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Creating and Managing Images with Photoshop Elements
Nov 22, 2002
This sample chapter shows you how to get your images into Photoshop Elements and offers some basic guidelines on adjusting an image's size and resolution.
Creating Animations in Adobe InDesign CC: Growth and Rotation
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.
Creating Auto-Calculating Form Fields
Apr 27, 2011
Ever have the need to use a form that auto-calculates fields? Adobe Acrobat can do this for you just fine. Acrobat expert John Deubert shows you how to tell a form field to calculate its own value.
Creating Basic Lines and Shapes in Illustrator CS
Aug 27, 2004
This sample chapter from the book Adobe Illustrator CS Creative Studio by Luanne Cohen explains how to create paths with Illustrator's line and shape tools. It also contains invaluable charts for working with each of the tools' features.
Creating Bulletproof and Easy to Complete Web Forms
Apr 23, 2004
Effective form design is a great way to boost conversion rates. Jason Fried and Matthew Linderman share with us the secret of how to create attractive and functional forms.
Creating Colors
Mar 23, 2001
Katherine Ulrich, author of Flash 5 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, takes you through creating, defining, and selecting colors in Flash for Windows and Macintosh.
Creating Contrast with the Targeted Adjustment Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Sep 2, 2009
In Photoshop CS4, Adobe introduced the Targeted Adjustment Tool (or TAT for short), which lets you click-and-drag right on the image, and the tool will tweak the right part of the curve for you automatically. Scott Kelby explains why it’s way cooler than it sounds.
Creating Custom Color Profiles in OS X
Oct 8, 2004
This sample chapter from the book Apple Pro Training Series: Color Management in Mac OS X by Joshua Weisberg explains how to use a variety of applications to create device profiles in order to get the best results and most predictability from color management.
Creating Custom Context Menus in Flash MX 2004
Nov 21, 2003
This article shows you how to create custom context menus for your Flash movies using Macromedia Flash MX 2004.
Creating Custom Layouts Any Way You Want Them in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Dec 13, 2010
In this excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby shows you how to create your own custom cell layouts in any size, shape, and placement, using a Print layout style called “Custom Package.”
Creating Custom Panels for Adobe Photoshop CS5
Oct 20, 2010
Adobe Certified Instructor Rafael Concepcion shows how to work with Adobe Configurator to design and build custom panels for use in Adobe Photoshop CS5. By creating custom panels, you can set up the specific tools, commands, and widgets needed for a particular activity or user in Photoshop, making the software as easy to use or as powerful as you like.
Creating eCards with Flash MX
Jun 7, 2002
This project teaches how to create vector-animated cards from a Flash MX template, display thumbnails of the eCards, and allow visitors to view, select, and email a card with a personalized message!
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.
Creating Enchantment: An Interview with Guy Kawasaki
May 23, 2011
Guy Kawasaki chats with Peachpit about creating an enchanting web site, overcoming resistance, and his really simple but extremely powerful tip for enchanting people in our age of social media.
Creating Flash Animations in Adobe Illustrator CS5
Nov 9, 2010
Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, demonstrates a handy technique for animating Illustrator artwork or creating simple animations without the help of Flash.
Creating Flash Animations with Swift 3D
Apr 28, 2006
Create 3D vector and raster animations for your Flash projects at an affordable price with Electric Rain's 3D animation application: Swift 3D. Swift 3D is the only 3D application that integrates directly with Flash and is also one of the easiest 3D packages around. James Gonzalez shows why its price, power, and easy integration with Flash give Swift 3D such a devoted following.
Creating Flash Content that Even Search Engines Like
Sep 19, 2008
Flash is often perceived as an SEO albatross that will ensure search obscurity for anyone who dares to use it in his or her website. However, you might be surprised to learn that this commonly held perception is not entirely true. Aarron Walter explains how to create flash content for your site that's actually findable.
Creating Grass in Photoshop Using Custom Brush Presets
Feb 7, 2003
Learn how to create grass in Photoshop using custom brush presets with Bert Monroy.
Creating High-Quality Video with Sorenson Squeeze 4 for Macromedia Flash
May 12, 2006
The ability to play video inside a Flash SWF file was introduced with the release of Flash MX, which opened up many new and exciting opportunities for Flash developers. Both Macromedia/Adobe and third-party developers have further upgraded Flash's video capabilities with the introduction of powerful encoders and batch processing applications. James Gonzalez reviews Sorenson Squeeze 4, one of the leading third-party Flash video-encoding applications, and shows you how to create high-quality Flash video by using this nifty tool.
Creating Layers in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Dec 6, 2010
In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to create new, blank image layers. To those layers, you can apply brush strokes, clone imagery, etc.

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