Why should we limit the fun in Adobe Photoshop to the digital world? You can combine old-school art with digital darkroom techniques to create Photoshop brushes for painting and masking. By painting on actual paper first, you'll create original Photoshop brushes that look more authentic than purely digital art. Then you'll vary size, angle, and hue of the brushes in Photoshop, and use them for painting and for masking parts of existing artwork.Step 1read more

This article is excerpted from the April/May 2010 issue of InDesign Magazine (#34). Subscribe to InDesign Magazine.Microsoft Word is the de facto standard word processor. That means that the majority of the text for our layouts arrives in the form of Word documents. Ugh!Still, with a little knowledge and a decent strategy, importing and styling copy from Word needn’t be arduous or tedious. I’ll show you how to be productive despite the software.

In this example of turning a photograph into a drawing, professional artist and Photoshop expert Bert Monroy shows you how to make a photograph look like a hand-drawn image on canvas. First, you'll open a portrait in Photoshop and turn the entire image into a pattern (Select > All, Edit > Define Pattern). You'll duplicate the image in a new layer, then apply the Find Edges filter (Filter > Stylize). read more

This video excerpt is from Bring Your Web Design to Life: Creating Rich Media Websites with Adobe Creative Suite. Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., and Peachpit Press.read more

By and large, fractions are a hassle to typeset, so work-arounds have become the norm. However, there are some occasions that demand fractions. Maybe we've gotten used to referring to business-sized paper as "8.5 by 11 inches," but a hat size of "6.875"? It just won't do.Fractions come in three basic forms, as shown here:read more

Step 1Create a new document. The dimensions don't really matter, but I started with a new document that's 470 pixels by 350 pixels, RGB, and 72 dpi. Fill it with White.Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Enter the settings below, then press OK.Step 2To begin to form the base for the wood grain, go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. Use the settings below and press OK.read more

This tutorial is courtesy of the Russell Brown Show.Photoshop CS5's Content-Aware Fill feature intelligently fills in an area with texture that matches the surrounding pixels. While Content-Aware Fill is an amazing retouching tool that just about any Photoshop user can benefit from, its defaults are more successful on some photos than others. (Don't have Photoshop CS5? Download the free trial.)read more

Google Docs helps us in managing online documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You can share your work online with your friends and colleagues or in your network thru email IDs. But if you want your document to be crawled by search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc because you feel that your document should be visible on SERP (Search Engine Result Pages) to benefit different people, then you can use the below mentioned option to do the same.