- Create Polished eBooks with New Features in InDesign CS5.5
- Aug 22, 2011
- For several versions, InDesign has been able to convert your print–only content to the .epub file format. With the release of InDesign CS5.5, that process has been made much easier. Adobe expert Brian Wood shows you some of the great new features available with Adobe InDesign CS5.5.
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- Why Adobe Soundbooth Users Fall in Love with Audition
- Aug 17, 2011
- Maxim Jago, author of Introducing Adobe Audition CS5.5: Learn by Video, salutes the features Soundbooth brought to video editors and beckons you to discover the power and elegance Audition now brings to Adobe Creative Suite 5.5. He compares the two tools and shares his joy as an Audition user.
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- ActionScript 3.0 and Math
- Aug 10, 2011
- In this chapter, you'll learn all the basic arithmetic operators that you'll use in ActionScript. Also, there are some convenient shortcuts to make working with math easier that you'll cover as well.
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- Discovering Creative Suite 5.5: Key New Features for Video Editors
- Aug 1, 2011
- Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 is not a major release, but it still packs a lot of punch, especially for video editors. Maxim Jago, author of Video Production with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and After Effects CS5.5: Learn by Video, picks out the key features that mean the most for editors switching from CS5 to CS5.5, highlighting those that reduce the brain strain.
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- Using ICC Profiles in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Jul 7, 2011
- Say you have a gorgeous image in Photoshop. How likely is your printer to give you a result exactly like what you see onscreen? Rafael Concepcion explains how to use printer profiles to tell Photoshop the settings you need for the printer and paper you're using, so you get the precise results you want.
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- Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers: Photo Manipulation
- Jun 9, 2011
- In this age of digitization, photo manipulation has become a widespread phenomenon, but it remains a commonly misunderstood and misrepresented topic, associated primarily with the practice of altering images for deceptive purposes. Fabio Sasso takes a look at the art and inspiration of photo manipulation, including a tutorial that shows you how to create a bride with a wedding dress made out of milk.
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- Merging Image Exposures in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- May 9, 2011
- Want to give your photos more "oomph"? Adobe Certified Instructor Rafael Concepcion demonstrates a speedy technique for adjusting the exposure of certain parts of an image, making it more powerful.
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- Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop: Retouching Hair
- May 4, 2011
- Scott Kelby shows you how to add highlights, remove strands, fix gaps, change color, darken a part line, and hide roots when retouching hair in Photoshop.
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- Signature Techniques of Photoshop Artist Calvin Hollywood: Emotion
- Apr 19, 2011
- Calvin Hollywood shares example of emotion in his work and explains some of the basics you need to have under your belt.
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- An Introduction to 3D in Flash
- Apr 13, 2011
- One of the main reasons that the Flash platform has remained as popular as it has for so long is that Flash has continuously evolved to meet the demands of its audience. In the first of a series of articles on using 3D in Flash applications, Chris Florio, contributor to ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book, shows how to use 3D features (and limitations) that currently exist in Flash Professional CS5 and in Flash Player 10 using both the Flash interface and ActionScript.
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- Taming the Vector Monster
- Mar 31, 2011
- Vector basic training is all about taking your drawn design and helping you build it with precision in vector form using the methods and process covered in Vector Basic Training. This step-by-step tutorial will walk you through a real-world creative project that utilizes the systematic methodology and build methods covered in the book in order to create a monster illustration.
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- A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop: The Unwitting Ally 2.0
- Mar 23, 2011
- In this chapter, you will go beyond exposure and apply the concepts of Extended Dynamic Range photography (ExDR) to focus, blur, and image structure by using image harvesting. You will apply this to the image editing process in order to support the aesthetic choices you make regarding light, shape, gesture, and color when you first take the picture.
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- Understanding HDR Toning in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Mar 23, 2011
- HDR Toning, new in Adobe Photoshop CS5, lets you apply HDR-style effects to a single image instead of having to shoot and merge a set of bracketed images. Even if you don’t like wild HDR effects, HDR Toning is a welcome addition to the range of Photoshop tools you can use to make the most of the available dynamic range in your photos. Photoshop expert Conrad Chavez walks you through all your options.
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- 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.
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- Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium How-Tos: Working with Illustrator
- Feb 16, 2011
- Whatever task you throw at Illustrator, or whatever your particular artwork needs are, there are a multitude of features that help you explore creatively, work efficiently, and publish reliably.
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- Using the Brush Tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Feb 9, 2011
- Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, creates custom brushes in Illustrator for all sorts of purposes. Follow along with Brian's tutorials and videos, and soon you'll be equally addicted to creating custom brushes for your own Brushes panel.
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- Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: Creating Text on a Path
- Jan 19, 2011
- Dan Moughamian shows you how to create text that follows along a contour in one of your photos.
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- Fun with Puppet Warp in Photoshop CS5
- Jan 14, 2011
- One of the more entertaining (and powerful) new features in Photoshop CS5 is the Puppet Warp command. This feature provides the ability to apply a warping mesh to any selected object in your scene, and then bend and twist that object around in different ways. Dan Moughamian, author of Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6, shows you how to combine both Puppet Warp and the new Content-Aware Fill command to apply a snowman effect to a lighthouse.
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- Exploring Creative Lens Correction in Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3
- Jan 10, 2011
- Give your photographs more creative possibilities. Author Conrad Chavez shows you how to take the new Lens Correction feature beyond basic distortion removal in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.
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- Review Your InDesign Document with Others Using CS Review
- Dec 31, 2010
- Learn how to utilize Adobe CS Review, a free online service that enables you to start reviews from Creative Suite software. Author Brian Wood shows you how to share reviews with others, get feedback, and make changes within a program such as Adobe InDesign.
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