Sharon Steuer

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Using NeatImage to Remove Noise in Digital Photos

Noise artifacts are an all-too-common side effect of shooting photos in low-light and other challenging situations. If your images are plagued with noise, you may want to check out the NeatImage Photoshop filter for removing noise. Sharon Steuer did. Here's what she found.

The 2004 Creativepro.com Gift Guide

Here it is: our third gift guide for creative people. We asked our regular contributors what they'd like to give -- or receive -- for the holidays this year. Their answers may surprise you.

Illustrator How-To: Creating Transparent Color with Custom Brushes

Use Adobe Illustrator's custom calligraphic brushes to apply paint with soft edges then build up areas of transparent color with nested sublayers. Sharon Steuer shows how.

Illustrator How-To: Understanding the Zen of the Pen

Illustrator can be a maddening program to learn, and even those who have mastered the application may struggle with it at times. What's required is entering what author Sharon Steuer calls the "Zen of Illustrator" in which working with Beziers and control points becomes second nature.

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Using Layer Comps to Create Variations

Layers in Photoshop let you work with different image elements. Layer Comps in Photoshop CS, on the other hand, let you experiment with different compositions. Sharon Steuer shows how this powerful tool can unleash your creativity.

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: More Improvising with Layers

While there are many formulas for achieving great results in Photoshop, often the best images appear when you're just playing around. In this ongoing series about how to experiment in Photoshop, Sharon Steuer shows how to create art out of an unpromising photo.

Creative Gifts for Creative People: The 2003 Holiday Gift Guide

Looking for imaginative gift ideas for the creative professional on your list? Creativepro.com's editors are here to help, with creative suggestions for all.

Adobe Creative Suite: An All-Star Line-up

The new Adobe Creative Suite integrates Adobe's graphics applications into a workflow that addresses the needs of nearly every creative professional, from inspiration through execution, from print to Web. Here's a quick look at Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive from creativepro.com's own all-star line up of experts. Plus, a PDF analysis and a Version Cue preview.

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Improvising with Layers

It happens all the time: You like everything about the image except the way it looks, due to under- or over-exposure, bad color, or a million other things than can go wrong when taking a photo. Don't' despair: Photoshop layers can help you make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Sharon Steuer shows how.

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Stitching Seamless Panoramas without Photoshop

With panoramic images becoming more popular, there must be a simpler way to stitch single images together into a seamless panorama than aligning them by hand -- and by eye -- in Photoshop. Sharon Steuer compares four different applications for creating composite panoramas.

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Compositing an Imaginary Place

In our mind's eye we visualize scenes, rooms, and places, but translating them into art takes skill -- and Photoshop. Here's how to composite multiple images into a single scene that matches your imagination.

2002: The Creative Year in Review

What kind of year was 2002 for creative professionals? The staff and contributors of creativepro.com reflect on the year that's been and the year that's about to be.

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Problem Solving Using Layers

Ask any Photoshop guru what's the best way to do something and you'll get a different answer. The trick is developing techniques that let you trust your intuition -- and that includes changing your mind. Sharon Steuer shows how you can stay flexible using layers.

The Creativepro.com Holiday Gift Guide

In our first-ever gift guide, creativepro.com's editors and contributors let you in on the gifts they'll be giving - and hope to be receiving -- this holiday season. From software to hardware, from gadgets to books, we've got just what you want.

Illustrator Tips: Organizing Colors and Palettes

Mixing up colors in Illustrator is lots of fun -- that is, until you spend precious time digging through swatches to find just the right variation of the color you specc'd much earlier in the project. In this story learn how an Illustrator pro organizes her colors and creates custom color charts.

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Art from the Ashes

As an artist I'm keenly aware that we rarely create by simply following a linear string of instructions. Therefore, Creative Thinking will focus more on concepts for being creative and on ways of working -- from digital brainstorming, improvising, and experimenting to integrating digital and traditional tools.