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03/11/2017

I’m so excited to be speaking at , part of May 22-26, 2017 in Atlanta! CreativePro Week is for every creative professional who designs, creates, or edits in Adobe , Adobe , or Adobe . Use promo code CPJCKSN to save $100 when registering! To see the full conference agenda, list of speakers, and registration info, visit CreativeProWeek.com!

02/13/2017

Recorded this for my students. It's a very commonly asked question.

This tutorial explains the Edit What menu when sending Phtoshop files from Lightroom to Photoshop for further editing.

10/25/2016

I am teaching two session at this great workshop event in San Diego, Saturday Oct. 29th. Sign up now.

The Digital Artistry Workshops Pre Adobe MAX Event Adobe MAX is coming to San Diego and we have just the thing to kick it off...the Digital Artistry Workshops! The "Digital Artistry Workshops" is an Adobe sponsored event and organized by the San Diego Photoshop Users Group, Pemiere Pro Users Group...

01/06/2016

I will be presenting some of what is in this article at the next SD InDesign User Group meeting on Jan. 14th.

The central theme of the Adobe MAX Creative Conference 2015 (Los Angeles) was Creative Sync – how today’s creative efforts are expanding beyond the desktop. In the opening keynote, Scott Belsky, Adobe's VP of products, said this: “For the past few years, we’ve spent a lot of time understanding how t…

01/02/2016

Time to update your copyright metadata template.

Very quick tutorial that shows you how to update an existing copyright metadata preset in Lightroom for the new year.

12/29/2015

It's time to clean house.

The year end is a great time to do some digital house keeping. I’ve spent the last few days backing up and organizing my digital devices. Admittedly, I should be doing these things on a more regular basis, but work happens and some things get away from me.

12/07/2015

This is a quick 5 minute Photoshop tutorial.

How to create multiple color versions of a product using Photoshop shape layers.

08/28/2015

How much time and money do you invest in ongoing learning?

Graphic designers work within a spirited digital revolution that, just to keep up, requires immeasurable learning, acclimatizing and study. Many of us began our careers in pre-digital times and, therefore, we faced countless technological changes as they emerged, but the process taught us two import…

06/18/2015

I love Photoshop, but it is not the correct application for print layout design. Many designers struggle to understand why. If you must use Photoshop for print layout, PDF is your solution. This article explains the whys and the hows. http://www.signweb.com/content/theresa-jackson-comments-photoshop-pdf-print-output?page=0%2C0 #.VYMWtpVVhBc

Let’s get one thing straight: Photoshop is the wrong application for print-design layout. The reason is widely misunderstood because Photoshop allows you to stylize text, draw vector shapes and place vector graphics in your design — but just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Simply said, cre…

04/17/2015

Lightroom - Not just for photographers. April column for Signs of the Times magazine

If you are a photographer, chances are you use Adobe Lightroom to manage your image catalog and edit your images. Did you know, however, that Lightroom isn’t just for photographers? Or, that Lightroom is included in Creative Cloud’s full suite applications, which are available to all designers and p…

03/24/2015

This Lightroom Q&A is about importing. I recommend using the Import Add method instead of the Import Copy method.

Lightroom can copy images to a drive, and import them at the same time, but I don’t recommend this method for beginners.

03/14/2015

I added several more Lightroom Q&A posts to my website this week. Let me know what questions you have regarding Lightroom catalogs and/or file management.

The Lightroom catalog you want to work with is probably on an external hard drive. The computer you are using doesn’t automatically know about the catalog on the external drive. Double clicking the Lightroom application icon launches a brand new, empty catalog.