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.

Create sophisticated photographic blur effects in Photoshop Elements 11. In this tutorial, you'll see how to use the new Tilt-Shift Guided Edit to create a miniature effect. Then you'll learn how to refine the results with the new Refine Edge selection option in Expert mode.

Selection is a keystone skill, and learning good selection techniques puts you on the road to generating great images. Here are a few basics, when it comes to selection in Adobe Photoshop.

Selection is a keystone skill, and learning good selection techniques puts you on the road to generating great images. Here are a few basics, when it comes to selection in Adobe Photoshop.

Learn how to easily create and save eye catching color themes in Adobe Ideas sketches.

Discover how the new Bounding Boxes work to help you select and manipulate elements in a scene. Learn about the new Inverted "V" pattern on layers, how to use the selection indicators to identify layers and elements, and how you can edit a 3D element by manipulating its Bounding Box.

In this lesson you'll see how you can use a selection as the basis of a targeted adjustment.

Learn how to speed up the multi-cam editing process. See how you can use keyboard shortcuts and the multi-cam source monitor to switch between views.

There are lots of different ways to select items in Illustrator, including the Selection and Direct Selection tools, the Select Similar options, and the Layers panel. We'll explore the various options in this video.

This tutorial by Adobe Community Professional Tom Green shows how to work with the selection tools in Flash Catalyst. He shows how to select, align, and manipulate objects and shapes.

Russell Brown uses the Camera Fill feature to create beautiful textured backgrounds and layers. Learn to create custom patterns and textures using your tablet camera and Photoshop Touch.

Learn everything you need to know about warping your images. Russell Brown gives a complete overview of how to use this powerful feature in Photoshop Touch.

Use Photoshop to create 3D shapes and compelling effects on type, shapes and selections.

In this episode, you'll learn how to use the new Content Aware Fill in Adobe Photoshop CS5 to quickly remove objects from images.

In this episode, you'll learn how to use the new Content Aware Fill in Adobe Photoshop CS5 to quickly remove objects from images.

See how Photoshop CS5 easily selects intricate image elements such as hair; eliminates background color around selection edges; and automatically varies selection edges and creates perfect masks using new refinement tools.

Learn how to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective to create the look of realistic depth and distance with the new Perspective drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5. See how the new Perspective Grid tool supports drawing directly on planes of true perspective and the Perspective Selection tool allows objects to be moved, scaled, duplicated, and transformed dynamically in perspective.

Join Greg Rewis, Adobe's principal web evangelist, as he dives into the jQuery framework and demonstrates how easily a few lines of jQuery code can solve everyday web challenges. Using practical examples and "plain English" explanations, Rewis will cover the basics of jQuery, such as syntax and selectors, and examine more advanced topics such as element manipulation, animation, and effects. Along the way, you'll be armed with tips for code optimization and reuse, a selection of useful jQuery plug-ins, and guidance on how to create your own plug-in.

Discover the many design possibilities with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended by exploring the latest design trends from movies, TV, and magazines. This session will cover masks, selections, and creating stunning effects, including working with 3D and video, plus so much more. You'll walk away with killer tips and techniques that take advantage of the magic of Photoshop.

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.

In this video Dan Moughamian shows you how you can use the refine edge command to refine selection or mask edges. This is Tip #65 from Adobe Digital Imaging How-To's Book.

In this video you will learn about altering the curve of a motion in Flash CS5.

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.

Learn how to use manual selection tools to isolate an area of your image for making local adjustments.

Learn about tools in Photoshop Elements that can create selections automatically.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Precisely preview and adjust difficult selections. Output your results to a new layer, mask, or document to creatively combine the selection with new backgrounds.

The new tools to create complex selections in Photoshop CS5 allow both professional long time users to get a great result faster and new users to to get a professional result without tearing their hair out.

The Tags panel in Acrobat 9 Professional shows us PDF document structure. Watch this video to learn how to navigate the Tags panel and find specific Tags from selections that you make.

Use the Selection tool to grab objects or even objects within objects, such as text in a text frame or images within an image frame. Learn how to click through a grouped object to an object behind.

Understand the differences between the object and merge drawing modes in Flash. Toggle between the two modes when creating shapes, make shape selections, and convert drawing objects to merge.

Make rectangular and elliptical selections with the marquee tools or freeform selections with the Lasso tool. Constrain, add or subtract from, and move selections. Use modifier keys to change the tools' behavior.

Choose the Selection tool to select an object or group of objects or the Direct Selection tool to select individual paths or anchor points. Choose the Group Selection tool to select nested groups. Use modifier keys to add or subtract from selections.

Navigate the stacking order in an Illustrator document by using the Selection tool. Select and isolate grouped objects and go into Outline Mode to view them more clearly. Learn how to select objects beneath the selected layer.

With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with new Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then easily apply rich materials like chrome, glass, and cork to explore different looks. And take your designs even further by leveraging the Adobe 3D Forge engine for advanced editing of your 3D models.

Take the time and frustration out of making precise image selections. New Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended offers better edge detection and masking results in less time—even when you select the trickiest image elements, like hair. Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with new color decontamination capabilities.

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.

Watch how you can make short work of everyday layout tasks using these intuitive productivity tools.

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.

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.

Whether you're helping corporate clients communicate through images, expressing your vision in fine art, or capturing life's moments at weddings, in portraits, or for news media, you're driven by the art of your craft. That's why professional photographers have long relied on Adobe Photoshop software for the ultimate in creative control and image quality. New Photoshop CS5 helps you achieve the visual and emotional effects you’re after with re-engineered features for reducing and adding grain, performing post-crop vignetting, and sharpening. CS5 reinvents HDR imaging with Exposure Merge, which makes it easy to preserve the full tonal range of a scene—or go from photorealistic to wildly surrealistic—and automatically remove ghost artifacts. It delivers new black-and-white conversion features and a GPU-enabled crop experience. It accelerates your workflow with powerful new selection technology, integrated Adobe Mini Bridge for faster file browsing, and cross-platform 64-bit support for faster performance.

Join Worldwide Design Evangelist Terry White as he runs through his 5 favorite Photoshop CS5 features. Included are new enhanced selection abilities and noise reduction tools.

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.

Make fast work of common design and production tasks like image re-touching with magical content aware fill in Photoshop Extended, creating complex shapes with Shape Builder tool in Illustrator, and intuitive object-selection features in InDesign and more.

Terry White shares a few of his favorite new features in CS5 Design Premium including making precision selections, quickly with Photoshop, create expressive graphics easily with variable-width strokes in Illustrator and delivering visually engaging interactive documents that include video, audio and animation with InDesign.

In part 1 of this 2 part episode, Russell Brown shows us his personal tips and techniques on how to extract an image from a green screen background using Adobe Photoshop CS4

Watch an expert guide you through a selection of today's popular web content management systems and learn which one is right for you. This session will include detailed demonstrations of WordPress, Drupal, and the Adobe InContext Editing

Learn from the tried and tested practices of some of the industry's leading digital agencies. SoDA will cover topics to help you improve your business effectiveness including the role of spec work, client selection, contract negotiations, scope creep, and

Learn about the automatic selection tools in Photoshop Elements, which select areas of an image based on color and tone. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Learn how to use the manual selection tools. Check out the Elliptical Marquee, Rectangular Marquee, Lasso, and Quick Selection tools. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Join the retro Adobe movement! With this episode, Dennis will show you how to quickly and easily create a colored eye with Adobe Photoshop. You'll be creating alternate Photoshop icons in no time.

Learn about the automatic selection tools in Photoshop Elements, which select areas of an image based on color and tone.

Learn how to use the manual selection tools. Check out the Elliptical Marquee, Rectangular Marquee, Lasso, and Quick Selection tools.

Use control handles to define the curvature of a segment. Use the Direct Selection tool and the Convert Anchor Point tool to create refined curves.

Reshape path outlines by dragging anchor points with the Selection tool. Align objects using Smart Guides. Use the Reflect tool to flip a path.

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

Instructor Richard Harrington goes even deeper into Photoshop's refine edges command and shows you how to use it to get more accurate selections.

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

Richard Harrington shows you how to use the color range command and how CS4 makes it even easier to make a localized selection.

Learn how to wrap text around a graphic. Use the Selection tool to choose a graphic. Access the Text Wrap panel. Create an offset boundary.

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

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

Instructor Richard Harrington explains how to use the color detail in an image to quickly make a great alpha channel.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to make quick but accurate selections using channels in Photoshop CS3.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to make great selections using channels in Photoshop CS3.

Start by using the Quick Select Tool and Marquee Tool for making a selection in Photoshop CS3. Then, easily modify the selection with the new Refine Edge feature.

Learn the basics of making simple selections in Photoshop CS3, and then apply these selection techniques to a real world monster project.

Create the silky soft look of a dreamy photo in a few seconds. No selections, but a sneaky channel move makes a quick fix. Remove surface blemishes in a few seconds.

Saving a selection as an alpha channel can be quick and easy. This tutorial with instructor Deke McClelland covers the most basic and obvious way to save alpha channels.

Keywords are what guide users to your site or business on any major search engine, as explored by Tony Wright. This tutorial is part of the Search Engine Marketing: Pay Per Click Advertising Course at xTrain.

How to achieve a cool effect by moving a selection from a hi-rez copy to a low-rez image copy. How to create a desktop calendar using your favorite photo. A retouching technique for enlarging the eyes of your subject.

Avoid fringe artifacts in your selection and add a background with the Extract Tool, tips for making a better black and white print, create an adjustable metallic effect using smart objects, tips for using the History Brush.