- Round Trip Between Illustrator/Photoshop and Flash Catalyst
- Oct 27, 2010
- What’s easier than creating the content (look and feel) for your project in Illustrator and/or Photoshop, then bringing that directly into Flash Catalyst? Okay, if it was created for you, that would be easier… Brian Wood shows you how Flash Catalyst enables you to add interactivity to that content and export it in the correct format or hand it over to an Adobe Flex developer to add database integration, and much more.
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- Welcome to Flash Catalyst “Panini”
- Oct 25, 2010
- Adobe has recently released a preview of the next version of Flash Catalyst, code-named “Panini.” Chris Griffith takes a look at what Panini has to offer.
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- Selective Styling in CSS3
- Oct 21, 2010
- Selective styling is the closest that CSS gets to traditional computer programming, allowing you to style elements if they meet certain criteria. This level of styling can get increasingly complex, so Jason Cranford Teague starts as simply as possible to help you build a firm foundation of understanding.
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- Shading with the Adobe Illustrator CS5 Mesh Object
- Oct 19, 2010
- Simple lines can convey straightforward ideas, but subtlety often requires shading. Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, demonstrates using mesh objects to add gradients to curves. Brian shares his best tips for saving steps and preventing headaches as you work with mesh objects.
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- Create a PDF Portfolio Using Adobe Illustrator
- Oct 18, 2010
- Adobe Illustrator’s multiple Artboards feature saves some students and professionals the time it takes to learn a new software program. In this article, a multi-page PDF portfolio—an essential document for students and professionals alike—is created in Illustrator. If you’ve never used InDesign, but you need to make a multi-page document, author xtine burrough explains how this process is just what you need.
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- Taking Advantage of Layer Strategies in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Oct 12, 2010
- Whether you want to create multiple versions of a single object or you're building incredibly complex artwork, layers can be very helpful for controlling and keeping track of your Illustrator art objects and documents. Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, demonstrates strategies for making layers really useful.
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- Advanced Buttons and Event Handling in Adobe Flash CS5
- Oct 7, 2010
- This chapter introduces events, listeners, and functions used to respond to events. Next, it explores the simplest class for creating interactivity: the SimpleButton class.
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- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design: Remove
- Oct 6, 2010
- Giles Colborne explains the “remove” strategy, which is about removing distractions to bring focus to your project, including learning what’s valuable to users, focusing your resources on delivering value, meeting users’ goals, and removing the distractions of tiny speed bumps that add to the load on the user.
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- Presenting HTML5 Video with Dreamweaver CS5
- Oct 4, 2010
- Want to present video in your Dreamweaver-built website, but not sure you want to use Flash video? David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: Essential Techniques, has the solution. This tutorial shows you in easy-to-follow steps how to work with Dreamweaver in your site to implement HTML5 video that will work with many browsers.
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- Animation with Scripting for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Studio Techniques: Character Animation
- Sep 30, 2010
- Optimization and efficiency are key elements for a web project that needs to load quickly and play smoothly. Chris Georgenes and Just Putney explain how to animate characters in Adobe Flash Professional CS5.
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- HTML5: The 900-Page Gorilla with a Wide Ensemble
- Sep 27, 2010
- Miraz Jordan interviews Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp about their new book, Introducing HTML5, why HTML 5 is special, HTML5 favorites and pet peeves, and the best way to start experimenting with it.
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- Using the Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack to Create CSS3 Transforms
- Sep 27, 2010
- By using CSS3 style sheets, you can apply some pretty cool visual effects to content in your web pages. David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: Essential Techniques, shows how to work with a few of these effects in Dreamweaver CS5.
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- Sharon Steuer and Mordy Golding Talk about Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Sep 21, 2010
- Sharon Steuer (author of The Adobe
Illustrator CS5 WOW! Book) and Mordy Golding (author of Real World
Adobe Illustrator CS5) ask each other some burning questions.
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- Embedding HTML5 Audio with Dreamweaver CS5
- Sep 13, 2010
- David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: Essential Techniques, provides a step-by-step walkthrough of the process for using the HTML5 Audio element to present audio in a Dreamweaver-designed website.
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- Illustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide -- Panels
- Sep 7, 2010
- This chapter will help you become more intimately acquainted with the Illustrator interface features that you will be using continually as you work: the panels.
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- Interaction Design Frameworks that Work: Search
- Sep 6, 2010
- How can you apply lessons from Google to on-site search to generate effective results and commonsense interactions? In this chapter from their book, Web Anatomy, Robert Hoekman and Jared Sppol explain the elements you need for a good search engine interface and how they need to work.
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- Creating Web Content in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Aug 30, 2010
- Brian Wood, author of Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, presents best practices and handy tips for using Illustrator to create and save artwork for your website. Follow his advice to create better-looking and faster-loading art that adds value to your site.
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- Top 10 New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Aug 25, 2010
- Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, loves the handy new (and often long-awaited) features in Illustrator CS5. He highlights 10 of his favorites for users who want to know whether CS5 fulfills its promises.
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- Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5: Creative Drawing
- Aug 24, 2010
- Creative drawing in Illustrator can be fun to use and also be rather addictive. Mordy Golding shows you how to use Live Paint and how to work with the Pencil Tool, brushes, and Gradient Mesh to get the color, composition, texture, and feel you want.
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- Introducing HTML5: Video and Audio
- Aug 23, 2010
- HTML5 provides a competing, open standard for delivery of multimedia on the Web with its native video and audio elements and APIs. This chapter largely discusses the video element, but most of the markup and scripting are applicable for both audio and video.
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