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In this video, we will explore using Smart Objects with Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Here is a series of movies that I did that show how to take your logo and create a custom shape from that logo.

Then how to use the custom shape with layer styles to apply the logo to your images.

Then automating that with an action.

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Here is a video on using the Align – Distribute tools in Adobe Photoshop CS5.

These are great techniques to use when you need to layout a canvas with multiple image openings to arrange them with an even space between each image. This is also an easy way to lay out signature lines for a guest book page!

Adobe Photoshop CS5 shipped without some old faithful scripts that many photographers used on a daily basis.

Some of them were replaced with newer features in Adobe Bridge. A good example is the contact sheet script. To create a contact sheet with Adobe Photoshop CS5, you go into Adobe Bridge and choose to output to Web or PDF.  The PDF version works great as long as you have the tools to deal with a pdf file.

However, if you were using the contact sheet generator to build pages to send to H&H for output, this adds additional work and some complexity to finish since the files need to be converted over to jpgs.

But never fear – you can find some of these faithful companions for Photoshop on Adobe’s web site.

The following link will take you to  the Photoshop Optional plug-ins page:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSEE858938-B2D1-403d-A55F-94B00BA8BC1E.html

from there, follow the links to the appropriate plug-ins and downloads.