Desktop Publishing

Even the books you write exist only in electronic form, it is extremely helpful--and in some instances necessary--to have an image that represents a book cover for the work. You can do the job...

Party cards, more commonly called flyers, are an important part of the promotion of a club or similar event. They must be colorful and informative. An effective club flyer will get the viewer...

You might need to change a screen shot from your Flash movie to PDF in order to email it or use it as a part of a larger PDF document. However, you cannot simply right-click a Flash image and save...

Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard for creating graphics, is a powerful tool that will allow you to create interesting images. Once you have finished manipulating your creations with...

A printout card is a simple card with perforated lines that can be printed on a basic home ink jet printer on standard 8.5 by 11 inch paper and folded to be given to someone to commemorate a...

Copying and pasting are two of the oldest functions still in use on computers today. Knowing these two operations can save you time and make you more productive and more efficient while using the...

Editing digital images with Adobe Photoshop can be a fun and simple process, depending on what kind of work you are doing. The versatility of this amazing software program allows you to produce...

When publishing a newspaper, you want a logo for your newspaper that has a good balance of artistic merit and professional presentation. Newspaper logos tend to rely primarily on the name of the...

Adobe bought PageMaker, the original desktop publishing (DTP) software application, from Aldus, then phased it out in favor of its own InDesign. PageMaker 7 is the last in the long line of...

Inverting the colors in your favorite digital photos and images is a useful technique for making crafts, or it can be fun way to update your avatar on social websites. You don't need any...

This article will give an overview of some common methods of creating screenshots on your computer using both built-in and third party software packages.

How to Create a Rectangular or Elliptical Vignette Using Photoshop is a moderately easy step by step guide for creating that perfect touch to any photo or image. Use this special effect in...

This is a very easy step by step guide to making a photo or image as a ghosted background. Once this is completed you can add photos or images such as creating a collage. See How To Create A...

How to Create a Faux Watermark Using Photoshop is a very easy step by step guide to add a watermark to any photo or image.

This article will walk you step by step through the process of applying a deckle edge to an image using Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 was another step in the evolution of the little brother to Photoshop. As Elements has grown up, it has added more features that, to the average person, make it...

It can be difficult to learn Photoshop Elements 3.0 if you have never had experience with Photoshop before. Photoshop Elements 3.0 is a lighter version of Photoshop but incorporates many of the...

Paint Shop Pro allows you to create high-quality graphics and digital photos for multimedia, presentations or the web. You can enhance photos by removing imperfections; adjusting colors, contrast...

This is a step by step guide on Sysprepping (and yes, I have made sysprepping a verb now) a Windows 7 machine from start to finish. This will guide you through building the unattended XML file,...

So your writing your first eHow article, but you don't know how to generate the pictures for the article. It's easy..do a screen capture!

Adobe Photoshop is not just a powerful image-editing program, it's a design program as well. It works best for single-page items without large blocks of text such as business cards and flyers. One...

Open an EPS file by using this step by step guide. This article will walk you through some steps on how to open an EPS file.

This guide will walk you through installing cutePDF, a free program that will allow you to make PDF's out of anything you could normally print. CutePDF does not add any watermark to your documents...

Photoshop Elements is a useful program that allows users to edit and manipulate photos and prepare them for printing or publishing on the web. Although the full Photoshop version might be a little...

This article will show you how easy it is to turn any Word document into any type of image file

One of the advantages of having Photoshop CS3 available for the Mac, as well as the PC, is that the software works identically--regardless of which operating system is being used. This is...

Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows is essentially the same as using previous versions of Elements. One of the differences found in Elements 7 is that it comes along with the ability to...

Photoshop is a powerful and versatile tool of desktop publishing. Far more than a simple way of editing photographs, Photoshop makes professional graphic design possible through an intuitive...

Whether you're making a newsletter, magazine, brochure, business card, report, poster, or some other printed piece, when preparing a publication for printing by a professional print house it is...

Adobe InDesign Creative Suite 3, or CS3, is professional publishing software distributed by Adobe. InDesign can be used to create layouts for newspapers, newsletters, brochures, advertisements or...

This article will tell you how to simply convert just about any image file to a JPEG file. There really is no magic involved, this can be a very quick process. You can also use the same steps to...

Photoshop is Adobe's shining gem in its software lineup. Its popularity testifies to its versatile ability to cater to users of all experience levels; Photoshop is not just for advanced graphic...

Finding a new way to save money never hurts. Parties are expensive enough before you factor in the cost of buying and mailing invitations. Plain invitations are available in bulk for cheap, but...

DPI stands for "dots per inch" in Photoshop. It is the number of pixels that are squeezed into an inch of space on screen. It is also referred to as "image resolution" or "pixels per inch." The...

Adobe Photoshop is made by the same company that created Adobe PDFs, so there is an option to save your Photoshop file as a PDF file. However, when you're using this program, your PDFs are not...

Converting an Adobe PDF file (file extension .pdf) into a Microsoft PowerPoint (or PPT) presentation file (file extension .ppt) means manually making images of the PDF's pages and either manually...

Cutting and pasting in Photoshop can be a little different from cutting and pasting in other programs. While you can cut and paste in Photoshop in the same way that you cut and paste in other...

A screen capture is one of the easiest steps you can perform on your computer because it is literally done with the push of a button. All you need is the software to see and fix the image you have...

One of the nice things about the Photoshop Elements software is that the software works identically on a Windows operating system and Mac operating systems. This means that there is nothing that...

When you first start to learn Adobe Photoshop the software can seem confusing. Fear not! All you need is a few good tutorials to start turning ordinary images into works of photographic art. In...

Photoshop CS3 is one of the most desired types of photo editing software available. Not only does this program allow a person to alter a single image to make it more attractive, but it also allows...

JPEG stands for "Joint Photographic Experts Group." It is a color image storage format that was developed by this group to be used for online applications. The file is smaller in size, yet still...

Using Photoshop Elements in Windows Vista is the same as using Photoshop Elements with any other operating system. The way Photoshop Elements operates and functions does not change, regardless of...

Photoshop is the standard for graphic designers and many more people that work with images on computers. One job that photoshop is often used for is the creation of montages. While some steps may...

If you ever have a scan of a document or some other image file that you need to convert to PDF form, there are many methods you can use to convert the file. This method is free and easy. You don't...

You have some great WordArt in your PowerPoint, Word, or Excel file that you want to make even better. Perhaps you want to change the text or the color or font for the text. Or maybe you want it...

Photoshop is a multi-faceted software that allows users to do everything from editing photos to creating documents. If you want to make greeting cards in Photoshop, understand that although...

Making PDF copies of your print books can be a valuable, if time-consuming, process. The result will be a readable, portable replica of the book that you can access on any computer with the Adobe...

Although PDF documents are usually a finished product that completely embeds fonts and images, Adobe Acrobat Professional has extensive tools that allow you to directly edit and add new texts or...

The Print Screen function allows you to copy and paste a screenshot directly into a word processing, paint or other desktop publishing program. Most PCs are designed with a Print Screen key, above...