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10 Minutes With Flash: Distributing Custom Components: Aug 27, 2004; Join Robert Hoekman, Jr. on a trek through a deep thicket of acronyms and learn how to package your very own Flash components in only 10 minutes.

10 Minutes with Flash: Graphics Tablets and Flash MX 2004: Apr 23, 2004; Step away from that mouse right now! In 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to make the best use of your graphics tablet while working with Flash.

10 Minutes with Flash: Must-Have Flash Tools: Dec 3, 2004; Check out these must-have third-party extensions that make working with Flash more productive and enjoyable.

10 Minutes with Flash: Quick Tricks, Part 2: Jun 11, 2004; Didn't get enough tips and tricks in the last "10 Minutes with Flash" article? Fret not. Robert Hoekman, Jr. has a few other tricks in his arsenal, and each can help you work more efficiently and make you a happier Flash geek.

10 Minutes with Flash: Repeating History through Commands: Dec 23, 2003; Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how reliving the past with History and Commands can help you automate your life.

10 Minutes with Flash: Streaming Video with Flash MX 2004 Professional: May 13, 2004; Robert Hoekman shows you how to use the media display component included within Flash MX 2004 Professional. This component allows you to enable your video to play external Flash Video (FLV) files without having to do any Actionscript coding. Using this component, the external videos will actually stream to your users.

10 Minutes with Flash: SWF-to-SWF Communication: Dec 17, 2004; In the world of complicated web applications, there's often a need to communicate between multiple SWF files and to transfer data from one to another. In only 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. gets you headed in the right direction with SWF-to-SWF communication.

10 Minutes with Flash: The World According to Shared Libraries: Jan 9, 2004; In 10 minutes or less, Robert Hoekman, Jr. can show you how to share assets between movies during development or on the fly.

10 Minutes with Flash: Ultimate Resources for Learning Flash: Jan 7, 2005; After 20 articles in the 10 Minutes with Flash series, Robert Hoekman, Jr. bids farewell by pointing to what he believes are the best Flash resources, online and off. Read on for a list of killer Flash resources.

10 Minutes with Flash: Using LoadVars to Send Form Data: Mar 12, 2004; In the latest installment of his 10 Minutes with Flash series, Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to package up form data and send it to the server.

10 Minutes with Flash: Working with Web Services: Aug 13, 2004; Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to connect to web services and display the resulting data in Flash. And, as always, he does it in 10 minutes.

10 Minutes with Flash: Writing Custom Behaviors: Jul 9, 2004; Don't you wish Flash MX 2004 came with more built-in behaviors? In only 10 minutes or less, Robert Hoekman, Jr. helps you create your own behaviors and save yourself lots of grief.

10 New Studies About People That May Surprise Designers: Nov 30, 2015; Whatever you're designing, ultimately there's a person at the end of the product who's going to use it. How much do you really know about how people think and behave? Susan Weinschenk, author of 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, shares some of the new research in behavioral and brain science that may surprise you.

10 Photoshop Retouching Tips for Your Studio Images: Apr 13, 2012; RC Concepcion (author, NAPP Instructor, and host of “DTownTV”) goes over some tried and true steps to keep in mind when working with portraits in a studio setting. By leveraging the power of Photoshop, you'll take a great studio shoot, and move it to the next level.

10 Practical Logo Design Tips: Oct 14, 2014; David Airey, author of Logo Design Love: A guide to creating iconic brand identities, 2nd Edition, shares ten tips that will help you think about how to design better logos.

16 How-To Tips for Using Photoshop Camera Raw: Jan 19, 2009; Chris Orwig offers 16 Camera Raw tips, including setting the white balance, using split toning, and making localized adjustments.

32-bit Imaging with HDR Toning in Photoshop CS5: Feb 28, 2011; High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography has been a hot topic lately, with debates ongoing as to how useful a process HDR is for serious photographers. Count Dan Moughamian, author of Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6, among those who believe HDR can be a very useful process for photographers, provided they understand its real purpose.

3D in Photoshop CS4: Apr 13, 2009; Photoshop includes many improvements to 3D workflow, such as a more powerful rendering engine and the ability to create and manipulate various kinds of lights and materials. This excerpt explains them in detail.

3D Photoshop: Inflating Objects from Photographs: Oct 3, 2013; Learn how to model 3D objects directly from photographs, using Photoshop’s inflation tool.