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Question by Dan S: Photoshop for Dummies? Step by Step Guide?
I am teaching a class the basics of Photoshop. The Photoshop CS3 for Dummies book is very helpful, but I would like to print and pass-out hanouts for my students to keep. The handout should include 10-20 BASIC step by step insturctions for simple Photoshop CS3 tasks such as making a photo Black and White or use of the selection tool. Can anyone let me know what website to go to? How can I make a basic step-by-step guide? THANKS!

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Answer by Carly C
InDesign could help a lot with this task, giving you a streamline/professional look to your worksheets. Take advantage of the PrtSc button and take a lot of shots of your work space. This tutorial I made specifically for the web using Photoshop CS4 only and can be done in any PS verisonhttp://stormyhotwolf88.deviantart.com/art/Animation-Clean-and-Color-tut-140188144
Friend made this to help our younger classmates: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W4Bqo5KGg5g/Se_qKXioAJI/AAAAAAAAAAo/NQc6VUFtBsU/s1600-h/Essentialkeystrokes.jpg

There is a website: Lynda.com that gives some basic tips to any Adobe product. However most, if not all of their tutorials are videos but you can still get some inspiration from them.

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Get Adobe Elements Software Tips With Step By Step Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop Elements doesn’t just have one single interface and is capable of launching the program in several different modes. There a selection of different modes on Elements for different requirements like organizing photos, the full edit mode, the quick fix, and you can even produce your own photo album books.

Should you have the Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 version you may have seen some interesting features including email, burning to CD or DVD, and the uncluttered interface makes everything so more simplified, especially if you need to move images round the screen.

Quick Fix Guide Mode: The quick mode enables you to make very basic alterations to your images as you can alter the following; Lighting, colour, sharpen, and you also have the options to do a smart fix. Elements also gives you an auto fix button which can be found on the right hand side. Another way to access the adjustments buttons is through the Enhance menu.

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Auto fixing is perfect for complete elements newbies if you’re looking for a quick photo fix. Check out these six great editing tools and features.

1) Just hit the “Reset Button” on the after picture, if your editing changes are not going to plan. 2) To view the before and after photos you will find a drop down button which says “View” in the lower left hand corner, . 3) The tool box is located on the left hand side of the view screen. 4) You are able to zoom in from your photo here and a zoom button is located in the lower left hand corner. 5) On the right hand side of the screen you will find the time saving auto tab buttons. 6) The quick mode feature allows the option of using sliders, which you will find very useful.

The full edit mode provides the necessary tools to change any of your photo images. The majority of the tools and commands are to be found in the palettes.

The palettes are used for managing your layers and applying effects to your images. By default the layers and effects palette are displayed automatically. If you wish you can also open more by choosing from the windows menu, which can be found at the top. Another really cool feature for the palettes is they float, so you can have them where you like. Once you have brought your image up, you’ll find below the main image window your images that you have opened.

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Question by Hamilton G: Is there a site with step by step instructions on using Adobe Flash to create animated MySpace layouts?
I have been searching for days and cant find a thing yet. I do not want to use someone elses code, I want to build my own personalized flash myspace for my band. I own Adobe Flash and Photoshop, and I have heard that Web Designers use these programs in building myspace pages. I have used these programs in building websites before, but never a myspace. Has anyone built a flash myspace from scratch and can give me some tips?

please dont respond with “lovemyflash.com” or “flaashy.com” I do not want to use a premade template, I want to create a unique one.

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Answer by aondrea S
MySpace doesn’t allow flash or javascript, which you will need to make those animated layouts.

Maybe its time you consider getting you own .com to get away from those limitations.

A) First, you need to know how to create a Web page before you can put it on the Web (obviously). This means you should start learning a little about the language of Web pages — XHTML. Here is short a step-by-step tutorial to help you create your first Web page in XHTML:

http://missingmethods.com/Programing/H/HTML.html#create

B) You may want to consider using Adobe CS3 Web suite premium to help you create and design your site: It includes flash, dreamweaver, fireworks, illustrator, and more.

C) When you are ready to put your pages on the Web, you will be ready to get a Web host company that will let the whole world see your pages. I learned about my Web host through a book called Creating Web Sites:The Missing Manual.

D) Your Web host will let you choose your domain name. I chose MissingMethods.com. As you can see, it was inspired by the book I read.

Let me leave you with this helpful link:

1)

http://missingmethods.com/Programing/W/Web_site_creation.html

This link gives you a review of what I just mentioned, but also provides a link to download Dreamweaver CS3 free, tips on what you should look for in a Web host, some links to Web hosts you might want to consider, links to the book, and a link to a Dreamweaver Tutorial to get you started.

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Question by prabhakaran M: how to install photoshop cs2…… guide me step by step?

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Answer by incomitatus
There’s really no great mystery to installing Photoshop. Find the setup file (setup.exe) and doubleclick it or put the CD or DVD in your cd drive and allow it to open automatically. Then just follow the prompts. Make sure you have your registration number handy the program will ask for it before it allows a complete installation. Good luck.

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by cod_gabriel

Web Icons?Step By Step

If you’ve ever looked for a web icons tutorial step by step, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are a few interesting, but very important, ways to develop your web icons.
First of all, create your icon. It doesn’t matter what it ends up being, but create it. Are you happy with the icon? Even if you aren’t, keep it. Make a few more web icons. Don’t worry so much about colors yet—you’ll want to worry about them later.
Next, stick your icons in a drawer. It can be your sock drawer, your underwear drawer, the cutlery drawer—just keep them away for you. Do this for about a week. Pick up a new hobby during the time that you would be designing. Take your dog for a walk, learn how to karate chop boards in half, finger paint, anything you can think of. You could even make a bubble gum sculpture.
After a week, pull out your icons. If you can’t see anything wrong with them or anything you would change, stick them back in the drawer. Only do this a maximum of three times: either you’ll go crazy waiting or else your boss will get angry about the project being stuck in a drawer at home. It’s generally not a good idea to tell him or her that you’re letting it simmer either.
Next, pull out the Crayola crayons. Are you ready to color? Go for it. Blow up your ideas and then proceed to color them in. If you want, you can even get your kids in on it. You could turn it into a family coloring night!
Let everyone play with the colors. If you have specific colors, ask your kids and wife or husband to use those colors first. However, keep in mind that a few extra colors never hurt. Try and use your website’s main background colors first and then go from there.
Once you have an idea of what you want, use an icon editor in order to complete the icon. Make sure that you also look into a few free images as well. These images may cost a few dollars at first, but you’re able to take all of the images in the library (which could be hundreds!) and then proceed to use them to your hearts content!
Make sure that you copyright your images that you create—that way you don’t have to worry about losing your reputation because someone else took your icon and ruined did something bad with it.
Finally, have fun and take your time. Let’s face it—most of the time, we rush through these kinds of things. Creating an icon can be one of the most relaxing, most interesting things that you can do when it comes to business and websites. However, don’t slack on it. You want to represent your company well and have something that won’t end up being ignored. You need something that will draw your customer’s eyes!
Finally, just have fun creating your web icons!

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Question by : Step by step instructions to change background with adobe photoshop elements 6.0?

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Answer by Mujer Alta
There are a couple of background changing tutorials here:

http://www.alibony.com/pse/index.php

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Question by ?PurePoison?: I need step by step instructions on how to get ebook and read books free on the adobe reader. Please read on!?
(is it ebook or ebooks?)
ebook(s) is a website where u can read free books on the enternet. but first you need the adobe reader platform. how do i get it? then, if i go to ebook(s) and write in the search box a book i wanna read, how do i get it onto the adobe reader so that i can read this book for free? i’m all confused coz i’m not so good on computers…so please, can u give me a step by step instruction paragraph about what to do exactly to read free books…..? thanxs sooooooooo much in advance…

pure poison.

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Answer by Sourabh
As far as I know, you need to buy an ebook on ebooks before you can read it. For free ebooks you may try other sites. Just search for free ebooks on any search engine and you will get many of them. Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ is a good starting point for free ebooks on literature and reference books.
The ebooks come in different formats. Some could be in plain text which can be read on most of the text editors: notepad, MS word, etc. For other file formats such as .pdf or .lit you need appropriate readers (Acrobat reader and Microsoft reader respectively). You can get these readers from the corresponding software provider (Adobe/Microsoft,etc.)
Adobe reader is available freely and can be downloaded from

http://www.adobe.com/ap/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

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Checkout Process Usability wireframes: single-screen shopping cart – step 4 (review information & place order)


Image by Matthieu Dejardins, eCommerce Activist
Illustration from the following post: Checkout Process Usability wireframes: prevent the shopping cart abandonment by applying the best practices. 65% shopping cart abandonment rate w/ an average cart value of 9. Here is your challenge..

There are around 20 possible reasons for shopping cart abandonment and 12 tips to minimize the drop-off spots in your checkout process.

To facilitate the comprehension of these critical principles, I have designed wireframes with step-by-step explanations on how to enhance your checkout flow and increase the completion rate of your online orders.

Autumn in Westchester


Image by wenzday01
I’m learning how to use Adobe Lightroom more efficiently. I’ve figured out some neat tricks to make my colors jump out more. For today’s photos, all I’m doing are the following:

1. Set white balance to cloudy.
2. Set camera calibration to landscape.
3. Add ND graduated filter to bring out more of the blue in the sky.
4. Slight increase in saturation of oranges and yellows.

Just these four steps make the photo look so much better!

Walkin’ Down Sunset Blvd


Image by Samantha Decker
Oh how I cannot wait to bring my DSLR to Disney World. I’m not really sure what I was thinking with the composition here, but cropping it made it look worse.

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Question by Mary S: step by step instructions to change background with adobe photoshop elements 4?

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Answer by crsimon36
The question really needs to be more specific. But I shall second guess what you “might” be asking about and explain what to do.

Assumption: You want to put a different background behind a person.

1. With a selection tool, magic wand, magnetic lasso, lasso or polygon lasso, select your subject – the person. How well this looks will depend upon your skill with the mouse making the selection. Zoom in to get a close look. While selecting, if you need to get to an edge, press the space bar to temporarily reveal the Hand for moving the image. If not careful you will lose the selection and have to start over.

Also look at the options bar for the selection tool. There are four icons. The first is a single square = new selection. The next one is two overlapping squares = add to current seletion, the third one is two overlapping squares one without fill = substrate from current selection, the last you should not worry about for now.

2. Once the selection is complete — menu Select > Save Selection, give it a name and click OK. If you need to bring it back, Select > Load Selection.

3. With the selection still visible, Edit > Copy, then Edit > Paste. You will not see immediately anything different. Goto menu Window > Layer if Layers is not visible. You should see two layers, one the Background the other Layer 1. Click the “eye” in the Background Layer (left most column in the Layer pallette.) Now you see only what you selected.

4. Without closing the image you have been working on, Open the image that has the background you want to use. Make adjustments in pane size so you can see both images at least partically.

5. Click on the “person” image to make it your focus. Select the Move tool, Ctrl+V, click on the “person”, hold and drag to the “background” image.

6. Job done. However, if you need to resize the “person”, select the Transformation tool, Ctrl+T, and use the handles to resize. Pressing the Shift key and grabbing a corner handle will resize the image maintaining it proportion.

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