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Using and Understanding Masks, Gradients, and Blend Effects in Adobe Illustrator: Mar 30, 2007; In the past, if someone gave you a pile of digitally produced artwork it was a snap to divide the images easily into two piles—those created in Photoshop and those done in Illustrator. Not so today. While Photoshop has garnered the ability to create vector shapes, so has Illustrator been given incredible tools and methods to give line art three dimensionality through techniques such as masks, blends, gradients, and true transparency. In this sample chapter, you'll learn how to make images that wow using masks, gradients, and shadows.

Using Animation in Adobe InDesign CS5: Nov 11, 2010; In previous versions of InDesign, the document was static; none of the page content wiggled or barked. But InDesign CS5 allows you to do so much more. Now, page content itself can be animated. Here's where the real fun begins!

Using Animation to Build Movement in Flash MX: Dec 27, 2002; Animating in Flash is where the real excitement begins. If you do it right, you'll find that you can control your audience's emotions in ways they'll not soon forget. Sound appealing? Read on.

Using Appearances: Mar 2, 2001; In this article, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas, co-authors of Illustrator 9 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, show you how to use Appearances in Illustrator to add flexibility and complexity to object editing.

Using Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CC: Jul 29, 2013; Learn how to open digital photos into the Camera Raw dialog and correct for defects, such as poor contrast, under- or overexposure, color casts, blurriness, under- and oversaturation, geometric distortion, color fringes, and noise. You will also learn how to enhance your photos with special effects, such as a vignette, grain texture, or tint; merge multiple exposures of the same photo; retouch blemishes; save and synchronize Camera Raw settings among related photos; and of course, open your photo into Photoshop.

Using Clipping Masks in Adobe Photoshop CS5: Dec 6, 2010; In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to create a clipping mask, release a layer from a clipping mask, and release an entire clipping mask.

Using Flash 5's Stock Smart Clips: Oct 26, 2001; This sample chapter from Inside Flash 5 explains how to use, get information in and out of, and customize smart clips.

Using ICC Profiles in Adobe Photoshop CS5: Jul 7, 2011; Say you have a gorgeous image in Photoshop. How likely is your printer to give you a result exactly like what you see onscreen? Rafael Concepcion explains how to use printer profiles to tell Photoshop the settings you need for the printer and paper you're using, so you get the precise results you want.

Using Keyboard Combinations with Tool Actions in Adobe Photoshop CS5: Dec 10, 2010; This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use a keyboard combination that constrains the elliptical selection to a circle that you’ll draw from the center outward instead of from the outside inward.

Using Keyword Tags and Keywording Panels in Lightroom: Nov 30, 2007; Categorizing your Lightroom images with keyword information helps make a specific image easier to find when you need it. If you have a lot of images, as Martin Evening does, you'll need all the help you can get.

Using Layers for Transparency and Clipping in Illustrator CS4: Jun 1, 2009; Do you think of layers strictly as a selection tool? You're missing out. David Karlins points out a number of ways in which layers can be used to edit artwork in Illustrator.

Using Lightroom’s Tone Curve Controls: Apr 11, 2008; Lightroom's Tone Curve controls provide a straightforward way to make tone curve adjustments based on descriptive criteria. They're not as restrictive as they might seem at first, as Martin Evening demonstrates.

Using Lightroom's HSL / Color / Grayscale Panel: May 1, 2008; Need to make some fine-tuned color adjustments in Lightroom? Martin Evening shows the way with tips for using the HSL / Color / Grayscale panel.

Using Pattern Brushes in Adobe Illustrator CC: May 15, 2013; In Adobe Illustrator CC, there are hundreds of interesting Pattern brushes that you can choose from when creating your own projects, from grass to cityscapes. This excerpt shows you how to apply an existing Pattern brush to a path.

Using Photoshop Actions to Make a Flipbook: Aug 23, 2010; xtine burrough, coauthor of Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite, interprets the Photoshop Actions panel as a metaphor for artificial intelligence, comparing Photoshop tasks that can be automated with tasks mandating human collaboration. The final result is a template for making a flipbook.

Using Photoshop CC and ACR’s Powerful Tone Mapping and Color Correction Tools to Create 32-Bit HDR Photos: Aug 14, 2013; Over the past few years, Adobe has provided Photoshop users with variations on an HDR workflow for photographers, but the options for precisely mapping tones and colors (especially) were somewhat limited. Today, using Photoshop CC, Photoshop and Lightroom educator Dan Moughamian shows how you can open a merged, 32-bit image into a brand-new (but very familiar) environment, to create those HDR photos.

Using Photoshop to Create Art for a Mobile Game: Sep 30, 2014; In this chapter from Photoshop for Games: Creating Art for Console, Mobile, and Social Games, you will examine the process of making a mobile game. Mobile and social games are closely related in content size, and somewhat in style, but they have each evolved into their own separate spaces.

Using Project Windows in QuarkXpress 8: Mar 12, 2009; In this chapter you’ll learn about the QuarkXPress interface, including the main project window, the primary palettes, navigation and viewing options, and other interface-related features.

Using Qualitative Research to Inform a Customer-Centric Design: Apr 23, 2014; This chapter from Refining Design for Business: Using analytics, marketing, and technology to inform customer-centric design discusses several types of qualitative research and shows how they can be used to generate test ideas while providing insights that will help guide the business in an evolving marketplace.