"Retina" has become a household term. It's used to describe high resolution monitors & displays. But what is it really? How does it affect designers and creatives, and what does it mean for fonts?

I think there is nothing that can't be achieved in Photoshop'"you just have to know how to best use it. From years of trial and error I've come up with ways to perfectly retouch images. Let's see...

Sure you can make your own brushes and use plug-ins in Photoshop, but what about preset actions? Elaine Ashburn shows how fun using preset actions can be, especially for "painted" effects.

Elaine Ashburn spills the beans on how to effectively create and use layer comps in Adobe Photoshop. Perfect for novice users.

Having already explored the alternatives for Adobe's popular Photoshop app, Elaine Ashburn turns her attention to Illustrator to see how other vector design packages measure up.

While there's lots of options available for making your own animated GIFs, Adobe Photoshop offers a very compelling workflow and solution as Iain Anderson shows in this tutorial.

So, you picked a song, practiced your chops and it's time to shoot your cover video. Where to begin? Here are a few tips that'll set you off on the right track.

So you're wanting to edit some video... but the last app you'll think of using is Photoshop, because it isn't a video editor, right? Wrong. Iain Anderson is on-hand to show how deep it can go.

It's time to rid your photos of that mark of the devil / vampire elements. Using Photoshop, Elaine Ashburn demonstrates three ways to remove the ever troublesome red eye from your precious snaps.

Adobe Photoshop has many ways and tools to help you select areas of an image. But the recent 2014 update introduces a new one which Iain Anderson puts to the test.

There are many ways to add a 3D effect to type using Photoshop. Elaine Ashburn shows you how to get started with the simpliest.

Whether you're filming a high-end production with a full camera crew or a short story with your smart phone, these cinematography tips on camera movement from Michael Wohl are essential to know.

Whether you're a pro or hobbyist photographer, achieving good depth of field effects in your shots can transform a picture from being boring to brilliant. Francesco Schiavon shares his tips.

In this article, Elaine Ashburn takes a fascinating look at how the worlds of marketing and advertising have changed since the advent of the computer.

No matter how experienced you are with Adobe InDesign, this promise to be an interesting read. Are you aware of all five of these features which Iain Anderson shares here?

Don't make the same mistakes that plague 80% of film producers: bad budgeting. With your script in hand, Michael Wohl shares insider tips on how to plan your scenes and get to the budgeting stage.

It's surprising how few Photoshop aficionados use of Smart Objects. In this tutorial, experienced graphic designer and artist, Elaine Ashburn shows how to avoid blurry and unusable images forever.

Photoshop is probably the perfect platform in which to create montages'"or in many of our cases, Frankensteins. Elaine Ashburn shows it's not that scary after all and can have pleasant results.

Feeling the need to dunk something expensive in water without really submerging it? Here's the tutorial for you: we'll be showing you how to fake it using Adobe Photoshop.

For some people the word "design" suggests complexity. But it doesn't have to always be that way. Elaine Ashburn takes a look at how designers are now embracing a less is more mentality.

Manipulating Color with expressions can be a tricky thing. This is mainly because After Effects uses RGB to control color. In this article Toby Pitman demystifies the RBG to HSL conversion process.