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Discovering Creative Suite 5.5: Key New Features for Video Editors: Aug 1, 2011; Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 is not a major release, but it still packs a lot of punch, especially for video editors. Maxim Jago, author of Video Production with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and After Effects CS5.5: Learn by Video, picks out the key features that mean the most for editors switching from CS5 to CS5.5, highlighting those that reduce the brain strain.

Diving into Acrobat: A Preflight Profile of Your Very Own: Nov 16, 2011; Adobe’s list of default preflight profiles is extensive, well thought-out, and useful. Still, if you create lots of PDF files in your life, you’ll want to make your own preflight profile that does just exactly what you want, neither more nor less. Happily, that’s an easy task, if a bit tedious. Adobe expert John Deubert shows you how.

Diving into Acrobat: Examine and Fix PDF Files with Acrobat Preflight: Oct 17, 2011; Preparing a PDF file for some commercial purpose—in particular, for professional printing—can be a serious test of your aggravation gene. Are your fonts all embedded? Are all your colors and images CMYK? Are your line widths thick enough to reproduce on a four-color press? Are you sure? Acrobat expert John Deubert explains how Acrobat X’s preflight feature can minimize the number of sarcastic messages you get from the printing company. Not only can it look for common problems in your PDF file; in many cases, it can fix those problems!

Diving into Acrobat: Jetspeed Searches with Indexes: Dec 19, 2011; If you’re work routinely entails searching PDF files for significant bits of text, you can reclaim part of your life by creating a search index. Search times drop to near zero, regardless of the size or number of the PDF files you’re inspecting. Adobe expert John Deubert shows how remarkably easy it is to do.

Diving into Acrobat: Making a PDF Presentation: Nov 30, 2011; If you ever make presentations to groups of people and are looking to escape from the “Universal PowerPoint Look,” check out Acrobat as your presentation medium. Real typography, control, wonderful graphics, and a better standard of living can be yours just by reading Adobe expert John Deubert’s article. Really!

Do Not Fear the Layer Mask: Tips for Using One of Photoshop's Most Powerful Tools: Mar 21, 2008; Matt Kloskowski takes the fear out of learning to use layer masks with quick, fun tips that show you how to make the most of one of Photoshop's most powerful tools.

Don't Be Intimidated by a Blank Page: Just Draw with Lines!: Dec 19, 2013; This chapter is full of ideas that will help you to get past any trepidation and just start drawing.

Drawing in Flash: Dec 13, 2002; This chapter focuses on the various tools artists can use to draw in Flash. Whether you want to splatter paint with your Wacom tablet or draw line art with a mouse, Flash offers an array of choices.

Drawing Rounded Forms Using Wacom and the iPad: Nov 14, 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 to draw a rounded form using brushes in Photoshop.

Drawing Skeletons in Maya: Jan 23, 2004; Chris Maraffi walks you through the drawing of skeletons in Maya as part of the process of setting up or rigging a character for animation.

Dust, Mold, and Texture Removal in Photoshop: May 2, 2003; In this sample chapter you'll face the worst problems and learn the best techniques to rescue your images from the evils that lurk in historical negatives, glass plates, prints, contemporary film, and digital images.

DV Technology and the Camcorder: Dec 30, 2005; This chapter covers the basics of shooting digital video, from the various digital video cameras available to the settings you should use to get the best quality captures from your camera.

Edgy Edge Effects in Photoshop: May 19, 2006; We're surrounded by images with interesting edges. Look around and you'll see photos with soft foggy edges and others that look torn or sanded. These edges provide interesting outlines for photos and digital art, and they're easy to create for your own images. Better still, when you create an interesting edge treatment, you can save it to use again on another image. Helen Bradley shows how to create a range of different edge effects and how to apply them by using masks and layers to any photo or image in your collection.

edIT: Using Quick, Guided, and Expert Editing in Photoshop Elements 12: Jan 29, 2014; Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski explain the different editing modes in Elements—Quick, Guided, and Expert—and show you how to use each one.

Editing and Combining Shapes and Paths in Adobe Illustrator CC (2015 release): Jan 14, 2016; In this lesson from Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release), you'll take basic shapes and paths and learn how to both edit and combine them to create new artwork.

Editing and Formatting Text in Adobe InCopy CS2: May 12, 2006; Using text and paragraph styles in Adobe InCopy CS2 can save you a lot of work and prevent consistency errors in longer works. This chapter will introduce you to styles and show you how to use them to work more efficiently and accurately.

Editing Paths in Adobe Illustrator CS4: Dec 30, 2008; David Karlins shows you how to use selection and editing techniques in Adobe Illustrator CS4, including selecting paths and path segments, grouping paths, and aligning anchors.

Editing Photos in 5 Easy Steps with Photoshop Elements 10: Sep 28, 2011; If you’re anxious to get started with Elements, the steps outlined in this short chapter will improve nearly all of your digital photos.

Editing Photos with Photoshop Elements 11 in 5 Easy Steps: Sep 29, 2012; If you’re anxious to get started with Photoshop Elements 11, the steps outlined in this short chapter will improve nearly all of your digital photos.