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Creative Drawing in Adobe Illustrator CS4: Jan 6, 2009; Mordy Golding discusses the use of color, composition, texture, and feel, including how to use the Live Paint feature in Illustrator CS4.

Creative Lighting Effects with Adobe Photoshop CS6: Apr 23, 2012; Lighting Effects has been around a long time, but the Lighting Effects filter in Photoshop CS6 is essentially a brand new feature in the sense that it has been completely remade. This article provides a general overview of the filter (including its new interface), and demonstrates how you can use Lighting Effects to dramatically impact the composition or look of your photographs.

Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad: Enhancing the Focal Point: Nov 5, 2013; In this excerpt from The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, 2nd Edition, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis focuses on the composition process, simulating natural-media textures and creatively resolving the work.

Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad: Paintings by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis: Oct 29, 2013; Cher Threinen-Pendarvis shares a selection from her gallery of digital artwork that focuses on paintings that she's created for her own personal expression.

Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad: Setting up Your Intuos5 Tablet for Your Non-Dominant Hand: Nov 12, 2013; In this excerpt from The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, 2nd Edition, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis shows you how you can easily change the orientation and set up your tablet for right or left-handed users.

Cropping and Straightening in Lightroom: May 2, 2008; A crooked horizon line or an extra person in the image can spoil an otherwise great photo. Scott Kelby shows how to straighten a picture or magically decrease the number of people in the room.

Cropping Techniques in Photoshop CS4: Jun 18, 2009; Scott Kelby shows you some handy cropping tricks, including the rule of thirds, cropping to a specific size, keeping the same aspect ratio when cropping, and creating custom cropping tools.

Cropping to a Specific Size in Adobe Photoshop CS5: Dec 19, 2010; In this excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby shows you how to crop any image to a predetermined size.

Customizing the Workspace in Adobe Photoshop CS5: Dec 10, 2010; This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to customize your workspace, controlling which panels, tools, and menus are available at any time.

Customizing Your Photoshop Workspace: Jul 25, 2003; This article focuses on ways you can take advantage of Photoshop and set up your own customized workspaces.

Dave Cross's Top Ten New Photoshop Elements Features: Oct 15, 2004; Photoshop Dream Team Instructor David Cross narrows down the many possibilities to come up with the top ten features of Adobe's popular image-editing software.

David Airey on Laying the Groundwork for a Successful Brand Identity Design Project: Sep 22, 2014; Without knowing specific details of your client’s business, his reasons for seeking a brand identity, and his expectations of the process and final design, you can’t possibly be successful with the project. In this chapter from Logo Design Love: A guide to creating iconic brand identities, 2nd Edition, David Airey shows you how to lay the groundwork to achieve project success.

Dealing with Ghosting in Merge to HDR Pro in Adobe Photoshop CS5: Dec 18, 2010; In this excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby shows you how to manage ghosting in Merge to HDR Pro.

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.

Deformations and Movement in LightWave 7: Jan 18, 2002; Dan Ablan, author of Inside LightWave, discusses the ins and outs of creating a selection set that works for various applications, including techniques for lip syncing 3D characters.

Design For How People Learn: Design for Motivation: Dec 6, 2011; In this chapter, we learn that we don’t always learn the right thing when we learn from experience, and that the elephant is a creature of habit.

Design for How People Learn: How Do We Remember?: Jan 26, 2016; Memory is the foundation of learning. There’s a lot we still don’t know about the nature of memory, but we do have some ideas and models for how it works. In this chapter from Design for How People Learn, 2nd Edition, Julie Dirksen looks at how we pay attention and encode information into memory. Second, she looks at different types of memory.

Design Fundamentals: Color Names And Classifications: Jun 9, 2014; Rose Gonnella and Max Friedman illustrate (literally!) the concepts of color identity systems, the Hexidecimal, and color properties.

Design Fundamentals: Texture and Pattern: Feb 23, 2015; Using their unique, quirky style, the authors of Design Fundamentals: Notes on Visual Elements and Principles of Composition explore the concept of texture, the active surface quality of a dot, line, shape, or form.