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Cheat Sheet / Updated 08-07-2024

Photoshop CS6 retains all it had in previous versions —, and provides new features to help you with your tasks, such as a darker, more immersive, User Interface, true vector Shape layers, the Oil Paint filter, Adaptive Wide Angle correction, Content-Aware Move tool, new brush tips, and more. None of it is hard to learn, and all of it will help enhance both your productivity and creativity.

Cheat Sheet / Updated 12-03-2023

Adobe Analytics is the most powerful tool available for analyzing digital consumer data, but it’s easier to grasp if you know where to start. Master the most basic and widely applicable features in the easiest way. Get details on two standard calculated metrics in the analytics industry that focus on analyzing engagement on your site, app, or other digital property. Discover several tips to improve your productivity in Analysis Workspace.

Cheat Sheet / Updated 11-01-2023

As you edit images in Photoshop Elements, you need to know your way around the editor workspace and the tools panel — especially the selection tools. Check out the visual reference to the photo editor and the tools panel keyboard shortcuts, as well as the table of Photoshop Elements selection tricks. Having these references by your side will help you edit images in Elements quickly and easily.

Cheat Sheet / Updated 11-17-2022

As you edit images in Photoshop Elements, you need to know your way around the editor workspace and the tools panel — especially the selection tools. Check out the visual reference to the photo editor and the tools panel keyboard shortcuts, as well as the table of Photoshop Elements selection tricks. Having these references by your side will help you edit images in Elements quickly and easily.

Article / Updated 08-16-2022

In Photoshop Elements, you can use the Albums panel to create an album to organize your photos. You might want to organize an album for sharing photos with others on Photoshop online, assemble an album and rate each photo with a range from one to five stars, create a slide show, or just use the Albums panel to further segregate images within different categories. You can create an album with photos that share a keyword tag. For example, you might have a catalog with a number of photos taken on a European vacation. You can create keyword tags for files according to the country visited. You then might rate the best pictures you took on your trip. The highest-rated images could then be assembled in an album and viewed as a slide show. Rating images Rating photos is handled in the Properties panel. To assign a star rating to a file, right-click a photo and select Properties from that menu. The Properties - General panel opens. Click a star to rate the photo. Alternatively, click a photo, choose Edit→Ratings, and choose a star rating. Rating photos with stars in the Properties panel. When you select the Details check box on the Shortcuts bar, all your rated photos appear with the number of stars according to the rating you provided. You can easily sort files according to ratings by choosing the Edit→Ratings command and select a star rating from the submenu. When the Details check box is selected, all rated photos appear with stars. Adding rated files to an album You might want to rate images with star ratings and then add all your images to an album. Within the album, you can still choose to view your pictures according to star ratings. Creating an album With albums and star ratings, you can break down a collection into groups that you might want to mark for printing, sharing, or onscreen slide shows. To create an album, follow these steps: Click the plus sign (+) icon on the Albums panel and choose New Album from the drop-down menu. The Albums panel expands to show the Album Details. Name the new album. Type a name for the album in the Album Name text box. Drag photos from the Organizer to the items window in the Album Content panel. Alternatively, you can select photos in the Organizer and click the plus sign (+) icon to add them to the album. Drag photos to the Items area in the Album Contents panel. Click Done at the bottom of the panel. Your new album now appears listed in the Albums panel. You can isolate all the photos within a given album by clicking the album name in the Albums panel. Creating a Smart Album You can perform a search based on a number of different criteria. The Smart Album feature enables you to save the search results in an album. After you have all the files shown in the Organizer based on the searches you perform, you can create a Smart Album as follows: Open the New menu on the Albums panel and choose New Smart Album. The New Smart Album dialog box opens. Type a name for your new Smart Album. Make selections for the search criteria below the Name text box. You can search using multiple criteria by clicking the Plus (+) icon in the New Smart Album dialog box. Click the icon, and a new line appears. Click OK. The Smart Album is listed above the albums in the Albums panel. Type a name for your new Smart Album, add the search criteria, and click OK to add the album to the Albums panel. Creating an Album Category The Albums panel contains all the albums and Smart Albums you create in an organized list. By default, the albums are listed in alphabetical order. If you add many albums to the panel, the list can be long, making it difficult to find the album you want to use for a given editing session. An Album Category is no more than a divider shown in the Albums panel. You don’t add photos to the group. You nest albums within a group in a hierarchical manner. To understand how to create an Album Category, follow these steps: Create several albums. To begin, you should have two or more albums added to the Albums panel. Create an Album Category by clicking the New menu on the Albums panel and choosing New Album Category. The Create Album Category dialog box opens. Type a name for the group in the Album Category Name text box and then click OK. You new Album Category is added to the Albums panel. Click and drag an album onto the Album Category name in the Albums panel. The albums you drag to the Album Category are nested within the group. Albums are nested below an Album Category.

Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-02-2022

Whether you're new to video editing or have some experience, this Cheat Sheet is a handy reference for how to set up a new Premiere Pro CC project, import content to the workspace, and export your finished movie.

Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-25-2022

This Cheat Sheet is handy to keep nearby when you're working in Photoshop as a quick reference to selection tricks, layer-merging tricks, filter gallery colors, and troubleshooting tips.

Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-14-2022

If you're new to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic, you'll be eager to discover its exciting possibilities. Use this Cheat Sheet to get the most out of Adobe Lightroom Classic, get to know the ins and outs of Grid view and the Library module toolbar, discover keyboard shortcuts, and, if you run into a problem, get Adobe Lightroom Classic help by following the troubleshooting steps.

Article / Updated 03-08-2022

When cleaning up photos in Photoshop CC, large challenges sometime require drastic measures, such as duplicate layers and layer masks. Take a look at the following figure. At the top left, you see the “before” photo: at the top right, the “after” image. Below are images from three key steps in the process. Here are the steps taken to remove the boy from the group photo: Decide what needs to go and how best to cover it. In this case, the young man is no longer welcome in the group photo. The easiest way to remove him (without using scissors and leaving an empty hole) is to move the two young women on the right over to the left. Make a selection of the area that you’ll use to cover. A large rectangular selection is used, which included everything to the right of the young man. Be careful to include everything you’ll need in the altered image. In this case, the girl’s hair is on the boy’s shirt. Remember you can always make a rough selection with one tool and then press and hold Shift to add to the selection with another tool, or press Option/Alt to remove part of the selection. Copy the selection to a new layer. Use the keyboard shortcut Command+J/Ctrl+J to copy the selection to a new layer. Position the new layer. Use the Move tool to slide the new layer over the top of the area you want to remove. Add a layer mask. Click the Add Layer Mask button at the bottom of the Layers panel and then paint with black in the layer mask to hide areas of the upper layer. As you can see in the lower left in the figure, the upper layer covers areas of the lower layer that need to show (such as the man’s head), creating an unnatural shadow pattern. The layer mask in the lower-center image exposes as much of the lower layer as possible, leaving the upper layer visible only where necessary to show the two young women and their shadows as well as to hide the people on the lower layer. Look for and adjust anomalies. In the lower center of the figure, you see that one woman’s foot should be in the man’s shadow. A new layer is added, and a selection is made of the area that should be in shadow, which is filled with the color of the toes that are already in shadow. Then use the Multiply blending mode and the Opacity slider to match the original shadow. (See the lower-right image in the figure.) Crop. Glancing again at the lower-center image in the figure, you see the area that needs to be cropped, off to the right. Using the rectangular Marquee tool, make a selection of everything you want to save. Then use the Image→Crop command, and the alteration is complete. Save the image.I suggest you save the image with a different name in case you ever need the unaltered image again.

Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-23-2022

Many of the most dramatic changes in how Illustrator is being used are taking place in the realm of translating vector images to the web, and the underrated SVG format is the key link in that process. SVG files maintain the treasured scalability features of vector artwork and are supported nearly universally in websites and web development environments. When you prepare vector artwork for the web, it’s important to avoid Illustrator’s standard effects and, instead, use SVG filters. Illustrator comes with a decent (but minimalist) set of SVG filters, but here are some tips on how to find and add SVG filters as well as resources for creating your own SVG filters. For those who work with web and app developers, make their lives easier and more productive by checking out the cheat sheet for handing off SVG code.