Learn to apply various photographic effects and textures to your images. Author Deke McClelland demonstrates how to use Photoshop's photograhic effects, including brush metal texture and brushed highlights. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Deke McClelland shows you how to edit the contents of a vector-based Smart Object inside Illustrator and then hand off the changes back to Photoshop. This is a great example of two applications interacting with each other. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Author and Photoshop expert Deke McClelland shows you how to apply some Photoshop-specific effects, including a reflective lens flare. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Author Deke McClelland demonstrates how to create a perfectly centered star. Deke uses the Selection tool and the Attribute panel to create a center point to work from. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Deke McClelland demonstrates how to import an illustration into Photoshop as a Smart Object, which allows you to reference the original vector-based information so that, among other things, you can scale the illustration inside of Photoshop as much as you want. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Learn how to create scaled concentric circles. Author Deke McClelland uses the Ellipse tool in the Outline mode to create a perfect circle from a center point. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Learn how to automatically trace an image using Illustrator's Image Trace button. Author Deke McClelland also shows the impact of resolution on the quality of the final traced artwork. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Check out what the Photoshop team has been working on! This feature will help you reduce blur in your photographs. See more exciting developments on May 6 at Adobe MAX. adobe.com/go/AdobeNext

Learn how to use smaller test prints for proofing tone and color. Ben Long uses the Print dialog box's resizing features to scale finished photos for test printing without using lots of media and ink. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

After you have edited, sized, and sharpened your photographs, Ben Long shows you how the Print dialog box in Photoshop works and what questions to ask yourself as you look to print your photographs. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Learn how to change the color of a car within an image. Deke McClelland uses the Targeted Adjustment tool within the Hue/Saturation adjustments panel to change the color of a car from red to gold without changing the rest of the image colors. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Join Corey Rich, one of the most recognized adventure and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers, as he shares his experiences capturing photographs and video for commercial and editorial clients. Having made the transition from photography to videography, Rich will detail all that goes into developing and delivering a final video edit and a corresponding set of photographs for a commercial client. He'll also give an inside look into what drives his interest in visual storytelling.In this inspirational session, you'll learn:• How to transfer photography skills to video• How to develop your own vision using a DSLR camera• What goes into making some of the most difficult images in the world

The object of FotoSynthesis is to create a self-sustaining education program to connect middle school students in the DC area with middle schools students from around the world through a combination of social media and photography. Students will share photographs online to establish communications, practice a new art form, and learn the importance of social media. The curriculum will also include reflective writing prompts which will meet national 6th grade writing and reading standards. By combining education, photography, and social media, we seek to emphasize the equal worth of different cultures by highlighting similarities and fostering respect for differences.

This is a video poem produced with images created through the use of Photoshop. Youth took photographs in a studio built with recycled material and edited them to illustrate a poem written by one of the participants. In some images, they mixed their own photographs with fragments of pictures from the Internet, but in a way that would not violate the established copyright rules. Stop motion techniques were also used to convey the message. This media was part of a bullying prevention campaign that aimed to sensitize youth regarding the respect for differences.

In this movie, it’s time to get started with an editing project. The first step is to import media—all of the raw video, photographs, and audio that will be edited together into a final movie. Abba Shapiro demonstrates how to import individual files, or complete folders full of media. He explains how files are stored and linked to a project. He also demonstrates how to browse and preview clips on the hard drive before importing them into Premiere Pro.

Learn how to add a watermark to your photographs. Corey Barker takes you through a step-by-step tour of the features of Photoshop Elements 11 that will help you watermark a single or multiple images.

Corey Barker shows you how to transform your photographs and an idea into a work or art, in Photoshop Elements 11. See how Corey uses a set of images to set up a project, and create a collage in a matter of seconds.

In this video, Corey Barker demonstrates how you can add a beautiful reflection to an image in Photoshop Elements 11. The Reflection guided edit is a step-by-step method that lets you easily get creative and add a professional-looking effect to your photographs.

Learn how to keep track of where your photographs were taken. Corey Barker takes you on a tour of the Add Places feature in Photoshop Elements 11. See how Organizer automatically reads your photograph's map information if available, or lets you manually add a location to a photograph.

In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne explains the best way to add a color tone to an image using the Split Tone and Tone Curve panels and shows how to save presets to increase your productivity. Click here to download the presets discussed in the video. Note: although this video was recorded in Lightroom, the same techniques are available in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6.

Sometimes, photographs require editing in just a specific area of a picture. RC Concepcion goes over how to perform selective edits in Lightroom4.

In this video tutorial Julieanne explains one of the great mysteries of Lightroom and Bridge – why Lightroom (or Bridge) displays a photograph one way and then changes the way it looks a moment later. It will all become clear with just a little information about how digital camera files are captured and displayed by different applications.

Learn how metadata can be used to filter and search through photos, open email clients, or even direct users to a web site. Applies to Lightroom versions 4 & 5.

Learn how to upload photographs to Facebook and Flicker through the Lightroom Publishing Manager. Applies to Lightroom versions 4 & 5.

Learn how to email photographs directly from Lightroom: setup and send emails from various email programs; test your email setup to make sure it’s working correctly; change the size of your photos before sending them; use the Lightroom Address Book. Applies to Lightroom versions 4 & 5.

The Gradient Map Adjustment layer has over 35 new presets to emulate traditional darkroom techniques for toning and split-toning photographs. Learn how to load and apply gradient maps to a single image as well as how to download and use Julieanne’s template to quickly see what each preset would look like on your own photograph through the magic of Smart Objects. The files she references can be found here. http://adobe.ly/OBIOdz

Learn how to import your images with an emphasis on topics related to travel photographs, such as assigning keywords and dealing with a secondary catalog while traveling.

Colin Smith gives you a brief tour of the book module in Lightroom 4 public beta. You can drop your photographs into nicely designed templates. Add some captions and send them off to print. It’s that easy.

Geotag your photographs and tie them to a location on an interactive map. Colin Smith shows you how to get around the world and take your photos with you. The map module in Lightroom 4 beta is nothing short of fun!

In this quick tutorial, Russell demonstrates how to combine two photographs using a gradient mask.

In this Episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne will demonstrate the differences between making absolute adjustments to photographs using Lightroom’s Develop module and relative adjustments using the Quick Develop panel.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates the incredible power of Variables in Photoshop. Learn how to cut hours of time out of your production time when you need to combine text and photographs. Although this feature has been in Photoshop for many releases, only a small number of customers know if it’s immense power for tasks such as automating event photography, creating web banners and graphics.

In this Episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne will teach you how to quickly save your vector and raster logos in Photoshop to be applied to photographs on export, via Publish services, Slideshow, Print and Web modules.

"Contradictions" is a stop-motion animation piece that artistically uses photographs and hand drawn elements to explore the idea that you shouldn't judge people and their character by their appearances. People may dress or act in certain ways, but often have interests and tastes, in this case, musically, beyond what their fashion traits may indicate.

The new Bristle and Mixer brushes in Photoshop let you paint exactly as you would with real paints and actually mix those colors together, even turn photographs into digital paintings.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne answers one of the most commonly asked questions “If should you use a single catalog for all of your photographs or if you should you use multiple catalogs?”. As a general rule, she recommends that you use as few as possible, but discusses when using multiple could be beneficial.

Special guest Dave Cross has a tutorial about how to setup an InDesign template that is great for presenting your photographs. RC opens up Flash and goes through the basics of using graphics, buttons, and movie clips.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne demonstrates what you can do in Lightroom’s Develop module to enhance your photographs using color and tonality to change the mood and atmosphere of an image . We all know that the goal is to capture the best photograph in camera, but what happens when we aren’t at the right place at the right time? Julieanne will show you how to make subtle changes to increase the photograph’s emotional impact.

Many times, we've seen a photograph brought to life and given movement and depth. How do you do it? With Adobe CS5, some new tools have come around to make this process easier than ever before. Join Dennis as he takes you through the first of two parts in creating an animated clip from a single photograph

In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how to select multiple images to work together as diptychs and triptychs. Learn how to select photographs with similar attributes such as color and shape, mood and lighting, line and form will help to unify two (or more) photographs, perhaps even creating new meaning through the relationship of the imagery.

In this episode Julieanne Kost will demonstrate how streamline Lightroom 3 by taking advantage of presets, templates, Collections, Virtual Copies (and more) in order to eliminate much of the repetitive post-capture tasks such as importing, tagging, developing, exporting and sharing photographs.

In this episode Julieanne Kost will demonstrate how to streamline Lightroom 3 by taking advantage of presets, templates, Collections, Virtual Copies (and more) in order to eliminate much of the repetitive post-capture tasks such as importing, tagging, developing, exporting and sharing photographs.

In this episode, Julieanne Kost will explain how changes made to photographs are saved automatically to the Lightroom Catalog. Then Julieanne will demonstrate how to use both the “Save Metadata to Files” command as well as the “Automatically write changes to XMP” Catalog Setting to push changes made to photographs from the catalog into individual files (or sidecar files) so that they can be read and utilized within additional applications such as Adobe Bridge.

This short video answers the question “What is Lightroom?” for new users of the tool. Lightroom unites your digital photography essentials in one fast and intuitive package and gets you there with the tools you need to create great images, manage all your photographs, and showcase them with style and impact.

Learn how to retouch photographs using non destructive Camera Raw techniques in this Episode of The Russell Brown Show.

Colin Smith will show you how to take multiple photographs with a shallow depth of field and blend them all together into a single image that is sharp and in focus. This is a great technique especially for product and macro photographers.

Dave is celebrating a bicentennial milestone this week. He and Matt are behind the desk. They talk about patterns in Photoshop and Rich Harrington talks about panoramic photographs.

Learn how the folder panel can make your life easier in this Adobe Lightroom 2 tutorial. Julieanne Kost shows you the best ways to sort and organize your photographs.

Develop raw photographs using Adobe Camera Raw. Navigate the Raw panels. Adjust the Temperature and Tint sliders. Use the White Balance tool.

Create the cool gritty effect with regular photographs using Photoshop CS3 and a little know-how. Colin Smith walks you through one of the most popular photo techniques of today.

Julieanne Kost shows several ways of viewing and organizing images including using, moving and creating folders, quick collections and collections.

Total Training shows you everything you need to know about Lightroom's Develop Module, including ways to crop control curves and sharpen images in a new, more user-friendly way.

Total Training shows you everything you need to know about Lightroom's Develop Module, including ways to crop control curves and sharpen images in a new, more user-friendly way.

Total Training shows you everything you need to know about Lightroom's Develop Module, including ways to crop control curves and sharpen images in a new, more user-friendly way.

Total Training shows you everything you need to know about Lightroom's Develop Module, including ways to crop control curves and sharpen images in a new, more user-friendly way.

Total Training shows you everything you need to know about Lightroom's Develop Module, including ways to crop control curves and sharpen images in a new, more user-friendly way.

Total Training shows you everything you need to know about Lightroom's Develop Module, including ways to crop control curves and sharpen images in a new, more user-friendly way.

Total Training shows you everything you need to know about Lightroom's Develop Module, including ways to crop control curves and sharpen images in a new, more user-friendly way.