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Make Your Own Paper: Dec 14, 2009; Papermaking is a simple process that has so many possibilities for the graphic designer. In this chapter from their book, Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon show you how to make your own paper.

Make Your Own Photoshop Brushes: Nov 3, 2006; Photoshop expert Dave Cross shows you how to make your own Photoshop brushes in this fast and easy two-page tutorial.

Make Your Photoshop Workflow More Efficient with Actions, Droplets, and Scripting: Apr 9, 2012; There are times when working with Photoshop can be a very redundant process. RC Concepcion (Kelby Training instructor and host of DtownTV.com) takes you through a tour of actions, droplets, and scripting, and gives you some essential skills in getting this work done as fast as possible. In no time, you will be automating tasks in Photoshop!

Making a Painting from a Photo: Dec 20, 2002; This article explores turning a photorealistic image into a painting using Photoshop 7.

Making a Picture into a Puzzle in Adobe Photoshop Elements 12: By Adobe Creative Team; May 28, 2014; This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the Puzzle Effect Guided Edit to turn a photo into a jigsaw puzzle.

Making Adjustments in Photoshop CS4: Dec 17, 2008; Ben Wilmore covers Adjustment Layers, including the Adjustments Panel, Vibrance Adjustment, and the Targeted Adjustment icon.

Making Global Corrections with Lightroom 2’s Develop Module: Jul 29, 2008; Need to make global corrections in the color and tone of your images? Jerry Courvoisier shows off the image-adjusting tools available in the right panel of Lightroom's Develop module.

Making Great Prints in Photoshop: Dec 20, 2002; Learn how to make the best prints with your printer and how to edit profiles with profile editors and/or Photoshop Adjustment Layers.

Making Movies for the Web: Mar 16, 2001; Andre Persidsky, author of Director 8 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, takes you through the movie-making process step-by-step, from working with Shockwave, to creating a Shockwave movie and finally, to playing a Shockwave movie.

Making PDF Files in Adobe Acrobat 9: Jan 12, 2009; Learn how to create PDF files in Adobe Acrobat 9, including how to convert many common file types to PDF, scan paper documents directly into PDF, convert Web pages to PDF files, and combine several PDF files into a single document.

Making Photos Look Their Best: Sep 29, 2006; Discover how easy it is to make your photos look better before you share them, whether it is by email or by printing them.

Making Prints, Web Photo Galleries, and Contact Sheets in Adobe Photoshop CS4: Jun 15, 2009; Going from Bridge to output is done in a much different way than in previous versions of Bridge, and now all your printed output is actually saved to a PDF, which to some will be a bonus, and to others...well...let’s just say it’s not a bonus. Scott Kelby shows how it works.

Making Sense of Metadata Settings in Lightroom: May 16, 2008; Metadata catalog settings in Lightroom can be very confusing. Martin Evening helps us wades through the murk by clarifying what some of the important settings do.

Making the Most of Flash MX 2004 and Its New CSS Control: Nov 26, 2003; Phillip Kerman shows you why it makes sense to load CSS files and use htmlText when importing CSS into Flash MX 2004.

Making Transformations in Adobe Illustrator CS4: Oct 9, 2008; The best part of drawing on a computer is that you rarely have to start over. Whether you've changed your mind about an angle or you drew a bunch of repeated objects too small (oops), Illustrator makes modifying your artwork very easy. Mordy Golding discusses how to use Illustrator's transform capabilities to manipulate any number of objects onscreen.

Making Virtual Copies With Lightroom: Jan 4, 2008; Want to experiment with a photo in Lightroom, but without messing up your original? Matt Kloskowski suggests creating another version of the original (Lightroom calls these "virtual copies") that you can treat just like you would a "real" photo: crop, color, fade, view - even save to disk.

Malcolm Grear on Letterforms and Typography: Nov 10, 2006; Every letter is not necessarily beautiful when judged as a single unit. Each letter is companion to 25 others; some are symmetrical, others asymmetrical. The beauty of a letter is revealed by how it meshes with companion parts of a total typographic system and how it works in combination with its fellows. Read this sample chapter for renowned artist Malcolm Grear's best exercises on interpreting typeface in design.

Manipulating 3D Objects in Adobe Photoshop CS5: Dec 14, 2010; This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use several basic tools that make it easy to rotate, resize, and position 3D objects.

Mapping Artwork onto 3D Effects in Illustrator CS4: May 12, 2009; If you're not using Illustrator's 3D effects, you're missing out on some exciting possibilities. David Karlins shows some of the cool projects you can create with these effects - particularly how to map (attach) artwork to a rotated 3D effect, in this case literally painting a map of the world onto a sphere.