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Graphic & Photo Design Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

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.

How To Use the Note Tool in Adobe Photoshop

I’ve been coding websites since 1998. I can remember the first web page I ever made. It was for a college class and we had to learn all sorts of stuff. How to change text attributes, add images and how to add links to the page were just a few. One of the techniques I […]

How to Batch Rename Video Files in Adobe Bridge

I recently wrote a post that had to do with storyboarding video files in Adobe Bridge. Basically, storyboarding is the simple arrangement of files in such a way that they make sense when you need them. When working with video, as I mentioned in my last post, the last thing you want to have to […]

How To Set the Timeline Frame Rate For Video in Adobe Photoshop

I’m a nut when it comes to organization on my computer. Sometimes, I just sit and think about how I can make things better than they are. I know, it sounds weird, but I’ve come up with some pretty interesting solutions like this. Disorganization costs you time and money down the road. There’s no excuse […]

How To Sharpen a Photograph Using Adobe Lightroom

There are so many methods for sharpening images in quite a variety of applications. I’ve talked about this topic in a few posts before. I discussed how to sharpen photos in Adobe Camera Raw and in Adobe Photoshop, but I’ve yet to delve into anything like this in Lightroom. Today, I’ll cover that. If you’re […]

How To Fix Red Eye With Adobe Lightroom

I remember a while back when I wrote a post that described how to remove red eye from someone’s eyes using Adobe Camera Raw. If memory serves, I mentioned that I’d do the same type of post, but for Adobe Lightroom. Well, just as luck would have it, red eye is on my mind, so […]

Working With the Content-Aware Move Tool in Adobe Photoshop

In my last post, I wrote about the Patch Tool in Adobe Photoshop. Today, I’m going to write about this tool’s twin sister – the Content-Aware Move Tool. This, my friends, is a really cool tool in that it can not only move an object that’s in a photo, it can also copy it, so […]

How To Use the Patch Tool in Adobe Photoshop

For years, I wondered what in the heck the Patch Tool in Adobe Photoshop was. It wasn’t until pretty far into my photography and designing that I ever bothered to check it out. Back in the day when I was doing this stuff more professionally, I was so used to doing everything by hand that […]

How To Remove a Color Cast From a Photo Using Adobe Photoshop

I suppose I should begin this post with a definition of what a “color cast” in a photograph is. Basically, it’s a tint of an unwanted color that affects part of or an entire photo. Generally speaking, certain types of light can cause both film and digital cameras to produce a color cast. Sometimes it’s […]

Placing, Replacing & Modifying Smart Object Files in Adobe Photoshop

The title of this post really doesn’t do it justice because I plan on going over many more tasks than the title indicates. Sure, the primary topic has to do with how to place and replace a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop, but I’m also going to do a bit of transforming and masking as […]

How to Use the Free Transform Tool in Adobe Photoshop

I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve pressed Ctrl+T on my keyboard through the years. Hundreds, if not thousands of times – for all sorts of reasons. If you aren’t aware, Ctrl+T (or Command+T on the Mac) is used to activate the Free Transform tool in Adobe Photoshop. It’s an all […]