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Eight Great New Features in Adobe® InDesign® CS5
Apr 14, 2010
Both print designers and web designers will be delighted with the new spate of Adobe® InDesign® CS5 features, eight of which Bob Bringhurst highlights here.
Eight Reasons to Love QuarkXPress 8
Jul 21, 2009
Wondering what happened to the QuarkXPress Content tool? Kelly Kordes Anton answers these and other questions about changes in the latest Quark update. You may be surprised at how much you like this new version!
Elements of Experience Design
Sep 14, 2001
Great experiences can be deliberate and based upon some principles that have been proven. That applies to online as much as offline design. Nathan Shedroff explains in this article.
Enhance Your Images with Lightroom 2's New Adjustment Brush
Jul 29, 2008
The Adjustment Brush tool is the best new feature in Lightroom 2. Until now, Lightroom was limited to making adjustments to the entire image or to specific areas of tone or color. With this new tool, adjustments are nondestructive (they can be undone at any point), and the file size doesn't increase as you make adjustments. Chris Orwig shares some great techniques on how to use this killer new tool in your workflow.
Enhancing PDF Documents
Jul 15, 2015
In this chapter from Adobe Acrobat DC Classroom in a Book, you'll learn how to enhance Adobe PDF documents, including rearranging, rotating, renumbering, and inserting pages, editing links and bookmarks, and inserting video and other multimedia files.
Enhancing PDF Documents in Adobe Acrobat XI
Dec 17, 2012
Learn how to rearrange pages in a PDF document, rotate and delete pages, insert pages, edit links and bookmarks, renumber pages, insert video and other multimedia files and set document properties and add metadata to a PDF.
Enhancing Pictures in Adobe Photoshop CC with the Camera Raw Filter
Aug 21, 2013
One of the most important new features in Photoshop CC is the Camera Raw Filter. This provides the ability to use Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) in a non-destructive workflow, directly from the Filter menu! Photoshop and Lightroom educator Dan Moughamian shows you how easy it is to benefit from the Camera Raw Filter’s powerful tools, using any raster image format that supports Smart Object layers, all right inside Photoshop!
Enjoy the Scenery: Picture Tips for QuarkXPress 6
Dec 12, 2003
Eda Warren serves up a tasty dish of tips for importing, incorporating, and tweaking pictures in your Quark documents.
Eric Meyer on CSS: Style at Dawn
May 21, 2004
It's easy to take two documents and add the CSS styles necessary to create translucent effects using ordinary JPEG images. These images make it fairly easy to create an attractive design.
Essential Photoshop 6 Tips
Aug 13, 2001
Photoshop is deep. This article dives down deep and maps out some of the canyons along the sea bed. You can dog-paddle around Photoshop without these tips, but you'll never really swim with the sharks until you've explored these territories.
Essential Photoshop Tips and Tricks
Dec 6, 2002
In this article, David Blatner and Bruce Fraser visit the depths of Photoshop to bring you valuable tips and tricks.
Essential Techniques for Working with Photoshop CS2
Feb 24, 2006
In this chapter, you'll find tips and techniques covering features new to Photoshop CS2 along with some lesser known or frequently overlooked features and tools that have been around for a few versions. In addition, many of the tips in this chapter also work in ImageReady, Photoshop's Web graphics-centric component.
Even More Sketching on the Go: Sketching en Plein Aire with the iPad and Adobe Photoshop Sketch (2016)
Feb 24, 2016
Do you enjoy sketching outdoors? Sunny, rainy, snowy - whatever the weather, when Nature beckons, take your iPad outside and use Adobe Photoshop Sketch to draw whatever you see or feel. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, Second Edition, demonstrates how to bring the fun of sketching out into the open air with Adobe Photoshop Sketch.
Even More Sketching on the Go: Sketching en Plein Aire with the iPad and Adobe Photoshop Sketch 2.1
Apr 14, 2015
Do you enjoy sketching outdoors? Sunny, rainy, snowy - whatever the weather, when Nature beckons, take your iPad outside and use Adobe Photoshop Sketch to draw whatever you see or feel. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, Second Edition, demonstrates how to bring the fun of sketching out into the open air with Adobe Photoshop Sketch 2.1.
Everything New Is Old Again: Creating Vintage Tintypes from Modern Photos
Mar 23, 2012
Bonny Pierce Lhotka, author of Digital Alchemy: Printmaking Techniques for Fine Art, Photography, and Mixed Media, has cooked up “greener” methods for creating the look of tintypes from the late 1800s. No harsh chemicals or fancy equipment needed; just some household products, a little time, and an artistic eye.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Typography: An Interview with Jim Felici
Sep 6, 2011
Frank Romano interviews Jim Felici about the evolution to digital type, "automating" typography, and his most and least favorite fonts.
Everything You Need to Know about Applying Photoshop Filters
Feb 9, 2012
In this excerpt from Best Photoshop Filters, Susannah Hall talks about Photoshop Filters, including applying them, using Smart Filters, using the Filter Gallery, fading a Filter effect, using the History Brush, and finding and adding new filters.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Scott Kelby on Adobe’s New Lightroom and the Future of the Digital Workflow
Mar 2, 2007
On the eve of the release of Scott Kelby's new Lightroom book, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers from New Riders, Dave Cross got a few moments to sit down with Scott to talk about Lightroom, how it relates to Photoshop, and how it will impact today's digital photographers. It's a very candid interview, where Scott gives some surprising insights about Lightroom, the development of his Lightroom book, and the reaction to the launch of his new magazine for Lightroom users, called "Darkroom."
Expert Flash Tips and Tricks
Feb 16, 2001
Quick and dirty Flash! tips from Derek Franklin and Brooks Patton, coauthors of Flash 5! Creative Web Animation.
Expert Optimization: Five Tips for Optimizing JPEGs in Photoshop CS2
Sep 30, 2005
These days, no Web visitor has the time or patience to wait for slow-loading graphics. In the time it takes to load a large, beautiful photograph, a user can be long gone! But you don't have to abandon photographs altogether; Tanya Staples covers quick techniques for dramatically reducing the file size of those JPEG images while maintaining the finest of details.

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