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2021 Techniques

• 954 Introducing Illustrator on the iPad
• 955 Illustrator on the iPad: The drawing tools
• 956 Ilustrator on the iPad: The Blob Brush
• 957 Illustrator on the iPad: The Pen
• 958 Illustrator on the iPad: Gradients and repeats
• 959 Color grading in Camera Raw
• 960 Color grading tips and tricks
• 961 Color grading: Blending and balance
• 962 New ways to scale type in Illustrator
• 963 Camera Matching profiles in Camera Raw/Lightroom
• 964 Combining the best of JPEG and raw
• 965 Smoothing out raw detail to match JPEG
• 966 Drawing arrows in Photoshop 2021
• 967 Troubleshooting Photoshop’s Line tool
• 968 Blending vectors with a pixel-based photograph
• 969 Curving a vector-based line segment in Photoshop
• 970 Aligning to point type in Illustrator
• 971 Aligning to area type in Illustrator
• 972 Snapping to letterforms in Illustrator
• 973 Snapping to a specific letterform in Illustrator
• 974 Tracing a specific letterform with a shape tool
• 975 Snapping to a glyph with the Pen tool
• 976 Rendering your name in playing cards
• 977 Precisely sizing a vector-based shape layer
• 978 Tracing an object with the Photoshop Pen tool
• 979 Enhancing a Photoshop path in Illustrator
• 980 Drawing a universal power symbol in Illustrator
• 981 Very large artboards in Adobe Illustrator
• 982 Creating a new very large artboard
• 983 Designing an animal logo in Illustrator
• 984 Illustrator Pen tool tricks
• 985 Dynamic round corners in Illustrator
• 986 Drawing organic curves with round corners
• 987 Reshaping paths that include round corners
• 988 Creating brushed metal in Illustrator
• 989 Creating rivets in Illustrator
• 990 Rotating a gradient inside an object blend
• 991 Peering thru binoculars in Photoshop
• 992 Adding colorful halos “inside” your binoculars
• 993 More extreme binocular aberrations
• 994 Hiding paths and shape handles in Photoshop
• 995 Drawing a subwoofer in Illustrator
• 996 Deep inside the subwoofer with Illustrator
• 997 Compound shapes vs. compound paths in Illustrator
• 998 Drawing a whole bunch of hex screws in Illustrator
• 999 "That’s all Folks!" in Photoshop

2020 Techniques

• 860 Using an iPad as a Sidecar drawing tablet
• 861 Introducing Adobe Fresco for the iPad
• 862 Adobe Fresco paints halftone patterns
• 863 Live brushes in Adobe Fresco
• 864 Using oil brushes in Adobe Fresco
• 865 Masking layers in Adobe Fresco
• 866 Repurposing and inverting masks
• 867 Vector brushes in Adobe Fresco
• 868 Opening Fresco art in Photoshop
• 869 Customizing the Auto Color command
• 870 Camera Raw 12: Panoramas with fill edges
• 871 Developing your panorama in Camera Raw
• 872 Healing with Clone Source plus Diffusion
• 873 The improved Simplify command in Illustrator 2020
• 874 Filling in any post-Simplify gaps
• 875 Posterizing colors, in the style of "Hair"
• 876 Recoloring art with the Paint Bucket tool
• 878 Adjusting your poster art dynamically
• 877 Posterizing colors nondestructively
• 879 Hiding the Filmstrip in Camera Raw
• 880 Making an awful photograph awesome
• 881 What if Rembrandt had painted sea lions?
• 882 Recolor a freeform gradient in Illustrator
• 883 Recoloring a gradient using a color group
• 884 Faking a GoPro over-under shot
• 885 Developing your over-under in Camera Raw
• 886 Drawing a 3D metal star in Illustrator
• 887 Rendering the 3D star in heavy metal
• 888 Creating a Wonder Woman 1984 poster effect
• 889 Creating the Wonder Woman displacement map
• 890 Masking your Wonder Woman
• 891 Creating a metadata template in Bridge
• 892 Streamlining a multi-use metadata template
• 893 The Photoshop 2020 freeform Warp enhancements
• 894 Applying a freeform Warp to a Smart Object
• 895 Rescuing a frame from a GoPro movie
• 896 Filling gaps with Content-Aware Fill
• 897 Two images are better than one
• 898 Blending images with a hand-drawn vignette
• 899 Creating a photographic painting
• 900 Drawing a gradient sphere as a 2D shape
• 901 Turning a sphere into a colorful pool ball
• 902 Changing a pool ball from solid to stripes
• 903 Rotate versus Transform Each in Illustrator
• 904 Recoloring your pool balls
• 905 Drawing a pool cue in Illustrator
• 906 Rotating with precision accuracy
• 907 Repeating a face so it shares a common eye
• 908 Continuous rainbow faces in Photoshop
• 909 Masking in the natural colors of the lips
• 910 Flipping a face to create new identities
• 911 Hand painting a symmetrical layer mask
• 912 Two ways to colorize with gradients
• 913 Two ways to mask gradient effects
• 914 Lantern tile: Type 1, onion
• 915 Lantern tile: Type 2, traditional
• 916 Lantern tile: Type 3, scallop
• 917 Quickly change the number of steps in Illustrator
• 918 Creating a blend inside a blend
• 919 Reversing the stacking order in Illustrator
• 920 Turning a blend into a repeating pattern
• 921 Recoloring a blended pattern
• 922 Precisely sizing any polygon in Illustrator
• 923 Creating a beveled, equilateral triangle
• 924 Turning a triangle into a Mercedes star
• 925 Adding a ring around the Mercedes star
• 926 Precisely sizing stars in Illustrator
• 927 Let's review that star technique
• 928 Creating real artwork with basic shapes
• 929 Making a face of triangles in Illustrator
• 930 Painting with gradients and translucency
• 931 More advanced gradients in Illustrator
• 932 Combining translucent vectors with a photo
• 933 Using the dynamic Free Distort filter
• 934 Combining dynamic effects in Illustrator
• 935 Creating a Halloween cat’s eye in Illustrator
• 936 Combining multiple gradient fills and effects
• 937 Tracing a photo with primitives in Illustrator
• 938 Halftone pattern and Zig Zag in Illustrator
• 939 Adding dynamic highlights to your cat’s eye
• 940 Blending reptile-like scales in Illustrator
• 941 Shading to your cat’s eye in Illustrator
• 942 Shading with variable-width strokes
• 943 Turning your cat’s eye into a dragon’s eye
• 944 Clearing the Photoshop Home screen
• 945 Hiding a single Home screen thumbnail
• 946 Clearing the Illustrator Home screen
• 947 A new way to unlock stuff in Illustrator
• 948 Another way to unlock stuff in Illustrator
• 949 The new Line tool in Photoshop 2021
• 950 Fixing a broken candy cane pattern
• 951 Creating a candy cane rhinoceros in Photoshop
• 952 Warping a pattern around an object
• 953 Adding some rippling, reflective ice shadows

2019 Techniques

• 767 Mandala patterns in Photoshop CC 2019
• 768 Painting a free-form mandala pattern
• 769 Painting mandala-style dot patterns
• 770 Coloring your mandala pattern
• 771 The final full-color mandala
• 772 Illustrator CC 2019 new preview mode
• 773 Illustrator CC 2019 presentation mode
• 774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 2019
• 775 Applying a global edit from the control panel
• 776 Freeform gradients in Illustrator CC 2019
• 777 Freeform gradients: Points versus lines
• 778 Freeform gradient limitations
• 779 Crop and develop a great white shark
• 780 Sharpening your great white shark
• 781 Low vibrance and high saturation
• 782 Vibrance, saturation, and sharpness
• 783 Actioning a full-color hedcut in Photoshop
• 784 Recording an action to play all actions
• 785 Draw something, color the outlines
• 786 Combining multiple works of line art
• 787 Group your line art, clip to the group
• 788 Coloring outside your line art in Photoshop
• 789 Flip horizontal view in Photoshop CC 2019
• 790 Creating a White Walker in Photoshop
• 791 The White Walker begins
• 792 Giving a guy a digital shave in Photoshop
• 793 Carving deep wrinkles or scars into skin
• 794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows
• 795 Creating pale, lifeless lips in Photoshop
• 796 Giving your White Walker glowing blue eyes
• 797 Adding some creepy lifeless pupils
• 798 Adding a cold and gloomy background
• 799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes
• 800 Using the Transparency Shapes Layer option
• 801 Combining a radial filter with a range mask
• 802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw
• 803 An actual dream effect, in Photoshop
• 804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream
• 805 Applying distortions as Smart Filters
• 806 Combining distortions with blend modes
• 807 Drawing a 24-sided star in negative space
• 808 Making your star a repeating hex pattern
• 809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator
• 810 Creating a gradient pattern in Illustrator
• 811 Making one pattern fade into another
• 812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer
• 813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator
• 814 Creating a pattern of gobstoppers
• 815 Aligning your many gobstoppers
• 816 Blending line textures in Illustrator
• 817 Combining object blends with a pattern
• 818 Carving cubical holes into cubical objects
• 819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern
• 820 Drawing 3D isometric arrows in Illustrator
• 821 Positioning the tips of your arrows
• 822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern
• 823 Drawing cartoon teeth aligned to the hair
• 824 Drawing a triangular cartoon eye
• 825 Adding windows to the houses pattern
• 826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern
• 827 Op art experiment 4: Triangle tunnels
• 828 Expressing your triangles as a hex pattern
• 829 Adding color to your triangle tunnels
• 830 Recoloring your triangle tunnels
• 831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends
• 832 The downside of using blends in patterns
• 833 Drawing an impossible trident in Illustrator
• 834 Shading an impossible trident with gradients
• 835 Painting paths with opposing gradients
• 836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator
• 837 Drawing an impossible hex object
• 838 Creating impossible latticework
• 839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch
• 840 Painting a watercolor wash background
• 841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró
• 842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop
• 843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size
• 844 What if Joan Miró had met Jordan Peele?
• 845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene
• 846 Painting a Rorschach background
• 848 What to do when Content-Aware Fill fails?
• 847 Finishing your “Us” artwork in Photoshop
• 849 Hand turkey 2019
• 850 Tracing your actual hand on an iPad
• 851 Drawing a highly articulated hand
• 852 Adding color to your hand-drawn hand
• 853 Painting your hand-drawn fingernails
• 854 A hand becomes a Thanksgiving hand turkey
• 855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers
• 856 What’s wrong with this drop shadow?
• 857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad
• 858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 2
• 859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 3

2018 Techniques

• 669 Customizing a QR code in Photoshop
• 670 Adding more color to your QR code
• 671 Coffer illusion and the hidden circles
• 672 Filling out the hidden circles illusion
• 673 Shading the panels in a Coffer illusion
• 674 Drawing a classic “café wall” illusion
• 675 Skewing your crazy café walls in Illustrator
• 676 Creating a “magical checkers” illusion
• 677 Swapping magical checkers for dots
• 678 Reversing the direction of your illusion
• 679 Decorating your illusion
• 680 Adding more and more gizmos
• 681 Connecting the gizmos wirelessly
• 682 Drawing a Wi-Fi symbol in Illustrator
• 683 Drawing the official Bluetooth logo
• 684 Introducing Trajan Color Concept
• 685 Trajan Color Concept in Illustrator CC
• 686 Using stylistic sets in Photoshop CC
• 687 Using stylistic sets in Illustrator CC
• 688 Creating gradient molecules in Photoshop
• 689 Sharpening your very soft molecules
• 690 Editing your smart-filtered molecules
• 691 Exploring regular molecule patterns
• 692 Blending opposing rows of colorful molecules
• 693 Sharpening molecules with High Pass
• 694 Creating shimmering cells in Illustrator
• 695 Turning regular hexagons into organic cells
• 696 Enhancing your organic cells in Photoshop
• 697 Making dead cells spring to life
• 698 Creating letters with accordion extrusions
• 699 Combining object blends with skews
• 700 Making one object blend cut through another
• 701 Making one object blend slice across another
• 702 Object blends and dynamic distortions in Illustrator
• 703 Another random distortion: Roughen
• 704 Dynamic warp distortions: Fish and Twist
• 705 Adding a dynamic background, part 1
• 706 Adding a dynamic background, part 2
• 707 “Quieting down” an overly elaborate design
• 708 The Marvel disintegration effect
• 709 Building up more flakes and ashes
• 710 Enhancing and masking your disintegration
• 711 Turning your flakes into dull, dead ash
• 712 Jogging your memory with the Note tool
• 713 Contour mapping with Distort > Displace
• 714 Contour map + gradient map
• 715 Contour map + arbitrary map
• 716 Riffing on a contour map in Photoshop
• 717 Smoothing out jagged contour lines
• 718 Contour mapping for cash in Photoshop
• 719 Infusing an image with the color of money
• 720 Simulating an adjustment layer in Illustrator
• 721 Drawing a stylish computer key
• 722 Spelling a word in computer keys
• 723 Creating a faux hedcut in Photoshop
• 724 Tracing outlines around your hedcut
• 725 Creating a full-color hedcut effect
• 726 Creating an E.T. moon in Photoshop
• 727 Adding a forest of trees for your E.T. moon
• 728 Combining the best of E.T. and Jurassic Park
• 729 Tracing vectors with a universal glow
• 730 Creative uses for Content-Aware Fill
• 731 Creating a porthole to a far-away galaxy
• 732 Enhancing your crazy space porthole
• 733 Creating a galaxy of rushing stars
• 734 Using the Puppet Warp tool in Illustrator CC
• 735 Illustrator Puppet Warp tips and tricks
• 736 Puppet-Warping very complicated selections
• 737 Shift-P for Puppet Warp!
• 738 Introducing the Pentagon Patterns
• 739 Types 1–5: The Reinhardt pentagons
• 740 Types 6–8: The Kershner pentagons
• 741 Type 10: The James pentagon
• 742 Types 9, 11, 12, and 13: The Rice pentagons
• 743 Type 14: The Stein pentagon
• 744 Creating a type 15 pentagon in Illustrator
• 745 Tessellating your type 15 pentagon
• 746 Expressing pentagons as proper tile patterns
• 747 Applying and modifying a tile pattern
• 748 Combining complementary patterns
• 749 Combining a tile pattern with a photograph
• 750 Adjusting a tile pattern to fit its photo
• 751 Creating a creepy Candy Keeper in Photoshop
• 752 Enhancing the Candy Keeper text
• 753 Creating an old monster movie poster
• 754 Adding a monochrome halftone effect
• 755 Enhancing a special word, such as “Haunted”
• 756 Cheating letters into an ancient border
• 757 Naming an adjustment layer as you create it
• 758 Under the sea in strict monochrome
• 759 Backscatter and split toning
• 760 Sampling any color outside Photoshop
• 761 Designing a vector-based logo in Photoshop
• 762 Free-transforming shape layers
• 763 Adding a photo element to your vector logo
• 764 High-resolution snowflakes in Photoshop
• 765 Enhancing your big, juicy snowflakes
• 766 Adding a snowflake bokeh “on the lens”

2017 Techniques

• 576 Creating a two-way portrait in Photoshop CC
• 577 Quick-and-dirty chalk type in Photoshop
• 578 Creating spray-painted stencil type
• 579 Adding drips to your spray-paint type
• 580 Symbols and spaces in Illustrator CC 2017
• 581 The wacky world of live polygons
• 582 Creating custom arrowheads in Illustrator
• 583 Creating custom line caps in Illustrator
• 584 Creating tinted arrowheads in Illustrator
• 585 Designing multicolor arrowheads
• 586 Multicolor arrowheads emojis
• 587 Customizing a new document in Illustrator
• 588 Creating trendy Twirl art in Photoshop
• 589 Creating symmetrical Twirl art
• 590 Turning a face into a piece of Twirl art
• 591 Increasing the resolution of your Twirl art
• 592 Capturing a screen that can’t be captured
• 593 Adding color and grid lines to a histogram
• 594 Creating an LCD screen effect in Photoshop
• 595 Mastering Adobe Illustrator 88
• 596 Fixing jagged Illustrator art in Photoshop
• 597 Fixing problems with an AI smart object
• 598 Center-stroking letters in Illustrator
• 599 Hand-drawing inline character strokes
• 600 Cropping inline strokes with an opacity mask
• 601 Oodles of differently angled screw heads
• 602 Creating dynamic inlines using Offset Path
• 603 Drawing a half circle in Keynote
• 604 Using the Pen tool in Keynote
• 605 Auto-stitching scanned artwork in Photoshop
• 606 Auto-trimming without clipping artwork
• 607 Creating crinkled paper with Clouds
• 608 Making your crinkled paper even crinklier
• 609 Bringing back Refine Mask in Photoshop CC
• 610 Power up with dekeKeys for Photoshop CC
• 611 Creating your own shortcuts in Photoshop
• 612 Every keyboard shortcut for Photoshop CC
• 613 Creating a multipage doc in Photoshop CC
• 614 Photoshop CC artboard tips and tricks
• 615 Exporting a multipage PDF from Photoshop CC
• 617 Photoshop Clouds pattern variations
• 616 Seamless patterns with the Clouds filter
• 618 Healing with a pattern in Photoshop
• 619 Creating a vector-based gradient mask in Photoshop
• 620 Creating a multicolor vignette in Photoshop
• 621 Excluding elements from your custom vignette
• 622 Masking like a pro with Photoshop’s Pen tool
• 623 Contrast: bright image, dark background
• 624 Tattoo your face in Photoshop
• 625 Drawing tattoos with the Pen tool
• 626 Selecting and masking eyes in Photoshop
• 627 Selecting and masking ruby-red lips
• 628 Pasting Photoshop paths into Illustrator
• 631 The 2017 American Solar Eclipse
• 632 Smoothing out a noisy universe in Photoshop
• 633 Designing an intriguing cube logo
• 634 Stroking your logo with mitered corners
• 635 Turning an orthogonal cube into a pattern
• 636 Turning a photo into a Chuck Close effect
• 637 Making a seamless pattern of paint splotches
• 638 Imbuing your Chuck Close effect with color
• 639 Infusing more colors into the midtones
• 640 Creating a wrapped logo in Illustrator
• 641 Enhancing your wrapped logo
• 642 Creating a gently blanketed logo
• 643 Completing your gently blanketed logo
• 644 Modify a TIFF clipping path in Illustrator
• 645 Modify an EPS clipping path in Illustrator
• 646 The best way to mask an image in Illustrator
• 647 Dr. Frankenstein’s monstrous emoji
• 648 Frankenstein’s emoji’s eyelids and brow
• 649 Frankenstein’s emoji’s rippling hair
• 650 Frankenstein’s emoji’s mouth and scar
• 651 Frankenstein’s emoji’s iconic neck bolts
• 652 Drawing HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 653 Adding realistic reflections to HAL’s eye
• 654 Op art experiment 3a: Volumetric waves
• 655 Op art experiment 3b: Rolling windows
• 656 Create a concentric ring logo in Illustrator
• 657 Create an octagon of concentric rings
• 658 Automatically converting circles to diamonds
• 659 Drawing a perfect snowflake in Illustrator
• 660 Adding lines to your snowflake pattern
• 661 Enhancing a perfect snowflake in Photoshop
• 662 Editing a smart snowflake in Illustrator
• 663 Creating a gradient sunset in Photoshop
• 664 Simulate a total solar eclipse in Camera Raw
• 665 Celebrating the winter solstice at Carhenge
• 666 Adding a time lapse of partial eclipses
• 667 Oh Illustrator, where is your Control panel?
• 668 Downsizing the massive Properties panel

2016 Techniques

• 486 Creating high-resolution ice type in Photoshop
• 487 Editing type inside a nested smart object
• 488 Introducing PixelSquid: 3D for 2D designers
• 489 Creating your own Jurassic Park in Photoshop
• 490 Lighting up a dinosaur’s eyes and teeth
• 491 Combining Field Blur with a depth mask
• 492 Helping your dinosaur escape to the big city
• 493 War of the Worlds: The sun attacks!
• 494 Weaving tendrils of lightning into a cloud
• 495 Turning off Live Rectangle widgets in Illustrator CC
• 496 More Live Shapes: ellipses and polygons
• 497 Turning off the new CC Start screen
• 498 Correcting shadows with Dehaze
• 499 Creating an infrared/snow effect in Photoshop
• 500 Creating a custom angry emoji in Illustrator
• 501 Adjusting your emoji to match Apple’s style
• 502 Exporting your emoji as a device-compatible PNG file
• 503 Elongating a snake in Photoshop
• 504 Blackening an animal to create a silhouette
• 505 Two ways to select a silhouette in Photoshop
• 506 Moving and scaling a selection outline
• 507 Auto-tracing a masterpiece in Illustrator
• 508 Drawing a dynamic atom symbol in Illustrator
• 509 Rotating your atom with electrons intact
• 510 Applying Knockout Group to a dynamic path
• 511 Solving the world’s problems with Illustrator’s Rasterize effect
• 512 Blending multiple shots to better frame a photo
• 513 Rebuilding an octopus’s garden
• 514 Turning a logo into a star in Illustrator
• 515 Dressing up your logo star
• 516 Using chromatic-style fonts in Illustrator
• 517 Using chromatic-style fonts in Photoshop
• 518 Casting 3D font shadows in Illustrator
• 519 Creating a pattern in Adobe Capture
• 520 Bringing Capture patterns into Photoshop
• 521 Creating an authentic Möbius strip in Illustrator
• 522 Coloring the Möbius strip with Live Paint
• 523 Shading your authentic Möbius strip with gradients
• 524 Masking a Tilt-Shift landscape in Photoshop
• 525 Combining Multiple Group Photos
• 526 Introducing Adobe Photoshop Sketch
• 527 More fun with Adobe Sketch
• 528 Tracing a photograph in Adobe Sketch
• 529 Tracing facial features with the Ink Pen
• 530 Painting with the Blend and Combine modes
• 531 Lips, eyes, and specular highlights
• 532 Painting hair with Pencil and Marker Brush
• 533 Blending a photo with your Sketch art
• 534 Tweening a layer’s position and opacity
• 535 Tweening new layers across existing frames
• 536 Turning the world upside-down in Photoshop
• 537 Zooming thru the universe with Photoshop
• 538 Turning a panorama into a tiny planet
• 629 Drawing a kern-perfect logo in Illustrator
• 630 More kern-perfect, now with overlap
• 539 Adding depth and shading to your tiny planet
• 540 Rendering a person in chrome
• 541 Creating a fiery blast in Photoshop
• 542 Rendering a person in liquid metal
• 543 Creating a better screen shot
• 544 Recording a screen shot action
• 545 Drawing a bacterium with Gradient Mesh
• 546 Drawing randomly waving pili (or hairs)
• 547 How Bézier curves really truly work
• 548 Drawing Bézier time and tangent lines
• 549 Drawing a complex network of lattice lines
• 550 How many dots can you see at once?
• 551 Creating a scintillating grid in Illustrator
• 552 The two-thirds rule of Bézier curves
• 553 Creating a classic neon sign in Illustrator
• 554 Adding real-world neon light fluctuations
• 555 Connecting neon letters with dark blockouts
• 556 Creating photorealistic neon in Photoshop
• 557 Photoshop CC’s top-secret banana tool
• 558 Toast and transient witticisms (Easter eggs)
• 559 Creating a hovering head in Photoshop
• 560 Connecting head and neck with a grisly spine
• 561 Projecting simple shapes into 3D perspective
• 562 Creating an American flag in Photoshop
• 563 Creating a field of 50 evenly spaced stars
• 564 Designing an M.C. Escher-like tessellation
• 565 Completing your Escher-inspired creature
• 566 Making an M.C. Escher-inspired hex pattern
• 567 Designing matching pattern variations
• 568 Creating a Doctor Strange–like mirror world
• 569 Replacing one mirror world with others
• 570 Creating wildly purple supervillain eyes
• 571 Adding ominous crystallized skin texture
• 572 Creating embroidered type in Photoshop
• 573 Stitching the letters in a script font
• 574 Cheerful holiday trees in Photoshop CC
• 575 Lighting your holiday trees in Photoshop CC

2015 Techniques

• 377 Two ways to create center guides in Photoshop
• 378 A new way to create center guides in Photoshop CC
• 379 Two ways to create center guides in Illustrator
• 380 Clearing the list of recently used fonts in InDesign
• 381 Two ways to search fonts in InDesign CC
• 382 Drawing flowering vectors in Illustrator
• 383 Stroking the petals to create a lattice effect
• 384 Creating a flowering origami effect
• 385 Painting shapes with transitional gradients
• 386 Correcting the brightness and banding of a printed image
• 387 Further reducing banding with a gradient layer
• 388 Smoothing away noise with the Mean stack mode
• 389 Developing a sweetly romantic tropical island
• 390 Creating a Caribbean blue sea with Photo Filter
• 391 Creating letters chiseled into stone
• 392 Adding a chiseled border
• 393 Assembling MRI slices into a 3D volume
• 394 Assigning multiple strokes to gradient type in Illustrator
• 395 Filling in the gaps between stroked letters
• 396 Fragmenting a photo through ribbed glass
• 397 Applying a displacement map with the Glass filter
• 398 Infusing an image with vivid nightclub colors
• 399 Adding MDNA-inspired bands of color
• 400 Patching badly displaced edges
• 401 Styling type with a pattern of vertical lines
• 402 Reshaping letterforms to match the intervals of a pattern
• 403 Swapping one image for another with smart objects
• 404 Forging a million-dollar stamp in Photoshop
• 405 Masking graphic frames and natural edges
• 406 Matching a real-world paper texture
• 407 Casting multiple drop shadows in Photoshop
• 408 Developing an awesome angelfish in Camera Raw
• 409 Tweaking a fish photo to perfection
• 410 Assigning spot colors to a logo in Photoshop
• 411 Blending spot colors inside a logo
• 412 Exporting spot-color separations from Photoshop
• 413 Exporting spot-color separations from Illustrator
• 414 The latest and greatest 2015 Facebook image specifications
• 415 Creating the perfect Facebook cover photo 2015
• 416 Extending your profile picture into your Facebook cover photo
• 417 Preparing images for your Facebook timeline
• 418 Converting all corner points in a drawing to smooth points
• 419 Adding field blurs to a vector-based illustration
• 420 Great uses for Color and Gradient Overlay
• 421 Easter Island
• 422 Creating a string of pearls in Illustrator
• 423 Drawing a letter to match a dingbat font
• 424 Assembling an interior, vertical panorama
• 425 Developing a dark and stormy photo in Photoshop
• 426 Developing a dark and stormy photo in Lightroom
• 427 Sharpening your dark and stormy photo for print
• 428 Auto-blending multiple depths of field
• 429 Assigning multiple strokes in Photoshop CC 2015
• 430 Combining multiple drop shadows to create faux-3D type
• 431 Combining multiple Color and Gradient Overlay effects
• 432 Removing unwanted perspective from a photo
• 433 Correcting the perspective of a single image element
• 434 Extracting an unmodified photo from a Smart Object
• 435 Extracting a raw photo from a Smart Object
• 436 Orthogonal pattern 1: The boxed towers
• 437 Repeating a tile pattern Brick by Row
• 438 Refining the color scheme of your tile pattern
• 439 Orthogonal pattern 2: Which way is up?
• 440 Upping the number of colors in a dynamic pattern
• 441 Achieving real pointillism with the Pointillize filter
• 442 Adding Emboss to give your painting depth
• 443 Blending multiple motion photos
• 444 Creating a wildly colorful High Pass effect
• 445 Correct in Lab and leave a smooth histogram
• 446 Combining the best of Lab and Camera Raw
• 447 Wrapping a gradient around a circle in Illustrator
• 448 Blending gradients with the Saturation blend mode
• 449 Using the Join tool in Illustrator CC
• 450 Using Illustrator’s Shape Builder tool
• 451 Wrapping text around a graphic in Illustrator
• 452 Curly quotes and the Smart Punctuation command
• 453 Creating the perfect smartphone home/lock screen
• 454 Creating a smartphone graphic in Photoshop
• 455 Islamic design 1: Flirting with geometric genius
• 456 Islamic design 2: The eight eight-pointed stars
• 457 Islamic design 3: Connecting the pieces
• 458 Islamic design 4: Completing the corners
• 459 Islamic design 5: Coloring and sculpting
• 460 Islamic design 6: Photoshopping the pattern
• 461 Creating a bat-faced moon in Photoshop
• 462 Cartoon bat 1: Drawing the head
• 463 Cartoon bat 2: Drawing the bodies
• 464 Cartooning the moon!
• 465 Changing a daytime scene to night
• 466 Lighting up the windows of a dark mansion
• 467 Adding a moon to a nighttime sky
• 468 Adding a ghost to your haunted mansion
• 469 Creating a custom Dual Brush in Photoshop
• 470 Adding texture to your custom brush
• 471 Framing a photo with a custom brush
• 472 Creating place cards for your holiday dinner
• 473 Tracing your guests with the new Pencil tool
• 474 Coloring your guests with the Live Paint Bucket
• 475 Drawing a custom coloring-book place card
• 476 Drawing a generic male place card
• 477 Coloring your cartoon place cards in Illustrator
• 478 Removing power lines from a photo
• 479 Turning a utility pole into a tree trunk
• 480 Creating candy cane type in Photoshop
• 481 The seamlessly repeating candy cane pattern
• 482 Adding snow to your holiday design
• 483 Making a little boy fly in Photoshop
• 484 Creating blast trails with Motion Blur
• 485 Masking clouds with the Quick Selection tool

2014 Techniques

• 282 Ringing in the New Year with dynamic effects in Illustrator
• 283 Dynamically transforming fills and strokes
• 284 Tracing an avatar from a photograph in Photoshop
• 285 Drawing a vector-based avatar in Illustrator
• 286 Coloring and shading your avatar
• 287 Exporting an illustration as a universally supported PNG file
• 288 Upsampling a layered composition with great results
• 289 Rebuilding a pattern at a higher resolution
• 290 Painting happy little trees
• 291 Shading and lighting the happy forest
• 292 Enlarging a low-res photograph in Photoshop
• 293 Enlarging a photo by tracing it in Illustrator
• 294 Mastering Exposure in Camera Raw
• 295 Super smooth and unflinchingly sharp
• 296 Deleting an inadvertent photo bomber
• 297 Correcting a distorted panorama
• 298 Rebuilding bad stitching in a panorama
• 299 Nondestructive dodge and burn
• 300 Blending a shadow into any background
• 301 Saving a PNG image with a translucent shadow
• 302 Cleaning up a smart phone photo
• 303 Using Photoshop 1.0
• 304 Creating your own Chinese seal (or chop)
• 305 Simulating hand lettering with art brushes
• 306 Adding texture to your hand stamp
• 307 Creating a black chop on red paper
• 308 Auto-hiding iconic panels in Photoshop
• 309 Creating a custom toolbox in Illustrator CC
• 310 Creating the perfect passport photo
• 311 Retouching your passport photo
• 312 Turning a photo into a giant mural
• 313 Enhancing the reality of your mural
• 314 Creating a 3D bump map
• 315 UV overlay and 3D bump paint
• 316 Using Lens Flare for good (not evil)
• 317 Using the Perspective Crop tool
• 318 Reducing real-world camera shake
• 319 Reducing glare in a photograph
• 320 Restoring repeating details
• 321 Integrating a detail captured with a phone
• 322 Blending two exposures of a single scene
• 323 Masking mountains away from sky
• 324 Creating a photographic caricature in Photoshop
• 325 Exaggerating facial features with Liquify
• 326 Masking a caricature against a new background
• 327 Shading and sharpening a caricature
• 328 Drawing a Möbius strip in Illustrator
• 329 Shading the Möbius strip with gradients
• 330 Adding twisting edges to the Möbius strip
• 331 Creating an impossible Penrose triangle
• 332 Shading the cubes in your Penrose triangle
• 333 Selectively converting a photo to black & white
• 334 Straightening and “uncropping” a photo
• 335 Restoring a missing photograph detail
• 336 Drawing a hand (clenched in a fist)
• 337 Cleaning up a sketch captured with a phone
• 338 Four hands united in brotherhood, solidarity, and teamwork
• 339 Swapping out colors in existing gradients in Illustrator
• 340 Select > Focus Area and the pseudo engraving effect
• 341 Integrating 3D art into a 2D scene in Photoshop
• 342 Creating a 3D shark in Photoshop
• 343 Creating a 3D doughnut in Illustrator
• 344 Creating a golden 3D ring in Illustrator
• 345 Mapping Elven runes (or text) onto a 3D ring
• 346 Hand-drawing custom-made letters in Illustrator
• 347 Drawing letters with curves and holes
• 348 Enhancing your hand-drawn text in Photoshop
• 349 Mixing a low-color photo with Camera Raw
• 350 Mixing a low-color photo with adjustment layers
• 351 Saving your effect as a color lookup table
• 352 Extracting a classic painting from its frame
• 353 Extracting that same painting nondestructively
• 354 Archiving and enhancing a child’s art
• 355 Combining a child’s art with a real classic
• 356 Developing the perfect sunset in Camera Raw
• 357 Lush landscapes: The real green is yellow
• 358 Painting away Camera Raw “Clarity halos”
• 359 Selectively sharpening a stressed photograph
• 360 Transforming yourself into a Dark Elf
• 361 Hand-masking the elf against a vivid background
• 362 Making the Dark Elf that much darker
• 363 Developing a photograph of The Joker
• 364 Carving expression lines into The Joker’s face
• 365 Creating a campaign poster in Illustrator
• 366 Creating a Prohibition (or Universal No) symbol
• 367 Using Photoshop CC’s new Flame Generator
• 368 Creating cool Flame Generator art
• 369 Setting type on fire with the Flame Generator
• 370 Blending synthetic flames with type
• 371 Creating secret-message type in Photoshop
• 372 Animating a continuously morphing message
• 373 Creating a piece of Minecraft-inspired art
• 374 Extruding your Minecraft art into 3D space
• 375 Adding a big-pixel, Minecraft background
• 376 Developing the perfect holiday portrait

2013 Techniques

• 185 Creating a custom 2013 calendar in Illustrator
• 186 Adding dates to a calendar using tables
• 187 Branding your calendar with a field of logos
• 188 Crafting an Infinity symbol to match a specific font
• 189 Op art experiment 1a: Inflated checkers
• 190 Op art experiment 1b: Rounded windows
• 191 Building a universal ISOTYPE man with strokes
• 192 Building a universal ISOTYPE woman with strokes
• 193 Drawing an ISOTYPE couple in love
• 194 Creating a Warhol-style silkscreen effect
• 195 Creating a series of Warhol-style variations
• 196 Adding Warhol-style background variations
• 197 Creating opaque colored shadows
• 198 Assembling multiple variations into a single comp
• 199 Creating a pattern of unique inset circles
• 200 Changing a static blended color scheme
• 201 Op art experiment 2a: Undulating pattern
• 202 Op art experiment 2b: Concentric rings
• 203 Developing a dramatic castle in Camera Raw
• 204 Artificially coloring a photo in Camera Raw
• 205 Creating an antique photo effect in Camera Raw
• 206 Adding a weathered old-photo frame effect
• 207 Drawing an Angry Birds-like character
• 208 Stroking an entire layer in Illustrator
• 209 Drawing a classic snarling cartoon face
• 210 Drawing a radiant, cheerful cartoon background
• 211 Stroking any kind of type in Illustrator
• 212 Creating synthetic water droplets
• 213 Simulating liquid reflections with effect
• 214 Simulating liquid refractions with a dmap
• 215 Creating an eye-catching splatter effect
• 216 Defringing purples and greens in Camera Raw 7
• 217 Making a danger sign more dangerous
• 218 Using texture and depth to add realism
• 219 Precisely aligning artwork to the bleed
• 220 Creating and importing a tracing template
• 221 Drawing a distinctive 2D video game character
• 222 Adding features to the face of a 2D character
• 223 Creating a vivid aura around an entire character
• 224 Adding variable-width strokes in Illustrator
• 225 Animating bird wings with Puppet Warp
• 226 Animating text by onion skinning in Photoshop
• 227 Creating an animated movie in Photoshop
• 228 Exporting an animation to QuickTime and GIF
• 229 Correcting an underwater photograph
• 230 Making a photo razor-sharp and porcelain-smooth
• 231 Reducing noise in a high-ISO shot with Camera Raw
• 232 Creating highly reflective sunglasses
• 233 Adding drama to an outdoor portrait shot
• 234 Creating volumetric forms with shape layers
• 235 Creating a bloodshot eye effect
• 236 Shading an image with shapes and layer masks
• 237 Creating fabric textures with pattern layers
• 238 Colorize any layer with Color Overlay
• 239 Turning a portrait into a dot drawing
• 240 Creating a full-color dot drawing
• 241 Drawing an orthogonal cube with the line tool
• 242 Creating a cube of differently colored cubes
• 243 Recreating the Creative Cloud Logo in Illustrator
• 244 Creating a psychedelic fabric texture
• 245 Turning psychedelic fabric into rock letters
• 246 Creating a more finely rendered dot drawing
• 247 Converting from RGB to CMYK via Multichannel
• 248 Creating printer-safe CMYK shadows
• 249 Creating bright, golden motion trails
• 250 Creating schematic art with grid
• 251 Drawing precisely aligned arrowhead
• 252 Adding arrowheads around a closed path
• 253 Drawing the Pen tool without touching the Pen tool
• 254 Merging frames for the best possible UAV photo
• 255 Retouching details in an aerial landscape
• 256 Editing a video and adding transitions in Photoshop
• 257 Importing the quadcopter crash sequences
• 258 Color correcting a video and adding a soundtrack
• 259 Adding precisely timed titles to your video
• 260 Hand-painting an image with a Wacom Cintiq
• 261 Blending the final false-color artwork
• 262 Creating a honeycomb pattern in Illustrator
• 263 Building up strokes to create 3D honeycomb
• 264 Turning yourself into a zombie
• 265 Enhancing an ambience environment for the undead
• 266 Creating dripping, gooey ghost letters
• 267 Turning type into gooey green slime
• 268 Creating heavy metal type (updated for Photoshop CS6 and CC)
• 269 Cleaning up a crummy product shot
• 270 Scaling and rotating photographic objects
• 271 Tracing a line drawing with uniform strokes
• 272 Coloring line art using Live Paint Bucket
• 273 Creating a pigture using shapes and letters
• 274 Integrating a cartoon into a photograph
• 275 Converting a photo into a Lichtenstein drawing
• 276 Adding bring Ben-Day dots and a talk balloon
• 277 Painting an eye using a custom brush
• 278 Painting and smoothing straight-sided brushstrokes
• 279 Simulating pressure with path outlines
• 280 Developing a 32-bit HDR image in Camera Raw
• 281 Converting from 32-bit to the more flexible 8-bit mode

2012 Techniques

• 091 Removing people from a photo
• 092 Masking people back into a photo
• 093 Hand-painting a mask
• 094 Masking a real-life shadow
• 095 Turning a photo into line art
• 096 Adding a crosshatch shading pattern
• 097 Creating type that inverts anything behind it
• 098 Creating auto-inverting line art
• 099 Creating movie poster credits
• 100 Creating a dual-focus hybrid image
• 101 Adding text to a hybrid composition
• 102 Drawing with the reshape tool
• 103 Hand-drawing a really great letter
• 104 Creating a vanity frame
• 105 Adding a frame to a photograph
• 106 Drawing a highly graphic explosion with Illustrator
• 107 Drawing a Ninja Turtle nose
• 108 Mapping a dog face onto a duck
• 109 Putting a tongue on a duck
• 110 Making synthetic lightning in Photoshop
• 111 Creating a driving rain effect in Photoshop
• 112 Designing a railroad track
• 113 Bending the railroad track around curves
• 114 Creating a Star Wars hologram effect
• 115 Creating leafy letters
• 116 Creating topiary type
• 117 Creating type in grass
• 118 Rendering type in smoke
• 119 Rendering type in brushed metal
• 120 Adding brushed copper effect
• 121 Reflecting type in water
• 122 Reflecting water back into type
• 123 Joining type to a circle
• 124 Making flared type on a circle
• 125 Making a person emerge from water
• 126 Creating progressive water ripples
• 127 Creating an upside-down face effect
• 128 Achieving silky smooth skin with retouching
• 129 Pearly white teeth
• 130 Head-shrinking
• 131 Getting a big head
• 132 Adding a photographic texture to vector type
• 133 Adding strokes in back of photo type
• 134 Adding a border to an image in Illustrator
• 135 Two ways to crop in Illustrator
• 136 Inventing a 3D temple with a depth map
• 137 Drawing a 3D object with Curves
• 138 Creating a superhero shield in Illustrator
• 139 Turning Illustrator paths into Photoshop shapes
• 140 Creating a photorealistic superhero shield
• 141 Pimping your ride in Photoshop
• 142 Masking and blackening a car
• 143 Drawing a multi-part vector mask
• 144 Masking and painting a shadow
• 145 Integrating blades of grass into tires
• 146 Making a (ridiculously) dramatic sky
• 147 Adding flame stripes to a car
• 148 Creating interlocking octagons in Illustrator
• 149 Hand-coloring line art
• 150 Creating a custom wave pattern
• 151 Simulating a screen print
• 152 Drawing a perfect linear spiral in Illustrator
• 153 Drawing a spiraling nautilus shell
• 154 Designing a hex pattern in Illustrator CS6
• 155 Making a hex pattern in Illustrator CS5 and earlier
• 156 Creating a Facebook cover in Photoshop
• 157 Matching a profile picture to your cover
• 158 Cloning yourself in Photoshop
• 159 Lighting the clone party
• 160 Hand-carving letters into wood
• 161 Creating a Spirograph-like pattern
• 162 Tracing scalloped gear teeth around a circle
• 163 Applying custom carve and shadow styles to type
• 164 Turning a pencil sketch into digital ink
• 165 Adding a graph-paper background
• 166 Creating a continuous single-line Spirograph
• 167 Scaling circles into complex patterns
• 168 Creating a money-like design
• 169 Attack of the killer pumpkin
• 170 Simulating a glowing Jack-o-lantern
• 171 The headless stranger in the mist
• 172 Creating 3D punched letters
• 173 Designing a double-wave line pattern
• 174 Assembling a seamless pattern brush
• 175 Creating a hand turkey in Photoshop
• 176 Creating a depth-of-field cast shadow
• 177 Creating a lustrous round jewel
• 178 Cutting and brushing light on a gem
• 179 Creating a shiny button with inset text
• 180 Creating a jaunty six-sided star
• 181 Interweaving star shapes and adding gradients
• 182 Casting shadows between interwoven shapes
• 183 Creating a Hobbit-like text effect
• 184 Enhancing a landscape photo in Camera Raw 7

2011 Techniques

• 001 Creating ice type
• 002 Branding type on a texture
• 003 Creating an image-branding machine
• 004 Capturing effects with layer comps
• 005 Rendering type in gold
• 006 Creating a hammered metal background
• 007 Creating heavy metal type
• 008 Creating a molten letter effect
• 009 Setting type on fire
• 010 Using an anti-edge mask
• 011 Blending textures onto a face
• 012 Rendering a face as a cave painting
• 013 Creating a reflection in shattered glass
• 014 Creating a face in a tree
• 015 Building a synthetic star field
• 016 Making 3D type with Repoussé
• 017 Casting 3D shadows and reflections
• 018 Adjusting 3D light sources
• 019 Masking highlights and shadows
• 020 Masking glass
• 021 High key high contrast
• 022 Simulating sub-pixel rendering
• 023 Fixing chromatic aberrations in Photoshop
• 024 Fixing chromatic aberrations in Camera Raw
• 025 Correcting red-eye like a pro
• 026 Turning a photo into an ink drawing
• 027 Turning a photo into a pencil sketch
• 028 Creating a seamlessly repeating pattern
• 029 Repairing seams in a repeating pattern
• 030 Creating a 3D pie chart
• 031 Splitting and modifying 3D meshes
• 032 Using the Ground Plane Shadow Catcher
• 033 Creating a talk show-style curtain
• 034 Assembling a flawless panorama
• 035 Removing people with image stacks
• 036 Creative stacking with Maximum and Range
• 037 Creating synthetic wood grain
• 038 Making slats of uniquely textured wood
• 039 Kerning within a single character
• 040 Creating a raised bevel effect
• 041 Putting wings on a horse
• 042 Creating a classic heart in Illustrator
• 043 Glossing up a heart in Photoshop
• 044 Shooting and assembling a stereoscopic photo
• 045 Extending 3D beyond the screen plane
• 046 Adding stereo 3D text and shapes
• 047 Tilting text and shapes toward the viewer
• 048 Creating a shooting star in Illustrator
• 049 Using blends to draw path outlines
• 050 Inventing custom starbursts
• 051 Making a fictional creature
• 052 Transforming a creature into a monster
• 053 Capturing a monster in motion
• 054 Changing the color of a car
• 055 Painting a colorful car black
• 056 Coloring the stripes on a zebra
• 057 Drawing trendy swirls in Illustrator
• 058 Creating variable-width and brushed swirls
• 059 Drawing trendy ornaments in Illustrator
• 060 Designing a magically updating pattern
• 061 Automatically collapsing a selection
• 062 Adding a magnifying glass into a design
• 063 Healing one eye onto another
• 064 Creating a giant command key
• 065 Drawing common symbols part 1
• 066 Drawing common symbols part 2
• 067 Filtering images with Camera Raw
• 068 Creating a vivid HDR effect
• 069 Creating an ambigram in Illustrator
• 070 Making a two-word ambigram
• 071 Drawing a Halloween scareflake
• 072 Creating true clones in Illustrator
• 073 Taking your scareflakes into Photoshop
• 074 Making a faux HDR image in Lab
• 075 Turning a guy into a zombie
• 076 Miniaturizing the world in Photoshop
• 077 Creating a synthetic rainbow
• 078 Casting an artificial shadow from a layer
• 079 Rendering a portrait in type
• 080 Rendering a portrait in tile patterns
• 081 Rotating a pattern layer in Photoshop
• 082 Tracing an image with path outlines
• 083 Turning path outlines into a vector mask
• 084 Drawing rays of light in Photoshop
• 085 Drawing concentric glow rings
• 086 Designing an Indiana Jones-style logo
• 087 Achieving mitered corners in Photoshop
• 088 Masking with Blunt Instruments in Photoshop
• 089 Creating a stained-glass ornament
• 090 Designing a stained-glass window