Learn how to trace placed images into Illustrator CS4 with a number of different methods. Redraw a logo, and redraw a map as well. Also take a hand drawn image that contains line work and convert it to vectors with the Live Trace Feature.

In Photoshop CS4 adjustments are easier to find, easier to use and are completely non-destructive. Learn how to work 200% faster!

With the new integration between Dreamweaver CS4 and Photoshop CS4 you work faster than ever. In less than a minute we'll show you just how much faster.

Colin Fleming continues his series on digital books by showing you how InDesign can predict how your documents will look when exported to ePub.

In this episode, Rufus Deuchler shows you how easy it has become to add interactivity to your Adobe InDesign CS4 documents.

Gabriel Powell introduces you to the Camera Raw feature. This tutorial is taken from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Learn by Video - the official training for the Adobe Certified Associate exam: www.peachpit.com/learnbyvideo.

Gabriel Powell shows you how to select, compare, and present images in Adobe Bridge. This tutorial is from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Learn by Video - the official training for the Adobe Certified Associate exam: www.peachpit.com/learnbyvideo.

View a preview of the innovative new Learn by Video series, a complete training program that includes up to 19 hours of high-quality video instruction and is the official training curriculum for the Adobe Certified Associate exam.

Learn how to use the revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions.

Get immediate feedback from clients using the new Share My Screen feature found in all CS4 Design Premium applications. This free service allows you to share what you are doing in real time!

Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost goes over the time saving advantages and amazing functionality Camera Raw 5 provides you in Photoshop CS4.

Turn a Photoshop layout into a working web page faster than ever. Adobe Web Evangelist Greg Rewis shows you how in Adobe Fireworks CS4.

Emphasis and balance help enrich an image, as Rob Sheppard explains in this tutorial.

Rob Sheppard shares the 4 key controls of levels, curves, hue and saturation in Photoshop CS3.

Learning how to use your digital SLR is important. In this tutorial, Rob Sheppard will teach you how to set up your camera for optimal use in various settings.

Determine how many photos your camera shoots with a single press of your shutter button with this class about drive modes with Rick Sammon.

Setting the exposure can be difficult, especially when there is an array of settings. Learn with Rob Sheppard how to set exposure for the highest-quality image.

Rick Sammon explains how to explore to find an optimal angle to achieve the best picture. This tutorial is part of the Digital Photography A-Z, Take Better Photos! Course at xTrain.

The wild west is a great scene to learn with Rick Sammon about background settings when shooting a subject with your digital camera.

Landscape photography isn't always easy. Rick Sammon and Rob Sheppard show how to utilize light settings, shutter speed and setting the background for the ultimate photo.

Rob Sheppard shares some tips on controls to use in Adobe Camera Raw, such as cropping, luminance, lens corrections and sharpening.

Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost shows you how Photoshop CS4 will help you with it’s intelligent scaling, alignment and auto-blending.

Set up your workspace for easier image navigation and zooming. Make non-destructive color adjustments and layer mask refinements.

Use the Photo Downloader Utility included with Photoshop. Retrieve images from a digital camera. Organize photos on a hard drive. Name images.

Correct the brightness and contrast of an image using editable adjustment layers. Resize image thumbnails. Adjust vibrance and saturation.

Retouch blemishes using the Healing Brush and the Patch tool. Set a source point, clone areas, and paint over scars, pimples, and age spots.

Select one portion of an image. Use the Magic Wand, Brush, and Move tools to perform independent edits.

Get an overview of how to work with layers in Photoshop. Use the Color Range command and invert an image. Jump an image to an independent layer.

Adjust the colors in a layered composition using the Color Balance, Hue/Saturation, and Brightness/Contrast adjustment layers. Resize the Layers panel.

Develop raw photographs using Adobe Camera Raw. Navigate the Raw panels. Adjust the Temperature and Tint sliders. Use the White Balance tool.

Crop and rotate images using the Crop tool. Review the angle of rotation with the Rotate View tool.

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.

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.

Save modified images from Photoshop. Use the Smart Sharpen filter and add a Color Balance layer. Choose a file format for saving images.

Make color and tonal adjustments using an easy layer-based workflow with the improved Adjustments panel.

You’ll be amazed how much faster you can fine tune your images with the new Adjustments and Masks Panel in Photoshop CS4. Julieanne Kost shows you how.

Use the improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools with the Protect Tones setting to achieve subtle and seamless corrections.

Use improved Auto-Align and Auto-Blend features to correct vignetting, extend depth of field, or create a scene collage or spherical panorama.

Apply color and tonal adjustments to areas of a photo, like traditional dodging and burning, with the Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter.

Use 2D and 3D measurements, multiple counts and visual representations, and scale marker refinements on medical images.

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

Create PSD documents in Photoshop that contain 3D object layers and animate and composite the 3D object layers in After Effects.

Use 3D tools to manipulate 3D objects and scenes. Paint on the surface of a 3D object, including painting on textures and bumps.

Create realistic 3D images by using the Scene, Mesh, Materials, and Lights tabs in the 3D panel. Animate properties of 3D objects.

Rotate images without distortion, for easier painting, drawing, or editing at an angle. Zoom, pan, paint, and draw with continuous smoothness.

Bring photos from Lightroom to Photoshop. Edit photos as Smart Objects, automatically merge into panoramas and high-dynamic range images.

Import Photoshop files into Fireworks. Retain font attributes, keep layers intact. Fine-tune tradeoffs between editability and consistent appearance.

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

Create a sequence-ready Photoshop file, import a layered PSD, play Photoshop video, and use Photoshop rotoscoping, in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Learn the must-have skills for working with Photoshop and digital images, including color correction, masking, image restoration, and retouching. Terry White will answer the most frequently asked questions on working with digital images and more.

Learn essential skills for using Photoshop CS4 to produce images that look great and load fast for the web and for use with Flash Professional. We'll reveal hidden optimization tools and quick techniques for making images look their best, and more.

Shellie Hall explores typography using InDesign, touching on topics such as type styles, characters, glyphs, and architecture. This tutorial is part of the InDesign CS3: Document Creation Workflow Course at xTrain.

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.

Construct sophisticated documents of any length, whether your output is to a printer or to a PDF, eBook, the Web, or Flash. Preview new InDesign features.

Create a new document in InDesign from the File menu or Welcome screen. Navigate the Welcome screen. Adjust settings for the new document.

Create new text frames using Smart Guides. Align text using vertical justification and resize text frames. Add placeholder text using the Type tool.

Apply character-level formatting attributes to text. Locate and select text and fonts. Increase type size and change the leading value.

Assign paragraph-level text formatting attributes. Justify or align text to the left and right margins. Indent text to indicate new paragraphs.

Create and assign paragraph styles to replicate the character- and paragraph-level formatting attributes used on a regular basis.

Place text from word processing programs into InDesign documents. Flow InDesign text into multiple columns. Learn new keyboard shortcuts.

Import and place images into an InDesign document. Access the Links panel using keyboard shortcuts. Use the Links panel to manage multiple images.

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.

Customize the Links panel to suit your needs. Add the categories you want and then sort the links by category.

Walk through creating and applying text conditions, and hiding them to create different versions of a document. Save time by creating condition sets.

When one or more objects on a page is rotated, learn how to rotate the spread view to make easy edits. Discover a number of navigation tips to save time.

Learn how Live Preflight can flag potential problems while you work. Create a preset to determine which errors are flagged, and learn how to correct them.

Create cross-references that can be updated quickly when the target text or pagination changes. Create a custom cross-reference format.

Take advantage of Smart Guides when creating, moving, rotating, and aligning objects. Learn how to avoid clutter in your layout.

Learn how to apply a character style to any text that matches the GREP expression you specify. Make the GREP style part of a paragraph style.

Rufus Deuchler shows you how the new Live Preflight feature in Adobe InDesign CS4 alerts you to potential problems in real time so you can quickly navigate to the error, and keep working.

Let Rufus Deuchler, Design Evangelist be your guide as he shows you how to manage edits across multiple files in a single project with the new multiple artboards feature in Illustrator CS4.

Adobe Design Evangelist Rufus Deuchler gives a tour of the new Links Panel in Adobe InDesign CS4, which saves you time by letting you find and manage your links faster and easier.

Learn how to create interactive forms using InDesign and Acrobat.

Create a rich layout in InDesign prior to exporting to XFL. Then add animation in Flash Professional.

Create interactive InDesign documents that include buttons, hyperlinks and page transitions. Then export to SWF for playback in Flash Player.

Export an InDesign document to XFL. Edit the resulting file in Flash Pro while preserving the visual appearance of the original.

Learn about some exciting new features in CS4: document windows, multiple artboards, gradients, appearances, and the Recolor Artwork dialog box.

Start a new document in Illustrator CS4 using the Welcome screen. Adjust settings in the New Document dialog box. Establish multiple artboards.

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.

Work with text inside Illustrator CS4. Use the Type tool to create a basic text object. Format text using the Type tool menus in the Control Palette.

Create point text and path text. Format text using the Control palette. Use keyboard shortcuts to reduce text size and change the leading.

Get introduced to fill and stroke. Access the Swatches panel to use preset colors or create custom shades. Add strokes from the Appearance panel.

Use Illustrator’s Scale and Rotate tools. Access the Transform panel. Learn keyboard shortcuts for transforming graphics. Use reference points.

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

Fill and stroke objects according to how they overlap and intersect using Live Paint. Use the Live Paint bucket to convert objects into a group.

Join Design Evangelist Rufus Deuchler as he shows how you can save time when applying and editing fills, strokes, effects and more with the new Appearance panel in Illustrator CS4.

Use the Appearance panel to manage attributes such as effects and fills. Use the Graphics Styles panel to reuse combinations of attributes.

Learn how smart guides can intuitively and unobtrusively guide drawing. Learn to quickly and easily align objects to another key object.

Create up to 100 artboards of any size and then export and print them in different ways to create multiple assets for a single project.

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 to use the Separations Preview panel to proof and fix your color separations before exporting your files and sending them to a printer.

Create and save elliptical gradients with full or partial transparency. Learn to use the interactive Gradient tool and Gradient panel.

Learn to export Illustrator files with multiple artboards to Flash, set options for export and view the art in the Flash library and Timeline.

Move among CS4 design applications easily with the common interface elements. Adapt each to your style with a preset or custom workspace.

Browse, search, and modify Kuler color themes directly in your CS4 application. Include them in your workflow by using the Swatches panel.

Use ConnectNow to share your screen with other users online, directly from the interface of your CS4 application.