It doesn’t matter what your intended use is, a well-made silhouette can fill that empty space and spice up an image. There are multiple ways to make them, and learning how to make silhouettes is a great way to get used to Photoshop and some basic skills. Creating a Quick Silhouette Open up an image … Read more
In Adobe After Effects, Animation Presets are a combination of keyframes, properties, effects, and expressions that you can save and reuse. For example, if you create an animated text effect using several effects and settings, you can save all those effects and settings as a preset and apply them in other projects. You can save … Read more
If you want to create your own PDF files from scratch, Adobe Acrobat is one of the best tools for the job. This quick tutorial will help you create a PDF in minutes using Adobe Acrobat Pro. Steps Open the Acrobat software program after installation and set up. If you are working with a newer … Read more
An FLA file is the default file type saved in Adobe Animate. If you’re used to working with your FLA files in the old Adobe Flash application, you’ll need Animate to pick up where you left off. If you want to play the file in a video player or web browser, you’ll to export the … Read more
You know those little animations you see online that your computer treats like pictures? Those are called GIFs, and they can be used for anything from stamps to avatars to emoticons. You can make your own using Adobe Photoshop Elements. Steps Open Adobe Photoshop Elements and create a new file. A good size to practice … Read more
This minHour teaches you how to activate products. Creative Cloud products can be activated within the individual app, or through the Creative Cloud desktop app. Creative Suite users need to enter an activation key, or by signing in with their Adobe ID. Using Creative Cloud Apps Make sure your computer is connected to the internet. … Read more
If you move a linked file in your Adobe Premiere Pro project, you’ll see an error where the media should be. This minHour will teach you how to locate a missing media file in Adobe Premiere Pro on your PC or Mac. Steps Open your project in Premiere Pro. You can open Premiere Pro from … Read more
Have you come across a wrongly-spelled or formatted piece of text in an Adobe Acrobat PDF file? Did you realize that you can edit this text? The TouchUp Text Tool in Adobe Acrobat will help you fix these mistakes. Learn how to use this feature from this article. Editing Text With Acrobat XI Pro Launch … Read more
Adobe Photoshop Elements is a stripped-down version of Adobe Photoshop that lets you make quick and simple edits to your images. The process of making a drop shadow in Elements is similar to what you’d do in the full version of Photoshop, but the steps are a little bit different. In this article, we’ll explain … Read more
Do you need to markup a document to insert a special stamp telling someone you did something or it’s been faxed, or some other action has to be (or has been) taken on it? In Adobe Acrobat, you can insert what is called a Custom Stamp, much like you would do in Microsoft Word. This … Read more
Photoshop is a very powerful image editor, and you can use it to create all kinds of images. By using the “Cutout” filter, you can quickly turn any photo into a stencil. You can then print this stencil onto thick paper and cut it out to use it however you’d like. Steps Open the image … Read more
Want to extract just one page from a multiple-page PDF file? Saving just one page of a PDF is easy in the free version Adobe Acrobat Reader. While Adobe Acrobat Pro comes with a robust tool for extracting and organizing pages, the free version of Reader can also extract individual pages by “printing” those pages … Read more
PDF stands for portable document format. It is a format used to present documents in a way that is independent of application software, hardware, or operating systems. This means that it is a format that can be used in any operating system. Luckily, the way you use a PDF is very similar throughout the popular … Read more
This minHour teaches you how to install Adobe Media Encoder, the encoding engine Adobe products like Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Character Animator, and Prelude. Adobe Media Encoder lets you export your videos from these apps to video-streaming websites, TVs, phones, and other devices. The app comes with your Creative Cloud subscription, but you can install … Read more
This minHour teaches you how to import a series of sequential still images into Adobe Premiere Pro. Steps Format the file names of the images in the sequence. Each file’s name must contain the same number of digits at the end, as well as the correct file extension. Example: file001.bmp, file002.bmp, file003.bmp. Example: joe123.tiff, joe124.tiff, … Read more
Printing a booklet involves setting multiple pages on single sheets in a page order other than chronological. Steps Launch Adobe Reader. Use print. Set the printer to another PDF printer if you like. Or check Save to File. Set Page Scaling to Booklet Printing. Also: Booklet subset to Both sides. Sheets from 1 to (whatever … Read more
This minHour will teach you how to install Adobe Acrobat. You can buy Adobe Acrobat online through the Adobe website or get a physical version in store. Either way, the installation process is really simple! Below we’ll walk you through everything you need to do to get Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer step-by-step. Steps … Read more
Adobe AIR is a great tool for developers to integrate HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash and Flex, and ActionScript to make them work more flexibly on various devices. For better performance, you should update Adobe AIR whenever updates are available. Updating is also easy to do. Steps Click “Update Now. So long as Adobe AIR is … Read more
In Photoshop, the clone stamp tool is used to sample a part of an image and then use that sample to paint over another section of an image. It’s very useful in retouching photos. You can paint over an unsightly spot or blemish using a similar sample from another part of the image. This minHour … Read more
This minHour will teach you how to copy and paste properties in After Effects, which is useful if you want multiple layers to have the same effects. Steps Open your project in After Effects. You’ll find this program in your Start menu or Applications folder in Finder. Click the layer with the effects you want … Read more