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Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Ludwig Hohlwein: Sep 26, 2013; John Clifford profiles influential German designer Ludwig Hohlwein, who incorporated depth and pattern in his poster designs.

Foundations of Digital Art and Design: A Q&A with Designer and Educator xtine burrough: Sep 19, 2013; Peachpit interviews xtine burrough, author of Foundations of Digital Art and Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud, about the state of higher education, her use of design and social media to create web communities, and her thoughts on fair use.

Ten Tips for Producing Effective Design—and Minimizing Client Struggles: Sep 12, 2013; Eric Karjaluoto, author of The Design Method: A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication, offers ten tips that can make your job as a designer more rewarding and less stressful.

Nikita Prokhorov’s Ambigram of the Month: Liberty: Sep 11, 2013; One definition of Nikita Prokhorov's latest ambigram—liberty—is "a violation of rules or a deviation from standard practice," which is an excellent definition of ambigrams themselves.

Introducing The Design Method: A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication: Sep 10, 2013; Eric Karjaluoto introduces The Design Method, which is a framework you can implement in every design project to achieve appropriate results. This blueprint helps you gain understanding, craft a plan, develop ideas, and ultimately produce and apply them.

How to Optimize Projects in Adobe After Effects CC: Sep 4, 2013; This chapter from Adobe After Effects CC Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques examines in close detail how image data flows through an After Effects project. It’s full of the information you need to help you make the most of After Effects.

Working with Objects in Adobe InDesign CC: Aug 28, 2013; Although InDesign is not a full-fledged drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator, you can use InDesign’s tools to create a wide variety of effects by distorting, moving, resizing, duplicating, and aligning objects. Sandee Cohen shows you how in this chapter from InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide.

Photography Q&A with Zack Arias: Real Questions. Real Answers.: Aug 26, 2013; In this excerpt from Photography Q&A: Real Questions. Real Answers., Zack Arias answers questions on cheap eBay lights, gear lust, low light, and more.

The Savvy Photographer's Guide to Album Design: Simply Square: Aug 22, 2013; Photographer Khara Plicanic shows you how to use Photoshop and InDesign to create a super-quick and easy square album that features a single image per page.

Enhancing Pictures in Adobe Photoshop CC with the Camera Raw Filter: Aug 21, 2013; One of the most important new features in Photoshop CC is the Camera Raw Filter. This provides the ability to use Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) in a non-destructive workflow, directly from the Filter menu! Photoshop and Lightroom educator Dan Moughamian shows you how easy it is to benefit from the Camera Raw Filter’s powerful tools, using any raster image format that supports Smart Object layers, all right inside Photoshop!

Tips for the Digital Photographer on Working with Layer Masks in Adobe Photoshop: Aug 20, 2013; Harold Davis walks you through the process of solving a particular exposure challenge using layer masks in Adobe Photoshop, in this chapter from The Way of the Digital Photographer: Walking the Photoshop post-production path to more creative photography.

Jeff Schewe on Making a Digital Print: Aug 19, 2013; Once you’ve got your image prepared, it’s just a matter of printing it. Of course, as always, there are some potential roadblocks and technical issues to be aware of. Jeff Schewe shares his tips for getting the most our of your digital prints.

Working with the Timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Aug 15, 2013; Although you can perform some editing functions in the Project panel and Source Monitor, you’ll do the vast majority of your editing—and spend the vast majority of your editing time—in the Timeline.

Using Photoshop CC and ACR’s Powerful Tone Mapping and Color Correction Tools to Create 32-Bit HDR Photos: Aug 14, 2013; Over the past few years, Adobe has provided Photoshop users with variations on an HDR workflow for photographers, but the options for precisely mapping tones and colors (especially) were somewhat limited. Today, using Photoshop CC, Photoshop and Lightroom educator Dan Moughamian shows how you can open a merged, 32-bit image into a brand-new (but very familiar) environment, to create those HDR photos.

Scott Kelby's Editing Essentials: How to Develop Your Photos: Aug 6, 2013; Scott Kelby shows you how to develop your photos, including tips on setting white balance, setting your overall exposure, working with the Histogram and Auto Tone, dealing with exposure problems, making your colors more vibrant, and much more. He ends the chapter with some Lightroom killer tips.

Advanced Digital Video Editing Techniques with Adobe Creative Cloud: By Adobe Creative Team; Aug 5, 2013; Learn how to use more advanced editing techniques to create a static title with the Abobe Premiere Pro Title tool; work in your Timeline to apply various clip-trimming techniques, apply and modify an effect to clips, incorporate RED footage, create simple dissolve transitions between clips, and generate a preview render of your Timeline; edit closed captions, use the Warp Stabilizer effect to smooth unsteady camera movement in a clip, and upload a file and sync your settings to Creative Cloud.

Working with Type in Adobe InDesign CC: Aug 2, 2013; InDesign offers a number of improvements and surprises in the area of typesetting. In this chapter, you'll start with character formatting (font, point size, kerning, and baseline shift are examples of character formatting), move on to paragraph formatting (indents, tabs, space above and below, and composition), and then dive into formatting using character and paragraph styles.

Using Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CC: Jul 29, 2013; Learn how to open digital photos into the Camera Raw dialog and correct for defects, such as poor contrast, under- or overexposure, color casts, blurriness, under- and oversaturation, geometric distortion, color fringes, and noise. You will also learn how to enhance your photos with special effects, such as a vignette, grain texture, or tint; merge multiple exposures of the same photo; retouch blemishes; save and synchronize Camera Raw settings among related photos; and of course, open your photo into Photoshop.

Attitude Adjustment: Camera Raw's Adjustment Tools: Jul 24, 2013; Scott Kelby talks about the adjustment tools in Camera Raw, including dodging and burning, retouching portraits, fixing skies, fixing color problems, reducing noise, special effects using Camera Raw, and some Photoshop killer tips.

Signal Processing in Adobe Audition CC: Jul 23, 2013; This excerpt from Adobe Audition CC Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the Effects Rack to create chains of effects, apply effects to audio, adjust parameters in various effects to process audio in specific ways, alter dynamics, frequency response, ambience, stereo imaging, and many other audio attributes, use the Preview Editor to see how a waveform will be altered by an effect before you apply the effect, simulate guitar amp and effects setups with Guitar Suite effects, load third-party, plug-in effects on Mac or Windows computers, apply single effects rapidly without the Effects Rack by using the Effects menu, and create favorite presets you can apply immediately to audio.