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Want to trick your eyes? Follow the step by step instructions on how to create a polka dot optical illusion using Adobe Photoshop. Create an optical illusion with Photoshop. Click through to watch this video on tricklife.com

This Adobe CS4 software tutorial shows you how to animate characters in After Effects CS4 using the puppet tool. Learn how to use the puppet tool to apply pins to control movement, and record movements. Also preview the puppet overlap and puppet starch tools in After Effects C ...more

Learn the important steps necessary for the best printing experience when printing to the Epson 3800. This tutorial is specifically designed to address some of the issues with the Epson 3800 and the MAC OS X Leopard operating system. Here is a detailed explanation of the chang ...more

Make truly distinctive and exciting text in your Adobe Photoshop images with this Ice Effect.

This tutorial shows you how to use Adobe Photoshop to take a regular photograph of a house and turn it into a picture of a dark haunted house. Starting with a picture from the actual painting, "American Gothic," you watch along as the farmhouse is transformed into a piece of d ...more

This tutorial shows you how to create a picture rotating slideshow, that fades in and out using Adobe Flash. Using optimized embedded photos is not the only way, but it is a very basic and easy method to create a slideshow picture rotator. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular ...more

If you're not familiar with its mask tools, you're not taking full advantage of Adobe Photoshop. Learn how to use them with this clip. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit fr ...more

Open up Cheat Engine and be prepared to hack Restaurant City! This is a new level hack that will help you gain levels fast. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to hack levels in Restaurant City (12/05/09). Just follow the instructions and it should be easy! The code is: FF ...more

The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It's not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as this video demonstrates. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned profe ...more

This Adobe Photoshop CS3 tutorial teaches you how perform slight photo retouching to supersaturate a photo without the distortion and bleeding. This adds a slight but noticeable saturated look of a photo which enhances the color quality. First the graphic artist adjusts the sa ...more

Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those dig ...more

Use Adobe Photoshop to create text with a sand-like texture, using the same displacement effect design pros use to blend text or objects seamlessly into picture backgrounds.

This video shows you how to enhance the sky in pictures using a program called Adobe Photoshop. With this program you can use a gradient tool to layer different areas and change the color to enhance the picture of the sky. You can also invert colors and do a lot of different t ...more

Are you interested in becoming a master Adobe Acrobat 9 user? Who better to teach you than this expert user from Adobe TV? This video tutorial narrates how to create basic fillable forms within Acrobat 9 using the Live Cycle Designer form wizard. An exact replication of what y ...more

Animate drawings by scanning them and painting them on the computer. Learn how to scan and color hand-drawn animations using Adobe Photoshop and Flash in this free computer art lesson from a professor of animation and interactive media. Part 1 of 15 - How to Digitally ink and ...more

In this video you will learn how to create a chocolate effect using Adobe Photoshop. In order to do that, just follow these steps: Create a new file with 1000x1000 px. Then create a new layer, select the Shape Tool and create a heart with a brown color for the chocolate. Then ...more

Are your digital photos missing something? Could it be fairy dust? In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a custom brush to paint randomized sparkles to create a fantasy effect. Want to separate a foreground object from its background? Whether you're new to Adobe's popul ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to tan an image using Adobe Photoshop. Begin by opening the image in the program and create a new layer. Then select the brush tool and select the tan color. Click OK and apply the color over the areas that are wanted to be tan. Then a ...more

Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those dig ...more

In this software tutorial you will learn an easy way to turn a photo into a painting using Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop has some interesting filters you can use to get artistic with your snapshots. In this tutorial you will use Gaussian blur and layer darkening to get a more pai ...more

In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows how to perform depth of field blurring techniques using the lens blur feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Creative Cow is a support community for digital video, video editing, and media production professionals in broadcasting, ...more

Have a photo that you really love, but you want to give it more character by making it look like a drawing? This video will teach you how to use Adobe Photoshop to make your pictures look pencil sketches. Audio is unavailable so you must watch closely.

This Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial shows you how to enhance websites by adding multimedia elements like videos. Learn how to use Dreamweaver CS4's integration with Flash CS4 to create FLV files. And there's no scripting or Flash development required! Add multimedia to a web page in ...more

This video demonstrates the installation of the “Bleeding Cowboys” font. In the description of this video click on the link for ‘The font’ and download it. Go to the downloaded folder and extract the downloaded file. A new icon appears. Go to the start menu, select My computer ...more

Use ActionScript 3 and Adobe Flash CS3 to add in a slider component to the website or project you're building in Flash. A slider component can allow users to do things like change the size of animations on your website.

Learn how to create the 4th Generation iPod Nano in Adobe Photoshop. Sure, you'll only have an image of the 4th generation iPod Nano, but if that's what you need, then this Photoshop tutorial is for you.

Whether you're new to Adobe After Effects or a seasoned video editor after a general overview of CS5's most vital new features, you're sure to be well served by this official video tutorial from the folks at Adobe TV. In it, you'll learn how to use the newest version of the Mo ...more

The independent film Juno featured one of the most distinctive opening credit sequences in recent memory. It has a wonderful handmade look - which it turned out was created by hand! Whether you have seen Juno or not, Cow leader Simon Bonner shows a much easier way to create un ...more

Adobe Photoshop CS5 brings a very welcome change to Refine Edge. Edge Detection will help with much more detailed selections such as hair or fur. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or a seasoned graphic design professional just looking to better acqua ...more

Learn how to touch up a photo using Adobe Photoshop to make a sky look more vivid.

You can take a piece of completely modern digital footage and give it an aged, antique feel! You will need the Aged Film plugin for Adobe After Effects, which lets you create the sepia tone and flickering, variable speed look of antique film clips.

In this video, get some tips for Adobe After Effects. In this tutorial, Nick will show you how to remove banding artifacts in After Effects. Banding is something that happens when you upload your otherwise perfect graphics to the Internet. Use this method to ensure you keep a ...more

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial the instructor shows how to make a torn image effect. He shows you a sample image of what it is going to look like after producing that effect. It basically looks like as if the photograph was torn to pieces and then put back together with the ...more

Preloaders indicate the rate at which a file is being downloaded or displayed. This tutorial shows the ActionSCript 2.0 method to create such a progress bar. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular Flash-development platform or a seasoned web developer looking to better acquaint ...more

If you don't have CS3 and have an older one, you should still be able to follow along with this tutorial. Watch this Illustrator video tutorial to create vectored swooshes and swirls. Learn how to create vector swirls and swooshes which can be easily re-used by using these fai ...more

This Adobe CS4 software suite tutorial shows you how to create FLV and F4V files in After Effects CS4. You will also learn how to create and optimize FLV files in Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro and After Effects CS4. Create FLV and F4V files in After Effects CS4. Click thro ...more

In this video tutorial, we learn how to arrange art around a circular grid when designing a CD cover in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or a seasoned designer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functi ...more

In this tutorial, learn how to use textures and track mattes to create an organic transition with After Effects and Final Cut Pro. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yo ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to change the color of lips in Adobe Photoshop. Begin by importing the image into the program. Select the quick mask tool and then select the brush tool. Now color the part that you want to retouch. This will allow the mask to create a ...more

Creating a silhouette from a photo is nothing new, but with Illustrator CS4’s new Blob Brush tool, it has become a lot easier. Corey demonstrates how to use the Blog Brush tool to create a silhouette, and how to create some quick background effects using the Gradient Mesh tool ...more

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 software is the start-to-finish video production solution ideal for editors, filmmakers, cable and network broadcasters, event and corporate videographers, rich media creative professionals, and hobbyists. In this Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 video tutorial, y ...more

For years, photographers have been creating cross processed effects with photos. It’s really easy to create this retro-looking effect in Lightroom 2. Join Colin Smith as he walks you through the process (excuse the pun) of creating cross processed film effects in Lightroom 2. ...more

See how to create an iPhone-style slide-to-open effect in Adobe Flash CS4. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular Flash-development platform or a seasoned web developer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of this particular iteration of the a ...more

This is a tutorial on how to shatter text in Cinema 4D using MoGraph in MAXON C4D. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features ...more

Learn how to design an abstract wallpaper design in Adobe Photoshop. Use the pen tool, rotational tools and clone stamp tools to create awesome effects in Photoshop and turn them into abstract wallpaper designs.

See how to adjust CSS padding and margin settings when working in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular WISYWIG HTML editor or a seasoned web development professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the CS4 workflow, you're sure to be well ...more

In this clip, Chad Perkins shows you how to create various elements for use in a Twilight Zone-esque TV show opening, using After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Cinema 4D. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video p ...more

In this Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro tutorial you will learn how to develop a business workflow. Learn how to work with Microsoft Office products like Excel, PowerPoint, CAD drawings and more to create PDF versions of your Office documents, or create entire portfolios to give to client ...more

Start a complex animation that only has a few keyframes by using precomping! This is a simple yet powerful technique that can really open up your ability to get the most out of creating fun animations using Adobe After Effects.

In this tutorial, you'll learn to adjust color behavior when using the mixer brush tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its v ...more

This tutorial covers looping techniques. Even intermediate After Effects users know about looping basics, but how to get the same in CINEMA 4D? If you're new to AE, the tutorial first covers a little looping in Adobe AE then moves on to show you how to do the same in CINEMA 4D.

Today, see how to use GoLive CS2 to create pure CSS layouts. That's using CSS to lay your website out, which is a really nice way to layout your webpages. It's laying it out without tables, and allows the site to change based on the users resolution. In this video tutorial, se ...more