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Tips for a Smooth Round-trip between Photoshop CS5 and Flash Catalyst
Adobe Flash Catalyst is a great tool for building out quick video-based microsites without having to learn any ActionScript or JavaScript. It takes your layered Photoshop file for the base design and allows you to designate which layers are buttons, form fields, etc and applies the necessary code behind the scenes. If it sounds a [...]
Photoshop + Adobe Media Encoder = Video Rendering Bliss
If you’re using Photoshop Extended to perform color and tone correction in video footage, you may be frustrated by tying Photoshop up for long periods of time rendering video. If so, try offloading the rendering chores to Adobe Media Encoder CS4 or CS5. Simply save your color-corrected video files as layered .PSDs and open them [...]
Panoramic Photos from Video Sweep
Nikon cameras have introduced a nifty feature in their point-and-shoot cameras allowing you to create a panoramic image from a video clip that sweeps across a subject.. You can create the same effect from a video clip with Photoshop Extended. Here’s how. 1) Open your video clip into Photoshop Extended (CS3 & later) and open [...]
30 Days of CS5: Conclusion
This wraps up our 30 Days of CS5 series. Although we’ve covered lots of new ground, we’re still really only scratching the surface of how these features can be implemented into your workflow to help you work faster and expand your creative options. Those deeper posts will continue over weeks and months to come, particularly [...]
30 Days of CS5: Fireworks a Web production hub?
Most Web sites begin their life as either a Photoshop or Illustrator document before they’re sliced, diced and often recreated into their HTML or Flash-based brethren. Fireworks, the oft-forgotten member of the Web Production Premium Suite, allows you to rapidly prototype Web and interactive designs, then export them directly to Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash Catalyst or [...]
30 Days of CS5: Ensuring Web site Consistency
I admit it, I’m an Mac fan. All the computers (and music players, and tablets and cell phones) in our studio are of the Macintosh variety. Though Macs are great tools for our line of work in visual communications, using Macs can be limiting when preparing content for the World Wide Web when I know [...]
30 Days of CS5: Content Management Support
Web design was once reserved for those elusive few who mastered the languages of the Web, HTML, JavaScript and PHP. Over time, WYSIWYG editors made the process a little less daunting, then came Content Management Systems (CMS) and, most recently, open source platforms like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. These three applications have the benefit of [...]
30 Days of CS5: Code Snippets
Flash Professional’s new Code Snippets is one of those features that makes me both love and hate Adobe. The love comes from a deep gratitude for taking a difficult task and making it much faster and easier. The hate comes from the fact that I’m not programattically inclined and I’ve spent a good chunk of [...]
30 Days of CS5: Text Layout Framework
The new Text Layout Framework (TLF) within Adobe Flash Professional CS5 aims to bring print-quality typography to the Web by adding full controls over columns, reflow, kerning, tracking and more. In addition, TLF allows you to control whether the text in your published document is read-only, selectable or editable. TLF can be utilized one of [...]
Apple on top
This week, Apple surpassed Microsoft as the most valuable technology company based on market capitalization. Most of the news headlines focus on Steve Jobs’ methodical and patient climb to the top. Others touted Apple’s innovative culture and strong design aesthetic as one of their keys to success.—most certainly these are all true. One of the [...]
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