Peter Bauer

Peter Bauer is a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame and an award-winning fine-art photographer. The author of more than a dozen books on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, computer graphics, and photography, he is also the host of video-training titles at Lynda.com and a contributing writer for Photoshop User magazine.

Articles & Books From Peter Bauer

Article / Updated 04-09-2021
In addition to timeline video, Photoshop provides everything you need to create frame-based animation for use on web pages and in presentations. Building frame-based animations Although it is certainly possible to start with a video clip or even a photo when creating a frame-based animation, you may find such projects are better suited to shapes and text.
Article / Updated 05-13-2021
Photoshop is used for an incredible range of projects, from editing and correcting digital photos to preparing images for magazines and newspapers to creating graphics for the web. You can also find Photoshop in the forensics departments of law-enforcement agencies, scientific labs and research facilities, and dental and medical offices, as well as in classrooms, offices, studios, and homes around the world.
Article / Updated 04-09-2021
If you’re using Apple products and your equipment is reasonably up to date (and you’ve kept your software current), you can use Adobe Photoshop on an iPad as an extension of your laptop or desktop monitor. Much cooler (and less expansive) than dragging that 24-inch, 4K display along with you on the road. And Adobe has a version of Photoshop for the iPad.
Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies
Get picture perfect with Photoshop CC Photoshop is a stunning program that puts the power of a professional photography studio into your hands, but it can also be a jungle to navigate—with a dense proliferation of menus, panels, shortcuts, plug-ins, and add-ons to get thoroughly lost in. Written by a literal Photoshop Hall of Famer, the new edition of Photoshop CC For Dummies is your experienced guide to the technical terrain, slashing away the foliage for a clear picture of how to produce the perfectly framed and beautifully curated images you want.
Article / Updated 03-06-2018
The engineers at Adobe didn’t just make improvements and add features to Photoshop, the Camera Raw plug-in got some love, too. There are new features, improved performance, and changes such as moving the Upright adjustments from the Lens Correction panel to the new Transform tool. Additional camera support: As soon as Adobe has a handle on a new camera’s Raw capabilities and format, it’s added to Camera Raw.
Article / Updated 03-06-2018
Since the last version of Photoshop CC was released, new features and improvements (so-called “bug fixes”) have been introduced regularly. Many of them you’ll never even notice, but some of them add significant and powerful capabilities to Photoshop. Here is a look at some big and little changes since the introduction of Photoshop CC: Learn Panel and Rich Tooltips: Okay, newbie, Adobe has made it much simpler to figure out which feature does what.
Article / Updated 03-06-2018
To better understand the difference between resampling an image and cropping an image in Photoshop CC, consider the following situation: A painter paints a picture. He paints it at whatever size he thinks is appropriate. (Or, perhaps, on the only piece of canvas he can afford on that particular day.) A patron likes the artwork, but the painting is too large for the frame that works best with the dining room table.
Article / Updated 03-06-2018
At the Adobe MAX conference in October 2017, Adobe announced that Adobe Sensei will play a larger role in Photoshop. (Or, depending on when you’re reading this, it may already be doing so.) What is Sensei? Accessed by clicking a blue circle in the upper-right corner of Photoshop, Sensei is Adobe’s “creative intelligence” and “design intelligence” (try to avoid the term “artificial intelligence”).
Article / Updated 03-06-2018
Adobe Bridge, the asset-management program for Photoshop and other Adobe programs, is a separate program in the Creative Cloud Manager. You can open Bridge independently, or you can choose File→ Browse in Bridge from Photoshop’s main menu to launch Bridge — seen launched here. If you choose Bridge’s Preferences→ Advanced command, you can elect to have Bridge launch automatically whenever you log in to your computer.
Article / Updated 03-06-2018
If you’re upgrading from an earlier version of Photoshop, you may notice the ellipse near the bottom of the Toolbox. Click that and you can customize the Toolbox to optimize it for your workflow.You control the behavior of Photoshop’s tools through the Options bar. With the exception of a few path-related tools (Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, and Convert Point), every tool in Photoshop has options.