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.

Learn about a Photoshop tool that allows you to paint in adjustments into specific areas of your photograph. Instead of making broad and global adjustments to your photograph, the Adjustment Brush allows you to paint in exposure, contrast, highlights, or any of the other controls into specific areas. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Learn how to remove distracting elements in a photograph so the viewer can focus on the person in the image. Julieanne Kost uses the Clone tool, Spot Healing tool, and Healing Brush tools to enhance the image without compromising the character of the person. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

This movie demonstrates the new Refine Edge Tool workflow, which is applied after the Roto Brush tool. Chris Meyer explains the x-ray view that shows the alpha channel Refine Edge will create, as well as how to erase an edge refinement.

Watch as Photoshop Product Manager Stephen Nielson demonstrates the new Adobe Camera Raw 8 in Photoshop CC. See how you can apply Camera Raw edits as a filter to any layer or file inside Photoshop CC, and then make enhancements any way you want. And with Camera Raw 8, you get more precise ways to heal images, fix perspective distortions, and create vignettes.

The new Refine Edge tool uses the underlying Roto Brush segmentation boundary to determine what region to refine from frame to frame. Chris Meyer shows you how to make corrective strokes and touch up the alpha using the Paint tool.

Roto Brush & Refine Edge contains a number of parameters that help you fine-tune the results of applying the Refine Edge tool. This movie goes through each of the parameters, demonstrating how to improve your results.

With the addition of the Refine Edge tool in After Effects CC, the underlying Roto Brush effect has seen a few changes in parameter names and ranges. Chris Meyer explains.

See how you can create complex organic designs quickly by painting with a brush made from a photo in Illustrator CC.

Rufus Deuchler, Adobe worldwide evangelist, shows you how to create complex organic designs quickly by painting with a brush made from a photo in Illustrator CC.

Create seamless pattern brushes for use in your design projects. Author Justin Seeley shows you how to use the Auto Generate Corners feature in Adobe Illustrator. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com..

Justin Seeley shows you how to place raster graphics into brushes in Illustrator. You will also learn to control your brush scaling and adjust the brush attributes to fit your individual needs. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com..

Learn how to reposition a subject, clean up a mask, and modify the overall color and tone of your combined photo in Photoshop. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Learn 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. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Discover the new enhancements to Lightroom’s advanced Healing Brush including the ability to heal and clone non-circular brush spots as well as remove easy to miss sensor dust with using the new Visualization slider.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates how to use Hue, Saturation, Luminance and the Adjustment Brush to selectively control color in Lighrroom Note: although this video was recorded in Lightroom, the same techniques are available in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, discover the power of making selective adjustments like dodging and burning, color corrections and noise removal using the Graduated Filter and Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 4. Note: although this video was recorded in Lightroom, the same techniques are available in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6.

Need to fix, enhance, or apply artistic effects just to a specific area of your photo? This tutorial shows you how to use the Smart Brush to select and apply adjustments to a specific photo area with one brushstroke. You'll also learn how to use the Detail Smart Brush to paint on enhancements without making a selection.

Adobe Photoshop Brushes are not just for applying paint to the image; in addition, they work in a variety of ways to help you correct and adjust your images, and Infinite Skills author, Andy Anderson is going to show you how they work. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop.

Learn how to blend images together with Brush Effects inside of Adobe Photoshop Touch.

One fun way of creating shapes is to use the Blob Brush tool in combination with the Eraser tool. In this video we'll use these tools to create a stylized teddy bear.

Learn how to make chages to parts of an image using the Adjustment brush. Applies to Lightroom versions 4 & 5.

Easily remove power lines and other distractions from images in seconds using the new Content-Aware option for the Spot Healing Brush. Make even the trickiest image elements, such as drooping wires, disappear as if they never existed.

In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost demonstrates the power of the Art History brush in Photoshop CS5 and its ability to continuously sample from any history state or snapshot. She will show you how to create compelling, painterly images by making simple changes to the default settings and utilizing a variety of different brush tips and presets.

Adobe introduced the powerful Roto Brush in After Effects CS5 allowing you to increase your productivity when compositing layers together. Colin has some great tips to help you get the most out of Roto Brush including how to help After Effects make the best choices when propagating new frames.

In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost reveals there is far more to the History panel than simply un-doing mistakes. Learn as she reveals little known shortcuts for working with the History Panel, including how to fill with the History Brush, as well as a fluid method for painting between snapshots with no layer or masking knowledge required!

Russell Brown shows you how to use the Spot Healing Brush to remove red eye from an image.

Learn how to use the History Brush Tool in Photoshop to enhance your images.

Easily add some “wow” to specific photo areas using Smart Brush, which lets you paint on 1 of 100 effects and patterns. Smart Brush includes 30 new options in Photoshop Elements 10.

Learn essential techniques for imitating natural painting effects like impasto oils, translucent watercolors, and textured pastels with the new Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5. Jack Davis, award-winning artist, author, and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, will use real-world projects to show how quickly and easily you can enhance and interpret your images and designs — from subtle tweaks to complete expressive transformations. You'll walk away with new painting solutions that are sure to change what you thought was possible in Photoshop and in your own work.

Video Highlights: See how you can paint on effects and patterns to enhance areas of your photos using Smart Brush and the 31 new effects found in Photoshop Elements 10, including Snow, Pencil Sketch, and Oil Pastel. Version 10. http://adobe.ly/AclU32

Video Highlights: See how to make unwanted elements vanish with one stroke of the enhanced Spot Healing Brush, which beautifully blends even the most complex background. Also, instantly fix old or torn photos so you can make new prints.

In this episode, our four presenters demonstrate Flash professional, After Effects, Dynamic Link, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Illustrator.

In this episode, Terry White demonstrates InDesign’s multiple art boards and Adobe Illustrator’s perspective drawing tool and Bristle Brush.

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.

Looking for a more organic way to draw in Illustrator? Bristle Brush is for you. It’s like painting with vectors.

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

See how to easily change a photograph into a painting or create unique artistic effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes.

In this episode, you'll learn new features in Spot Healing Brush Tool in Photoshop CS5 and a new Content-Aware option that makes removing objects from images so much easier.

This tutorial will show you how to create great looking type by applying Illustrator art brushes to your text. Learn how to keep your newly decorated text editable and how to prevent the art brushes from distorting along the text path.

In this tutorial, Sr. Worldwide Evangelist Jason Levine walks you through the techniques for using the Spectral Frequency Display in the Adobe Audition for Mac beta. Learn about when to use subtractive vs. spectral decay-based noise reduction methods, remove hiss & hum visually, and even remove individual sounds using familiar Adobe Photoshop tools like the Marquee, Lasso and Spot Healing Brush.

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Get smooth flawless skin, remove wrinkles and brighten eyes. Whilst the tutorial is very fast moving many of the techniques can be used in more detail to get some fantastic results. Its all non destructive and uses many layers.

Learn how speed the process of photo restoration using the Spot Healing brush and Content-aware Fill.

In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks.

In this video you will learn about content aware scaling in Flash CS5.

The Deco tool was introduced in Flash CS4 but has just come into its own with over two dozen new possibilities. Paul will show you how to use and customize these new brushes.

Apply radical effects, and then precisely paint selected areas back to their original appearance.

Interactively blend canvas colors with lifelike painting strokes.

Colin will show you what the new natural media brushes are all about. Learn how to create a work of art from a photo using the “not much skill required” mixer brush. This one will have you dying to try out these tools.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost covers the Mixer Brush, one of the new painting features in Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Learn how to use the Refine Matte properties in the Roto Brush effect to improve a matte, reduce chatter, remove color spill, and smooth edges.

Realistically mix paint, blending brush and canvas colors with the new Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5. Create a painting from scratch or add painterly effects to a photograph.

Learn how to create a matte by using the Roto Brush tool for selective color correction, without tedious rotoscoping.

Paint lifelike brush strokes with the new bristle tips in Photoshop CS5. Customize bristle qualities ranging from shape and length to thickness and stiffness.

The Blob Brush and Eraser tools perform pathfinder operations behind the scenes as you draw. Draw over existing brush strokes with the Blob Brush to merge the strokes. Select objects before drawing with the Eraser tool to erase only selected areas.

Create original art or pattern brushes, and learn how to adjust segments of a brush pattern in Illustrator CS5.

Learn how to put the new features in After Effects CS5 into action: see how the new Roto Brush, Mocha and and the Mocha Shape plug-in, color LUT support, and more can work in tandem with other CS5 Production Premium tools to transform your podt-production workflows.

Adobe Photoshop software is the tool of choice for designers and web professionals. Now with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush. Create superior composites for print or web layouts with new technology that makes it easy to select even the trickiest image elements, like hair. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels. Easily create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask using new Adobe Repoussé technology. Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photo realistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. And import animated GIFs. Plus so much more.

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

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.

Jim Geduldick, After Effects artist at Offhollywood and leader of the popular AENY user group, shows how the new features in After Effects CS5—as well as new 64-bit plug-ins from The Foundry—are being used in production.

Two of the most important tools in Photoshop are the Clone tool and the Heal Brush Tools. Tackle them both and learn a few extra tips along the way. Retouch an old Photograph and take away spots and creases

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 episode you'll learn how to take advantage of the New Blob Brush in Illustrator CS4 as well as the Eraser Tool introduced in CS3

In this episode, Russell brown shows you how to add presets to brushes in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended.

Use the power of your graphics card to navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Edit at the highest magnification and use the new Rotate View tool to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.

We're going back to Photoshop to teach people how fun and easy it is to create your own grungy textures! This is the first part of a series that will also use After Effects to create a compelling motion graphics animation.

In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Eran Stern demonstrates using paint strokes brushes to automatically morph between path shapes.

Discover the brand new Smart Brush tool. This tool makes it easier than ever to apply an adjustment to an area in an image in just one step. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Join host Dennis Radeke as he shows you how creative gradient wipe effects can be. Learn how to use them, but focus on how to create your own gradient wipes for use in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

Renowned photographer Marcus Bell talks about the tools he uses to capture those fleeting and precious moments in everyday life.

Meet the truly cross-media creatives who guide the Anthropologie brand through the delicate and artful pursuit of form and function.

Discover the brand new Smart Brush tool. This tool makes it easier than ever to apply an adjustment to an area in an image in just one step.

From Tokyo to New York, fashion photographer Maki Kawakita shoots with a keen eye for the dramatic and quirky. Today Maki discusses how she uses the healing brush in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

In this Adobe Illustrator CS4 tutorial, Rufus Deuchler shows many of the the cool things you can do with the new Blob Brush Tool. This easy to use tool opens up many new creative possibilities.

In this Photoshop Tutorial, Chris Orwig reveals his favorite new features and shortcuts in Photoshop CS4 and shows you how to create the perfect brush size.

Draw merged paths and automatically remove redundant points so the path is easy to select and edit. Learn how to use the Eraser and Smooth tools.

Learn about the Blob and Brush tools in Illustrator CS4. Choose a brush style. Change the fill color. Create freeform lines, shapes, and other paths.

The blob brush tool in Illustrator CS4 is a simple and powerful tool. Learn how to customize it and use all the options to create some truly creative illustrations.

Matt Kloskowski explains why camera raw with the adjustment brush and the new adjustments panel are two of the most compelling reasons to upgrade to Photoshop CS4.

Matt Kloskowski demonstrates how to use the new clarity setting in the adjustment brush to enhance your images in Lightroom 2. Recorded at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Chris Orwig reveals how this brand new, unique tool allows you to bring an image to life in Lightoom 2.0. Recorded at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Join Dennis Radeke as he shows off the Levels command and Spot Healing brush in Photoshop, demonstrates basic animation properties in After Effects, and shows two nifty features in Soundbooth.

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.