Every good illustrator knows the advantage of using a Wacom tablet with Adobe Illustrator. In this episode we'll take a look at the power of using pressure sensitivity. When you plug in a Wacom tablet it doesn't automatically set your tools to be pressure sensitive. I'll show you how to set your brushes to really take advantage of your new tablet.

Preflighting PDFs in Acrobat Professionals keeps getting better with each version. In previous versions of Acrobat you could run PDFs against the Preflight tool and it would either pass or fail. If it failed you would then have to manually resolve the problems in the PDF or by generating a new PDF. In Acrobat 8 Professional you can now apply "Fix-ups" to correct the most common problems encountered in working with PDFs for print.

The Adobe Bridge allows you to easily move images between the various CS2 apps. However, it also allows you to manage several aspects of the documents you're viewing. So it's probably a good idea to get a handle on how to be most efficient managing the various views in the Bridge and also to take advantage of Workspaces.

Adobe InDesign has some amazing layout tools. However, one of the graphic features it borrows from Adobe Illustrator is Compound Paths. In this episode I will show you how to take advantage of Compound Paths to create an effect of looking through window panes into an image. This tip comes from my team member Colin Fleming.

This tutorial comes from Justin Seeley. Justin is the host of the Photoshop Quicktips podcast. Justin was the star at Photoshop World Midnight Madness this past September with his winning tip of turning a photo into a sketch. His tip won the contest and his prize was a new iPod with video. I asked Justin if I could share his tip with you and he said absolutely. So here it is.

I get asked the question all the time, "How do I export HTML from InDesign." The answer is "you don't", at least not directly. You Package up your InDesign document for GoLive and let GoLive do the Export for you. In this episode we'll take a multi-page InDesign document and export one of the pages to HTML. I show you the ins and outs of how this feature works.

Adobe Illustrator is one of the most sophisticated drawing tools on the planet and sometimes we spend so much time on the whiz bang features that we forget that it is a "drawing tool". So in this episode we'll take a look at drawing with custom brushes.

Adobe Acrobat 8 Introduces a brand new forms workflow that automatically detects form fields in your PDFs automatically. You can also send your PDFs to users of the free Adobe Reader and they will be able to not only fill out your form, but also submit the data back to you so that you can compile it in a spreadsheet or database. In this episode I will show you just how easy it is.