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Real World Adobe Creative Suite 2: View from the Bridge: Jun 30, 2006; Adobe Creative Suite 2 introduces an new application-- Adobe Bridge--for visually managing the different file types you'll work on within the CS2 applications. Just as the Bridge on the starship Enterprise was the main hub for all the ship's departments, the Adobe Bridge helps you work better with all the CS2 applications. In this chapter you'll get an introduction to Adobe Bridge and learn its major features.

Real World Adobe GoLive Tips: Mar 30, 2001; Shave hours off your site creation and management duties with these industrial-strength Adobe GoLive 4 production tips from expert Peachpit Press authors Jeff Carlson and Glenn Fleishman.

Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5: Creative Drawing: Aug 24, 2010; Creative drawing in Illustrator can be fun to use and also be rather addictive. Mordy Golding shows you how to use Live Paint and how to work with the Pencil Tool, brushes, and Gradient Mesh to get the color, composition, texture, and feel you want.

Real World Tips For Using Illustrator's Objects, Groups, and Layers: Jan 20, 2006; Just as there are benefits to keeping an orderly desk, there are advantages to using groups and layers for adding structure to your files. In Adobe Illustrator CS2, groups and layers not only offer a convenient way to manage objects in a file (as they did in earlier versions of Illustrator), but now they can also control the appearance of your file. Find out more in this informative chapter by Mordy Golding.

Real-World Solutions with Adobe Technology: Health Care e-Form: Feb 24, 2010; In this chapter, you will meet a doctor and the IT staff of a regional hospital and learn how they replaced piles of paperwork with their new paperless systems.

Recoding iWeb Sites Part 1: How to Combine iWeb Sites with Other Web Design Tools for Even Better Sites: May 19, 2006; Apple's iWeb makes creating polished Web pages incredibly easy because you never have to deal with the code. Unfortunately, that also means you can't add Web goodies to your site that require adding pieces of code directly to the page. Fortunately, modifying the code after publishing a site with iWeb is possible, and Ryan Faas fills you in on how to do it.

Recoding iWeb Sites Part 2: Manipulating Code for iWeb-Created Page Elements: Jun 2, 2006; You like iWeb's overall ease of use, right? But what if you need to do something extra with a few of your pages? You designed a site in iWeb and now want to expand the site with other technologies and using a different Web design tool? In part two of Ryan Faas' series, find out about the type of code iWeb creates and how you can rework it for your own use.

Redesigning a Big Umbrella of Websites: The Informit CSS Overhaul: Nov 5, 2004; Informit and its many sister sites, all divisions of the Pearson Technology Group, recently united in one code base. How does a huge conglomerate of independent web sites become one system of technologies that works for everyone? Meryl K. Evans tells the tale.

Remote Mac Management on a Budget: Low-Cost Alternatives to Apple Remote Desktop: Mar 9, 2007; Observing and controlling computers remotely is a great tool for systems administrators, help desk staff, teachers, and even home users. Apple Remote Desktop gives you that power and more, but if you only want the most basic remote observation and control features, there are low-cost and free options for Mac OS X. Ryan Faas gives you the best alternatives.

Research-Directed Design Methods: Project Definition: Nov 16, 2009; Sarah Horto shows the importance of restraint in approaching a new website design project. Project success depends on defining the project purpose and goals before diving into wireframes, navigation, and especially visual design.

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.

Responsive Design Workflow: Designing in Text: Apr 15, 2013; In this chapter, Stephen Hay discusses responsive design with text, including marking up plain text and converting plain text to HTML.

Retouching Portraits with Smart Filters in Adobe Photoshop CS3: Feb 16, 2007; The Photoshop CS3 Beta has changed a lot of things about the way you use Photoshop, but perhaps nothing is as dramatic as Smart Filters. David Cross demonstrates how to use this tool to retouch a photo in a very nondestructive, editable-anytime manner.

Round Trip Between Illustrator/Photoshop and Flash Catalyst: Oct 27, 2010; What’s easier than creating the content (look and feel) for your project in Illustrator and/or Photoshop, then bringing that directly into Flash Catalyst? Okay, if it was created for you, that would be easier… Brian Wood shows you how Flash Catalyst enables you to add interactivity to that content and export it in the correct format or hand it over to an Adobe Flex developer to add database integration, and much more.

Save And Print PDFs in Adobe Acrobat 7: Dec 22, 2006; Acrobat's ability to let you read a PDF file on almost any computer system is impressive, but you can do even more. In this chapter, you'll learn how to save PDFs in many formats, reduce file size, make sure a document is ready to print, and finally to print it.

Saving Time on Routine, Multistep Tasks by Running PDF Actions: May 11, 2011; Who doesn’t want to work smarter, not harder, during the workday? Lots of us use PDF files in one way or another to convey information. Adobe expert Brian Wood shows you how to use PDF actions to simplify and automate your work and create that perfect PDF “experience.”

Scaling with ColdFusion MX: Feb 28, 2003; This sample chapter will concentrate on what you need to know about scaling with Cold-Fusion MX.

Screen-based Thinking: Let’s Make an App!: Mar 2, 2015; In this excerpt from The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology, Golden Krishna takes a second look at today’s screen-obsessed world—how we got here, why we’re still here, why this awful trend is so awful, and how people are moving beyond screens and breaking off their love affair with mundane apps.