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Easy, Efficient Image Effects with Lightroom Presets
How-Tos: Written by Helen Bradley on August 25, 2011
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom presets can give you all kinds of images effects, from subtle to surreal, with one click. Learn how to make your own and where to download free presets online.
So You Think You Know Photoshop?
How-Tos: Written by Terri Stone on August 8, 2011
The new features in Photoshop CS5 have obscure--but handy--uses you probably haven't explored. Get the most out of your investment: Learn how to unearth these hidden gems.
Create Custom Photo Layouts in Lightroom 3
How-Tos: Written by Helen Bradley on June 9, 2011
Harness the new print options in Adobe Lightroom 3 for creating your own layouts, with customized background colors, borders, identity plates, watermarks, and more. Then output your photo layouts to print or to electronic files.
Histograms Are the Best Photography Tool You Already Own: Part 1
How-Tos: Written by Ben Long on May 9, 2011
Whether you're shooting photos or editing them in software, understanding the histogram will help you produce better images. Here's your guide to decoding the messages in this powerful tool.
Fix Mistakes In Photoshop
How-Tos: Written by Deke McClelland on April 5, 2010
There's no Undo in life, but there is in Photoshop. There's also Revert and the ever-useful History panel. All three, especially the History panel, can go a long way toward fixing anything you regret doing in Photoshop. Here's how to use their full powers.
Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress
How-Tos: Written by Jay J. Nelson on November 5, 2009
This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.
Creating Sharp Images: The Big Picture
How-Tos: Written by Conrad Chavez on June 18, 2009
To get sharper photos, you just apply the right sharpening settings in Photoshop and you’re done, right? Not quite. To create consistently sharp pictures, pay attention to important factors at every step of your photographic workflow -- especially steps that affect image contrast.
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.
Photoshop How-To: Protect Photos with Watermarks and Copyright Symbols
How-Tos: Written by Scott Kelby on February 1, 2006
The world is full of careless and downright unscrupulous people. That's why photographers need to safeguard their work before it leaves their computers. Scott Kelby tells you what you need to know.
