How to Add Depth of Field

Whether you use the lens blur filter in Photoshop or a plug-in, creating or enhancing the depth of field through software helps focus the viewer on the subject of your photo.

The depth of field effect can be added in Photoshop with the lens blur filter according to this Photoshop Tutorial, but there are […]

Funding Resources for Education

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Federal funding resources for educational technology software and curriculum-related integration at schools and districts are available through numerous government programs.

See whether your purchases of Adobe education solutions are eligible for one or more of these funding sources. Adobe products are available at an academic discount price from Creation Engine.

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Essential Hip Hop Rhythms with Adobe Audition

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Classic, timeless Hip Hop music is built on a solid foundation of soulful, yet addictive rhythm. So far, at Hit Talk, we’ve addressed many melodic production concepts, taking rhythm and basic beat-making skills as given. Still, many readers have asked for specifics in creating compelling rhythms and beat-making. In this tip […]

Color Efex Pro makes Lightroom photos pop

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Of all the many plug-ins available for Photoshop to instantly enhance photos, one of the best is Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro. Now it’s available for Adobe’s Lightroom too, a great time-saver for Lightroom fans.

Color Efex (prices start at $99.95) is a series of over 50 filters that do things such […]

Acrobat 9 Professional $95 Special!

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Acrobat 9 Professional $95 Special! Only $95! $64 off normal price $159. Offer good through 3/31/2009.

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 Is Sweet

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TSC’s master video editor Daniel Byrne was our man on the front line when it came to road-testing CS4 in Las Vegas. He installed the Master Collection on a brand new M70Vn-C2 laptop. It’s a super-heavy duty portable (I wouldn’t want it sitting on my lap for very long) with a 2.53GHz […]

Stop Cyberbullying tool kit created with Adobe software

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This year we will be launching our Free Stop Cyberbullying tool kit. It is a soup to nuts resource collection to help schools and parents deal with a situation that is growing daily.

Our informal surveys of more than 45,000 students indicate that 85% of them have experienced or been […]

A Photoshop Valentine

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Does the love of your life complain that you may as well be married to your computer? Well, here are five ways to turn the admonishment “You spend too much time on Photoshop!” into the happy, loving “Oh honey, you spent so much time on Photoshop!”

Photoshop CS4 Extended is […]

Adobe Lightroom 2: My favorite features

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For the photographer, Lightroom has been a godsend. At least it has been for me. I can’t think of one other program that speeds up the importing, sorting, editing and outputting to file, print or web site the hundreds or thousands of images a photographer has to deal with on […]

Setting up a New Version of Photoshop

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I recently wrote a review for Adobe Photoshop CS4. When installing a new version I had to reset a number of defaults. Photoshop is used in many contexts such as graphic arts and the printing industry in which different settings would be used, so the defaults are not always […]