Is your video footage poorly exposed, or does it have bad color or contrast? Learn easy ways to fix these issues using Adobe Premiere Elements 11. This tutorial shows you how to use the Adjust options in Quick editing mode to apply an automatic fix, or to individually adjust color, lighting, and temperature and tint using sliders and adjustment previews. Also see how to quickly trim clips as you edit them together.

In this video you'll learn how to set up a new Illustrator document. We'll look at options in the New Document dialog box like Width and Height, Color Mode, and Transparency Grid.

We create a fantastic time-lapse using Photoshop CS5 Extended. Thanks to the images from James at www.deepspaceplace.com. Unfortunately he set the white balance on Auto and it needed to be fixed. Not as easy as you would think! We use the color blend mode, and the blend if sliders to fix it. But we also keep the subtle color of the planets.

In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates several ways to use leading lines in order to guide a viewer’s eye through an image including leading towards the primary subject, keeping movement within the frame, and adding tension to a composition.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how the addition of color as well as supporting imagery can help reinforce the mood and message of a composite image that a single photograph may fail to do on it’s own.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne reveals some basic compositing techniques in Photoshop CS5 that she used to illustrate the feeling and mood of Iceland. Discover how easy it is to combine multiple images together using Layers, masking, blend modes, and transparency in Photoshop CS5.

Establishing an intent for artwork, considering the audience and destination, before beginning a project makes it easier to repurpose artwork later. Use New Document Profile settings to define size, artboards, bleed, and color mode for the document.

Explore effects beyond color correction and transitions. Add a four-color gradient. Change the blending mode. Save effects as presets and apply them.

Color models like RGB and CMYK are frightening enough on their own. But Deke says not to worry. RGB and CMYK are for machines. The Lab mode is for you.