- Using Pattern Brushes in Adobe Illustrator CC
- May 15, 2013
- In Adobe Illustrator CC, there are hundreds of interesting Pattern brushes that you can choose from when creating your own projects, from grass to cityscapes. This excerpt shows you how to apply an existing Pattern brush to a path.
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- Using Smart Filters in Adobe Photoshop CC
- May 15, 2013
- Learn how to apply the Liquify filter, position other layers, and edit a Smart Filter in Adobe Photoshop CC.
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- Five Favorite New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS4/CS5/CS6
- Mar 22, 2013
- Whether you’ve skipped the last couple of upgrades to Adobe Illustrator or just haven’t had a chance to fully explore what these upgrades offer, Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book author Sharon Steuer shares some ways to use five of her favorite new features from Illustrator CS4, CS5 and CS6.
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- Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Jaclyn Corrado
- Feb 11, 2013
- Artist Jaclyn Corrado discusses her approach to photography and Photoshop in her work.
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- Plug In with Nik: Silver Efex Pro 2
- Feb 6, 2013
- Silver Efex Pro is simply the best and most essential black-and-white plugin on the market. John Batdorff explains his approach to using Silver Efex Pro while orienting you to SEP’s interface and rich set of creative tools. Of course, you’ll do this by creating images and exploring all the creative possibilities SEP has to offer.
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- Using Advanced Editing Techniques for Video in Photoshop
- Jan 31, 2013
- This chapter shows you how to add the cool Photoshop effects that make your videos look more polished. You will learn about multi-track editing, how layers and Blend modes work with video, and how to mix different types of media on a Timeline. But don’t worry; the learning curve is not difficult.
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- Adobe Illustrator Master Class: Rian Saputra
- Jan 29, 2013
- This excerpt from Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Inspiring artwork and tutorials by established and emerging artists profiles artist Rian Saputra.
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- Adobe Photoshop Master Class: An Interview with Ibarionex Perello
- Jan 21, 2013
- Peachpit interviews Ibarionex Perello, author of Adobe Master Class: Photoshop Inspiring artwork and tutorials by established and emerging artists, about the inspirational artists featured in the book, what they have in common, and where he draws his own inspiration.
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- Adobe Illustrator Master Class: An Interview with Sharon Milne
- Jan 8, 2013
- Peachpit interviews Sharon Milne, author of Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Inspiring artwork and tutorials by established and emerging artists, about her book, what binds Illustrator artists together, and why vector illustration is so important.
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- Plug In with onOne Software: Using Perfect Portrait
- Jan 7, 2013
- Nicole S. Young introduces you to Perfect Portrait, which automates portrait retouching tasks, while still giving you full control over the retouching of your portraits, which not only helps you create beautiful images but also saves you precious time.
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- Perfect Black and White from onOne Software
- Jan 4, 2013
- onOne Software recently released version 7 of its Perfect Photo Suite, which includes a variety of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins, including popular apps like Perfect Portrait, Perfect Mask, and Perfect Layers. Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian explains how version 7 has introduced a brand new plugin for styling our photos, called Perfect B&W (Perfect Black & White), which allows you to create black and white photos from color originals using a large library of presets and robust controls.
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- 10 Fundamental Rules of Designing for Digital Magazines
- Nov 29, 2012
- Is your online magazine just an electronic version of your print publication? You're wasting a huge opportunity! In 10 quick tips, Sandee Cohen, co-author of Digital Publishing with Adobe InDesign CS6, demonstrates how to give immediacy and freshness to your digital magazine's experience.
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- Author Talk: Sharon Steuer on the Best New Features of Adobe Illustrator CS6 (Podcast Transcript)
- Oct 18, 2012
- Publisher Nancy Ruenzel chats with author Sharon Steuer about the most exciting features of the new Illustrator CS6 software. Sharon also discusses the process of revising the newly released Adobe Illustrator CS6 WOW! Book, now in its twelfth edition.
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- Advanced Raw Processing Using Lightroom or Camera Raw
- Oct 11, 2012
- Jeff Schewe explains how to combine the various image adjustments and tools capable of being deployed in Lightroom or Camera Raw to arrive at an optimized “master digital negative.”
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- Creative Compositing in Photoshop
- Oct 8, 2012
- This chapter addresses working freely and creatively with Photoshop, including discovering inspiration with the simplest subjects, learning how to treat Photoshop as a digital sandbox, experimenting with blending modes, textures, and effects, and understanding the essentials of image composition.
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- Working with Smart Objects in Dreamweaver and Photoshop
- Oct 3, 2012
- If your websites use a lot of images, you've probably spent plenty of time jumping between Dreamweaver and Photoshop to make changes, and then trying to keep track of which files are current and which need to be synched. Now you can cross that nightmare off your task list. Tom Negrino, coauthor of Dreamweaver CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide, shows how using Smart Objects in Dreamweaver CS6 can keep your images in sync automatically.
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- Modifying Simple Graphics in Adobe Flash Professional CS6
- Oct 1, 2012
- In this chapter, you’ll use the selection, lasso, and subselection tools to select and modify elements. You’ll modify elements’ attributes using the Property inspector and other panels.
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- Basic Photo Corrections in Adobe Photoshop CS6
- Sep 28, 2012
- Adobe Photoshop includes a variety of tools and commands for improving the quality of a photographic image. This lesson steps you through the process of acquiring, resizing, and retouching a photo intended for a print layout. The same basic workflow applies to web images.
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- Get Familiar with Panels in Adobe Illustrator CS6
- Sep 27, 2012
- This chapter will help you become more intimately acquainted with the Illustrator interface features that you will be using continually as you work: the panels.
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- Masks and Channels in Adobe Photoshop CS6
- Sep 27, 2012
- Learn how to create a mask to remove a subject from a background, refine a mask to include complex edges, create a quick mask to make changes to a selected area, edit a mask using the Properties panel, manipulate an image using Puppet Warp, save a selection as an alpha channel, view a mask using the Channels panel, load a channel as a selection, isolate a channel to make specific image changes.
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