Get the Best Web Images Out of Photoshop

If you take a look at Photoshop's File menu you'll see a command, about midway down, called "Save for Web & Devices." It's actually two commands. There's the "& Devices" part, which lets you save an image for display on virtually every cell phone except the iPhone. No offense, but if I had to rank this feature, I doubt it'd make my Top 10,000.read more

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Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes (or Just Take Ours)

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

Make Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign Get Along

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.

Turn a Photo Into a Drawing in Photoshop

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

Test and Fix Web Browser Compatibility Issues Inside Dreamweaver

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

Fractional Improvements

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