- How To Get Your Hands on Good Digital Images
- Sep 15, 2006
- While Photoshop is a great tool for a lot of tasks, most of them center around the sizing, manipulation, and processing of digital images. While their contents may vary, all digital images are essentially the same: They are composed of pixels that contain color and luminance information. Photoshop's powerful features will allow you to adjust those pixels to better match your needs. While the destination may be the same, the path your digital images take to get inside of Photoshop will vary. Some may start out as digital images acquired with a still camera, while others may get loaded via a scanner. You may also find yourself turning to online resources to find specialized images. In this sample chapter, you'll take a look at the many ways you can acquire digital images.
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- How to Import Photos With Aperture
- Nov 3, 2006
- Before you can do any work in Aperture, you have to get your pictures out of your camera and onto your Mac's hard drive. Since Aperture is designed to facilitate your entire digital workflow, it includes a full-featured importer that can transfer images from a media card or directly from your camera. This chapter shows you how to use all of its features to sort and organize your photos as you import them.
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- How to Make Plastic Pushbuttons
- Feb 26, 2001
- This article, from Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book co-authors Linnea Dayton and Jack Davis, will walk you through adding Layer Effects to the graphics and icons for a panel of buttons, changing the effects to produce three unique button states.
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- How to Make Tonal Corrections in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta
- Mar 23, 2007
- Tonal corrections are those adjustments and changes you make to the brightness and contrast of your image. For years, Photoshop's workhorse tonal-correction tools have been the Levels control and the Curves dialog box, both of which can be applied either destructively or as adjustment layers. The Levels control remains untouched in the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, but Adobe has made major changes to both the Curves and Brightness/Contrast tools. Ben Long takes you through these new features in this sample chapter.
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- How to Optimize Projects in Adobe After Effects CC
- Sep 4, 2013
- This chapter from Adobe After Effects CC Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques examines in close detail how image data flows through an After Effects project. It’s full of the information you need to help you make the most of After Effects.
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- How to Produce a PDF Portfolio in Adobe Acrobat 9
- Sep 5, 2008
- Author Donna Baker explains how to use Adobe Acrobat 9's new Portfolio feature to bring your content together into one portable, customizable, well-organized package.
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- How to Properly Rig Your Characters for Animation
- Aug 11, 2006
- Once your character is modeled, you’ll need to get it ready for animation. This process is called rigging. The goal of rigging is to add a skeleton and controls to your model so that an animator can manipulate and animate the character. This chapter will help you learn to properly rig your character so that animating it is easy and natural.
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- How to Set Up a Web Cam
- Apr 20, 2001
- Been thinking about setting up a web cam? It's probably easier than you think. Let Elizabeth Parker, author of The Little Web Cam Book, show you exactly what you need and how to do it.
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- How to Shoot DV Outdoors Without Movie Lights
- Jan 14, 2005
- It's not always possible to use fancy movie lighting when you're shooting your amateur videos. Thankfully, there are ways to work with natural light to provide quality video lighting for your digital videos. Find out how in this article by Gerald Everett Jones.
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- How to Undo Any Change at Any Time in Photoshop Lightroom
- Oct 12, 2007
- Producing good digital images can require a lot of steps, but the occasional "oops" doesn't have to put you back at the starting point. Scott Kelby explains how to undo those little errors.
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- How to Upload a File by Using the Flash FileReference Object
- Apr 28, 2006
- Flash has long lacked the ability to upload files, a standard function in programming languages. Kris Hadlock cheers the addition of the FileReference object in Flash 8; by combining a bit of ActionScript and PHP, it's now quite simple to create a Flash file-uploading GUI.
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- How to Use Filters in Photoshop CS6
- Aug 16, 2012
- Learn some cool techniques for applying filters in Photoshop CS6, including using the Filter Gallery and Smart Filters, and use filters to make a photo look like an oil painting or tinted drawing.
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- How to Use Lightroom's Catalog Export and Import Features
- Nov 30, 2007
- Martin Evening shows step by step how to import/export Lightroom catalogs from one computer to another (for instance, from a desktop computer to a laptop and vice versa).
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- How to Use Multiple Artboards in Adobe Illustrator
- May 4, 2009
- David Karlins examines how to create and modify multiple artboards and how they can (and cannot) be used.
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- How to Use Photoshop Elements to Remove Glare from Glasses
- Oct 5, 2007
- In this tutorial, Matt Kloskowski describes step by step how to remove annoying reflections from a subject's eyeglasses.
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- How to Use Text in Flash 8
- Jan 13, 2006
- Text is an important part of most Web sites, particularly informational or commercial sites. In this lesson, you'll add and format the properties of many text fields in Flash. You'll learn how to add a Filter effect to a static text field. You'll also spell check the entire document before you finish the lesson. This lesson gives you a foundation in the way text and fonts work and a good basis for using increasingly complex methods of working with text and components.
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- How to Use the Field Blur Filter in Photoshop CS6
- May 9, 2012
- This excerpt from Photoshop CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide shows you how to use the Field Blur filter, which is handy when you need the most flexibility and control in blurring specific areas of an image while keeping other (more important) areas in sharp focus.
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- How to Work With a Project in Final Cut Express HD
- Jan 5, 2007
- In this 60-minute Apple-certified lesson, you'll learn how to open the Final Cut Express HD program, identify and work with the elements of your editing project, organize those elements, and begin working within the Final Cut Express editing interface.
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- How to Work with Frames in InDesign CS
- Oct 20, 2006
- In this self-paced lesson, you'll work on a two-page article for a magazine about origami paper folding. In the process, you'll learn how to use Adobe InDesign CS to resize and reshape text and graphic frames, crop graphics, scale an image contained in a graphics frame, wrap text around an object, and more.
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- How to Work With Frames In InDesign CS3
- Nov 30, 2007
- Let Sandee Cohen show you how to use frames in Adobe InDesign CS3 with this excerpt from her step-by-step, Visual QuickStart Guide.
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