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.

Master the use of gradients in Illustrator to quickly add a 3-dimensional aspect to background colors or objects.

Have you ever tried to match color from shots captured on different cameras, or from footage shot on the same camera, but under different lighting conditions? In this episode of Short and Suite, Karl Soule continues to explore Color Finesse workflows inside Adobe After Effects CS5. He shows you how to use the bundled Color Finesse plug-in to neutralize white balance in your shots in order to create a common starting point for creative color grading.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne demonstrates what you can do in Lightroom’s Develop module to enhance your photographs using color and tonality to change the mood and atmosphere of an image . We all know that the goal is to capture the best photograph in camera, but what happens when we aren’t at the right place at the right time? Julieanne will show you how to make subtle changes to increase the photograph’s emotional impact.

In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how to select multiple images to work together as diptychs and triptychs. Learn how to select photographs with similar attributes such as color and shape, mood and lighting, line and form will help to unify two (or more) photographs, perhaps even creating new meaning through the relationship of the imagery.

Convert an image to black-and-white. Use presets to adjust the style of the image. Then, use sliders to adjust the light and contrast. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Convert an image to black-and-white. Use presets to adjust the style of the image. Then, use sliders to adjust the light and contrast.

Martin shares his inner thinking on model selection, lighting, camera angles, hair and makeup, and how they each play a part in creating the final look