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The design section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of web design on the internet today. Also discussed is print design for offline media. Discussion includes fundamental and moderately advanced topics in the worlds of brand identity, graphic design, photo manipulation, typography and more. Additional topics include how to effectively manage website layout, e.g. mobile and tablet interface, responsive website design as well as coverage of online communities that assist with the design profession.

Changing Colors with Some Adjustment Layer Sliders in Adobe Photoshop

If you’ve been working in Adobe Photoshop for any amount of time, you surely know that it’s sometimes a necessity to alter the colors of objects captured in a photograph. Most of the time, when the need arises, folks select the object and change the color from there. Well, I’m here today to tell you […]

How to Storyboard Video Files in Adobe Bridge

To start this post off, I think I should explain what a storyboard, or storyboarding, is. I know not everyone was born into the design field or something creative like that. That’s fine because the concept is extremely simple to grasp. In general, storyboarding is the process or organizing illustrations or digital assets into a […]

How to Organize Video & Audio Project Files for Adobe Photoshop

The really great thing about this post is that it doesn’t only apply to Adobe Photoshop. Nor does it only apply to video for Photoshop. If you work with audio, you can use the lessons I’ll explain below. Also, if you’re a photographer and use Photoshop merely for image work, again, you can use what […]

3 Awesome Canvas Size Tricks For Adobe Photoshop

For some weird reason, I’ve been screwing up canvas size adjustments for ages. I really don’t know why this is. It’s probably got something to do with impatience. When working with canvas size in Adobe Photoshop, you need to know what you’re doing and you need to take the time to do it correctly. That’s […]

Organizing Virtual Copies into Collections in Adobe Lightroom

When it comes to organizing, I’m a total freak. I have a long history of being a mess and the moment I learned how to get myself together a few years ago, I totally went overboard. Today, I have almost everything I own compartmentalized and tucked away safely. Even though I’ve been this way for […]

Adding a Glow to Wedding Photos in Adobe Camera Raw

Wedding photography is important to a huge number of people. Editing that type of photography is just as important. The thing is, not many folks who request and pay for these types of photos quite understand all of the work that goes into making these images look great. Just imagine handing a newlywed couple hundreds […]

Combining a Smart Filter with a Camera Raw Action in Adobe Photoshop

When editing photos, I usually launch an image into Adobe Camera Raw from Bridge, edit it as much as I deem appropriate and then move it into Photoshop to finish things up. I actually have a Preset that I use quite often in Camera Raw for most of my food photography. After I apply the […]

How to Visualize Spots in Adobe Lightroom

Oftentimes, when working in Adobe applications, such as Photoshop, Camera Raw and Lightroom, it’s tough to see everything a photograph contains. For instance, if you’ve got a photo that’s really light or faded and intend to print it out for some use, you may be concerned that imperfections may exist that aren’t readily visible to […]

Using Focus Area & Smart Sharpen to Edit a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

For today’s post, I’m going to work on another quick project. I’ll fall back on two previous posts I wrote a while ago and use the lessons learned in them to take care of a few editing methods I’ll need for this one. Nothing is too difficult here, but a few steps need to be […]

Selecting & Adding Saturation to an Object in Adobe Photoshop

Sometimes, I sit at my desk and just mess around in Photoshop. I’ll take an image and see what happens when I apply a new tip I found out about or I’ll try to remember something I learned years ago. I suppose you can call this “brushing up” or simply staying in the loop. Today, […]