At the intersection of technology, design, and emotion, onformativeuses a generative process to create digital experiences that turn traditional design theory on edge.

Internationally recognized for their art direction, image-making, and custom typography, Non-Format challenges what's possible with its unique vision.

Alberto Seveso embodies creative freedom as a self-taught artist who produces raw, experimental work. Inspiring.

Photographer Oleg Dou is celebrated internationally for his staggeringly unique vision. His focus on artistry and craft is transformative.

Collaborative photography and design duo take a provocative approach to their unparalleled work in art, fashion, and commerce.

With its stunning visual effects and groundbreaking stop-motion technology, Autofuss makes you believe anything is possible.

Dr. (Russell) Brown demonstrates how to use his collection of costume images to accessorize a portrait photo. Learn how to add new layers and adjust the lighting for a realistic costumed portrait.

Apply brush-based, pressure-sensitive sharpening to your image exactly where you want it with the powerful new Protect Detail option for the Sharpen tool. Prioritize specific areas for sharpening to draw attention to the focal point of an image, such as the eyes of a portrait, and enhance fine details and textures without adding distracting noise or artifacts.

In this episode I'll show you how to effectively use the Photoshop CS5 Patch Tool to fix and remove things during your Portrait Retouching.

Kyle Lambert is a fine artist based in the UK and was formally trained as an oil painter. He currently freelances and specializes in painting, illustration and animation. Used to the tactile nature of oil and canvas, Kyle naturally gravitated to the iPad to create digitally. Lambert is becoming well known for his striking character portraits and was the first artist to create photo-realistic work using Adobe Ideas: http://bit.ly/oHhjuy. In this video, learn about Lambert's approach to working and get inspired as you watch how he creates using Adobe Ideas – zooming all the way in to get fine detail and zooming all the way out to see the image.

Video Highlights: Watch how to quickly resize a photo -- even go from landscape to portrait or vice versa -- by automatically cropping out areas within the photo, and without distorting key elements like people or buildings. Versions 9 and up.

Use the Orton Effect Guided Edit in Photoshop Elements 10 to create a soft, dreamy glow that’s great for portraits and artistic images.

How to specify that different-sized PDF pages print on the correct paper size in Acrobat or Adobe Reader X (not 10.1.2 or later).

This is a documentary about the filmmaker and his family as they struggle to deal with the deportation of his Father. The filmmaker interviews his father, via a phone conversation, his mother at home and ends with the filmmaker talking directly into the camera. This documentary offers the viewer a portrait of the immigration struggle with heart felt honesty as the filmmaker documents how the deportation of his father has directly affected him.

Discover the wonders of Overlay and Hard Light for special blending techniques when working with portrait images. Special thanks to professional photographer Joel Grimes, and the talented modeling of Jessica Mion, and Moses Sumney.

In this episode I'll address a user request. One of my fans wanted to know what are the 5 things that I do to every photo. I thought that was a good question, so here it is. These are the 5 things that I do to every portrait photo I take.

Quickly improve your people pictures by using the Perfect Portrait tools in Guided Edit.

Using different techniques and elements of photography, students represent themselves in pictures and poems.

There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let's tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let's even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you'll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!

Whether you're helping corporate clients communicate through images, expressing your vision in fine art, or capturing life's moments at weddings, in portraits, or for news media, you're driven by the art of your craft. That's why professional photographers have long relied on Adobe Photoshop software for the ultimate in creative control and image quality. New Photoshop CS5 helps you achieve the visual and emotional effects you’re after with re-engineered features for reducing and adding grain, performing post-crop vignetting, and sharpening. CS5 reinvents HDR imaging with Exposure Merge, which makes it easy to preserve the full tonal range of a scene—or go from photorealistic to wildly surrealistic—and automatically remove ghost artifacts. It delivers new black-and-white conversion features and a GPU-enabled crop experience. It accelerates your workflow with powerful new selection technology, integrated Adobe Mini Bridge for faster file browsing, and cross-platform 64-bit support for faster performance.

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.

In this episode, Russell Brown shows you how to enhance portraits using Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended so that you don’t actually have to take them to a day spa.

In this episode we'll see how to do a portrait retouch of a more mature person. You'll learn techniques to reduce visible age lines while still making the photo look realistic.

Join Chevon Hicks, creative director and president at Heavenspot, a top digital agency in Los Angeles, as he shares his techniques for creating vector portraits using Illustrator CS4.

Two Viewfinders photojournalists present their photos of Obama's historic inauguration to be judged by a panel of senior photo editors.

On the campaign trail, French photojournalist Gerald Holubowicz was struck by the differences between French and American politics. See his photos from election night in Harlem.

Photographer Jennifer Altman combines an eye for composition with a personal connection to her subjects. Watch her travels alongside presidential campaigners as she gears up to shoot the inauguration of the 44th president.

Initially disinterested in the presidential race, Katie Orlinsky was swayed by the historic Obama campaign. Here she talks about shooting both the campaign and a grassroots movement.

Yana Paskova’s upbringing in Bulgaria gives her a unique perspective on the momentous 2008 election season. Watch her quest for shots that are "beautiful and meaningful at the same time.

Follow photojournalist Keith Bedford on his professional and personal journey photographing Obama’s historic bid for the presidency.

In this episode, Deke investigates how to simulate an extreme-detail HDR portrait -- which would otherwise require you to shoot multiple exposures of a person locked down in a body brace. These are the depths of scariness we go to.

A portrait of world-renowned designer, illustrator and typographer Marian Bantjes during her appearance at a Design Matters Live event presented by Adobe and the AIGA.

Eddie Tapp shows how to use special blur effects and a soft-edge mask to take a traditional portrait into a new creative look.

Eddie Tapp shows how to add a great soft look to a portrait with the MZ Soft Focus technique and easily keep areas sharp like eyes, lips and hair.

In this tutorial on portrait retouching techniques, Eddie Tapp shows how to fix imperfections in clothing with the Liquify filter in Photoshop.

Eddie Tapp shows how to make eye enhancements, minimize skin wrinkles and take out imperfections in portraits.

Corey has figured out to recreate an Andy Warhol portrait effect using Illustrator. RC has a couple of basic adjustments you can use in Premiere to make your video files stand out more.

Create the silky soft look of a dreamy photo in a few seconds. No selections, but a sneaky channel move makes a quick fix. Remove surface blemishes in a few seconds.

Learn the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of photo retouching in Photoshop CS3. This episode will show you the professional techniques to make your facial retouching amazing and realistic.

Reduce and remove wrinkles from a portrait with Photoshop's Healing Brush and Opacity tools. This handy trick is quick and easy, and cheaper than plastic surgery.

Learn portrait retouching techniques for whitening eyes and teeth as well as smoothing skin, acne and blemishes. You'll never look at portraits the same.

RC shares the benefits of using the Article Tool with your PDFs when you are working in Acrobat. Special guest David Ziser discusses lighting patterns to use in your portrait photography.