Having already explored the alternatives for Adobe's popular Photoshop app, Elaine Ashburn turns her attention to Illustrator to see how other vector design packages measure up.
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's latest updates for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator come with some excellent new features. Iain Anderson breaks down the important ones in this review.
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No matter how experienced you are with Adobe InDesign, this promise to be an interesting read. Are you aware of all five of these features which Iain Anderson shares here?
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.
mocha Plus and mocha Pro provide features like opacity tracking masks and 3D camera tracking respectively for Premiere Pro and After Effects users. Iain Anderson gives both a thorough review.
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.
As well as being a multitrack recorder, Adobe's Audition is a very capable audio editor with some useful features to help you edit and manipulate audio loops. Gary Hiebner shows how!
Elaine Ashburn breaks down how flat design can add depth, not only to your website but to ALL your marketing communications. Essential reading for creatives, designers and marketers.
Whether you're designing patterns for clothes, the web, bags, or just for fun, this Adobe Illustrator tutorial by Martin Perhiniak takes you through the essentials of using the Pattern Editor.
One of the issues when designing visuals is not being able to see your concept... in real-world scenarios. Well, now you can thanks to Joshua Distler's critically acclaimed Context.
If you've heard of GREP but are either not sure what it is or whether it can be useful for you with InDesign, then this article by Iain Anderson is for you.
Which hardware and software tech have been the greatest and most influential this year? Iain Anderson looks back over the past 12 months and the impact the best tech has had on our lives.
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.
Ever since the announcement about Creative Cloud from Adobe their service has been under scrutiny. Iain Anderson takes a look at how this has and may still affect InDesign users in the long term.
Ever been curious as to what the Adobe Edge Tools and Services are... and more importantly what you can achieve using them? Tareq Fadel breaks it all down in this feature review.
If you want to create a website, you MUST know how to code. Well, while the knoweldge is priceless, this isn't strictly true as Tareq fadel discovers when using Adobe Muse.
Getting a handle on Adobe Camera Raw can lead to excellent looking pictures. Dan Moughamian takes you through the roundtrip workflow using Photoshop CS6 and ACR.
Cut away the areas and get better perspective in your images with the new Perspective Crop tool in Photoshop CS6. Dan Moughamian shows how in this enlightening step by-step Hub article.