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Being able to electronically create and alter photographs and images appears to be almost a magical feat. Photoshop has become the industry standard for image editing, and its near-infinite wealth...

How do you remove facial hair with Photoshop? Graphic artists have long used Photoshop for retouching photographs. Many models appear to have flawless features because a designer with some time, a...

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...

Photoshop is the industry standard used for photo editing on the computer. Although there are other digital editing programs, Photoshop's breadth and superior functionality allows it to do more...

Being that modern graphic designs (especially Web designs) tend to have a sleek, rounded look, you are bound to need an arch shape of some kind to use and manipulate in your Photoshop program....

Fliers can attract people to events, get them excited about them, make them want to come and see what it's all about. The more professional a flier looks, the more people will be attracted to it....

A one-page flier can be a quick runoff, or it can be designed to look professional. Using Photoshop, you can do either. The better looking the flier is, the more it will get noticed. Photoshop...

I write a lot about software products and how to use them. To help make the articles more effective I always use screen capture images and add text and arrows to give the reader a visual idea of...

The Clipping Tool is a program hidden away in most Windows operating systems. Windows Vista provides a program along the same lines as the usual clipping tool, but is referred to as the "Snipping...

Adobe InDesign is a very sophisticated page layout and publishing software package, and one of the most basic skills required to use InDesign is laying out type in an attractive and professional...

If you're working in Adobe InDesign, the "Direct Selection" tool (white arrow) is necessary to make adjustments to graphics and other content within frames.

Creating your own stencils has a myriad of uses for both business and pleasure. From humorous birthday cards to professional posters, Adobe Photoshop is the tool that both professionals and...

If you're working in Adobe InDesign, the "Selection" tool (black arrow) is a necessary tool to select and manipulate elements on the page.

You can use Adobe Photoshop for a simple task, such as taking red eye out of a photo, or a larger scale project, like making a photo collage. Photoshop allows you to not only enhance photographs,...

Adobe Photoshop is a great program that can be used for many things like school projects, personal projects, or just plain fun. One great tool that can be found in Adobe Photoshop is the gradient...

Dark art is a beautiful example of free expression, creativity and emotion. It's also a handy skill to have around Halloween. With Adobe Photoshop, you can let your imagination run rampant with...

Adding a vector effect to photographs in Adobe Photoshop gives your images a retro-cartoon look. The effect takes a little bit of time and effort, but the final result is a uniquely-manipulated...

Adobe Photoshop is one of the most creative and powerful image manipulation applications in use today. It's commonly used to separate a portion of an image from its background. Use the following...

Did you know that Adobe Illustrator has the ability to lightly "morph" one shape into another? You can use the blend tool to combine different shapes, fills and colors, and let Illustrator figure...

Ask any new user what the toughest part of using Adobe Illustrator is, and they will most certainly say "managing paths." Because paths are so important to the Illustrator experience, the program...

Many new users get confused by how many ways Illustrator offers to manage paths. This guide will get you started using the knife tool, which is kind of like a "magic lasso" that lets you cut paths.

One of the many advantages to using Adobe Illustrator is that the program gives you an enormous art board to draw on. Keeping track of small elements of your drawing can be tough in such a large...

When you go to print a document from Adobe Illustrator, only artwork inside the green bounding box will print by default. You can manipulate where you page starts and stops, however, by...

Fonts are cool, but sometimes you want to edit them directly as objects. Luckily Adobe Illustrator lets you take a font and make it into an editable object. This guide will get you started.

Adobe Photoshop is a remarkable tool for designers and photo experts alike. This software allows for the creation and manipulation of photographic content like no other application in the design...

You have become pretty comfortable with Adobe Photoshop, and now you want to try something in Adobe Illustrator. A lot of the tools look the same, but you go to select some pixels with the lasso...

Are you trying to create a clock or other circular diagram in Adobe Illustrator? You could make all of the lines and borders by hand, but luckily Illustrator has a built in shortcut--the polar...

I hate math. When I have to rotate an object in Adobe Illustrator, I never know the angle of rotation I'll want offhand. Trying to use the object/transform/rotate dialog box just gets me...

One of the great features of Adobe Illustrator is that you can create images and stretch them huge without losing resolution. But how do you actually change an object's size without having to type...

You might be familiar with the idea of the eyedropper tool from using Photoshop, where you can use it to sample a color to use in other parts of your image. Illustrator's eyedropper tool is even...

Have you ever been creating a form or drawing in Adobe Illustrator and wondered exactly how far away objects are from each other? You might be tempted to print your file and get out the tape...

Most computers come with Microsoft Paint, a program you can use to draw on your computer. If you can use pen and paper to draw a woman, you can use simple tools available in MS Paint to draw a...

Microsoft Paint is a simple painting program that comes with Windows. You can use this program to draw and color an image that you can print, use in another application or simply enjoy on your...

Microsoft Paint is a computer program you can use to draw simple and complicated objects. Drawing a car in MS Paint, for example, may seem very difficult, but once you master using the curve line...

You can easily draw a cartoon chicken using Microsoft Paint. All you need is the computer program and a little time for trial and error. If you don't have time for experimenting with your cartoon,...

You can add a border to any frame with Adobe InDesign whether it is created with the Text tool or the Rectangle tool. The border of the frames can be invisible or colored. You can also change the...

Adobe Photoshop has lots of handy tools that people don't even realize are there. One of my favorites is the sponge tool. The sponge tool lets you "paint" with saturation. This means that you can...

Sometimes you might have the perfect picture, if only some of the tones were lighter in one key area. Luckily, Adobe Photoshop has a simple tool to help you correct this issue: the dodge tool!

Would darkening the tones in one small area improve your photo? Luckily, Adobe Photoshop has a simple tool to help you correct this issue: the burn tool!

The clone tool, sometimes known as the "Rubber Stamp" tool allows the Photoshop user to select a part of the image and then paint with that selection. The selection can be painted into...

Adobe PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh allow you to enter text in PageMaker documents. Text entry is not as easy as it is in various word processing applications, but it's not very...

QuarkXPress provides a way for you to create and resize picture boxes for your QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.0 documents for Macintosh. You may need to adjust picture box sizes as you adjust your...

QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 for Macintosh make it easy to create a text box in any Quark document. Drawing a text box gives control in positioning the document's text. Windows instructions may vary...

When you need a line in QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 for Macintosh, you can easily insert one, size it and add color to meet your document needs. Windows instructions may vary slightly.

PDFs can be viewed either after downloading to hard disk, or over the Web. With an Internet connection, you can make a document even richer by embedding Web links in your PDF. To create PDFs...