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Creating Layers with Lightroom and Perfect Layers 2
Jan 17, 2012
Adobe plugin developer onOne Software recently unveiled its brand new Perfect Photo Suite 6. The suite includes seven well-known plugins that cover a wide range of photo-editing tasks. Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian showcases for you several of these new plugins, including Perfect Layers 2.
Creating Lens Blur Effects with Focal Point 2
Jan 6, 2012
Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian demonstrates how Focal Point 2 helps photographers to draw attention to the most important parts of their image, by carefully blurring other parts of the shot.
Creating Lightroom Slide Shows
Nov 30, 2007
NAPP instructor Dave Cross takes you on a tour of Lightroom’s slide show tools as he shows you how to create and customize your own slide shows in Adobe Lightroom.
Creating Primatives and Text in Maya 4.5
May 30, 2003
Break down the world around you into its primitive form to create complex images in Maya. You will learn how manipulating primitives in a variety of ways serves an important role in many 3D programs.
Creating Primitives and Text
Jun 19, 2006
Creating Props in Maya 4.5
Mar 28, 2003
Mark Adams discusses the ins and outs of building props using Alias|Wavefront's Maya 4.5 modeling and animation software.
Creating Scrolling Screens for Flash Games
Apr 4, 2003
Using Flash, you can build scrolling screens into your games for players to move through. Matthew David walks you through the process.
Creating Selections in Photoshop 7
Dec 6, 2002
This sample chapter covers the creation of selections in Photoshop using the Rectangular Marquee, Elliptical Marquee, Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, Magic Wand, and Magnetic Lasso tools, as well as the Color Range and Extract commands.
Creating Slices in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Dec 15, 2010
This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to create slices, turn them into buttons, and then program those buttons to make the web page work.
Creating Special Effects in Photoshop
Feb 12, 2015
In this chapter from The Photoshop Workbook: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, Glyn Dewis shows you techniques for turning day into night, creating a cartoon/painterly effect, and making your own dust, debris, snow, and rain brushes. Plus, he shows a quick and easy black and white conversion technique, and how to fake the wet look.
Creating Stunning Panoramas with Photoshop Elements
Dec 13, 2002
Learn how to use Photoshop Elements' Photomerge feature to create panoramas.
Creating Superior Flash Video with Flix Pro
May 4, 2006
Flix Pro is one of the new third-party Flash video encoding applications from On2, the company licensed by Macromedia to provide the video codec for the Flash 8 family of products. This endorsement from the publishers of Flash warrants a look at this flagship Flash encoding application. James Gonzalez shows how to create superior quality Flash video for the Web, for video podcasts, and for disk presentations with the Flix Pro encoder.
Creating Tables in Dreamweaver CS4
Sep 23, 2008
This excerpt, adapted from Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book (Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-321-57381-1), tells you why, when, and how to use tables in your site design.
Creating Text on a Path in InDesign 1.5
Jun 1, 2001
from Adobe InDesign 1.5 Classroom in a Book by the Adobe Creative Team
Creating Transitions with Blends in Adobe Illustrator CS4
Oct 9, 2008
Computers can be real timesavers. For example, instead of having to draw all the in-between objects to morph one shape into another, you can make Illustrator do the work. Mordy Golding shows off some of the fun and useful transitioning capabilities that Illustrator offers with its blending features.
Creating Type on a Path in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Dec 13, 2010
This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to create type on a path to make it look as if questions are coming from a model’s mouth.
Creating Vector Art with Adobe Shape and Adobe Illustrator
Feb 26, 2015
With the release of Adobe Shape, capturing inspiration in the form of vector art just got easier. Adobe Shape traces images you capture from different sources and the resulting vector artwork can be shared with others or brought to Illustrator and edited. In this article, web developer Brian Wood looks at how Adobe Shape works and follows an Adobe Shape to Illustrator workflow.
Creating Web Content in Adobe Illustrator CS5
Aug 30, 2010
Brian Wood, author of Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, presents best practices and handy tips for using Illustrator to create and save artwork for your website. Follow his advice to create better-looking and faster-loading art that adds value to your site.
Creative Color Effects with Photoshop and Perfect Effects
Dec 30, 2011
A popular developer of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins, onOne Software recently unveiled its brand-new Perfect Photo Suite 6. The suite includes seven plugins that cover a wide range of photo editing tasks such as masking, portrait retouching, and image styling. Photoshop expert and professional photographer Dan Moughamian introduces you to some of the suite’s new capabilities, namely, a major update to Perfect Effects (formerly Photo Tools).
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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