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Archive for February, 2009
Creating Spine Page Bleeds in InDesign

I was recently asked how you could create inside page bleeds in InDesign, without affecting the opposite page.  The solution to this is to uncheck “Allow Pages to Shuffle” allowing you to drag the pages apart in oder to apply the full bleed.  David Blatner writes about this in detail on InDesignSecrects.com. Check it out! [...]

Gridiron Flow – Could be Revolutionary to Your Workflow

OK, so Adobe’s products are our tools of choice when it comes to anything creative.  But when it comes to process and workflow, Gridiron Flow might be the way to go.  It allows you to easily (?) see what files are being used in a project.  Whether it’s an After Effects file, InDesign file and (hopefully) [...]

Flash Augmented Reality from Japan

The FLARToolKit is a shape recognition library that you can use in conjunction with Flash and a video camera, and at MAX Japan Saqoosha showed off a great demo.  Check it out! ARToolKit uses computer vision algorithms to solve this problem. The ARToolKit video tracking libraries calculate the real camera position and orientation relative to [...]

Dreamweaver, CSS, HTML Resources

  Someone recently asked about books/resources for learning how to create websites using CSS,HTML, PHP and Dreamweaver.  Here are probably my top 11 resources.  I couldn’t bring myself to cut one more to round it to 10: Designing With Web Standards  Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4 Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case [...]