In this Quick Tip, Julieanne will show you a few of her favorite uses for the little-known Painter tool in Lightroom 4.

The Blob Brush tool in Illustrator is the fastest way to draw crisp, sharp vector graphics that have a natural feel to them.

Learn essential techniques from one of the original pioneers in digital painting and a master at painting in Photoshop CS5. Watch as John Derry shows how to quickly and easily enhance your images with the new realistic painting tools in Photoshop CS5. See how you can transform your images and designs subtly or to the extreme to get amazing results. You'll walk away knowing killer tips and tricks along with new painting ideas that are sure to add to your Photoshop skills.

Discover the many design, motion, and digital imaging possibilities in Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended with Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Explore the latest hot features in this hands-on session that will cover Content-Aware Fill, improved selection tools, Puppet Warp, painting tools, 3D capabilities, and so much more. You'll learn how to create mind-blowing effects — the same ones used by leading professionals today — and get your work done fast.

Masking tools in Photoshop are very powerful, but there are times when you need to make manual adjustments. This tutorial gives you the tools you need to understand how to tweak and mask and paint in isolated areas.

New in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended - Easily take your imagery and designs in new artistic directions with natural and realistic painting effects. The new Mixer Brush lets you define multiple colors on a single tip to paint with subtle color blends, or you can use a dry brush to blend a photo’s colors to create a beautiful painting. New Bristle Tips enable you to easily paint with lifelike, naturally textured brush strokes using defined bristle properties like shape, length, and stiffness, and you can experiment away by adding Bristle Tips to a variety of Photoshop brush tools.

Paint expressively with vectors that look like natural media brushstrokes using the new Bristle Brush in Illustrator CS5.

Work faster with everyday tools in Illustrator CS5. Draw behind, disregarding stacking order, and draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software, designers will be able to express ideas faster and more naturally, and will discover new possibilities to deliver ideas in digital media without writing code. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5 and intuitive object object-selection features in Adobe InDesign CS5. Turn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.

The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.

View the top 5 Photoshop CS5 photo editing software features. Russell Brown, Photoshop senior creative director, presents his favorites from over 100 new features, including Content-Aware Fill, Puppet Warp, HDR Pro, realistic paint brushes, and new selections tools for the trickiest elements like hair.

Create, preflight and publish documents faster. New and enhanced tools and on-object controls help speed up and simplify repetitive, everyday tasks such as selecting and editing frames and frame content, adjusting the white space between images, or creating grids. The ability to create pages with different sizes in a single InDesign file, and other productivity features in InDesign CS5 let you complete your page layout in fewer steps.

Achieve beautiful paint effects using lifelike brush strokes in Photoshop Extended and expressive Vector-Painting Brushes in Illustrator, or use 3D Extrusion Tools in Photoshop Extended to create artwork that will stand out in print and digital media.

The Clone Stamp tool got one of the best upgrades in CS4. The Clone Stamp brush now has a preview that let's you see exactly what you're about to paint with and exactly where to place the newly cloned area.

In this Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended tutorial, Russell Brown shows you how to create a tiled pattern and apply it to an image so that you can paint with patterns.

Create cool animated “Liquid” effects using the paint tool in After Effects CS4 and imported Layer Styles from Photoshop. Learn how easy it is to make realistic animated drips.

Retouch blemishes using the Healing Brush and the Patch tool. Set a source point, clone areas, and paint over scars, pimples, and age spots.

Use 3D tools to manipulate 3D objects and scenes. Paint on the surface of a 3D object, including painting on textures and bumps.

Use the selection and painting tools in Photoshop to efficiently rotoscope. Exchange files between Photoshop and After Effects.

Use the selection and painting tools in Photoshop to efficiently rotoscope. Exchange files between Photoshop and After Effects.

Watch as GridIron Software presents Flow, a new way to manage your assets, and Nucleo Pro, a must have plug-in for Adobe After Effects.

Watch as MOTU's Dave Roberts presents their new firewire based hardware solution that is compatible with Premiere Pro CS3.

Join Matrox as they showcase how their hardware tightly integrates with CS3 Production Premium to provide unparalleled real-time results.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.