Where have you spotted OneNote?

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Nicole Steinbok is a Program Manager on the OneNote team. She has many dreams, including being on Dancing with the Stars.

I have a wish, a dream, a hope, a fantasy... that one day during a meeting at work, my team will break into a spontaneous, awesome, synchronized dance. Alas, it has not happened-yet. The closest I've been to having my wish fulfilled is this Surface Pro ad.

I love it! My kids love it! We've watched it many times. Then I noticed something: This is a Surface ad, but when you watch closely it's also like it's an ad for OneNote.

At 0:03, there's the OneNote 2013 icon.

At 0:11, the ladies launch the OneNote Windows Store App in unison. Launching OneNote is so fast that before then can even cross their legs they can take notes.

At 0:20, we see inking on a graph in OneNote.

 

 At 0:38, there's a creative way to work together.

At 0:42, the guy is so excited about his graph in OneNote he does a special dance.

At the end, our old nemesis--paper note-taking--makes an appearance. I love how they do away with it! But no matter how high they throw their paper notes, they will not sync to the cloud and so they will not be available everywhere. Sad.

If you want to move your paper notes into the cloud, take a picture of them and insert the image into OneNote. OneNote 2013 converts the image into text wherever possible (right-click the image, then select Alt Text to check it out).  OneNote 2013 converts the image into text wherever possible. You can even search the text in your images if you have selected that option.

Where have you spotted OneNote? Let us know in the comments.

-- Nicole Steinbok

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Review: MobileGo for iOS goes where iTunes won't

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iTunes is an excellent tool for managing the content on your iOS device from your Windows PC. Unless you'd like to sync contacts, or de-dupe them. Unless you'd like to convert audio and video files to an iOS-compatible format. Unless you'd like to extract music from a video and upload it to your device in a compatible format.

Clearly, iTunes has some limitations. Wondershare's MobileGo for iOS ($40, free demo with limited imports and exports) offers some nifty features that iTunes leaves out, making this application an excellent companion to Apple's software.

MobileGo for iOS lets you share contents between 2 iOS devices.

MobileGo for iOS is available in a free trial version, but the full version costs $40 -- a hefty price when you consider that iTunes is free. At that price, MobileGo for iOS has to earn its keep -- and, depending on how you use your iOS device, it just may do that.

MobileGo for iOS is not a full-fledged PC media management system like iTunes, or MediaMonkey. It does not scan your computer for audio and video files, and it does not organize your media library. What it does is focus on your iOS device. MobileGo automatically detects your iPod, iPhone, or iPad when it's connected to your computer, and displays its contents in a column on the left side of the application. You can expand any of the sections, which include media, playlists, photos, contacts, and SMS, to browse in a larger window on the right side of the application.

iTunes users who have yearned to manage their contacts or view their text messages on a big screen will appreciate MobileGo's approach. It lets you view entire messages threads, though you can't compose messages, which would have been a nice touch. You can export message threads to your computer for backup, though. Its Media, Playlist, Photos, and Contacts tools are a bit more useful, as you can use each of these sections to add content to your device or sync it back to your PC. MobileGo's interface is clean and attractive, and its large icons make it easy to figure out how to accomplish all of these tasks.

MobileGo for iOS also include a Toolkit, which is where you can perform some additional tasks. The Toolkit includes options for copying music to iTunes or your computer, extracting music from a video file and saving it as an audio file that can be uploaded to your phone, and converting music to an iOS-compatible format. One oddity about MobileGo: this Toolkit section lacks an option for converting video to an iOS-compatible device, which MobileGo is supposed to offer. While I never found this option in the Toolkit section, I soon realized that MobileGo for iOS simply handled the conversion automatically when I added an incompatible video to my device using the Media section of the application. The video conversion was handled quickly and seamlessly, but it seemed odd that an option to accomplish this task wasn't included in the Toolkit as it is with music.

MobileGo for iOS recognizes incompatible audio and video files, and converts them quickly.

The Toolkit also contains a Contact Manager, which allows you to backup contacts, find duplicates, and import or export contacts to and from Outlook or Windows Mail. Business users—or anyone who has lamented iTunes' lack of a robust contact manager—will appreciate this feature in particular.

And users with more than one iOS device will appreciate how easily MobileGo allows you to transfer contents between them. The software recognizes multiple iOS devices at a time, and allows you to export content from one to the other easily.

Even with its $40 price tag, MobileGo for iOS is an excellent application for managing the content on your iOS device. Its contact manager and file conversion tools, plus its ability to transfer content between two iOS devices will make it worth its hefty price for many users. Still, it's expensive and it can't do everything that iTunes can. It lacks an option for purchasing and downloading content, and includes no tools for managing iOS apps on your device. That's why it makes a good companion to iTunes, rather than a complete replacement.

Note: The Download button on the Product Information page takes you to the vendor's site, where you can download the latest version of the software.

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Why, how and where to update your Windows 8 drivers

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Has your computer's hardware started freaking out, freezing up or behaving in weird ways since you've made the jump to Windows 8? Don't lay blame at the feet of a mischievous gremlin. Instead, it’s much more likely that your devices simply aren't rocking the most up-to-date Windows 8-compatible drivers.

Yes, a simple driver update might just fix your Windows 8 hardware woes.

The Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant does a decent job of identifying which parts and software in your rig need an update prior to installing Windows 8—and Microsoft's Windows Compatibility Center website offers the same feature for DIY types who prefer to search for specific programs and hardware—but many devices still fall through the cracks, and you'll need to manually update any drivers Microsoft can't snag itself. (Note that the process outlined below works for Windows 7, as well.)

Before you get your hands dirty, however, you should see if Windows Update has automatically checked for driver updates. Not all drivers are available through Windows Update, but many are and it’s the easiest way to proceed.

To check, open the Charms bar and select Settings. Then, choose Change PC Settings and navigate to the Windows Update settings menu. The only thing you can do here is click the Check for Updates Now button and see if it finds any. By default, Windows will install updates during your next scheduled maintenance—usually in the middle of the night—but you can force the updates to install post-haste by clicking on the link that tells you how many updates are ready to install.

Windows Update can be found in your PC settings.

If that doesn’t work, you will need to manually update the driver for your finicky hardware. To do that, you’ll have to use the trusty Device Manager. You’d be excused for thinking that the Device Manager would be found in the Devices tab of the Windows 8 settings menu, but it’s not quite that simple. Instead, you’ll have to launch it manually by returning to the Home screen and typing “Device Manager” then clicking on the Settings tab in the search menu. There you’ll see the Device Manager, which will launch in desktop mode. You can also scrounge for the Device Manager in Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Device Manager.

Finding the device manager is as easy as searching for "Device Manager."

Actually updating a driver is simple. Just find the device you would like to update, right-click on it, and select Update Driver Software. You’ll have the option to have Windows search for drivers for you, but if you’ve come this far it’s likely that you’ll want to choose the second option, which allows you to manually select a location where you’ve downloaded drivers for your misbehaving device.

Pointing Windows 8 towards a specific driver.

What’s that? You want to know where to snag a specific driver? In general, you’ll find them at the manufacturer for your particular device. Here’s an index of download locations for common hardware, arranged by product type—laptops, motherboards, peripherals, et cetera—for your convenience. Not every manufacturer offers drivers that are specifically called out as being made for Windows 8, but if a given piece of hardware is giving your troubles after upgrading, it's a good idea to make sure you're running the most up-to-date drivers available.

Use some common sense when it comes to driver updates, though. If your keyboard is working just fine, for instance, there’s really no need to spend the time tracking down and updated your driver and exposing yourself to the (small) risk that updating the driver will actually cause a problem.

If you’re using a laptop, and your problem isn’t with an external device such as a mouse or external hard disk, your first stop should be at the website of your laptop’s manufacturer. Laptop hardware is often specialized, and drivers for specific drill-down components (such as the hard drive) typically aren’t available on the component manufacturer’s site. If drivers aren’t available at the laptop manufacturer’s page, they should at least have the exact model number for each component in the system, which will make your search go faster.

If you have a desktop PC, your motherboard manufacturer’s site is an important stop. The motherboard’s chipset drivers may need to be updated, as might the drivers for integrated components such as the network interface, integrated sound or graphics, Bluetooth, or any pretty much anything else that’s listed as a “feature” of your motherboard. You can see the motherboard’s make and model number by physically opening up your computer and looking at it with your own two eyes, or by using a free software utility like CPU-Z.

When it comes to graphics cards the most important thing to have is the latest driver from AMD or Nvidia, which controls the actual graphics performance of the cards.

For features specific to your graphics card model—GPU monitors, overclocking utilities, and so on—check the website of your card's manufacturer.

You won’t often need to manually install a drive for an internal hard drive or SSD, as they’re managed by the motherboard’s SATA controller. If you’re having issues with your drive, or are looking for an update for any pack-in utilities that came with it, you can find them here:

Like hard drives, optical drives generally won’t need a driver update except for bundled applications and utilities.

Note that networking is usually handled by the motherboard network interface controller (or NIC), and in those cases the driver will be found on the motherboard manufacturer’s site. If you’ve installed a networking add-on card, however, you’ll find the drivers here.

Hope that helps, and happy driver updating!

Alex Castle is a freelance tech writer based in Honolulu, Hawaii. He specializes in Windows software, how-to articles, and PC peripherals.
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Why, how and where to update your Windows 8 drivers

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Has your computer's hardware started freaking out, freezing up or behaving in weird ways since you've made the jump to Windows 8? Don't lay blame at the feet of a mischievous gremlin. Instead, it’s much more likely that your devices simply aren't rocking the most up-to-date Windows 8-compatible drivers.

Yes, a simple driver update might just fix your Windows 8 hardware woes.

The Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant does a decent job of identifying which parts and software in your rig need an update prior to installing Windows 8—and Microsoft's Windows Compatibility Center website offers the same feature for DIY types who prefer to search for specific programs and hardware—but many devices still fall through the cracks, and you'll need to manually update any drivers Microsoft can't snag itself. (Note that the process outlined below works for Windows 7, as well.)

Before you get your hands dirty, however, you should see if Windows Update has automatically checked for driver updates. Not all drivers are available through Windows Update, but many are and it’s the easiest way to proceed.

To check, open the Charms bar and select Settings. Then, choose Change PC Settings and navigate to the Windows Update settings menu. The only thing you can do here is click the Check for Updates Now button and see if it finds any. By default, Windows will install updates during your next scheduled maintenance—usually in the middle of the night—but you can force the updates to install post-haste by clicking on the link that tells you how many updates are ready to install.

Windows Update can be found in your PC settings.

If that doesn’t work, you will need to manually update the driver for your finicky hardware. To do that, you’ll have to use the trusty Device Manager. You’d be excused for thinking that the Device Manager would be found in the Devices tab of the Windows 8 settings menu, but it’s not quite that simple. Instead, you’ll have to launch it manually by returning to the Home screen and typing “Device Manager” then clicking on the Settings tab in the search menu. There you’ll see the Device Manager, which will launch in desktop mode. You can also scrounge for the Device Manager in Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Device Manager.

Finding the device manager is as easy as searching for "Device Manager."

Actually updating a driver is simple. Just find the device you would like to update, right-click on it, and select Update Driver Software. You’ll have the option to have Windows search for drivers for you, but if you’ve come this far it’s likely that you’ll want to choose the second option, which allows you to manually select a location where you’ve downloaded drivers for your misbehaving device.

Pointing Windows 8 towards a specific driver.

What’s that? You want to know where to snag a specific driver? In general, you’ll find them at the manufacturer for your particular device. Here’s an index of download locations for common hardware, arranged by product type—laptops, motherboards, peripherals, et cetera—for your convenience. Not every manufacturer offers drivers that are specifically called out as being made for Windows 8, but if a given piece of hardware is giving your troubles after upgrading, it's a good idea to make sure you're running the most up-to-date drivers available.

Use some common sense when it comes to driver updates, though. If your keyboard is working just fine, for instance, there’s really no need to spend the time tracking down and updated your driver and exposing yourself to the (small) risk that updating the driver will actually cause a problem.

If you’re using a laptop, and your problem isn’t with an external device such as a mouse or external hard disk, your first stop should be at the website of your laptop’s manufacturer. Laptop hardware is often specialized, and drivers for specific drill-down components (such as the hard drive) typically aren’t available on the component manufacturer’s site. If drivers aren’t available at the laptop manufacturer’s page, they should at least have the exact model number for each component in the system, which will make your search go faster.

If you have a desktop PC, your motherboard manufacturer’s site is an important stop. The motherboard’s chipset drivers may need to be updated, as might the drivers for integrated components such as the network interface, integrated sound or graphics, Bluetooth, or any pretty much anything else that’s listed as a “feature” of your motherboard. You can see the motherboard’s make and model number by physically opening up your computer and looking at it with your own two eyes, or by using a free software utility like CPU-Z.

When it comes to graphics cards the most important thing to have is the latest driver from AMD or Nvidia, which controls the actual graphics performance of the cards.

For features specific to your graphics card model—GPU monitors, overclocking utilities, and so on—check the website of your card's manufacturer.

You won’t often need to manually install a drive for an internal hard drive or SSD, as they’re managed by the motherboard’s SATA controller. If you’re having issues with your drive, or are looking for an update for any pack-in utilities that came with it, you can find them here:

Like hard drives, optical drives generally won’t need a driver update except for bundled applications and utilities.

Note that networking is usually handled by the motherboard network interface controller (or NIC), and in those cases the driver will be found on the motherboard manufacturer’s site. If you’ve installed a networking add-on card, however, you’ll find the drivers here.

Hope that helps, and happy driver updating!

Alex Castle is a freelance tech writer based in Honolulu, Hawaii. He specializes in Windows software, how-to articles, and PC peripherals.
More by Alex Castle

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PowerPoint 2013: Pick up where you left off in your presentation with Resume Reading

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Have you ever reopened a presentation and tried to find that slide you were working on when you last closed it? Well, you are going to love the new Resume Reading feature in PowerPoint. If you’ve been using PowerPoint 2013, you may have noticed a new callout appears on the right edge when you open a presentation:

This helpful little callout lets you know the last slide you had open in the presentation, when you were there last, and clicking on it will take you right back to that slide:

The coolest thing about this new feature: these bookmarks will follow you wherever you go as long as you are logged into Office. For example, if you open a file from SkyDrive on your laptop at school and later open the same file on your desktop at home, you’ll be able to jump back to where you last were on your laptop. It couldn’t be easier!

Happy 2013!

-Daniel Altin
Program Manager, PowerPoint

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Flex: 路在何方 – Flex 4.5之后的发展方向(Flex: where we are headed)

It has been about three months since we shipped Flex 4.5 SDK and a corresponding update to Flash Builder, in which we delivered exciting new capabilities to build and deploy applications for Google Android, Apple iOS and BlackBerry Tablet OS platforms. The feedback on the release has been fantastic – with customers blown away that they can leverage one tool, one framework and one codebase to deliver apps across leading mobile platforms, not to mention web and desktop as well.
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Since then the product team has been heads-down working on our future plans for Flex SDK and Flash Builder, and although we’re not quite ready to share all the details, we wanted to provide you with some insight into what we’re focusing on, and where we expect to make investments going forward.
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Investing in Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Player and AIR
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Adobe is continuing to make significant investments in Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Player and AIR – we have hundreds of engineers who are actively working on exciting new tooling, framework and runtime features and enhancements to be included in upcoming releases.
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Our teams are currently working on a free update to Flex SDK and Flash Builder for release later this year that will further demonstrate our commitment to delivering a complete solution for building and deploying mobile applications to multiple platforms.
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Beyond this update we’re already working to deliver our nextmajor releases.
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Recognizing the role of Flex has changed
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Since its inception, Flex has been highly leveraged as a leading solution for building “rich Internet applications”– potentially applicable wherever a rich, expressive and engaging user experience delivered via the browser was required. We’ve seen product configurators, e-commerce sites, games, e-learning experiences, banking services, business dashboards, photo editors, audio/video channels, productivity tools, line-of-business applications and more, all built with Flex.
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We’re at a point now where it is incumbent upon us to focus on where Flex provides unique value in the marketplace.
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There are countless examples where, in the past, Flex was (rightly) selected as the only way to deliver a great user experience. Today, many of those could be built using HTML5-related technologies and delivered via the browser, and at Adobe, we will provide tooling to help designers and developers create those experiences – Edge and Muse are two such examples.
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That doesn’t mean however that HTML5 is the right choice for all use cases – the performance, framework maturity and robust tooling provided by Adobe are sighted as critical factors by enterprise customers as to why they continue to select Flex.
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We firmly believe that Flex is already the best technology for building complex, high fidelity enterprise applications such as business dashboards, line of business tools, real time trading applications and desktop replacement applications, and see leading healthcare, financial services, telco, etc companies standardizing on it. We will continue to heavily invest in strengthening Flex for enterprise use, ensuring that you can deliver expressive, robust applications. As we share more details about our upcoming releases, you’ll see our commitment to tackle areas such as Spark component completion, accessibility, build system integration, performance analysis tooling and integration of a next-generation compiler, making Flex the #1 choice for building enterprise-grade RIAs.
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Mobile – the next big thing for Flex
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But we’re not just investing in the enterprise. The explosion of mobile devices has opened new doors for end users, enterprise organizations and developers, while at the same time introducing a new set of development challenges. As you’ve already seen with Flex 4.5, we are making big strides in providing developers with a single framework for building and deploying mobile applications to a range of different devices and platforms.
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We’re continuing to focus on runtime performance, native extensions, new components, declarative skinning, adding more platforms and improving tooling workflows, such that in our next major release timeframe we expect that the need to build a fully-native application will be reserved for a small number of use cases.
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The growth of the mobile market and the challenge of building out applications that work on a range of different form-factors and platforms present us with a huge opportunity to expose Flex to an entirely new audience of developers, while continuing to be relevant for existing Flex developers who are extending their applications to mobile.
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The perception of  “Flash”
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All of this is no good of course if there are misperceptions or lack of awareness about what Flex (and more broadly Adobe) offers for Enterprise and Mobile application development. With all the FUD about Flash that has been in the marketplace over the past many months, we are highly focused on demonstrating just what Flex is capable of, both in the enterprise and for mobile app development.
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On the enterprise side, we’re continuing to build meaningful relationships with large organizations as we introduce them to Adobe’s Customer Experience Management(CEM) solutions. Flex is a core part of our CEM technology offering and the dialog we’re having with customers allows us to intelligently position Flex, Flash Builder and our runtimes as a way for them to deliver exceptional customer interaction through rich Internet applications and easy-to-use interfaces on web, desktops, tablets and mobiles (including Apple iOS devices).
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For mobile, while we’re relatively new to the market we’ve already seen a great response to our offering – trial downloads of Flash Builder are higher than they’ve ever been before and we’ve already seen hundreds of mobile apps built and deployed to app stores, including several applications that top their category in the Apple App Store. As we roll out additional mobile development capabilities later this year, you can look forward to seeing stronger mobile-focused developer marketing from Adobe, including a series of case studies that highlight the success customers are having with Flex.
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We’re excited to be working on the next-generation of Flex and look forward to getting continued feedback and input from both new and experienced Flex developers. Be sure to register for Adobe MAX, October 1-4 in Los Angeles, to learn more about our Flex roadmap.
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Where is word count the? (Video)

Many of you made the switch to Word 2007 or Word 2010 and lost overview of your favorite feature, word count. It is still there, in two places:

(1) The status bar in the lower-left corner of the screen. Word keeps track of the number of words in the document as you type. Select a block of text and Word displays in the status bar the number of words you in this selection. Practical.

 

2. On the tab, check here:

 

Use the Word Count button on the tab, check if you want to check for things such as the number of characters, paragraphs, or lines in your Opus. To see it in action, check this Word of the week videoout:

Sometimes need to keep the number of words in your document (proof is to your professor or editor, your paper or column right on the money). It is another word of the week video , that shows you how.

The number of words in the body of an e-Mail message, a PowerPoint presentation, a Publisher document, or spreadsheet to count? There are a few ways. Sometimes copy and paste in Word is the fastest way to get this number. See the following article for, and other methods:

Among the words in Excel to create a formula

The number of words in an e-Mail message (Outlook 2010)

Count the words in your publication (Publisher 2010)

The number of words in a presentation (PowerPoint 2007 and 2010)

Reliable!

--Jessica reading

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Where to find Photoshop CS tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is an image editing tool, which can run on different operating systems. Developed by Adobe Systems Photoshop was launched in 1988 and is currently on version 10. During the years 2000, integrated Adobe Creative Suite, another product of Adobe Photoshop. The combination created the CS of the software series, starting with version 8 program, also known under the name of Adobe Photoshop CS. Since then, Adobe released the beta version of Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS2. Due to the continuous evolution of image manipulation software, it is necessary to constantly learn more about the new tools and functionality of the program. This is where the tutorials Photoshop CS come into.

There are different sources of information on Photoshop CS. The simplest source of knowledge is the Photoshop CS manual. You can also watch the installation of the software program, because it contains various Photoshop CS tutorials in PDF format. If the program is already running, you can also choose to click on the "Help" tab and click on "Help of Photoshop." This will allow you to choose from a list of topics on Photoshop CS or perform a search based on software.

Adobe Press offers also many books provide instructions for different software Adobe, including Photoshop. The "Adobe Photoshop CS classroom in a book" by the creative team Adobe, the book includes tutorials step by step on many features of Photoshop CS, including in collaboration with layers, clipping of images and build Web pages. There are also books written by other authors who are also useful, such as "how to use Photoshop CS" by Daniel Giordan.

You can also use the Internet to search for resources on Adobe Photoshop Culiseta offers updated information on Adobe products online. Adobe Online is accessible at the address http://www.adobe.com, the Adobe Web site. In the Adobe menu in the world, you can choose the location nearest you.

The Web site contains step by step tutorials and topics how to both beginners and advanced designers. The online help also provides techniques on the use of Photoshop CS with other applications. There is also advice on the resolution of issues that you may experience when you use the program. The Web site also contains a support page dealing with hot topics, with emphasis on effective practices that you can perform when creating Photoshop CS projects.

Online forums Adobe can also help you with Photoshop CS. These forums allow for peer-to-peer discussions about software tools and techniques that you can use. You can search the forum for useful topics, or if you have a specific question, you can also choose to display on the forum and its other users have answered for you.

Adobe also offers training and certification for beginners and advanced users. It's interactive self-paced course and the instructor course, via the sessions online and off line classes. You can also participate in events online Adobe or review their database of webinars you registering on the Adobe Web site.

There are also countless other sources of Photoshop CS tutorials and downloads online, which may be free, or that may require you to pay certain costs. Search the Web using your regular search engine and choose from hundreds of text, audio and video Photoshop CS resources online. A useful online resource is a PDF of Chapter 1 of the Photoshop CS for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, which covers the basics of the program and the detailed explanations of the various toolkits.

If you need even more information, Adobe Systems provides also excellent customer and technical support service. Adobe has a paid support program and a free product of support for users who are registered. Adobe contact information can be viewed on their Web site.

Mario Churchill is a freelance writer and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. A free photo shop tutorial and or buy an extraction of video photo shop tutorial of its Web site.