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The Painter Wow! Book: Martha Bradford Gallery: Jan 12, 2012; This excerpt from the Painter Wow! books shows you how Martha Jane Bradford achieves the look of an aquatint or hard-ground etching.

The Painter Wow! Book: Painting with the Oils and Real Wet Oils: Jan 10, 2012; Using Painter 12, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis shows you how to set Brush Tracking, sketch a composition, build a color theme using the Mixer, create a painting using the Oils and Real Wet Oil brushes, and blend color and add final details.

The Perfect Specimen: A Scientist's Guide to Acquiring Good Images: Jun 27, 2008; When you're using photos for scientific research, they have to be more than just in focus, they need to be extremely accurate. In this sample chapter from Scientific Imaging with Photoshop, author Jerry Sedgewick tells scientists and researchers how to get the best photographic input from a variety of sources.

The Photographer's Guide to Planning a Vacation: Mar 3, 2006; A photographic journey is 80 percent preparation and 20 percent vacation. Planning the perfect trip requires a bit of mental elbow grease and a lot of time finding resources, looking up information, and managing logistics. In the end, work you do before you go pays off in spades when you see your photographs. This chapter helps you do the preparation that results in a fantastic photographic vacation.

The Photoshop CS Camera Raw Dialog Box: Aug 13, 2004; The RAW file format for digital pictures is available with some high-end digital cameras, and in this article, you can learn how to manipulate the additional data contained in these files to more elaborately enhance your photos.

The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide: Making Corrections: Jul 9, 2010; Even carefully planned and posed photographs can have flaws. Photos you snap on the spur of the moment are even more likely to include distracting background objects or to have less-than-ideal lighting. The good news is that you can improve—and sometimes even perfect—exposure and lighting. You can also often remove unwanted objects, such as phone lines or even people, in Photoshop.

The Photoshop Elements 9 Book for Digital Photographers: Jonas Sees in Color: Color Correction Secrets: Feb 17, 2011; Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski share color correction secrets of Photoshop Elements 9, including how to work with Adjustment Layers, Histograms, and adjusting flesh tones.

The Photoshop Elements Secret to Fixing Group Shots: Jul 7, 2014; With Photoshop Elements’ Group Shot feature, as long as you have a few photos to choose from, you can create the perfect group photo, even if someone has their eyes closed.

The Power of Confusion: Jun 14, 2002; Step into the mind of Joshua Davis, Flash designer and unique thinker, and see how he looks at life and how his interpretations of the world around him influence his art — and his book.

The Power of Preview: Ten Tricks for Getting More Out of Apple's Little PDF Viewer: Jun 1, 2007; Can you dump Photoshop in favor of Preview? Probably not, but Preview is a little gem of a program capable of doing far more than you might imagine, says Neale Monks.

The Power of the Creative Cloud and Illustrator CC (2015): Jun 22, 2015; With the power of Adobe Illustrator the Adobe Creative Cloud, Libraries, and mobile apps, Adobe has created a seamless creative workflow where you can access your content anywhere. Brian Wood, web developer and author of Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 Classroom in a Book, will show you how to take advantage of the Creative Cloud capabilities with Adobe Illustrator.

The Psychology of Colors: Aug 13, 2001; We long for golden sunsets, stop for red signs, and suffer from "the blues." This amazing world envelopes us in colors, each invoking a different response. In this article, Owen Demers breaks down how and why we respond to colors the way we do.

The Role of Conflict in Design: Jun 17, 2013; Conflict is the process through which ideas are validated and elaborated. In this chapter from Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals, Daniel M. Brown explains that through conflict, ideas grow from a spark to a concept to a full-fledged design.

The Savvy Photographer's Guide to Album Design: Simply Square: Aug 22, 2013; Photographer Khara Plicanic shows you how to use Photoshop and InDesign to create a super-quick and easy square album that features a single image per page.

The Tip of the Flash MX Iceberg: Jul 19, 2002; Want to incorporate your webcam feed into your Flash MX-based Web site? This article by Robert M. Hall includes explanations and free example source code you can incorporate into your projects.

The Top 10 What’s New and Improved in Acrobat X: Mar 21, 2011; Have you upgraded from Acrobat 9 to X yet? No need to fear the changed interface. Acrobat expert Brian Wood takes you on a tour of new and improved features in Acrobat X.

The Top Five Add-ons for Apple's iPhoto: May 4, 2007; Ever since its initial introduction, Apple's iPhoto has been a great tool for anyone with a digital camera. As great as iPhoto is, however, longtime users with libraries containing thousands of photos know that the application does have some areas that need enhancing to make it more powerful and seamless for today's digital photographers. Ryan Faas gives his top five iPhoto plug-ins and helper applications to help tame your iPhoto library and expand your iPhoto experience.

The Ultimate Guide to FrameMaker's Paragraph Formats: Jan 18, 2002; Get acquainted with the concepts and techniques behind FrameMaker’s Paragraph Designer, the vessel that allows you to mix and match paragraph format ingredients.

The Use of Repetition in Design: Dec 25, 2014; In this excerpt from The Non-Designer's Design Book, 4th Edition, Robin Williams talks about the use of repetition in design and offers many examples of effective repetition.