| 101. | - Discovering Creative Suite 5.5: Key New Features for Video Editors
- Aug 1, 2011
- Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 is not a major release, but it still packs a lot of punch, especially for video editors. Maxim Jago, author of Video Production with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and After Effects CS5.5: Learn by Video, picks out the key features that mean the most for editors switching from CS5 to CS5.5, highlighting those that reduce the brain strain.
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| 102. | - Merging Image Exposures in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- May 9, 2011
- Want to give your photos more "oomph"? Adobe Certified Instructor Rafael Concepcion demonstrates a speedy technique for adjusting the exposure of certain parts of an image, making it more powerful.
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| 103. | - An Introduction to 3D in Flash
- Apr 13, 2011
- One of the main reasons that the Flash platform has remained as popular as it has for so long is that Flash has continuously evolved to meet the demands of its audience. In the first of a series of articles on using 3D in Flash applications, Chris Florio, contributor to ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book, shows how to use 3D features (and limitations) that currently exist in Flash Professional CS5 and in Flash Player 10 using both the Flash interface and ActionScript.
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| 104. | - 32-bit Imaging with HDR Toning in Photoshop CS5
- Feb 28, 2011
- High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography has been a hot topic lately, with debates ongoing as to how useful a process HDR is for serious photographers. Count Dan Moughamian, author of Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6, among those who believe HDR can be a very useful process for photographers, provided they understand its real purpose.
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| 105. | - Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium How-Tos: Working with Illustrator
- Feb 16, 2011
- Whatever task you throw at Illustrator, or whatever your particular artwork needs are, there are a multitude of features that help you explore creatively, work efficiently, and publish reliably.
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| 106. | - Using the Brush Tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Feb 9, 2011
- Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, creates custom brushes in Illustrator for all sorts of purposes. Follow along with Brian's tutorials and videos, and soon you'll be equally addicted to creating custom brushes for your own Brushes panel.
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| 107. | - Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: Creating Text on a Path
- Jan 19, 2011
- Dan Moughamian shows you how to create text that follows along a contour in one of your photos.
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| 108. | - Fun with Puppet Warp in Photoshop CS5
- Jan 14, 2011
- One of the more entertaining (and powerful) new features in Photoshop CS5 is the Puppet Warp command. This feature provides the ability to apply a warping mesh to any selected object in your scene, and then bend and twist that object around in different ways. Dan Moughamian, author of Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6, shows you how to combine both Puppet Warp and the new Content-Aware Fill command to apply a snowman effect to a lighthouse.
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| 109. | - Review Your InDesign Document with Others Using CS Review
- Dec 31, 2010
- Learn how to utilize Adobe CS Review, a free online service that enables you to start reviews from Creative Suite software. Author Brian Wood shows you how to share reviews with others, get feedback, and make changes within a program such as Adobe InDesign.
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| 110. | - Adobe Digital Imaging How-to #57: Using the HUD Color Pickers in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 16, 2010
- Photoshop CS5 has two new HUD (or Heads Up Display) color pickers that enable you to choose colors on the fly, rather than having to visually target and click on the small color wells in the Tools panel.
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| 111. | - Pen Tool Mastery in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Dec 16, 2010
- Have you been ignoring Illustrator's Pen tool? Brian Wood wasn't crazy about working with the Pen tool, but after a bit of experimentation he has come to rely on it. Tune in here to learn some of Brian's best Pen tool techniques.
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| 112. | - Animating a 3D Layer in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 15, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to animate a 3D postcard.
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| 113. | - Creating a Web Gallery in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 15, 2010
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This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to showcase your images in an online gallery, so that visitors can view individual images or a slide show of your work.
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| 114. | - Creating Slices in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 15, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to create slices, turn them into buttons, and then program those buttons to make the web page work.
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| 115. | - Introduction to Flash Animation in InDesign CS5
- Dec 15, 2010
- Who says you need to work with Adobe Flash to create Flash content? Adobe InDesign CS5 adds a load of new features and panels that enable you to add interactivity to your documents. From motion, buttons, video, and more, Brian Wood shows how you can turn your InDesign documents into multimedia extravaganzas!
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| 116. | - Resolution and Image Size in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 15, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book discusses the differences between image resolution, monitor resolution, and output resolution.
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| 117. | - Creating a 3D Shape from a Layer in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 14, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to create a 3D hat using a layer that contains the image of a brick wall.
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| 118. | - Manipulating 3D Objects in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 14, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use several basic tools that make it easy to rotate, resize, and position 3D objects.
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| 119. | - Using Repoussé to Create 3D Text in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 14, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the Repoussé command to convert 2D objects into 3D meshes, precisely extruding, inflating, and repositioning them.
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| 120. | - Automating a Multistep Task in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 13, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use actions to color match, sharpen, and save the images you’ll combine in a panorama.
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