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How to Adjust Opacity in Adobe Photoshop

By Richard Burke

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Opacity is the amount of transparency that exists in an image. If an image has 100% opacity it is not transparent at all. As you decrease the amount of opacity it becomes more transparent. You may want to lighten an image so you can add text ... more »

How to Change Image Perspective With GIMP Freeware

By Richard Burke

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GIMP is a powerful image editing program that can be downloaded for free (see Resources below). In this article we will show you how to use the software to change the perspective of an image. Perspective is the way in which objects appear to the ... more »

How to Change Text Color in PageMaker

By eHow Computers Editor

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Change the text color in your Adobe PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 documents to make specific words stand out. Make sure that your output device can print color!.. more »

How to Change the Color of Text Using Adobe's InDesign

By Fiona Cameron

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You are designing a print advertisement and want to change the color effect of text within the document. Follow this process to change the text color... more »

How to Create a Catalog Merge in Publisher

By triciagoss

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You may have created mail merges in Microsoft Word. But did you know you can use what is called a Catalog Merge in Microsoft Publisher? This feature is helpful if you want to send out a mailing of a newsletter, brochure, catalog, or other ... more »

How to Create a Depth Merge Image With GIMP Freeware

By Richard Burke

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GIMP is a powerful image editing program available for free at gimp.org. In this article we will show you how to use the software to merge two photographs together using the Depth Merge Filter feature of the software. There are a variety of ways ... more »

How to Create a Successful Blog

By The Creature

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Want to be at the forefront of the citizen journalism movement? Choose the right topic, develop an audience and market your content to establish a well-trafficked, and potentially lucrative blog... more »

How to Create Clouds in Photoshop

By ZagDesigns

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In this article I will show you how to create clouds in Photoshop CS using the render function within the program... more »

How to Create New Styles in Microsoft Word

By eHow Computers Editor

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You can easily create new styles for your documents in Microsoft Word 97 and Word 2000 (for PC) and Word 98 (for Macintosh) to give your documents distinctive looks and make them easier to read. Using styles makes it much easier to format your ... more »

How to Crop and Resize a Photo with Nero 8

By MrCHUCK mrchuck999.blogspot.com

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One of the many modules in Nero 8 is a tool anyone can use and make good use of. Its Photo-Snap! Photo-snap is a full featured yet easy-to-use photo editor. Photo-snap can take out red-eye, adjust color, contrast, brightness, and more. But in ... more »

How to Crop Graphics in Microsoft Publisher

By eHow Computers Editor

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If you have inserted a graphic into Microsoft Publisher, you may find that you want to use only a portion of that graphic for your Publisher project. You can easily cut out a portion of your graphic by using Publisher's crop tool. The steps below ... more »

How to Crop Images Using the Selection Tool in Adobe InDesign

By Fiona Cameron

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If you are working with an image that depicts two people walking on a busy city street and you want the image to focus on the people in the picture without the background distractions the Selection Tool in Adobe InDesign is an easy fix... more »

How to Edit Photos With Vista or XP

By MrCHUCK mrchuck999.blogspot.com

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The latest version of XP and Windows Vista contains an integrated photo editor. Learn how to use this tool with ease... more »

How to ENJOY eHOW

By kjv4thee

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In order to get the most enjoyment out of eHow, you need to put the most into it. Start off slowly if you wish, but determine that you are going to do your first eHow article about something that you know how to do. Start off with something ... more »

How to get camtasia free

By charpmike35

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Camtasia is a program that records screen shots. It costs 299 dollars but i'm going to show you how to get it free... more »

How to Live the Pirates Life - Get Anything, Anytime, Anywhere...

By TheStorm

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ARRRR!!!! Pirate to Pirate, you can get almost anything for free. Music, movies, games, software, et cetera... more »

How to Make a Free Valentine's Day E-Card

By Richard Burke

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Yes, it’s that time again, Valentine’s Day. If you are like me you forget about this holiday until the very last minute and then scramble to find the right “belated” card. Fortunately, there is FreeCard, an easy to use software utility from PCWW ... more »

How to Make a Table With HTML

By eHow Computers Editor

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Tables can let you view an array of data in HTML. The table tags are designed to make groups of information look better and to allow users to get borders around lists. A table in HTML is created by using several tags in the right order... more »

How to Make Image Adjustments in Adobe Premier Elements

By Richard Burke

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Adobe Premier Elements gives you the control to adjust hue, contrast and brightness for each video clip in your movie. You can lighten a dark scene or increase the overall color of a scene. You will see your scenes previewed in the monitor as ... more »

How to Make Original Images Using Fractals

By Richard Burke

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Adobe Photoshop is one of the world’s most popular software programs, but it is expensive and not affordable for the casual digital photographer. GIMP is a powerful image editing program available for free at gimp.org (see link below). GIMP has a ... more »

How to Make Thumbnails of Photos for a Website

By Richard Burke

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It is not that difficult to make thumbnail size images using your image editing program like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. However, you need to open each image separately, open the scaling menu, select the parameters and save the scaled image. This is ... more »

How to Make Word 2007 Save to Word 2003 Format

By webzarus

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Are you one of the fortunate few that has word 2007 installed? Then you have more than likely been told by others that don't yet have it, that they cannot open it. There was a compatibility update available, but many were not aware. Nor did ... more »

How to Save a Photoshop Image to an Alternative File Format

By Richard Burke

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When you SAVE an Adobe Photoshop image it is by default saved as a PSD file. This is the native file format of Photoshop. You may want to save the image in an alternative file format. You may want to choose TIFF if you are printing the file or ... more »

How to Set the Shadow Value in Adobe Photoshop

By Richard Burke

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When adjusting a digital image, before correcting color and after setting the highlight value it is very important to locate and set the shadow value. Failure to locate the correct shadow may cause the image to appear muddy and shorten dynamic range... more »

How to Take Screenshots Using Grab in Mac OS X

By Alexia Petrakos

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Since OS 7.6, Apple has included the ability to capture on-screen images with a series of keyboard shortcuts. With the release of Apple's Mac OS X, Apple included Grab, a software application that enables users to do the same thing as the ... more »

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