximizing Image Detail in Lightroom or Camera Raw: By Jeff Schewe; Oct 19, 2015; In this excerpt from The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop, 2nd Edition, Jeff Schewe offers the most salient points when adjusting the Sharpening and Noise Reduction settings in Lightroom or Camera Raw.

Create Your Own Impulse Responses with Apple's Space Designer and Impulse Response Utility: By David Dvorin; Oct 15, 2015; Creative sound mixing can improve even the dullest recording. You're probably familiar with Space Designer's built-in impulse responses, but did you know you can create your own? David Dvorin, author of Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro X Advanced Audio Production: Composing and Producing Professional Audio, shows how to add custom IRs that you can apply anytime, for any sort of sound design you have in mind.

Working in Camera Raw: By Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas; Oct 13, 2015; In this excerpt from Photoshop CC: Visual QuickStart Guide (2015 release), learn how to use the powerful and wide-ranging controls in the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in to apply corrections to your photos before opening them into Photoshop.

Merge to High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Merge to Panorama in Lightroom and Camera Raw: By Jeff Schewe; Oct 12, 2015; In this excerpt from The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop, 2nd Edition, Jeff Schewe explains Merge to High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Merge to Panorama in Lightroom and Camera Raw.

The Creative Fight: Beautiful Mistakes: By Chris Orwig; Oct 8, 2015; In this excerpt from his book, The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine, Chris Orwig explains how to strive for perfection, and settle for excellence.

Compositing Multiple Images in Photoshop: By Jeff Schewe; Oct 6, 2015; In this excerpt from The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop, 2nd Edition, Jeff Schewe shows you how to use Photoshop to composite your images.

Layer Basics in Adobe Photoshop CC (2015 release): By Andrew Faulkner, Conrad Chavez; Oct 5, 2015; In Photoshop, you can isolate different parts of an image on layers. Each layer can then be edited as discrete artwork, giving you tremendous flexibility as you compose and revise an image. This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release) shows you how.

Shape and Photo Woodblock Print, Part 1: Create Vector Shapes with the Adobe Shape Mobile App: By Jake Weien; Oct 2, 2015; "Creative Jake" Weien is a big fan of Adobe Shape, a free app that lets you create custom shapes as vector graphics for use in other products. In Part 1 of a two-part tutorial, Jake manipulates an interesting photo to create a unique shape for ultimate use in block printing (covered in Part 2, by Bonny Pierce Lhotka).

Shape and Photo Woodblock Print, Part 2: Modern Mixed-Media Photo Transfer: By Bonny Pierce Lhotka; Oct 2, 2015; Bonny Pierce Lhotka, author of Hacking the Digital Print: Alternative Image Capture and Printmaking Processes, takes the baton from "Creative Jake" Weien in the second half of this tutorial, combining his vector graphic shape with both handmade and digital printing techniques to create new types of images.

Creating Animations in Adobe InDesign CC: Growth and Rotation: By Sandee Cohen; Oct 1, 2015; In this chapter from Creating Animations in Adobe InDesign CC One Step at a Time, you’ll learn how to apply the animation presets that make objects grow or shrink as well as rotate.

Working with Objects in Adobe InDesign CC (2015 release): By Kelly Kordes Anton, John Cruise; Sep 29, 2015; In this excerpt from Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release), you'll learn how to work with layers, create and edit text frames and graphics frames, import graphics into graphics frames, import multiple graphics into a grid of frames, crop, move, and scale graphics, adjust the space between frames, add captions to graphics frames, place and link graphics frames, change the shape of frames, wrap text around an object, create complex frame shapes, convert frame shapes to other shapes, modify and align objects, select and modify multiple objects, and create a QR code.