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Setting Up Color Space in Adobe Photoshop CS5: Dec 16, 2010; In this excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby you how and why to either change your color space to Adobe RGB (1998) if you’re shooting in JPEG or TIFF, which is better for printing those images, or ProPhoto RGB if you shoot in RAW or work with Photohsop Lightroom.

Setting Up Layout Rules for a Mobile App Design in Adobe InDesign CS6: May 3, 2012; This excerpt from Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Classroom in a Book shows you how InDesign lets you work with alternate layouts and helps you adapt your layouts with Liquid Layout rules.

Seven Principles of Great Template Design in InDesign: Feb 12, 2009; Use the seven principles covered in this chapter to guide the decisions you make throughout the template construction process. Gabriel Powell shows you how.

Shading with the Adobe Illustrator CS5 Mesh Object: Oct 19, 2010; Simple lines can convey straightforward ideas, but subtlety often requires shading. Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, demonstrates using mesh objects to add gradients to curves. Brian shares his best tips for saving steps and preventing headaches as you work with mesh objects.

Sharon Steuer and Mordy Golding Talk about Adobe Illustrator CS5: Sep 21, 2010; Sharon Steuer (author of The Adobe Illustrator CS5 WOW! Book) and Mordy Golding (author of Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5) ask each other some burning questions.

Sharpening Images in Adobe Photoshop CS4: Feb 27, 2009; Photoshop provides a number of sharpening filters, but which are the most useful? Chris Orwig shows you the best way to sharpen your photos.

Sharpening Photos with the Enhanced Photoshop CC Smart Sharpen Filter: Jul 5, 2013; Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian shows how to leverage the power of the newly updated Smart Sharpen filter in Photoshop CC, improving the details in your rendered picture formats, outside the raw workflow.

Shoot Weddings Like a Pro: There Is No Retaking Wedding Photos. It’s Got to Be Right the First Time!: Jan 12, 2007; A wedding ceremony happens once in real time. There are no second takes, no room for mess-ups, no excuses. Best-selling author Scott Kelby shares his best tips and tricks for getting every wedding shot right the first time.

Shooting Landscapes Like a Pro: More Tips for Creating Stunning Scenic Images: Feb 8, 2008; Best-selling author Scott Kelby shares his top tips for capturing gorgeous landscape shots with your digital SLR.

Shooting Tethered in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Dec 14, 2010; In this excerpt from a The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby shows you how to shoot directly from your camera into Lightroom.

Sidestepping the Banana Skins: How to Avoid Common Type Mistakes in InDesign: Apr 16, 2014; Don't make yourself easy prey for the type pedants out there who will mock you for using an opening quote mark instead of an apostrophe. While rules are made to be broken, Nigel French, author of InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, 3rd Edition, offers ten rules of InDesign type that should (almost) never be broken.

Signal Processing in Adobe Audition CC: Jul 23, 2013; This excerpt from Adobe Audition CC Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the Effects Rack to create chains of effects, apply effects to audio, adjust parameters in various effects to process audio in specific ways, alter dynamics, frequency response, ambience, stereo imaging, and many other audio attributes, use the Preview Editor to see how a waveform will be altered by an effect before you apply the effect, simulate guitar amp and effects setups with Guitar Suite effects, load third-party, plug-in effects on Mac or Windows computers, apply single effects rapidly without the Effects Rack by using the Effects menu, and create favorite presets you can apply immediately to audio.

Signature Techniques of Photoshop Artist Calvin Hollywood: Emotion: Apr 19, 2011; Calvin Hollywood shares example of emotion in his work and explains some of the basics you need to have under your belt.

Simulating Film Grain in Photoshop 7: Nov 22, 2002; Create an ethereal artistic effect in your images by simulating the graininess of film. Here's a quick and dirty Photoshop 7 design tip that you can start using right away!

Six Tips for Creating Beautiful Color Palettes: Dec 1, 2014; Jim Krause, author of Color for Designers: Ninety-Five Things You Need To Know When Choosing and Using Colors for Layouts and Illustrations, knows a thing or two (or 95) about working with color. Learn six of his top tips for working with color in your layouts and illustrations.

Sizing Digital Images in Adobe Photoshop CS4: Jan 7, 2009; This chapter explores several techniques for sizing your images.

Sketching and Modeling with Charcoal in Photoshop: Dec 30, 2014; 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 one of Photoshop's cooler capabilities: drawing with electronic "charcoal." Smudge and shadow to your heart's content. The charcoal tip even gives you the effect of wearing down as you use it!

Sketching on the Go: Fluid Freehand Sketching with Adobe Illustrator Draw: Apr 13, 2015; Artists are always thinking about their work. If you have the kinds of portable tools suggested by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, Second Edition, you can jump from inspiration to sketch in an instant, with all the possibilities of your Adobe drawing tools readily at hand.

Sketching on the Go: Fluid Freehand Sketching with Adobe Illustrator Draw (2016): Feb 10, 2016; Artists are always thinking about their work. If you have the kinds of portable tools suggested by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, Second Edition, you can jump from inspiration to sketch in an instant, with all the possibilities of your Adobe drawing tools readily at hand.