2009
November

	HDR Street Photography: Working with Natural Light High dynamic range (HDR) complements street photography by allowing you to work under less than ideal lighting conditions, often without a flash.

	Visual Poetry: Learning to See Photographer Chris Orwig is convinced that learning to see is an adventure like no other.

October

	Real World Print Production: Fonts Claudia McCue provides a path through the minefield of using fonts with Creative Suite applications.

September

	James Joyce: From Spark to Phoenish The authors of the recently released Everyman’s Joyce provide a highly visual way to engage the work of James Joyce.

August

	Social Media: Fostering Creativity Online Tamar Weinberg provides six viral strategies to create authentic online relationships and succeed in the social media marketplace.

	Choosing Hardware for Image Storage: System Configurations Anyone who shoots, scans or stores digital photographs is practicing digital asset management—Peter Krogh looks at effective DAM hardware configurations.

	Search Engine Advertising: Direct Response and Branding Metrics Kevin Lee and Catherine Seda point out that you can’t manage and optimize a search engine campaign unless you measure the results.

July

	My.BarackObama.com: Keep it Local. Keep it Real Rahaf Harfoush provides an inside view of Obama's official social network, my.barackobama.com, which was at the heart of the campaign’s new media strategy.

	How to Get Paid for Your Flickr Photos A little bit of care can go a very long way towards standing out on Flickr and putting your images in front of buyers.

	The Designful Company: Take-Home Lessons According to Marty Neumeier, good design does not depend so much on the eye of the beholder, but on a combination of aesthetics and ethics.

	Create Your Online Marketing Strategy Brandon Eley and Shayne Tilley talk about how to create your own marketing plan that’s tailored just for you.

June

	Optimizing PNG Images for Web Sites If you don't optimize images, you send extra data over the wire that adds nothing to the user experience.

	Twitter for Business: Special Considerations and Ideas The biggest mistake companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information. Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein show how to do Twitter right.

	Effective Web Site Design Briefs To receive a detailed brief from a client, you need to help them out a little. Elliot Jay Stock provides some essential pointers.

	Creating Patterns with the Deco Tool in Flash The Deco tool is several tools in one; Vine Fill, Grid Fill and Symmetry Brush, all providing ways to quickly create patterns that would otherwise be too time consuming to design manually.

	Creating Realism with Gradients in Flash Richard Lynch provides convincing evidence that Flash is much more than a tool for designing cartoon characters.

	Can Google Evade Conformity? Management consultant Bernard Girard discusses some core issues that could affect Google’s future.

May

	Transitional Patterns in Web Interface Design Bill Scott and Theresa Neil demonstrate how transitions provide the grease that smooths out what happens in the interface.

	Add Life to Your Static Web Pages Want to bring dynamic life to your static web pages? Lynn Beighley and Michael Morrison show how using PHP and MySQL.

	The Top Ten Photography Tips of All Time There’s a lot to learn about photography. To make things easier, David Pogue provides a collection of the top tricks from his recent book.

	The Scent of Information and Landing Pages Shari Thurow and Nick Musica show how a site's landing page can contribute to a great user experience, more sales and conversions, and a positive brand impact.

April

	User Experience Design: Project Objectives and Approaches Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler talk about forming project objectives and offer some questions that will help you solidify those goals.

	Da Grip: Holding a Camera Steady Veteran shooter Joe McNally shares his proven methods for creating sharper pictures.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Live Paint David Karlins provides the fundamentals of Live Paint, which presents another mode for creating and editing objects in Illustrator.

	Sexy Web Design: Structure Elliot Jay Stock shows how sitemaps and wireframing can provided needed structure when creating a web site.

March

	Marketing Using the 4Ps: Product, Price, Place and Promotion Knowing the Ps will help you keep your marketing co-workers focused on working within their skill set, instead of trying to mess around with yours.

January

	Bringing New Grids to Web Design Andy Clarke points out that grids can inspire a wide variety of site designs that present information in a structured way.

December

	Successful Freelancing: Understanding the Sales Process Miles Burke shows how to understand the sales process and overcome the classic fear of selling.

	Decay: An Exploration in Words and Pictures Photographers Nathan Troi Anderson and J.K. Putnam share how decay looks to them through their lenses, framed by written insights.

	Five Steps to Web 2.0 Amy Shuen provides an action plan for embedding Web 2.0 business models into your decision-making and convincing others to join you.

November

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Brian and Vildan Chase Think you know what works in microstock? Brian and Vildan Chase, known as BVDC on the Stockxpert site, may make you re-think.

	The Problem with CSS Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank provide a historical perspective on why it's time we rethink the way we create CSS-based sites.

October

	Digital Infrared Photography: Composing and Setting Up Shots Cyrill Harnischmacher reminds us that with infrared we are photographing something “invisible.” Whch is exactly what makes infrared photography so fascinating.

	Popular Breeds of Lenses for HDR Imaging Jack Howard provides breed-specific tips for making the most of your glass for High Dynamic Range Imaging.

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Cathy Yeulet Ben Kessler profiles stock photo veteran and Stockxpert contributor Cathy Yeulet, known for shots that radiate light and warmth.

	InDesign Fundamentals: Wrap Text Using Photoshop Paths This quick tutorial shows how to use InDesign to wrap text around images that contain multiple masks.

September

	Scientific Imaging: Visual Data and Ethics Jerry Sedgewick examines the ethical issues underlying the manipulation of scientific images.

	Complementary Contrast and Quantity Contrast in Photography Harald Mante points out how photography can reflect the human need for both harmony and contrast.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Create a Texture Using Symbol Tools This tutorial shows how to create a wide variety of patterns using Illustrator's Symbol tools.

	Creative Techniques in Photographic Lighting John Child and Mark Galer provide examples of different approaches to lighting, along with suggested exercises.

	Creating Reflections with Multiple Masks in Illustrator Sharon Steuer shows how Frank Jonen created a new icon suite for the Linotype Library font collection.

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Barbara Helgason Ben Kessler interviews a Stockxpert contributor who proves that you can create a success in microstock out of near-to-hand stuff.

	Creating Winning Microstock Photos Douglas Freer provides tips to improve your chances of making money from microstock photography sites.

August

	Food Styling for Photographers: The Hamburger Linda Bellingham and Jean Ann Bybee lead us through the many steps of constructing a photogenic hamburger.

	Creating Exhibition Quality Black-and-White Prints It may seem very easy to print in black-and-white—even easier than in color. But that is not the case. Uwe Steinmueller and Juergen Gulbins show us how.

	The Golden Ratio and the Elementary Construction in Photography Mastering the Golden Ratio's balance between image tension and proportion can result in better photographs.

July

	Exposure Techniques for Complex Lighting Scenarios Chris Weston provides techniques for creating silhouettes, photographing in low light and other specialized situations.

June

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Aleksey Telnov Aleksey Telnov's illustrations, mostly floral backgrounds, boast quietly surprising color combinations and pictorial qualities.

	The Funnel Analysis: Assessing the Health of Your Web Site Joshua Porter suggests a funnel analysis is a good way to find out what’s broken in your web app.

	Photographing People Outdoors Rick Sammon shares the techniques he uses to make extraordinary photos of people around the world and close to home.

May

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Stephen Coburn Ben Kessler profiles versatile Stockxpert photo and illustration contributor Stephen Coburn.

April

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Konstantinos Kokkinis Ben Kessler interviews Athens, Greece-based Stockxpert contributor Konstantinos Kokkinis.

	Shooting Travel Like a Pro Scott Kelby shows us how to bring back photos that really make them wish they were there.

	Storyboards and the Process of Presentation Design For Nancy Duarte, great presentations begin not with the computer but with idea generation and traditional media.

March

	Stock.xchng Contributor Profile: Craig Jewell Steve Kapsinow interviews Brisbane, Australia-based shooter Craig Jewell, who balances a demanding IT position with a passion for photography.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Turn a Border Into a Design Element This tutorial shows some fresh illustration possibilities via converting borders and other objects into circular elements.

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Tomasz Trojanowski Ben Kessler takes a look at the work and working methods of the Polish photographer best known as Redbaron.

February

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Kirsty Pargeter Ben Kessler profiles Stockxpert contributor Kirsty Pargeter, known for her wide-ranging illustrative style.

January

	An Introduction to High Dynamic Range Imaging Break free from the limits of a RAW workflow by embracing the creative possibilities of HDRI.

	InDesign Fundamentals: Wrap Text Around an Image First steps in exploring InDesign's ability to wrap text around graphics.

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Yuri Arcurs Known to the Stockxpert community as "logos," Yuri Arcurs is perhaps the global microstock community's most famous photographer.

December

	InDesign Fundamentals: Give Images a Polaroid-style Frame Use Adobe InDesign to create a convincing Polaroid-style look for an image.

	Creating an Adobe InDesign Contact Sheet With a little help from Adobe Bridge, InDesign can automatically lay out a contact sheet of a selected group of images.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Customize Graphic Style Effects This quick tip shows how to get started using Illustrator's Graphic Style effects.

November

	Use Photoshop and Illustrator to Create a Mosaic Effect While there are many ways to create the classic mosaic effect, this one taps both Photoshop and Illustrator.

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: AlienCat There's no mystery to the success of microstock artist AlienCat, who provides a wide range of 3D imagery.

	Clipart.com Customer Profile: Kelly Faltermayer This profile shows some of Kelly's time-saving applications of photo object images from the Clipart.com collection.

October

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Color Images Easily with Live Paint Instantly apply color, gradients and other fills to any enclosed or empty space in your artwork.

	Stockxpert Contributor Profile: Lathspell Stockxpert.com contributor Lathspell tells Ben Kessler about his approach to creating 3D stock content.

September

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Add Rays of Light to an Image Adding rays of light to a piece of art in Adobe Illustrator is fairly simple, yet very effective.

	Controlling Web Page Backgrounds With CSS Once derided, backgrounds now form the basis of many well-designed web sites.

	Jupiterimages Affiliate Profile: Fred Voetsch Fred Voetsch tells us about his involvement in the Jupiterimages stock content affiliate program.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Create a Texturized Circle Pattern Illustrator’s Effect menu offers fun ways to distort or reshape drawings.

August

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Add Depth to Art Using Type Effects This tutorial shows how to transform a color photo into an illustration with a stylized, comic-book effect, complete with Benday dots.

	Barnes & Noble Vivifies School Supplies with Student-Designed "Back-to-Campus Collection" Ben Kessler takes a look at a new line of school supplies designed by students at Savannah College of Art & Design.

July

	Graphics.com Member Profile: David Macdonald We explore the world of lighting and photography expert David Macdonald, who shares his passion for creating photorealistic M.C. Escher-like illusions.

June

	Display Text on Web Pages With Flash Using Flash for text display can add typographic polish to your Web pages.

May

	Taking Type to the Web Jason Beaird covers some of the issues with—and solutions for—using type on the Web.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Convert a Color Illustration to Black and White Going for that classic black and white look? This tutorial provides some techniques to streamline the color conversion process.

April

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Give Designs a Hand-crafted Look Softening Illustrator's hard edges can be the key to some interesting effects.

	Creative Experimentation With Picture Fonts The Kapitza design partnership provides a tutorial based on its Pop pattern font.

February

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Using the Transform Each Command Just a few clicks can automate your way to logo nirvana.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Add Realism With the Mesh Tool Give an image a dimensional effect.

January

	InDesign Fundamentals: Add Visual Interest to a Photo Tap Adobe InDesign's abilities to add graphical zip to a photo.

	Creating a Presentation With Acrobat 8 John Deubert shows how to make use of Acrobat's presentation capabilities.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Using Basic Graphic Patterns Tapping Illustrator's many pattern libraries can provide a wealth of effects.

	Plugin People: Interview with Harald Heim of The Plugin Site Sonja Shea talks with veteran Photoshop plugin developer Harald Heim.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Create a Stylized Flower An introduction to such tools as Polar Grid, Wrinkle and Free Transform.

December

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Blend Type and Image With Opacity Mask This simple technique can be used to create a wide range of text effects.

	InDesign Fundamentals: Square Off Rounded Boxes Use InDesign's Corner Effects to mix regular and rounded image corners in just a few steps.

	Visualizing Information Architecture Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld point out that it's hard explaining something to a client if it's invisible.

November

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Using the Mezzotint Filter This tutorial shows how to apply this venerable effect in a futuristic context.

	Powerful CSS Positioning Strategies David Sawyer McFarland shows how to harness the positioning properties of Cascading Style Sheets.

	Understanding Device Profiling Eddie Tapp points out that calibrating and profiling is a partnership rather than a competition.

October

	InDesign Fundamentals: Simple Custom Image Frames Use this technique to quickly mask images directly within InDesign.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Create a Textured Drop Shadow Use the Glass filter to create a quick drop shadow in Illustrator.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Create a Rough Line Effect Creating an aged woodcut line effect takes just a few steps in Illustrator.

September

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Create a Simple 3D Effect With Blends This quick tip provides a way to create a simple 3D effect with Illustrator.

August

	InDesign Fundamentals: Divide an Image Into Multiple Frames This quick tip shows how to create a striking visual effect directly within Adobe InDesign.

	Introduction to RAW Files or Digital Negatives Uwe Steinmueller and Jürgen Gulbins make the case for a RAW-based digital photo workflow.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Colorize Images with Blending Modes This tip provides a simple technique to color bitmap images within Illustrator

July

	Creating Blends With the Mesh Tool in Illustrator Ann Paidrick uses the Mesh tool to create photo-realistic chocolates.

	Why Most—But Not All—Tables Are Bad Rachel Andrew and Dan Shafer make a case for dropping the use of Tables.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Create a 1960s-inspired Headline You can give any design a 60s theme with this text treatment.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Create Rough Type With the Scribble Filter Type can get ‘rough’ using the Scribble filter in Illustrator.

June

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Bring an Illustration to Life With Watercolor Brushes Use Illustrator’s brush libraries to add zip to a flat line art illustration.

	Creating an Illustration for the Ute Indian Museum Steven Beutler employs the Charcoal brush and opacity in Adobe Illustrator.

	Brian Dilg, Master Photo Retoucher Brian Dilg reveals that it takes more than Photoshop chops to excel at the art of retouching.

	InDesign Fundamentals: Filling Text With a Graphic No need to fire up a separate application to create this classic text effect for an InDesign document.

May

	Creating a Figural Illustration in Photoshop Pascal Yelle begins with an anatomy book and the Shear filter.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Wrap Type Around an Object By using the Type on a Path tool, you can turn type itself into a design.

	Plugin Artists-Part 1: Stefan Gesell Harald Heim begins a series showing how artists and photographers use Photoshop plugins to enhance their work.

	Using Custom Symbols and 3D Effects in Illustrator Scott Weichert uses customized swatches, symbols and 3D effects.

	Using InDesign to Create a Motion Effect You can quickly give an object a sense of motion without leaving Adobe InDesign.

April

	Speed Production With Shortcut Brushes in Illustrator Greg Maxson creates objects with repeating elements.

	InDesign Fundamentals: Create a Duotone With Pantone Colors Take advantage of InDesign's duotone abilities to quickly create a classic design effect.

	Illustrator Fundamentals: Add Transparency to Patterns Liven up your illustrations by using unique fill styles.

	Enhance a Portrait With the Woodcut Effect in Painter Jeremy Sutton breathes dramatic life into a portrait using Corel Painter.

March

	Softening Shapes for an Illustration in Adobe Illustrator Illustrator Andrea Cobb uses a range of filters and effects to soften an illustration.

	Create a Vector Image in Adobe Illustrator With Live Trace Quickly convert photos to editable and scalable vector paths.

	Creating a Book Cover in Adobe Illustrator Jeff Brown combines a sketch of an octopus with a photo of a deep-sea diver's mask.

	Using Corel Painter's Liquid Inks to Create Dramatic Effects Jeremy Sutton demonstrates that Liquid Inks are a powerful tool for creating natural media effects.

February

	Increase Your InDesign Productivity with Scripting For automating repetitive and tedious tasks in InDesign, there's nothing like a good script.

	Creating a Racecar Illustration with Illustrator John Mattos used racing photos to create stylistic gradients and realistic perspective.

	Adding a Lens Flare Effect in Adobe Illustrator Learn how the Flare Tool can be used to create realistic-looking flare effects.

	Create Bubbles in Adobe Illustrator There's nothing like a few well-crafted bubbles to pep up an illustration.

January

	Creating Fashion Illustrations with Corel Painter Inspired by the work of Tobie Gildio, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis uses Painter’s Pens and Watercolors to create her illustration.

	Create Intense Colored Strokes with the Oils Brush in Corel Painter Jeremy Sutton shows how to mix colors within the Artists Oils' brush strokes in Corel Painter.

	Using Grayscale Illustrator Patterns in Photoshop Dan May makes grayscale Illustrator shapes to use as a custom Photoshop pattern.

	Creating Fractions in Adobe InDesign with OpenType Fonts David Bergsland advocates saying goodbye to superscripts and subscripts in favor of OpenType fonts.

	Harnessing the Power of Libraries in Adobe Illustrator Morty Golding shows how to create and access libraries of commonly used Illustrator resources.

December 2005

	Adding Realistic Relief to Images with Corel Painter Cher Threinen-Pendarvis shows how to apply textured highlights and shadows to images.

	Adding Vector Graphics to a Photoshop Illustration Illustrator Derek Lea combines imagery created in Poser, Bryce and Illustrator within Photoshop.

	Using Nested Styles to Control Complex Formatting in Adobe InDesign Galen Gruman shows how to set up rules for controlling character styles within paragraphs.

November

	Creating Patterns and Color Schemes in Adobe Illustrator Lisa Henderling uses reference clippings from architectural and decorating magazines to create an illustration.

	Creating Patterns and Color Schemes in Adobe Illustrator Lisa Henderling taps reference clippings from architectural and decorating magazines to create an illustration.

	Mastering Adobe InDesign's Pathfinder Tools Galen Gruman provides InDesign layout techniques for combining shapes with Pathfinder.

	Avoid Banded Blends When Printing from Adobe InDesign John Cruise provides techniques for ensuring InDesign documents contain smooth gradients.

October

	Create Perspective with the Free Transform Tool in Illustrator With just a few clicks you can add more depth to your Adobe Illustrator creations.

	Using Composite Images as Tracing Templates in Illustrator Bruce Brashear uses a series of composite images as tracing templates for the seagulls in his street scene.

September

	Creating an Expressionistic Effect with Corel Painter Jeremy Sutton used Painter's Sargent brush to add drama to a photograph.

	Moving Beyond Legacy Versions of Illustrator Morty Golding reflowed an Illustrator Legacy document into Illustrator CS to take advantage of enhanced text engine features.

	From Power Macs to Podcasts: Interview with David Biedny Aka Photoshop User #4, David Biedny has a long involvement in digital image creation.

	Mastering the Long Document Capabilities of Adobe InDesign If you're creating a lengthy document, using Adobe InDesign's Book feature is the key to managing files.

	Make a Gradient Brush with Custom Illustrator Gradients Knowing how to make a gradient brush for a curved path leads to new creative techniques in Illustrator.

August

	Frozen Frogs & Cooked Books (or How to Hustle a Client) In this extract from his upcoming Knock the Hustle, ad industry insider Hadji J.S. Williams calls for a rethinking of long-standing practices.

	Interview with Jeff Butterworth of Alien Skin Software The founder of one of the oldest Photoshop plugin developers shares his thoughts about the origins and future of Alien Skin.

July

	Review of Paris Underground: A Hidden World of Art, Music and Writing Graphics.com reviews a new book charting the long history of artistic expression in the shadowy quarries beneath Paris.

	Review: Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS2 Chris Dickman takes a look at an ambitious DVD-based training package from Total Training, hosted by Deke McClelland.

	Plugin People: Interview with Alex Hunter Harald Heim talks to the creator of the Photoshop plugin generation tool FilterMeister.

June

	Review of CG Challenge XV: Machineflesh Chris Dickman takes a look at the first book devoted to the CG Challenge series and comes away impressed.

	Bring Photo Objects to Life Within a 3D Environment Larry Mitchell demonstrates how photo object images can literally be brought to life by integrating them within scenes created by 3D applications.

	Printer Versus Press: How and Where to Print Your Projects If you don't spend a lot of time getting projects printed, it can be daunting to figure out how and where to do it. Chuck Green dispels the mystery.

	Plugin People: Interview with Nils Kokemohr from nik multimedia Photoshop plugin developer Harald Heim talks with Nils Kokemohr, the founder of nik multimedia, in the second installment of this ongoing series.

May

	The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants Chris Dickman reviews a book devoted to the first ten years of the artwork of game developer Oddworld Inhabitants.

April

	Controlling Graphical Page Elements with CSS Christopher Schmitt provides table-free techniques for accurately positioning graphical elements on Web pages.

	Add a Vector Edge to a Bitmap in Flash Sham Bhangal demonstrates how to create the best of both vectors and bitmaps in Flash–a bitmap with a vector edge.

	Creating Boxouts and Sidebars with CSS Boxouts and sidebars are design elements commonly used in magazines but thanks to CSS they can also be used on the Web.

	Creating Graphical Navigation with Rollovers Craig Grannell provides an elegant way to create Web site navigation rollovers, using CSS and just a single image.

March

	Path Styler Pro: Awesome Effects Plugin Revisited Klaus Nordby comes away impressed with the latest version of Shinycore's capable, cross-platform graphics tool.

February

	Building Small: A New Approach for Successful Websites Doug Addison suggests the adoption of a "small site philosophy" for doing more with less in this extract from Small Websites, Great Results (Paraglyph Press).

	Interview: Andrew Buckle of GraphicXtras.com In the first of a series of interviews, Harald Heim talks to one of the most prolific Photoshop plugin developers of all time.

January

	Managing Web Page Images with CSS Rachel Andrew demonstrates that Web page graphics and Cascading Style Sheets are a match made in heaven.

November

	An Overview of Web Design Today This is adapted from Clint Eccher's Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates, Second Edition.