Recently a friend asked me how to bend an image using Photoshop CS. He had a long, thin border image that he wanted to bend into a curve. There are many ways to do this in Photoshop, but the one that worked best for his needs was to use the Shear Filter. Here is how it was done.

Patterns are used with several tools in Photoshop CS and the program comes with many preset patterns. But there will be times when you want to create your own pattern for a special project. In Photoshop CS it is easy to define a new pattern and save it to the list in the Pattern Picker.

Lightroom 4 has task-oriented modules, each with its own set of digital photography tools.

What makes the Jacquie Lawson E-cards website stand out is the quality of the E-cards. These e-cards are mini-movies and are a collaboration of digital artists, a computer musician and a Flash movie animator.

Lightroom 4 has many new features to enhance your workflow.

This month Adobe released the latest upgrade for their popular vector graphics software Illustrator CS2. Here are just a few of the new features and improvements.

There are many types of templates and just as many uses for them. By starting with a template, I know my document window is the correct size and the guides are already in place. Let´s make our own business card template in Photoshop.

One of the BellaOnline editors emailed me a few days ago and asked how to apply a monochromatic effect to a photograph using Photoshop CS. She had seen this effect used on a website and liked it so much she wanted to use the technique on images for her own website. It is a simple technique . . .

If you want to add some pizazz to your marketing ad or company logo, you can use the Warp Text feature in Photoshop CS2 to twist your text into any shape and then add it to your graphic. The Warp Text command in Photoshop CS2 (also known as text on a path) makes the job of distorting text easy.

In this tutorial, we will create an animated star that can later be used in any Flash(R) movie. We will use Flash Motion Tween to make a simple animation of the star glowing in the night sky.