- Nikita Prokhorov’s Ambigram of the Month: Unity
- Jul 16, 2013
- Nikita Prokhorov, author of Ambigrams Revealed: A Graphic Designer's Guide To Creating Typographic Art Using Optical Illusions, Symmetry, and Visual Perception, honors the city of Boston with his latest ambigram, Unity.
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- What's New in the Adobe Muse CC Update
- Jul 8, 2013
- The Adobe Muse CC update includes some exciting new features: forms that work for most hosts (not just Adobe Business Catalyst), parallax scrolling, layers, and much more. Brian Wood, author of Adobe Muse: Create Graphically Rich Websites Without Writing Code, describes some new and enhanced features you should check out in Adobe Muse CC.
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- Sharpening Photos with the Enhanced Photoshop CC Smart Sharpen Filter
- Jul 5, 2013
- Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian shows how to leverage the power of the newly updated Smart Sharpen filter in Photoshop CC, improving the details in your rendered picture formats, outside the raw workflow.
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- Burn Your Portfolio: A Conversation with Michael Janda
- Jul 3, 2013
- Michael Janda, author of "Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should," sits down with Peachpit and discusses his writing process, his sense of humor and why his book isn't called "Polishing Turds."
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- Martin Evening on Upright Adjustments in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5
- Jul 2, 2013
- In this excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers, Martin Evening explains how Upright adjustments work, suggests an order for Upright adjustments, and shows how to synchronize Upright settings.
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- The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) Single Edition Workflow
- Jul 1, 2013
- Everyone these days seems to be curious about what the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is and how it can be used to create apps for devices like Apple iPad. Adobe expert Brian Wood offers an overview of what it takes to make an app using Adobe DPS Single Edition.
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- Removing Camera Shake with the Photoshop CC Shake Reduction Filter
- Jun 28, 2013
- No way to steady your camera for a shot? You could increase the ISO or shutter speed, or brace yourself against a tree or wall, and the image might look sharp, but even subtle lens movement can blur edge details. Finally, Photoshop has a reliable way to address this problem! Photoshop educator Dan Moughamian shows how the new Shake Reduction filter in Photoshop CC can help you reclaim some of those blurred pixels.
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- Defining Metrics to Promote the Value of your Creative Work
- Jun 19, 2013
- Understanding the numeric impact of your work makes you a better advocate for design, a better business partner, and ultimately, better at selling your services.
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- The Role of Conflict in Design
- Jun 17, 2013
- Conflict is the process through which ideas are validated and elaborated. In this chapter from Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals, Daniel M. Brown explains that through conflict, ideas grow from a spark to a concept to a full-fledged design.
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- Nikita Prokhorov’s Ambigram of the Month: Father
- Jun 15, 2013
- In honor of Father's Day, Nikita Prokhorov, author of Ambigrams Revealed: A Graphic Designer's Guide To Creating Typographic Art Using Optical Illusions, Symmetry, and Visual Perception, offers an array of ambigrams internationally dedicated to Dad.
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- Creating Effects with the Radial Filter Tool in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5
- Jun 13, 2013
- You can use the Radial Filter tool—new in Lightroom 5—to create off-center custom vignettes, amongst other effects, by applying local adjustments to a selected area in an image through a feathered elliptical mask.
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- Responsive Design Workflow: An Interview with Stephen Hay
- Jun 10, 2013
- Tim Kadlec interviews Stephen Hay, author of Responsive Design Workflow, on breakpoint graphs, using the terminal, and why his mantra is have fun and keep learning.
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- Heroes of Visualization: John Snow, H.W. Acland, and the Mythmaking Problem
- May 29, 2013
- The visual display of information is no stranger to heroes and myth. Alberto Cairo, author of The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization, uses the story of John Snow and his cholera maps to illustrate his point.
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- Adding Form Fields in Adobe InDesign CC
- May 15, 2013
- In this excerpt, learn how to add text fields, add radio buttons, add a combo box, add a description to a form field, set the tab order of the fields, and add a button to submit the form.
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- 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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- Finding Your Artist's Voice
- Apr 25, 2013
- Bonny Lhotka offers an assemblage of ideas to motivate photographers and artists to assess their work from a new viewpoint.
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- Nikita Prokhorov’s Ambigram of the Month: Easy/Hard
- Apr 11, 2013
- Nikita Prokhorov, author of Ambigrams Revealed: A Graphic Designer's Guide To Creating Typographic Art Using Optical Illusions, Symmetry, and Visual Perception, takes you through his process of creating an ambigram for easy/hard.
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- Ambigrams Revealed: "San Diego" by Elwin Gill
- Apr 4, 2013
- Elwin Gill describes the inspiration for and process of creating his "San Diego" ambigram; other ambigram artists offer a critique.
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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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