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Plug In with onOne Software: Using Perfect Portrait: Jan 7, 2013; Nicole S. Young introduces you to Perfect Portrait, which automates portrait retouching tasks, while still giving you full control over the retouching of your portraits, which not only helps you create beautiful images but also saves you precious time.

Points and Paths in Adobe InDesign CS3: Feb 14, 2009; Flummoxed by the Pen Tool? Sandee Cohen shows you how to work with Points and Paths using the Pen Tool in Adobe InDesign CS3.

Portrait of a Photoshop Artist: Scott Kelby: Jan 28, 2005; Best-selling Photoshop author Scott Kelby stops writing (for, like, a minute) and starts talking about Elements 3, the Photoshop tools he couldn’t live without, and the music lesson that changed his life.

Posing Digital Characters: Aug 13, 2001; Whether you animate with pencils, clay, or pixels, you need a strong foundation in animation fundamentals. In this article, George Maestri teaches you about posing your characters, be they people or otherwise-inanimate objects.

Positioning Flash CS4 Objects in 3D Space: Sep 23, 2008; What’s so cool about Flash CS4? You can now position and animate objects in real 3D space. The Adobe Creative Team demonstrates how to use the following special Flash tools for accurate 3D positioning: the 3D Rotation tool, the 3D Translation tool, and the Transform panel.

Practical Color Palettes for Designers: Oct 29, 2014; Whether you're working with a single color or a multi-color palette, Jim Krause offers tips on getting the most out of whatever color combinations you're using, in this excerpt from Color for Designers: Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations.

Precise Background Swaps Using Photoshop and Perfect Mask: Dec 28, 2011; A popular developer of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins, onOne Software recently unveiled its brand new Perfect Photo Suite 6. Photoshop expert and professional photographer Dan Moughamian explains how the suite includes seven well-known plugins that cover a wide range of photo-editing tasks such as masking, layering in Lightroom, and image styling.

Previewing Images in Photoshop CS4: Apr 16, 2009; Conrad Chavez and David Blatner show you how to generate and work with previews in Photoshop CS4.

Previewing the Design Space Interface in Adobe Photoshop CC (2015 release): Jun 19, 2015; This excerpt from Photoshop CC: Visual QuickStart Guide (2015 release) previews an alternate interface for Photoshop called Design Space.

Print Multiple Photos on One Page Using Adobe Photoshop LIghtroom: Nov 30, 2007; Scott Kelby shows several handy ways to print multiple photos on one page in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Printing a 3D File in Adobe Photoshop CC (2014 release): Jun 23, 2014; This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release) shows how you can create 3D objects in Photoshop—or import 3D objects that have been created elsewhere—and print them directly from Photoshop.

Printing Made Really, Really Easy in Lightroom: May 23, 2008; Scott Kelby is a loving man, but man, he really adores Lightroom's printing capability. By the time you're finished with this article, you'll love it, too.

Printing with Flash: Sep 2, 2001; Printing from Flash is a snap! David Emberton shows you how to post printable posters.

Printing with Photoshop Elements and Your Inkjet Printer: Feb 3, 2009; Tim Daly shows you how to get professional results with Photoshop Elements and your inkjet printer.

Problem Solving: Baptism by Fire: Jan 14, 2013; Stefan Mumaw discusses effective problem design, which teaches you to see the inherent stages existent in problems and provides context to solve them creatively.

Product Design for the Web: No Dead Ends: Nov 19, 2013; Every experience that people have with digital products involves interactions over time, choices between multiple actions, user feedback, presentation of information, requirements for input, and demands on attention. Etsy creative director Randy J. Hunt explains that it’s important for us to consider exactly what we are creating when we design a digital product: how it is experienced, how it is constructed, how it works, and the connection between those three factors.

Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop: Retouching Hair: May 4, 2011; Scott Kelby shows you how to add highlights, remove strands, fix gaps, change color, darken a part line, and hide roots when retouching hair in Photoshop.

Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign: Leading: Jul 28, 2010; Nigel French discusses the details of leading (the space between lines of type) in Adobe InDesign, including general rules of thumb, exceptions, and the use of auto leading.

Project: Logos: Mar 16, 2001; Robin Williams and John Tollett, co-authors of Robin Williams Design Workshop, look at some common techniques and themes of logo design that never get old because they are capable of unlimited variations and interpretations.