How To: Manage bookmarks in Acrobat
Learn how to rearrange and organize your bookmarks, as well as how to force the bookmarks panel open when someone opens the PDF.
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How To: Use bookmarks in Acrobat
In this tutorial, Geoff Blake gets started using bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all Layers Magazine tutorials for Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver and Flash.
How To: Add Kato-Vision to Your Movies with After Effects (As Seen in "The Green Hornet")
Pulp heroism rules! And everyone's favorite masked vigilante hits the big screen tomorrow night, thanks to fantastical filmmaker Michel Gondry and his new superhero movie, The Green Hornet.
How To: Access and edit audio files with Adobe Soundbooth
This clip presents a guide on using Soundbooth to access Resource Central and purchase audio files to use in video projects. Accessing and Editing Adobe Sound documents with Adobe media applications.
How To: Apply effects to a portrait in Adobe Photoshop CS4/CS5
In this tutorial Dave Cross experiments with the color range command and goes to work on a portrait to create some creative variations of the image.
How To: Create banner ads with Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
Matt Kloskowski has a tutorial for web designers and graphic designers who work with web banner ads. He shows how to use the banner ad template in Illustrator and bring it into Photoshop.
How To: Design in Photoshop with patterns from Illustrator
There are a number of patterns built into Illustrator which can be brought over to Photoshop to use as design elements. Learn how to use them with this free video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using Illustrator patterns in your own Photoshop projects, watch this helpful guide.
How To: Slice up images in Photoshop for use in Dreamweaver
In this tutorial, Geoff Blake uses the slice tool in Photoshop to divide up a header image and then takes it into Dreamweaver to display it on a web page. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video software tutorial.
How To: Use Adobe InDesign's drag and drop text options
This clip shares some tips and tricks for using Adobe InDesign’s drag and drop text options. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started capitalizing on this oft-overlooked InDesign feature yourself, watch this free video software tutorial.
How To: Select or mask liquids in Adobe Photoshop
Some Photoshop users are intimidated by the idea of trying to mask or select liquids. Here is a guide with some helpful tips on how to get this done. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this brief video software tutorial.
How To: Create a rain effect with Fireworks & After Effects
In this two-part tutorial, Tom Green opens up a picture of the Swiss Alps, re-sizes the image in Fireworks, and creates a rain simulation in After Effects. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this fun effect in your own After Effects project, watch this free video software tutorial.
How To: Use guides when working in Adobe InDesign
In this clip, InDesign writer Jeff Witchel shares some of his popular tips for working with guides in InDesign. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using guides for greater control in your own InDesign projects, watch this free video software tutorial.
How To: Retouch and enhance eyes in Adobe Photoshop CS4
See how to use Adobe Photoshop CS4 to make the eyes of your subject pop. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular graphic editing program or a seasoned design professional looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of this particular iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this designer's guide.
How To: Animate floating text in Adobe Fireworks and Flash
Tom Green demonstrates this floating text technique by cutting the text out of the an image using Fireworks and then animating the text floating using Flash.
How To: Use the image slide show in Adobe Fireworks
How do you create a slide show without having to write a bit of code? The answer is Adobe Fireworks.
How To: Create a 3D space project with Adobe Flash CS4
Tom Green wraps up his Flash 3D series with this project which uses all of the functions he has covered in his previous tutorials.
How To: Use 3D rotation in Adobe Flash CS4
The new Flash CS4 includes 3D tools that allow users to rotate perspective around a movie clip. This tutorial goes over some of the basic controls.
How To: Use the camera object in Adobe Flash
There is an option in Flash that allows users to capture the data coming from a web cam attached to the computer and broadcast it using Flash.
How To: Use camera raw with Adobe InDesign
Camera raw is great for designers because of the fact that images remain editable and will automatically update with changes. Here is a tutorial about using that functionality with InDesign.
How To: Use the next style paragraph feature in Adobe InDesign
Tip of the Day writer Jeff Witchel shares some of his favorite InDesign tips about formatting with paragraph styles palette and the next style feature.
How To: Work with the effects panel in Adobe InDesign
Layers Tip of the Day writer, Jeff Witchel has created this video tutorials sharing some of his popular tips for working with the effects panel in InDesign.
How To: Create graphic styles in Adobe Illustrator
Working with Graphic Styles in Illustrator is similar to working with layer styles in Photoshop. Corey explores some of things you can do with Illustrator’s graphic styles.
How To: Create Adobe Illustrator calendar warped perspective
This tutorial is part of Dave’s magazine article, “Warped Perspective” from the November/December 08 issue. In this video, Dave explains how he created the calendar featured in the article.
How To: Use patterns and shapes in Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial is based on an advertisement that uses patterns and shapes to create a unique design effect. Corey recreates the effect using Adobe Illustrator.
How To: Create simple silhouettes in Illustrator CS4
Creating a silhouette from a photo is nothing new, but with Illustrator CS4’s new Blob Brush tool, it has become a lot easier. Corey demonstrates how to use the Blog Brush tool to create a silhouette, and how to create some quick background effects using the Gradient Mesh tool.
Use Premiere Pro feature: frame holds and clip speed
This tutorial covers how to use Premiere pro to hold a frame from your video clip and also, how to adjust clip speed and duration.
How To: Use the Project Manager in Adobe Premiere Pro
The Project Manager inside the new Premiere Pro CS4 will help video editors to save only what they are using in their video project and trim down what they are not using.
How To: Use clip markers in Adobe Premiere
In this tutorial, Franklin McMahon talks about clip markers, how to set them, and how to use them when reviewing footage to determine what to use in a final project.
How To: Use subclips in Adobe Premiere Pro
Subclips are smaller parts of the bigger project. Use the Make Subclip command early and save yourself some time when you get to the timeline.
How To: Use Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 lift and extract tools
Franklin McMahon goes over Premiere Pro CS4’s lift and extract tools and compares them with some of the other methods video editors may use when editing video clips.
How To: Creating an Eclipse in Adobe After Effects
In the first part of this two-part project tutorial, J. Schuh demonstrates how he creates a bright sun and then blocks it out in part 2.
How To: Create an animated butterfly in Adobe After Effects
In this two-part tutorial, J. Schuh demonstrates how to animate a layered image of a butterfly using After Effects CS4.
How To: Play Zynga Lotto
Zynga games has released their ZLotto feature that you can use to get exclusive prizes for FarmVille, Mafia Wars, YoVille, PetVille, and FrontierVille!
How To: Download the New Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate for Windows 7 or Vista
No more Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Not today. Now you can explore the web with Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (RC). It wasn't supposed to be released until tomorrow, February 10th, but it's been leaked a little early, WinRumors reports.
How To: Retouch eyes professionally within Adobe Photoshop CS4
Photographer Chris Alvanas uses some of the new tools and functionality of Photoshop CS4 to retouch the eyes of his subject. This video involves Quick Mask mode, and isolating Hue/Saturation adjustments for a specific tone.
How To: Animate a flying bird using Illustrator and Flash
In this two-part tutorial, J. Schuh demonstrates how to animate a flying bird using Illustrator and Flash. In Part 1, he goes over the process of creating the vector assets in Illustrator. In Part 2, he brings the illustrator assets into Flash to animate the movement of the wings. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video software tutorial.
How To: Create techno backgrounds with Photoshop & Illustrator
This tutorial experiments with a current design trend of creating cyber punk backgrounds using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator in tandem. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video software tutorial.
How To: Create 3D reflections for video in Adobe Photoshop
In this clip, Corey Barker of Layers Magazine demonstrates how to generate 3D reflections with video when working within Adobe's popular image editor, Photoshop. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video software tutorial.
How To: Install a Lightroom slideshow on a WordPress blog
If you’re a photographer who's using WordPress to your blog, more often than not, you are making compromises on what pictures to put on your post. You don't want to overrun the space on the browser with images and have the user sift for the content, but you want to post more than just one. Learn how to an insert a Lightroom slideshow onto your WordPress blog. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video software tutorial.
How To: Create custom table styles within Adobe Photoshop
In this clip, Darrell Heath of Layers Magazine opens up Adobe Photoshop and talks about creating table styles. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started creating your own custom table styles in Adobe Photoshop, watch this free video software tutorial.