We all know that Adobe Illustrator gives you the ability to draw resolution-independent artwork and, at the same time, work with and control text. Now, with the incorporation of a new Transform panel and Touch Type Tool, Adobe has once again pulled some mighty cool rabbits out of the Illustrator hat. Let Andy Anderson, and Infinite Skills show you the basics of these new additions to the Adobe Illustrator arsenal of powerful tools.

Chris Orwig shows you how to combine two different images together in Photoshop. This allows you to change the environment where the picture was taken by using the Free Transform, Crop, Selection, Mask and Refine Radius tools to transform two photos into one. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

The end goal of a good retoucher is to make their work appear invisible while creating some alternative reality. In this case we're going to look at one method I use for adding a tattoo to an image while making it look like it's really a part of the original photo. This method involves placing an Illustrator file (the tattoo source image) as a Smart Object, using the Free Transform/Warp Tool, adding a Gaussian Blur (to adjust the 'Focus') and then finishing it all off with a lighting effect created from a Channel Pull. Ready to begin?

Ruth Stryker describes a variety of approaches you can take for motion tweening text. This tutorial is taken from Adobe Flash CS4 Learn by Video - the official training for the Adobe Certified Associate exam: www.peachpit.com/learnbyvideo.

If you need to take a few pounds off of someone quickly, the Free Transform tool in Photoshop can do it. It's the fastest diet around.