Graphics

Last-Second Valentine Gifts

Creative professionals are often expected to come up with thoughtful, unusual, handmade, heartfelt gifts for their valentines. Hopefully you've been too busy with work for all that. These last-second gifts may save your reputation.

Facebook Gives Photographers Better Viewing Experience

New Facebook lightbox feature offers alternative to Google+ and Flickr.

Construct a Color Wheel in Photoshop

The color wheel is a simple yet powerful tool for understanding how colors work and how colors relate to each other. It can also be a gorgeous graphic you can use in print and Web design projects.

Scanning Around With Gene: Best in the West Graphics, 1970

When advertising people judge their own, the results are always interesting. The 27th Annual Portfolio of the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles, published in 1970, revealed four trends of the time.

Kodak Tosses Digital Cameras in the Dustbin

Legendary camera company decides to focus on online and retail imaging service.

The Best App for Managing Digital Assets

Most designers and photographers rely on Photoshop. But to save ourselves from drowning in an ocean of digital assets, we also need an app dedicated to managing those assets. If you want to stay in an Adobe workflow, that means either Lightroom or Bridge. Which one is right for you?

Cutting-Edge Conference for Print and Digital Publishing

Whether you're looking for the latest tips on publishing to tablets and ebooks, want details on the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 6, or just need tips to optimize your print workflow, PEPCON is the place. The conference takes place in San Francisco on May 14-16.

Create Picture Frames in Photoshop: Part 2

In Part 1 of this tutorial, you learned how to create a picture frame, fill it with a photo, and change the perspective so the framed photo faces right or left. Now discover how to apply all those steps to any photo with one simple click. The secret? Automation courtesy of Photoshop's Actions and Droplets.

Create Picture Frames in Photoshop: Part 1

Using Photoshop, you can create a silver, gold, or wood-grain picture frame, fill it with a photo, and transform both frame and photo so that they're skewed in different perspectives. The realistic results are easier to achieve than you might think!

Download 3D Apps for Free

Digital Art Zone is giving away DAZ Studio 4 Pro, Bryce 7 Pro, Hexagon 2.5, and the 3D Photoshop Bridge from now until February 29, 2012.

Best of the Blogs: Old School and New Skills

Don't have time to keep up with design and photography blogs? Keep calm and read on. In this blog round-up you'll find the most popular fonts of 2011, an amazing type book from 1912, a Herb Lubalin video from the 1980s, and a Photoshop cooking demonstration from 2007. Plus, there are plenty of Photoshop how-tos, digital photography tips, and design ideas.

Take a Peek at Photoshop's Near Future

Photoshop's senior product manager, Bryan O'Neil Hughes, gives you a glimpse into Photoshop CS6 in this sneak peek video.

Scanning Around With Gene: Colorful Produce Crate Labels

For almost 70 years, fruit and vegetable growers used colorful labels to distinguish their brands and show off their point of origin.

J.C. Penney Logo Changes Again

Less than a year after a major logo redesign, the retail giant J.C. Penney takes another step toward blah.

Creativeprose: Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive

Because we all need a little weirdness in our lives.

Exposure 4 from Alien Skin Is Faster, Easier

The upcoming version of this Photoshop plug-in that simulates the look of traditional film has been revved up and redesigned. It will be available for sale next month.

Get Rid of Red Eye

In this one-minute video, you'll learn how to remove red eye from any photo using a hidden tool in Adobe Photoshop.

Create iPhone Cinemagraphs

Kinotopic is an iPhone app that helps you make the popular animated GIFs called cinemagraphs out of video filmed on your phone.

Free For All: Stock Photos, Social Media Profiles, and Calendar Templates

It’s 2012, the year the world is supposed to end. Let’s mark the occasion with fiery explosions, templates for Twitter and Facebook profiles, and - for the more optimistic among you - calendar templates.

Corel's AfterShot Pro Seeks to Lure Lightroom and Aperture Users

If you're looking for an alternative to photo management and non-destructive editing that products such as Adobe's Lightroom offer. The software, available for Mac and Linux as well as Windows, will cost $99 or $79 for existing Bibble 5, PaintShop Pro X2, Lightroom or Aperture customers.