Five Lightroom 2 How-Tos

How-Tos: Written by Jeremy Schultz on November 13, 2008

New tools in Lightroom 2 make it easy to mimic graduated filters; brush in broad and fine adjustments; customize picture packages; create Collections; and even give a photo a watercolor look.

Easy Video Editing in Photoshop. Yes, Photoshop.

How-Tos: Written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion on November 5, 2008

No need for a dedicated video application. You can apply adjustment layers and filters to video without leaving Photoshop Extended CS3 or CS4.

HerGeekness Says: Convert Any File Part II

How-Tos: Written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion on August 18, 2008

In case of file-conversion emergency, start with a PDF!

QuarkXPress Tips: Graphically Speaking

How-Tos: Written by Jay J. Nelson on July 7, 2008

Good design does not live by text alone. To master QuarkXPress, add these image-oriented tricks to your workflow.

InDesign Transparency: No Longer the Forbidden Fruit

How-Tos: Written by Mordy Golding Renee Dustman on April 28, 2008

With this advice, you can reap the rewards of transparency and never hear those dreaded words, "It won't print!"

Photoshop Smart Objects Mean Never Having to Say You're Sorry

How-Tos: Written by Andrew Shalat on November 9, 2007

How many times have you made an edit or applied a filter in Photoshop, only to realize later that your "improvement" destroyed pixels you needed? After you read this how-to, you'll never be in that pickle again.

Get Better Output with Photoshop's Automate and Scripts Menus

How-Tos: Written by Ben Long on October 31, 2007

Learn how to automatically output multiple copies of an image in different formats (resizing along the way); print one page with multiple versions of an image; and create diptychs and triptychs.

View Source: Create Advanced Online Galleries

How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on October 29, 2007

Do you need an online portfolio or just want to post photos from your kid's birthday party? The free Lightbox2 adds sophisticated JavaScript functionality you can customize. The best part? You don't have to do a lick of programming.

Lightroom How-To: Intelligent Importing

How-Tos: Written by Julieanne Kost on June 15, 2007

Lightroom helps you organize, edit, and output images. To get even more out of the app, try customizing the process from the very beginning -- when you import your shots.

Using Photoshop Lightroom, Part 3

How-Tos: Written by Ben Long on November 1, 2006

Now that you've selected and edited your images to a fare-thee-well, it's time to show them off. Here's how to print them, post them to the Internet, and produce slideshows.

Using Photoshop Lightroom, Part 2

How-Tos: Written by Ben Long on October 25, 2006

The editing and developing tools in Lightroom beta 4 share some similarities with Photoshop and Camera Raw, but there are significant differences. Here's how to get the most out of the new tools.

Using Photoshop Lightroom, Part 1

How-Tos: Written by Ben Long on October 18, 2006

Tips and strategies for using Adobe's free beta 4 of Lightroom to import and organize your photographs.

QuarkXPress 6 Tips: Communicating in a Workgroup

How-Tos: Written by Galen Gruman Barbara Assadi on April 28, 2004

No page layout program is an island. If you design pages, then you'll need to know how to communicate with your colleagues. Here's how to share page elements, projects, and files within in a QuarkXPress workgroup.

GoLive How-To: Managing Web Workflow and Tracking File Revisions

How-Tos: Written on September 6, 2002

PageMaker How-To: Merging Data Records into Layouts

How-Tos: Written on July 12, 2002

Delivering customized content is all the rage, but producing it can put you in a rage. You don't have to spend all your time cutting and pasting names into fields nor do you have to spend a lot of money on a high-end atabase publishing solution whe you can do it in PageMaker 7. This week, Adobe's PageMaker team shows you how to merge data with a publication.