Photoshop Killer Tips: Simulating a Polarizing Filter for Skies
Bring the color back into you sky using this technique.
Photoshop Killer Tips: Snapping Layers to Each Other
Get your edges flush and correct with this option.
Photoshop Killer Tips: Using and Aligning Layers to a Guide
Use guides to layout your design elements.
Photoshop Killer Tips: Shape Burst Gradient Stroke
Learn how to create a shape burst gradient stroke
Photoshop Killer Tips: Adjust Layer Mask Opacity
Use output levels or the new Mask panel in Photoshop CS4 to control the density of your layer masks.
Photoshop Killer Tips: Open without Layers
If you want to take a quick look at your layered document without opening all of the layers, you can use this keyboard shortcut to take open the layered document as a single-layered image.
Photoshop Killer Tips: Turn Off Flick Panning
If you don't like the new flick panning feature inside of Photoshop CS4, you can access the options menu and turn it off.
Photoshop Killer Tips: Fill Shortcuts
Some quick ways to fill portions or an entire document with one solid color.
Textured Text Effects in Photoshop
Follow along with Corey as he creates text that appears to be made from this worn texture by using displacement maps, filters, and layer styles.
Type on a Path in Adobe Illustrator
Jeff Witchel demonstrates the options available in Illustrator when placing text onto a path.
InDesign Front and Back Pages Face to Face
Jeff Witchel explains a work around for situations where the front and back page of your document need to bleed across into one another.
Custom Art Brush in Illustrator
Take a paper drawing of a stroke. Scan the paper and import the image into Illustrator. Turn that image into a custom brush.
Diamond Plating Effect using Illustrator and Photoshop
Create this effect starting with a pattern and Illustrator and adding layer effects in Photoshop.
Working with Text in Flash, Part 2
In the second part of this tutorial, Tom Green gets some text moving using the new Bones tool from Flash CS4.
Adobe Illustrator Blend Tips
Experimenting with the settings and options for Illustrator’s Blend Tool.
3D PieChart using Adobe Illustrator
Take advantage of Illustrator’s live effects and create a 3D pie chart to represent your data.
Nested Line Styles in InDesign
Formatting line styles to give your text some graphic enhancement in InDesign.
Video Preview in Flash
Use a still frame from your flash video as a place holder for the video player on screen. Tom Green goes over the preview feature of the FLV playback component.
Learn how to Shoot Tethered into Photoshop Lightroom
In this episode you'll learn how to shoot directly into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom so that you can see your images as you take them on your nice big display.
How to make Contact Sheets in InDesign CS4
Making Contact Sheets in InDesign makes sense because you can easily adjust them or format them after the fact. However, in InDesign CS4 the way you make them has changed. In this episode I'll show you how.










