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Working with 3D Content in Adobe Acrobat 9 Oct 20, 2008 Adobe Acrobat 9 offers some pretty spiffy 3D capabilities, including the ability to rotate, spin, zoom, and add custom views of your 3D models. The Adobe Creative Team walks us through the coolest 3D features.

Converting Web Pages to Adobe PDF Oct 17, 2008 Have you ever printed a page directly from the Web, and discovered with dismay that the finished product looked nothing like the original version onscreen? The Adobe Creative Team shows how Adobe Acrobat 9 can help solve that problem (and others!) by enabling you to save a web page directly to PDF.

Getting to Know the After Effects CS3 Workflow Oct 17, 2008 Whether you use After Effects to animate a simple DVD title sequence or to create complex special effects, you generally follow the same basic workflow. The Adobe Creative Team demonstrates how to use this workflow to create a simple animated video.

Working with Bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat 9 Oct 17, 2008 Getting around in a huge PDF document can take a lot of time. The Adobe Creative Team shows how to speed things up by using the bookmark feature in Acrobat 9 to create and organize bookmarks that give you quick-click access to the page you want.

Working with the Color Guide Panel in Adobe Illustrator CS4 Oct 15, 2008 Learn how to use the Color Guide panel to pick harmony rules such as color tints and analogous colors.

Reshaping Text with an Envelope Warp in Adobe Illustrator CS4 Oct 13, 2008 Warping text is fun because it allows you to give text a more interesting shape. This excerpt from Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use a preset warp shape or a mesh grid as an envelope.

Creating Transitions with Blends in Adobe Illustrator CS4 Oct 9, 2008 Computers can be real timesavers. For example, instead of having to draw all the in-between objects to morph one shape into another, you can make Illustrator do the work. Mordy Golding shows off some of the fun and useful transitioning capabilities that Illustrator offers with its blending features.

Making Transformations in Adobe Illustrator CS4 Oct 9, 2008 The best part of drawing on a computer is that you rarely have to start over. Whether you've changed your mind about an angle or you drew a bunch of repeated objects too small (oops), Illustrator makes modifying your artwork very easy. Mordy Golding discusses how to use Illustrator's transform capabilities to manipulate any number of objects onscreen.

Snap to It with Flash CS4 Professional Oct 7, 2008 The capability to 'snap' elements into correct position is a handy helper when designing Flash creations. Katherine Ulrich explores the possibilities for giving your items some snap.

Working with Pages in Fireworks Oct 3, 2008 One time-saving feature that makes Fireworks efficient for web design is the concept of creating web pages as, well, pages. Jim Babbage discusses how to use pages to simplify site building.

Controlling Movie Clip Properties with ActionScript 3.0 Sep 23, 2008 By using ActionScript in addition to or instead of the Flash interface, you can create many more interactive possibilities in your Flash projects. The Adobe Creative Team shows how easy it is to use ActionScript to control the properties of a movie clip.

Creating an External Style Sheet in Dreamweaver CS4 Sep 23, 2008 External style sheets have many powerful advantages that make them ubiquitous in professional Web sites. In this excerpt, adapted from Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-321-56289-5), David Karlins shows the easiest way to generate style sheets in Dreamweaver.

Creating Tables in Dreamweaver CS4 Sep 23, 2008 This excerpt, adapted from Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book (Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-321-57381-1), tells you why, when, and how to use tables in your site design.

Getting Familiar with Paths in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Sep 23, 2008 One of the most important innovations in Flash was a new set of tools that made creating vector graphics as simple and intuitive as creating bitmap graphics. This excerpt, adapted from Adobe Flash CS4 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-321-58004-4), discusses paths, the most basic element of a vector drawing.

Positioning Flash CS4 Objects in 3D Space Sep 23, 2008 What’s so cool about Flash CS4? You can now position and animate objects in real 3D space. The Adobe Creative Team demonstrates how to use the following special Flash tools for accurate 3D positioning: the 3D Rotation tool, the 3D Translation tool, and the Transform panel.

Five Reasons You Should Use Flash Video on Your Site Sep 22, 2008 Flash Video is an accessible, fast-loading, pretty much globally supported video format. And, as the "official video format of YouTube," Flash Video has emerged as the standard video format for the web. In this article, author Dave Karlins explains why you should use Flash Video on your site.

Creating Flash Content that Even Search Engines Like Sep 19, 2008 Flash is often perceived as an SEO albatross that will ensure search obscurity for anyone who dares to use it in his or her website. However, you might be surprised to learn that this commonly held perception is not entirely true. Aarron Walter explains how to create flash content for your site that's actually findable.

How to Produce a PDF Portfolio in Adobe Acrobat 9 Sep 5, 2008 Author Donna Baker explains how to use Adobe Acrobat 9's new Portfolio feature to bring your content together into one portable, customizable, well-organized package.

Something's Different: Tips for Making a Painless Migration to ActionScript 3 Sep 5, 2008 Got a few problems with ActionScript 3? Author Kris Hadlock has solutions. He even supplies the code you need to put the solutions right to work. He's a full-service author, that Kris Hadlock.

Using Functions, Properties, and Keywords in ActionScript 3 Aug 11, 2008 In this sample chapter, author Kris Hadlock explains the differences between function arguments and the new ... (rest) keyword, attribute keywords such as public and private, and the new protected keyword, as well as how to define constants.

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