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Getting Started with Photoshop CS5 : Checking for Updates and Patches

The Adobe Updater Preferences dialog box allows you to set update options for Photoshop and other installed Adobe products, such as Bridge.

Getting Started with Photoshop CS5 : Changing Image Size and Resolution

Photoshop supports documents up to 300,000 pixels in either dimension, with up to 56 channels per file. Photoshop offers three file formats for saving documents greater than 2 GB: PSB, Photoshop RAW, and TIFF.

QuarkXPress 8 : Typography - Working with tabs

In general, use a first line indent to indent the first line of a paragraph rather than entering a tab. Each tab has to be entered manually, but you can apply a first line indent through a paragraph style sheet, which saves time and ensures consistency.

QuarkXPress 8 : Typography - Formatting characters and paragraphs

In addition to familiar controls such as font, size, color, and type style, QuarkXPress offers character attributes such as opacity and scaling. Other special effects for text are box based, such as the ability to skew or flip all the text in a box.

Corel Painter X : Graphic Techniques - Vector Values

Speaking of categories overlapping, there is some common ground between pixel-based programs, such as Painter or Photoshop, and vector-based products (Adobe Illustrator reigns supreme in that arena).

Corel Painter X : Graphic Techniques - Fine Art Printmaking

A woodcut or wood block print is a labor-intensive technique that involves making several “plates,” each carved into the surface of the wood to generate a portion of the final image.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Customizing - Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts (part 2)

You can change the shortcut applied to a command. However, not all commands have shortcuts assigned to them. So you can also assign a shortcut to commands.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Customizing - Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts (part 1)

InDesign ships with three sets of shortcuts. The default set is the one that the Adobe engineers created. This set uses most of the shortcuts found in Adobe products such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop.

CorelDRAW X5 : Setting Up Your Document Page (part 2) - Controlling Page Background Color & Using Layouts and Labels

CorelDRAW X5 provides specialized layouts that are just a few clicks away. These timesavers are not on the property bar—you need to open the Options dialog to choose the one you want from the Layout drop-down box.

CorelDRAW X5 : Setting Up Your Document Page (part 1)

Every new file you create, every file your coworker shares with you, and every CorelDRAW template you use has its own set of page properties that have two attributes: physical properties and display preferences.

Illustrator CS5 : Using the Edit Commands

You can use the Paste in Front and Paste in Back options to position the object you're pasting relative to other objects.

Illustrator CS5 : Using Illustrator Modes

Illustrator offers several options when it comes to how you view your illustrations. This section explains how to discover these views as well as create and customize your own views.

Illustrator CS5 : Navigating Around Your Document

When you specify a magnification, you don't change the document. Rather, you change how you view the document. For this reason, you can never undo any type of magnification-level change.

Dreamweaver CS5 : Create a Drop-Down Menu

You can create many interactive features using Dreamweaver's Spry widgets. One of the most popular is a drop-down menu, which makes it possible to include a drop-down list of links in a navigation bar.

Dreamweaver CS5 : Introducing Spry and Behaviors

Some of the most advanced Web site features are created by combining HTML and CSS with more advanced technologies, such as JavaScript.

Getting Started with Photoshop CS5 : Working with Smart Objects

A Smart Object is a container in which you can embed raster (e.g., PSD, JPEG, TIFF) or vector (e.g., AI, PDF, EPS) image data from another Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator file that retains all its original characteristics and remains fully editable.

Getting Started with Photoshop CS5 : Importing Raw Data from a Digital Camera

Raw image file formats are available with most mid- to high-end digital cameras and contain information about how the image was taken. The raw format turns off all camera adjustments, and saves the image information to a digital memory card.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Arranging Document Windows & Changing Screen Modes

You can disable floating document window docking by choosing InDesign, Preferences, Interface (Mac) or Edit, Preferences, Interface (Win) and deselecting the panel preference.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Customizing Your Workspace & Working with the Tools Panel

InDesign enables you to save your workspace environment so that you don’t have to spend time repositioning panels on the screen every time you launch the application.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Managing Windows and Panels - Panel Controls & Organizing Panels

To conserve screen space, you can regroup panels by docking them together. You can also stack panel windows into a vertical column. Panels and panel groups can also be collapsed vertically to create more room for you to work.

Working with Illustrator CS5 Interface (part 2) - Using the panels

Illustrator has 34 standard panels and an unlimited number of library panels (for swatches, symbols, brushes, styles, and more), all of which can remain open while you work on your document panel.

Working with Illustrator CS5 Interface (part 1) - Working in the document window & Tools panel

If you've not maximized the document window in Windows, the document's name appears in the document window's title bar rather than in Illustrator's title bar.

What is New in Illustrator CS5 ? (part 2)

Multiple artboards, introduced in Illustrator CS4, now have their own panel to help you quickly locate and organize your artboards.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 : The Dreamweaver Test Drive (part 5)

Although the Left and Right options for an image’s Align property are quick ways to force text to wrap around an image, they aren’t valid options for the “strict” versions of HTML or XHTML, or for HTML5. CSS provides a more flexible technique—known as a float—to achieve this effect.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 : The Dreamweaver Test Drive (part 4)

If you don’t happen to have a Windows computer, a Mac, and every browser ever made, you can take advantage of Adobe’s BrowserLab service, which takes screenshots of your page in a variety of browsers running on a variety of operating systems.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 : The Dreamweaver Test Drive (part 3) - Adding Images and Text

You click this steering-wheel icon to open the Code Navigator window. That window lists the CSS styles related to whatever page element you selected.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 : The Dreamweaver Test Drive (part 2) - Creating and Saving a Web Page

Alternatively, you could type a color value, like #333333, into the box beside the palette square. That’s hexadecimal notation, which is familiar to HTML coding gurus. Both the palette and the hexadecimal color-specifying field appear fairly often in Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 : The Dreamweaver Test Drive (part 1) - Getting Dreamweaver in Shape

Before you start working in Dreamweaver, make sure the program’s set up to work for you. In the following steps, you’ll double-check some key Dreamweaver preference settings and organize your workspace using the Workspace Layout feature.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 : Creating a Web Page

If you don’t want to deal with the New Document window every time you create a page, choose Edit→Preferences in Windows (Dreamweaver→Preferences on a Mac).

Getting Started with Photoshop CS5 : Working with Non-Square Pixels & Inserting Images in a Document

When importing an image created by a square-pixel graphics program into a video editing program such as Adobe Premiere, the square pixels are automatically scaled to non-square pixels for video encoding.