For video editing or web and graphic design, you may be forgiven for thinking Adobe Creative Cloud apps are the only viable options. But, you may be surprised to learn about some capable alternatives.
Adobe Photoshop has many ways and tools to help you select areas of an image. But the recent 2014 update introduces a new one which Iain Anderson puts to the test.
Adobe's latest updates for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator come with some excellent new features. Iain Anderson breaks down the important ones in this review.
It's surprising how few Photoshop aficionados use of Smart Objects. In this tutorial, experienced graphic designer and artist, Elaine Ashburn shows how to avoid blurry and unusable images forever.
Photoshop is probably the perfect platform in which to create montages'"or in many of our cases, Frankensteins. Elaine Ashburn shows it's not that scary after all and can have pleasant results.
Feeling the need to dunk something expensive in water without really submerging it? Here's the tutorial for you: we'll be showing you how to fake it using Adobe Photoshop.
For some people the word "design" suggests complexity. But it doesn't have to always be that way. Elaine Ashburn takes a look at how designers are now embracing a less is more mentality.
The pros use it, so why shouldn't you? Francesco Schiavon investigates skin retouching plugin for Photoshop, Portraiture, to find out just how smooth it really is.
GoPro Hero cameras are portable and shoot great video and photos. And it's easy to straighten out the resulting fisheye effect using Photoshop, Final Cut Pro X and other tools.
Why is it whenever you take a photo of friends or family, there's always someone with their eyes closed! Iain Anderson shows how to solve that in this eye-opening Photoshop tutorial.
Photoshop can do virtually anything you can imagine to manipulate (i.e. improve or destroy!) your photographs. Here's how to ditch Photoshop and make your photos beautiful without its magical tools.
They say the entrance to the soul is through the eyes. So you won't want your eyes looking dull in your photos. Francesco Schiavon shows how to grab attention with your eyes in Photoshop.
Making your print adverts stand out from the crowd can be tricky. Elaine Ashburn is here with 6 timely tips to help your well designed adverts create a buzz and start a memorable campaign.
If you've been using Photoshop primarily for image editing your photos there's a whole world of 3D animation to explore. Martin Perhiniak takes you through the essentials of creating a spinning globe.
One of the benefits with Creative Cloud is the regularity with which Adobe can unleash new updates for its user base. And Photoshop CC's recent 14.2 update brings with it many cool new features.
There's drawing apps aplenty available for iPhone. In this overview review, Elaine Ashburn gives 3 popular apps the 5-minute test to see how easy and powerful each one is.
Smart objects can be a life saver, and sanity preserver, when carrying our repetitive editing tasks in Adobe Photoshop. Francesco Schiavon explores the why and how in this illuminating tutorial.
Winter holidays are a great time to take stock of all areas of your life, including your digital life. In this helpful article, Matt Vanacoro explores how to clean up and archive your precious files.
There's no doubt Adobe create industry standard solutions for many creative professionals. But how do their simplified Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements versions fare for the rest of us?
Cars can go fast, right... so why would you stick a vehicle on a road in your Photoshop artwork which looks stationary? Martin Perhiniak shows how to add speed to images in this tutorial.