Photoshop has an abundance of helpful shortcuts and hidden tricks that allow designers to get more done in less time. Attending this energetic, fun, and fast-paced session will leave you smacking your forehead and saying "I wish I'd known that years ago!" This session will reveal as many tips and techniques to boost your productivity as can be packed into 60 minutes. In this session, Michael Ninness, Senior VP of Product and Content, lynda.com, will cover:+ The top 20 power shortcuts every Photoshop user MUST know.+ Easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail.+ Automating certain tasks — without recording Actions!+ Optimization tips for smaller and more efficient web graphics.

Photoshop has an abundance of helpful shortcuts and hidden tricks that allow designers to get more done in less time. Attending this energetic, fun, and fast-paced session will leave you smacking your forehead and saying "I wish I'd known that years ago!" This session will reveal as many tips and techniques to boost your productivity as can be packed into 60 minutes. In this session, Michael Ninness, Senior VP of Product and Content, lynda.com, will cover:+ The top 20 power shortcuts every Photoshop user MUST know.+ Easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail.+ Automating certain tasks — without recording Actions!+ Optimization tips for smaller and more efficient web graphics.

In this lesson you'll learn how to remove blemishes from a photo with tremendous flexibility.

Getting a little more sophisticated with tonal adjustments, in this lesson we'll explore controls that enable you to take full control over the luminance levels in your photos.

In Dreamweaver CS6, Adobe has streamlined the integration between Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Learn how to take images directly from Photoshop to Dreamweaver. Then, see how to optimize the images and edit them in Photoshop using Adobe's round-trip editing feature.

Build essential Adobe Photoshop CS5 skills to produce images that look great, load fast on the web, and work well in Adobe Flash Professional. We'll reveal optimization techniques for making images look their best, debunk web resolution myths, show quick and easy ways to correct composition, tone, and color, and demonstrate how to recover image detail using Camera Raw on JPEG files. You'll learn how to automate many common tasks without creating complex Photoshop Actions, plus discover many other Photoshop shortcuts. By adopting these workflow tips, you’ll save time on everyday tasks and have more fun.

Fill your background with repeating images or any image you choose. Muse will handle optimization when you publish.

Ryan Stewart explores a handy optimization technique for the Blackberry PlayBook that allows you to easily incorporate images into list components for your mobile applications.

Mobile devices can have a hard time processing complex vector graphics. With Flash Professional CS5.5 you now have the ability to export complex vector graphics as an easier-to-process bitmap while still retaining the graphic in vector format in Flash Pro. Paul Trani takes you through this process and shows you how to cache vector graphics as bitmap images.

Learn essential Photoshop CS5 skills to produce images that look great, load fast on the web, and work well in Flash Professional. We'll reveal optimization tools and techniques for making images look their best, while debunking web resolution myths. Discover easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail. Learn how to enhance JPEG files using Camera Raw and how to control optimization settings for embedded bitmaps in Flash Professional. And, get tips for optimizing your workstation for fast performance. This session is a must for anyone who works with images for web and interactive design.