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Archive for March, 2007
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, presentations, games, and more. Depend on Flash CS3 and Adobe Flash Player to ensure your content reaches the widest possible audience. Top reasons to upgrade [...]

Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional

First off, what is After Effects? It’s mainly used to create high end visual effects and motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. As for the new version, there’s a ton of new features and enhancements! My favorite: Puppet Tool! Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Shape [...]

Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3

What is it? Well, it’s for more efficient video production. Creating/editing entire shows can be done in the program. It now also includes Adobe Encore CS3 and Adobe OnLocation CS3, formerly the award-winning DV Rack HD. Save time from on-set capture using Adobe OnLocation through to output, expand your creative options via integration with Adobe [...]

Adobe® Photoshop ® CS3 and CS3 Extended

For years, pretty much every creative professional such as graphic and web designers, photographers, and prepress specialists have relied on Adobe Photoshop software to help create creative visuals. But Photoshop has also become the digital imaging standard for a wide array of other professionals—including people working with motion graphics for film and television; 2D and [...]

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software allows you to efficiently create sophisticated vector artwork for virtually any medium. Access tools quickly and easily, explore color variations, and share files seamlessly between Illustrator and other Adobe professional applications as you prepare content for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs. Top new features: (my favorites in [...]

Adobe® Fireworks® CS3

Accelerate web design and development with Adobe® Fireworks® CS3 software, the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images for the web and rapidly prototyping websites and web applications. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and timesaving integration with Adobe Photoshop® CS3, Adobe Illustrator® [...]

Apollo Alpha is available to download

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.  And an alpha is available for download!  Download/install at your own risk. I’ll be doing so…

Collection of Fun Flash Sites

Review sites: http://www.thefwa.com http://www.designmeltdown.com Training sites: http://www.gotoandlearn.com http://www.lynda.com http://www.theflashblog.com http://www.designupdate.com/flashtraining Great use of Flash using a webcam: Webcam Fire! http://www.webcamtastic.com Unique navigation: http://www.billyharvey.com http://www.screenvader.com

Adobe Creative Suite 3 to be Announced!

It’s coming!  This statement was just released today concerning CS3: “Adobe Creative Suite 3 will be announced March 27th 2007. Adobe is celebrating the launch at an event in New York City that will be webcast live at 3:30 pm ET on that date. On March 27th Adobe will reveal in detail the features and [...]

After Effects Creating Vector Objects

There are four cases where AE saves out elements as vector objects: Solid layers with Masks Illustrator files (without gradients) The Path Text plug-in The Audio Spectrum and Waveform filters

Display an FLV in Flash

Goto the Library panel in Flash and click on the little button on the top right corner of the title bar. Choose “New Video” from the menu. This creates an embedded video object in your library. Drag this video object onto the stage and resize to the dimensions of your FLV. Give the video object [...]