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Sidewalk Serendipity
How-Tos: Written by Mason Resnick on May 19, 2008
Street photography hones your vision, improves your technical skills, and heightens your reflexes. Plus, it's free and legal!
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.