Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

Building Online Photo Galleries

Once you’ve massaged and tweaked your images to perfection, why not have Photoshop prepare a web-ready photo gallery, complete with thumbnails and enlargements? Actually, Bridge CS6—yes, you read that right—can do all the work using something called the Adobe Output Module (AOM). Unfortunately, Adobe removed that feature from Bridge CC. Why? Because that part of Bridge hasn’t been updated to work on Apple’s Retina displays (known as HiDPI on Windows machines), which sport twice as many pixels per inch as regular displays.

UP TO SPEED: Sharing Images on Behance

Behance (www.Behance.net) is an online community for creative types—photographers, graphic artists, musicians, videographers, and so on—that Adobe partnered with when they launched Creative Cloud. Behance has over a million members, making it a great place to get feedback on your art and projects. It’s also a good place to find inspiration—you can follow specific members and explore their portfolios, as well as browse job listings (handy!).

Here’s how it works: You upload images to Behance (these are called works in progress), and then solicit feedback either from the Behance community at large or from trusted community members that you designate. They can then “like” or comment on your image (you can see these “likes” and comments in the Community pane of the Creative Cloud app). When you complete the image or design, you upload a series of related images (up to 20) called a project, that you ...