In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne show you the difference between opening a raw file as a pixel based layer verses a Smart Object and the advantages of both approaches.

Pixels are the building blocks of images and in this lesson you'll learn about their basic properties and how they function.

In this lesson you'll combine multiple documents and use the tools and techniques you've learned about so far to make a multi-layered collage.

There are several advantages to the newly redesigned Crop tool in Photoshop CS6. In this video tutorial, Julieanne demonstrates the refined interface, new features, customizable presets, enhanced tools and essential shortcuts that will make cropping easier than ever.

Cropping is one of the most common operations in Photoshop. So it's only fitting that the Crop tool has experienced a quantum leap in CS6. In this movie, watch how to preview the angle of your image to confirm that your crop is plumb. You can revisit a crop any time you like, so you never waste effort. And by default, the Crop tool hides pixels instead of permanently deleting them.

If you take advantage of the RAW capture option in your digital camera, you'll need to convert that RAW capture to actual pixel values, and in this lesson you'll learn the basics of this important task.

Vector-based shape layers now behave very much like vector shapes in Illustrator, InDesign, and other Adobe applications. Learn how to apply fills, including None, as well as solid, gradient, and dashed strokes. Plus, you have stacking and alignment controls, as well as the option to snap the edges to the pixel grid.

Get creative with your digital video using the Motion workspace in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Make basic adjustments to color balance, tone, curves, and more. Or experiment with one-of-a-kind video-editing features including lens corrections and the ability to apply stunning, hardware-accelerated effects filters with the Pixel Bender plug-in.

Apply show-stopping effects to your images with the Adobe Pixel Bender Plug-in for Photoshop CS5, an emerging technology available on Adobe Labs. Pixel Bender offers dozens of new hardware-accelerated filters for one-of-a-kind looks and dramatic results.

In this video demo, Jon Brandt shows you a sneak peek of a potential new feature for searching through a large library of images by identifying images that contain the same people, backgrounds, landmarks, etc.

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.

Thinking of building a tablet application and don't have time to go native on Android, iOS, and Blackberry Tablet OS? Come learn how you can build amazing experiences across all of these platforms even faster than native. We'll look at how to support varying screen sizes, resolutions, and pixel densities, and how this thing called Adobe Creative Suite can help.

Join this session as we explore how to rapidly build HTML5 desktop and mobile applications using Sencha technologies. Ext JS and Sencha Touch are frameworks enabling development of pixel-perfect, cross-browser apps that look and feel like native applications. The frameworks are built on web standards (HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS), require no browser plug-ins, and can integrate with any server-side back end such as ColdFusion, PHP, or Java. Learn how to use Sencha Designer to create rich interfaces for the web in an easy-to-use visual environment.

Join developer Jesse Freeman to get insight into how to take advantage of blitting in desktop, web, and mobile Flash apps. With over seven years of experience developing in Adobe Flash, Freeman has worked for VW, Tommy Hilfiger, Heavy, MLB, the New York Jets, HBO, and many more. By looking at real-world examples of blitting such as The Johnny Cash Project, HBO.com, and others, you'll get a better understanding of how to use blitting techniques in your own projects.

Join Mordy Golding as he demonstrates an eye-opening approach to using this powerful, vector-based software to create wireframes and pixel-perfect graphics for web and mobile projects. Learn how to integrate with other web applications and to generate HTML5 and CSS3 content right from Adobe Illustrator. Think Illustrator isn't used for web and interactive design? Think again!

Time Remapping, or “Speed Ramps” in some programs, is a visually dynamic editing technique that we can’t seem to get enough of these days. Premiere Pro has a unique and powerful way to control not only the speed changes, but also the transition from one speed to another. See how easy it is to create and edit time changes directly in the timeline and how to copy and paste this same keyframes right into After Effects. As an added bonus we’ve included Timewarp in After Effects which allows you to create new intermediate frames with the ultra smooth Pixel Motion effect.

Discover some of my favorite advanced techniques for working with the new Adobe Pixel Bender Plug-in and Adobe Photoshop CS5. This technique will demonstrate how to use this new filter in combination with Smart Objects.

In this episode I'll show you how to work with both object layers and pixel layers in the various Adobe Creative Suite 5 products. See how to use layers in InDesign CS5 and then see how to composite with Layers in Photoshop CS5.

See how te next-generation 3D APIs coming in Adobe Flash Player will make it easy to display 3D objects in Flash. Pixel Bender 3D takes Adobe's existing Pixel Bender 2D technology and brings it into the third dimension to make it easy to create great-looking 3D objects. Learn about boning and skinning, vertex shaders, and material shaders.

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.

Learn how to blend the digital and the physical from natural/accurate color definitions to "presses" as a service. Nathan Moroney, color scientist for Hewlett Packard Labs, will present ways to take your beautiful digital work to tangible, physical creations. Moroney will explore emerging color print technologies ranging from pixels with color names to novel finishing techniques and print substrates.

Create sharp web graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS5. Join Terry White as he takes a look at some of the little known new Adobe Illustrator CS5 features including Pixel Preview, Align to Pixel Grid and the Artboards Panel.

Use the new pixel-aligned feature to create web graphics that fit optimally with your finished product, and take a peek in Preview mode.

Learn how to eliminate image distortion by identifying the pixel aspect ratio of your assets, and choosing sequence presets to match.

Create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid to generate clean, sharp graphics for the web and mobile devices in Illustrator CS5.

With Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, when you remove an image element, Content-Aware Fill replaces the missing pixels almost magically. This revolutionary new tool matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks like the deleted content never existed.

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.

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.

Maintain clarity of individual pixels for easy edits.

If you've ever had to scale an image in Photoshop, you've probably noticed that Photoshop squishes or stretches it. Content Aware Scaling instead inserts (or removes) bands of pixels throughout the image and keeps the image resolution totally intact.

In this episode, Paul Burnett continues to bring his Adobe AIR application to life by using a Pixel Bender filter to spherize the glass in his project.

Quickly create and edit masks from the Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase explores the new Pixel Bender-based effects in Flex 4, such as CrossFade and Wipe. Learn how to use these effects to create cool transitions in your Flex 4 applications.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase continues his exploration of the new Pixel Bender-based effects in Flex 4, this time focusing on Shaders.

Instructor Richard Harrington explains how to mix images with square pixels and non-square pixels in Photoshop. Brought to you by Creative COW.

In this After Effects tutorial, Creative Cow leader Eran Stern will show you how to create a simple morph effect using time remapping and pixel motion.

Resize an image using the Image Size command. Print an image at a certain size or change the pixels inside the image. Email images or post them on the web.

Convert 2D images into 3D objects or scenes by using DICOM, pixel layers, gradient map, or Vanishing Point.

Sharpen the detail inside an image. Use the Smart Sharpen filter to exaggerate the difference between light and dark pixels and create a sharp edge.

Join Ryan Taylor and venture into the world of Pixel Bender, Adobe's powerful new pixel shader language.

Join Terry White as he covers the basics! If you spend most of your time thinking in pixels instead of inches, ActionScript instead of PostScript, and RGB instead of CMYK, then this introduction to InDesign CS4 is just for you.

Converting a pixel image to a vector image can be very useful in the creative and business world. Learn great techniques for converting to vector images using Adobe InDesign.

Join Aaron Adams as he ventures into the land of right-brain thinking and discover helps you discover your inner pixel. Professional UI design talent is not always considered or in the budget for enterprise Flex development projects.

In this episode Paul shows how simple it is to use Pixel Bender filters in your Flash files. With a little bit of AS3 you can bring your Flash files to life with a huge range of new filters.

Viewer has a mysterious problem with the text tool in Photoshop. Kush thinks it is just a matter of understanding the unit for measuring font size, points.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to use the refine edges command in Photoshop CS3 to enhance your selections.

Join Mario Klingemann as he discusses how ActionScript developers have been able to manipulate pixels since Flash Player 8, but many have yet to fully leverage all of this powerful functionality.

Photoshop CS4 does things like never before. Colin Smith shows you the new viewing options. Smoothly zoom, pan and move around your image with complete freedom. Discover the Flick-Pan and pixel grid tools too.

Create and name compositions. Select NTSC, PAL, and film presets, pixel aspect ratios, and frame rates. Nest multilayer compositions.

Create and name compositions. Select NTSC, PAL, and film presets, pixel aspect ratios, and frame rates. Nest multilayer compositions.

Learn the differences between shape layers, paths and pixel filled shapes. Whether you want to add arrows or use a custom shape to mask an image, here's how.

Converting a pixel image to a vector image can be very useful in the creative and business world. Learn great techniques for converting to vector images using Adobe InDesign.