Adobe’s Bryan O’Neil Hughes reveals the hidden gems in Photoshop—practical, timesaving ways to get exceptional results. Discovering one new Photoshop feature or editing technique can unlock countless new ways to express your ideas, create your art, or surpass your best work.

Image: The Bodo family, Alliance, OH. Courtesy of BRYAN O'NEIL HUGHES

Pair Photoshop CS5 with multi-touch interactions, and watch the creative sparks fly off your tablet. With Photoshop companion apps, you can mix unique colors, paint stunning works of art, and intuitively drive select Photoshop tools and functions.

Image: Illustration created with Adobe Eazel by ANDREW ROBERTS

Use Photoshop to create the perfect compositions, vivid collages, and breathtaking scenes you see in your mind's eye. Flexible layers and precise selection and masking tools help you design images that evoke the feelings, set the styles, and make your visions real.

Image: London Skyline by CARL WARNER

Every picture tells a story, but you want your pictures to tell epics. With a rich set of pens, brushes, and color and painting capabilities, Photoshop helps you set scenes, advance narratives, and reveal truths in ways that take the audience out of their lives and into your world.

Image: The Guardsmen by SAM WEBER

The best films, videos, animations, and visual effects thrill us, educate us, and make us believe. Ensure that every image frame works hard—and that your production works real magic—by using precision Photoshop tools to paint, clone, animate, and add text.

Image: From Monsters, directed by GARETH EDWARDS