After quotation marks, dashes are the most abused characters in the typographic stable. Dashes have visual, typographical roles as well as grammatical ones. These modest characters fall under the sway of both copy editors and typesetters, and using them correctly … Read More

[If you’d like to download the files used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, visit www.layersmagazine.com and navigate to the Magazine section . All files are for personal use only.] Create an old-school MP3 player out of thin air … Read More

Color Managed Workflow Class This Wednesday This is something that faces EVERY person using a computer and a printer. You setup everything in Photoshop, hit print, then all of a sudden the print comes NOWHERE NEAR what the final image … Read More

Going Digital People are consuming information much differently these days and it’s your responsibility to make sure your content is available for the most popular forms of consumption. Here, we’ll take a look at distributing content through everything from Zinio … Read More

In this tutorial, Dave takes an image and uses Channels to create a spot color version which he then takes over to InDesign to ready for printing. This video requires Adobe Flash Player .

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Practice adding animation to a video clip, adjusting position and scale, and do some experimenting with blend modes. This video requires Adobe Flash Player .

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RC talks about some of the new features in Lightroom3 Beta. Corey sits down Larry Becker to discuss the benefits of being a member of NAPP and dishes out a quick tip on creating star shapes in Adobe Illustrator. You … Read More

Hey everyone! Things are full speed ahead in getting ready to head out to Photoshop World March 24-26 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando! I’m pretty excited to be amongst some wonderful instructors to teach the latest and … Read More

Have you ever worked on a layout that required a specific logo but all you had was a photograph of that logo, and no matter how hard you tried you couldn’t find a nice high-res or vector version to use? … Read More

Get Creative with Adobe Bridge Many people, understandably, think of Adobe Bridge as a visual file browser, and of course, that’s its strength. But thanks to the Output module, Bridge also offers some interesting design possibilities. In this example, we’ll … Read More