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How to Put Your Child in Their Favorite Show Using Adobe Photoshop

By alanmd23

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Today's children have been born into the technology world. They are growing up with TVs, computers, video games and a lot of other electronics. It is becoming harder to impress them with technology tricks, but one easy way to do it is by putting ... more »

How to Quickly Enhance Eyes in a Photo Using Photoshop

By Tom Morgan

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This effect can be achieved using any Adobe Photoshop Program. This article is geared to Photoshop 7, so the menu names may differ depending on the version used... more »

How to Remove a Tattoo From a Photo Using Photoshop

By eHow Computers Editor

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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 world. Adding or removing tattoos with this program ... more »

How to remove moire patterns from magazine scans using Photoshop.

By OceansideDesign

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Moiré patterns are often an undesired artifact of images produced by various digital imaging and computer graphics techniques, for example when scanning a halftone picture or ray tracing a checkered plane. This cause of moiré is a ... more »

How to Research Earth

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Earth is the only planet in the solar system known to harbor life. Our planet's extensive magnetic field and atmosphere shields us from nearly all of the harmful radiation coming from the Sun. The following steps will aid in your search for a ... more »

How to Resize Columns in PageMaker Documents

By eHow Computers Editor

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You can change the size (width) of columns in PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 documents to adjust your page layout... more »

How to Rotate a Page in Adobe Acrobat

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When you are viewing a PDF in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, you may find that you want to view the page in a rotated manner, such as on its side or even upside down. Using the “View” menu, you can easily rotate an Acrobat document clockwise or ... more »

How to Save a Macintosh Document in PDF (Acrobat) Format

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PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It's a format that's viewable across multiple platforms - which means that your document's correct layout and fonts can be seen even by a recipient who doesn't have the program you used to create the ... more »

How to Scale a Photo With InDesign

By eHow Computers Editor

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Resizing a photo using a desktop publishing program is not as simple as clicking on the photo and dragging the frame. The photo will become distorted. The subjects in the photo will look unnaturally thin or it will cause them to look plump. You ... more »

How to Search PDF (Acrobat) Documents

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Many people use Portable Document Format (PDF) files for longer documents - you might even find a whole software-application manual as a PDF, and tax instructions are available this way as well. For these files, using the search function is key... more »

How to Secure a PDF from Printing and Editing Using Adobe's InDesign

By Fiona Cameron

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You designed a confidential report that you will convert to PDF. During circulation, it is important that recipients do not print or edit the report in PDF editing applications. You also want to restrict who can view the report. Follow this ... more »

How to Select All the Text in a PDF Document

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A Portable Document Format (PDF) may contain text, images and hyperlinks. Although it’s web accessible, it displays text and characters exactly as intended. For this reason, it’s the number one choice for most business and personal use... more »

How to Select by Color in Adobe Photoshop

By IsabelleKay

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Have you ever wanted to select by color in Adobe Photoshop? You could use Magic Wand tool, but sometimes that isn't very precise. Luckily, there's a better way: using the Select by Color Range command... more »

How to Separate an Image From Its Background in Photoshop

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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 suggestions to begin altering your photos... more »

How to Set Hyphenation Rules in PageMaker

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PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 allow you to set hyphenation rules for your document, including where to break words, when to hyphenate and so on. You can also specify how many lines in a row can end with a hyphenated word - especially helpful for the ... more »

How to Set Indents in PageMaker

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Both PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 provide different indent formats that you can use in your PageMaker documents. You can also use a hanging indent, in which the first line of a paragraph extends into the left margin, "hanging" out over the rest of the ... more »

How to Set Spelling Preferences in Acrobat

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You can change your spelling preferences in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional to change dictionaries, turn on or off spell check during typing and choose the underline color to flag misspelled words. Follow the steps below to set the spelling ... more »

How to Set Tabs in InDesign

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You can create tabs with Adobe InDesign to indent paragraphs or to help organize text within columns. You can also create hanging indents or use leaders. You should learn how to manipulate tab settings to improve the look of your documents... more »

How to Set Text Alignment in PageMaker Documents

By eHow Computers Editor

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You can choose from among five text-alignment formats in PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5. .. more »

How to Set the Opening View of a PDF File

By eHow Computers Editor

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PDF files are handy because they present documents in a clear, easy-to-use format that's accessible on a variety of operating systems. Occasionally, the opening view of a document's zoomed in too far or doesn't show the number of pages you'd ... more »

How to Show or Hide PageMaker Palettes

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PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 provide several palettes to customize and format your documents. If they clutter the screen too much, you can close them and open them at will... more »

How to Straighten the Horizon in Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3

By IsabelleKay

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You may take a pretty good photo, only to get home and realize that the horizon is not as straight as it should be. Luckily, an angled horizon can easily be fixed in Adobe Photoshop... more »

How to Style Text With HTML

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HTML, or Hypertext Mark-up Language, has been around for years and is the basis for most web programming. Although other languages are being added to supplement, and in some cases take over, HTML is the basic tool for web page design. One ... more »

How to Turn Off the Office Task Pane at Startup

By triciagoss

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The Task Pane in Microsoft Office can offer lots of helpful advice and assistance. But perhaps you don’t want it to show up every time you open Word. Here are some easy steps to show you how to turn off the Task Pane at startup... more »

How to Turn Photos into Funky Art using Photoshop

By dianesteinbach

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Creating beautiful artwork is no longer just a feat for the talented and skilled artisans working in oil or watercolor paints. Now, the average computer geek can create stunning artwork out of personal photographs that will leave the viewers ... more »

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