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Adobe Photoshop Menu Bar Tutorial: Using Logic to Find the Function You Need
Many people new to Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe Creative Suite programs feel like a deer in headlights. Sure, ...
Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Creating Comic Book Effects
Adobe Photoshop might be a tool, but it is also a toy. Believe it or not, it is more of a toy than graphic ...
Honing Adobe Photoshop Skills: Creating Memes
Creating designs with a central image and text is one of the most common uses of Adobe Photoshop. Flyers, ...
Honing Adobe Photoshop Skills: Removing Red Eye
Retouching photographs is one of the many amazing abilities of Adobe Photoshop. Even the most talented ...
Going Further with Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook offers several features that can help organize your busy life. If you're just getting started ...
The Concepts of Strong Visual Design
Strong designs go far beyond looking cool. When you load a website, watch an ad on television or peruse magazine ...
Getting Started with Microsoft Outlook
The Internet has been growing rapidly for nearly thirty years now and email providers have been a big part of that ...
Adobe Illustrator & InDesign Tool Palette Cheat Sheet
Feeling a bit lost in Adobe Illustrator or InDesign? This tool palette cheat sheet should help you find your way. ...
Adobe Photoshop Tool Palette Cheat Sheet
Ever try to navigate your way through Adobe Photoshop, only to wonder what all the funky little icons mean? Here ...
Adobe CS Tool Palette Cheat Sheet
They say that an artist is only as good as his tools. As the premier graphic design platform, Adobe Creative Suite ...
Adobe Creative Suite: Introduction to Using Layers
Creating designs in Adobe CS programs is a little like making a collage--various materials are put together to ...
Creating an Effective PowerPoint Presentation
Whether it be in a high school classroom, college lecture hall, conference room, or large presentation, at some ...
Crystal Reports Helps Unveil Business Answers
The data you collect while operating your business is as vital as the operation of the business itself.
Using a ...
Advanced Formatting in Microsoft Word
Whether you are writing your dissertation or your first novel, there are times that call for a more sophisticated ...
Cooking Up Basic Photoshop Designs
It will take some time, patience and practice to master Adobe Photoshop. But, there’s no time better than the ...
Quickbooks Tips & Tricks Part III: Online Version Offers Access to Financial Info on the Go
This week I’m writing the finale of a three-part series on the benefits for QuickBooks for your business. I ...
QuickBooks Tips & Tricks Part II: Snapshots Help Organize Business Information
With a 500-word limit on each Digital Trends column, it can be a challenge to deliver some interesting content ...
Quickbooks Tips & Tricks Part I: Streamlining Business Forms
I’ve turned over the teaching duties for a lot of classes at the Digital Workshop, but one that I still love to ...
Microsoft Word: How to Fix Those Pesky Formatting Issues
When it comes to word processing, there is no doubt that Microsoft Word is the go-to program (although Mac users ...
Five Excel Features That Everyone Should Know
Microsoft Excel is just about as famous for being frustratingly difficult as it is for being exceedingly useful. ...
Top Three Time-Saving Tricks for Microsoft Word
There always seems to be something in Microsoft Word we can't figure out, right?
Besides being a powerful word ...
Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: How to Perk Up Your Digital Images
For landscapes, it was Fuji film. With today’s digital cameras you no longer have different films, but you can ...
Five Quick Tips for Taking Better Photos
As a professional photographer, one of the questions I get asked a lot is, “Why do your photos look better than ...
Let Databases Help You Store All That Data
Living in the information age, the amount of data that can come your way in a single day can be overwhelming at ...