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This how-to video produced by Photoshop Universe gives step-by-step instructions on how to batch automate a process in Adobe Photoshop. With this tutorial you'll be able to learn to correct white balance, enhance colors, resize, and save for the web whole folders' worth of ima ...more

Whether you're new to Adobe After Effects or a seasoned digital film professional 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 turn spoken dialogu ...more

Adobe InDesign CS2 has a great feature in that you can fill text with a gradient. However, if you try to do that in Illustrator CS2 it might appear that you can't. In this video you'll see just how easy you can do it and keep the text editable.

Compositing and color correction are important and integral steps in processing a 3D render after it is generated in Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max or any other 3D package. Compositing transforms simple renders and provides them with life, vibrancy and atmosphere. In this demonstrat ...more

This is a basic tutorial teaching time re-mapping / ramping effects in Adobe After Effects.

This video shows you how to import video into Flash, select a skin for the FLVPlayback component, place the video in the component, and test the application. You also learn how to import and preview FLV files using Bridge. Check out this video by Richard Galvan now! Import and ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create a photo-montage using Adobe Photoshop. Begin by inserting the images into the program. Then double-click on the montage image to unlock it and select the eraser tool to remove the background. Once the background is removed, s ...more

Learn how to create a stars-and-planets galaxy scene from scratch when using After Effects CS5. 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 CS5's new features, you ...more

Adobe InDesign is the clear leader in typographic sophistication, object handling, multilingual publishing, and transparency effects for text and graphics. In this InDesign CS video tutorial you will learn to use text wrap. Learn how to import an image, use the pen tool to mak ...more

It is possible to use the pathfinder tools in Adobe Illustrator to create shapes. Follow along as this tutorial shows you just how to do it with a gear as an example. The key is to use boolean operations on existing simple shapes, to create more complex ones. Create shapes wit ...more

This Adobe Photoshop CS3 tutorial shows you how to work with the vanishing point filter. The vanishing point filter allows you to add perspective and 3D effects to images. In this video you will create a Madagascar DVD cover using vanishing point in Photoshop CS3. This tutoria ...more

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern will show you a different technique to create the Running Numbers Effect using Trapcode Form plug-in. For more on using the Trapcode Form plug-in Adobe After Affects video tutorial. Create a running numbers ef ...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 video tutorial, you'l ...more

This video shows you how to import content from Word, Excel, Photoshop, and PDF files into InDesign. It also shows you how to use techniques such as multi-file placement, quick apply, and double-click to fit. Import content into InDesign. Click through to watch this video on a ...more

Have you ever wished that you had different colored eyes? Or, for that matter, wished that Vanessa Hudgens had different colored eyes? Changing your real eye color is difficult and expensive, but this video tutorial will show you how to change the color of the eyes in photogra ...more

Some people wrongly believe that PDF files can never be changed. In this Adobe Acrobat video tutorial you will learn how to edit text inside Acrobat 5. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to ...more

In this tutorial, you will learn how to take two dimensional text and turn it into 3D text. You will learn how to rasterize text and then transform your selection using perspective. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing application or simply looking to brush up o ...more

See a number of useful key commands that will allow you to quickly resize and adjust the relative hardness of your brushes in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular graphic editing program or a seasoned design professional looking to better acquaint yoursel ...more

Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author, a copyright, and a Web site. No image should go out without a visit to File Info. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned ...more

Lift up your text or push it back down with Firework's inlay & emboss feature. Works for FW CS3, CS4, and CS5. Don't be shy with your words, make them stand out! This same trick can also be used with GIMP and Adobe Photoshop.

This video by Architectus777 teaches us how to ink comic book pages. Inking is simply another term for outlining or black lining. This first step is to find an image in black in white. Following this, you may edit the image to be as light or dark as you wish. Afterwards, the s ...more

In this clip, we learn how to add closed captioning to an Adobe Flash Professional project through use of ActionScript cue points. Whether you're new to the Adobe's popular Flash authoring application or are a seasoned Flash developer merely looking to better acquaint yourself ...more

Whether you're new to Adobe's Creative Suite (and, by consequence, Flash Catalyst CS5) or a seasoned graphic design professional 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. ...more

This tutorial offers instructions on how to make your own start/stop button for an animated sequence using Flash ActionScript. 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 ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a shiny glass ball in Adobe Photo-shop. Begin by creating a new document with the default size and a transparent background. Then paint the entire background in black. Now select the marquee tool and create a circle anywhere in ...more

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create the flashback look as seen in the film The Bourne Ultimatum with some extra touches and hints in Adobe after Effects. Sooner or later, you're going to need to be able to make that flashback f ...more

Way back when CS3 was introduced, Adobe added video editing capabilities to their flagship image editor. To say the least, people were skeptical. However, now that technology has evolved and folks have had time to see just how far you can push video inside of Photoshop, the po ...more

This video shows you how to combine multiple files of various types into one sequentially numbered PDF file in Acrobat 8. You also learn how to manage the options for combining files, and wrap the separate files into a PDF Package that retains individual attributes of the file ...more

This animation can be very useful to create banners, and shows you how to use ActionScript 3 and the timeline function of Adobe Flash CS3 to set the background of mountains and a moon. Then create a few flying bats and animate them to fly across the screen in a loop!

With technology nowadays, it easier than ever to create designs that can be used for clothing. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are two programs that help with the process in making whatever you want. As you'll see in this tutorial, you'll find out how to use Photoshop to crea ...more

How to create a seamless tile image to use as a desktop wallpaper or webpage background using Adobe Photoshop.

Donnie Hoyle sounds off on his return home. See how to not suck at Photoshop with Annotations in this Adobe Photoshop video tutorial. Photoshop lets you express yourself with Annotations, for when you want to say more than words will let you. You can add notes to any already ...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

The Matrix had all sorts of stunning visual effects that have become standards in film since its release in 1999. This video will teach you how to create just one of them, the film's iconic titles, using the Adobe Premiere Pro editing suite. Download project files here. Part ...more

Donnie Hoyle shows you how to fix mistakes you've made in life using Adobe Photoshop. Here he puts an unwanted rescue cat in a plastic bag and replaces its carpet shadow with an unidentifiable stain.

Using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 to make your website can be an intimating challenge, but will give you really good looking sites if you learn to do it well. This tutorial features instructions on how to map images in the program, as well as use the Ap Div function, which used to b ...more

This video clip presents a quick lesson in using the Preserve Transparency switch in Adobe After Effects and why it may be more useful than using a Track Matte in certain situations. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned v ...more

Create a vector three-dimensional box icon in Adobe Illustrator CS4. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular vector graphics editor program or a seasoned graphic arts professional looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of this particular iteratio ...more

With this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create a naturalistic scattering effect within 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 v ...more

Create stunning montages the easy way. 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 from this free video tutorial from Pro Photo Life. For more information, including step-by-step in ...more

In this clip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create a fun peel-away vortex transition for text and other elements. 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 ...more

This software tutorial will show you how to utilize the levels tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3 to create a fascinating eye effect. You can use this Photoshop method to change eye color, or manipulate eyes to be good, evil or whatever you wish.

This video shows you how to draw graffiti in Photoshop. The information relates to Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop CS2 or later. The presenter started in Illustrator and started to draw using the draw tool, created three letters, adjusted the thickness of the line, copied and ...more

This video shows you how to create bulleted and numbered lists in InDesign. You learn how to customize bullets, save bullet formatting as a character style, and control bullet and number position. You also learn how to create and format sublists, create a numbered list as a pa ...more

Have you ever wanted to create a background with one of your photos? This video shows you how to use one of your photos to create a photo background using Adobe Photoshop. It will show you how to use the free transform tool, overlay blend modes, hue and saturation, drop shadow ...more

Creating footnotes could be troublesome. But not in InDesign CS3. This video shows you how to insert footnotes in InDesign, including how to manage options for numbering, formatting, and layout. Create footnotes using InDesign CS3. Click through to watch this video on adobe.com

This is how you can vector an eye in Adobe Illustrator. You will first want to upload your photo to PhotoShop and then increase the contrast to highlight your picture better. Increasing the highlights is not a necessary step however. This is an intermediate process but the end ...more

Learn how to draw an old-world style tattered scroll that's all beat up. It's all drawn from scratch in Photoshop with a wacom tablet and then the final drawing is imported into Adobe Illustrator for Live Tracing. The finished product is a nice piece of vector art. In fact, th ...more

This is a Photoshop tutorial for digital photographers. Learn how to fix flash highlights. Here's a technique that will help you to fix the highlights that are created when taking flash photography. Quick tips and time saving techniques for today's digital photographer. Adob ...more

Did you ever want to know how to create Star Wars style lightsaber effects for your own home videos? Youtube user Comphelper225 has a way make this little bit of movie magic come to life using Adobe After Effects. Once you have a video of yourself or a friend swinging a base f ...more

Meet Photoshop's Magnetic Lasso Tool! The Magnetic Lasso Tool is probably the best out of three Lasso tools for it allows precise and quick freehand selections. hether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, ...more

This video shows you how to import frames from a DICOM file into Photoshop CS3 Extended, and manage import options. You also learn how to remove personal data, export the frames as JPEG files, and display time series data as an animation that can be exported as an AVI, MPEG, o ...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