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Top 10 Tips for Working in 3D in Photoshop: Feb 16, 2015; Steve Caplin, author of Adobe Photoshop for 3D Design and Printing: Learn by Video, shares techniques and shortcuts for being more productive and saving time when working with Photoshop's 3D capabilities.

Top 5 Tips for Restoring Your Photos with Photoshop: Jun 30, 2015; If you're keen to restore old photos, Photoshop is the right tool. Connect with Robert Correll, author of Photo Restoration: From Snapshots to Great Shots, as he shares some of his top photo restoration tips.

Transformations with the Content-Aware Move Tool in Adobe Photoshop CC (2015 release): Jun 19, 2015; In this excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release), learn how, with the Content-Aware Move tool, you only need a few quick steps to create a copy of an image that combines seamlessly with the background, and is also different enough that it doesn’t look like an exact copy of the original.

Transforming Artwork in Adobe Illustrator CC: Nov 24, 2014; In this excerpt from Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release), you’ll create content and use it in a ticket for a sporting event. You'll learn how to add, edit, rename, reorder and navigate artboards, work with rulers and guides, move, scale, and rotate objects, reflect, shear, and distort objects, position objects with precision, position and align content with Smart Guides, use the Free Transform tool to distort an object, and create a PDF.

Transforming Objects and Components in Maya 8: May 25, 2007; In this sample chapter, you'll learn how to move, rotate, and scale objects around a scene as well as manipulate the parts, or components, of an object itself. Authors Morgan Robinson and Nathaniel Stein take you step-by-step through each of Maya's transformation tools in this task-based, visual guide.

Transparency: Working with Effects in Adobe InDesign CS6: Jun 11, 2012; You can apply transparency by using the nine transparency effects in InDesign. This excerpt from Adobe InDesign CS6 Classroom in a Book shows you how.

Trapping: Apr 6, 2001; Imperfect registration of the printing presses at your printer could ruin your documents. Let Real World Adobe Indesign 1.5 author Olav Martin Kvern show you how to trap your publications to avoid disastrous printing results.

Trapping in Adobe InDesign CS3: Feb 19, 2009; Learn everything you need to know about trapping, a method of overlapping abutting colored objects to compensate for the imperfect registration of printing presses.

Tricks with Tables in FrameMaker 6: Feb 8, 2002; Need to get document tables rotated or fit one inside another? This article shows you how to combine FrameMaker’s powerful features to create tables just the way you want them.

Tweening in Flash: Mar 23, 2001; There are two drawbacks to frame-by-frame animation: First, it's labor intensive; second, it creates large files. Here Katherine Ulrich discusses the two ways Flash mitigates both problems with a process called tweening.

Two Quick Things about Working in Photoshop CS5: Dec 17, 2010; In this excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby tells you what you’ll want to know about tabbed browsing (especially if you’re coming to CS5 from CS3), and how Adobe tweaked workspaces in CS5.

Type in Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Mar 24, 2009; InDesign offers a number of improvements and surprises in the area of typesetting. It’s an evolutionary product, not a revolutionary one, but, on its release, InDesign became the best desktop typesetting program, and raised the bar for its competition.

UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 1: Flipping Wireframes: Aug 27, 2012; Adobe Illustrator makes it easy to create wireframes and then seamlessly flip them to final art. Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, demonstrates how to use Illustrator's symbols, graphic and character styles, and the Find Font tool to turn a sample user interface wireframe into a presentation-ready design.

UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 2: Creating Vector Icons: Sep 3, 2012; Wish you had an efficient way to create custom icons in multiple sizes for use on your websites and in your applications? Adobe Illustrator CS6 grants you the power, as demonstrated by Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator.

UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 3: Visualizing Interactions with Animation: Sep 10, 2012; Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, takes us on a whirlwind run through creating animations to test interactions in Illustrator. Hold onto your hat!

UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6: The Illustrator Workspace: Apr 23, 2012; The Adobe Illustrator workspace is designed to allow you to be as creative as you want without a lot of distractions. In this excerpt from UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, Rick Moore shows you how to choose the right measurement units, select the optimal color space, and create artboards and organize your work.

Uncovering Layers of Differences in Photoshop CS2: Oct 28, 2005; Afraid of change? Think the old ways are always best? There have been some significant changes to the way you work with layers in Photoshop CS2, which might take some getting used to. Dave Cross suggests hanging loose and embracing the changes. In many cases, it's easier to work with layers than ever before.

Understand How Color Works in Photoshop: Jan 13, 2006; Computers know nothing about images, or tone, color, truth, beauty, or art. They're just very complicated adding machines that crunch numbers. Fortunately, you don't have to learn hexadecimal or binary math to use Photoshop, but unless you like heavily pixellated output and wildly unpredictable color shifts, you really want to understand the essential lessons about images that authors Bruce Fraser and David Blatner lay out in this chapter.

Understand the Basics of Digital Signatures in Adobe Acrobat X: May 31, 2011; Digitally signing a document can be simple or complex, depending on how you approach it and what you expect from it. Adobe expert Brian Wood explores the generic process for digitally signing a PDF document using Acrobat X and what you can expect.