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Finding Your Artist's Voice
Apr 25, 2013
Bonny Lhotka offers an assemblage of ideas to motivate photographers and artists to assess their work from a new viewpoint.
First Steps of Flash Game Design
Jan 3, 2003
This sample chapter discusses the most common Flash game genres, their terminology, and Flash's capabilities as a game-development environment.
Five Critical Techniques for Creating Seamless Photoshop Composites
Aug 13, 2014
Bret Malley, author of Adobe Master Class: Advanced Compositing in Photoshop, enjoys creating digital composites that sometimes seem to turn reality upside-down. Learn five of his techniques for using Photoshop's digital sleight-of-hand to create results that can blow your mind.
Five Favorite New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS4/CS5/CS6
Mar 22, 2013
Whether you’ve skipped the last couple of upgrades to Adobe Illustrator or just haven’t had a chance to fully explore what these upgrades offer, Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book author Sharon Steuer shares some ways to use five of her favorite new features from Illustrator CS4, CS5 and CS6.
Five Hot New Features in Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows
Aug 27, 2008
Get a first look at the newly announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows as Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide author Jeff Carlson takes you on a tour of his five favorite new features.
Five Tips for Optimizing GIFs in Photoshop CS2
Nov 18, 2005
How do you choose whether to use JPEG or GIF format for those beautiful graphics for your Web pages? Tanya Staples explains when to select which format, and then shows how to get more bang for your buck by reducing the already skinny GIF file sizes to ultra-waif status.
Fix Common Color Problems in Photoshop Elements 5: Video Tutorial
Dec 15, 2006
In this video tutorial, Matt Kloskowski shows you how to use the new Adjust Color Curves feature in Elements 5 to easily—and visually—fix common color problems.
Fix Skin Color in Photoshop Elements 4 with One Click
Oct 27, 2006
If the people in your digital photos look like aliens, try Matt Kloskowski's tricks with Photoshop Elements to return their skin to a more normal color. (If they really are aliens, of course, we can't help you there.)
Fixing Backlit Photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Dec 14, 2010
In this excerpt from a The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby shows you how to use the Fill Light slider, found in the Basic panel, which does the best job of fixing backlit photos.
Fixing Lens Distortion Problems in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Dec 18, 2010
Lightroom 3 can not only fix your lens distortion problem, it can often do it automatically.
Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Controlling Independent Timelines
Jan 19, 2007
Flash can run multiple movie clip and SWF Timelines simultaneously. It is often useful to get these various Timelines working together with one Timeline controlling some or all of the others with ActionScript. This communication is achieved through the use of target paths. In this article, author James Gonzalez reviews this important concept through the use of examples containing working target path scripts.
Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Controlling Timeline Playback
Jan 12, 2007
In Flash, once a movie starts, it plays in its entirety until it either reaches the last frame of the last scene on the Timeline, or it is instructed otherwise. The only way to instruct Flash is through the use of ActionScript. Author James Gonzalez reviews the basic scripts you must learn to direct Flash to execute basic but critical project functions.
Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Scripting a Telescoping Menu
Feb 9, 2007
Flash is a great tool for creating animated menus and other navigation elements. James Gonzalez shows you how to use ActionScript to create a compact telescoping menu system that saves valuable screen real estate yet still provides one-click access to many pages of your web site.
Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Taking the Mystery Out of ActionScript
Dec 15, 2006
To really get the most out of Flash, you need to learn and use ActionScript. Read this concise ActionScript primer by author James Gonzalez to start taking the mystery out of this versatile and powerful web technology.
Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Variables, Expressions, and Functions
Mar 9, 2007
To write effective Flash scripts, it's helpful to understand some of the important components of the ActionScript language. Author James Gonzalez reviews three important and related ActionScript components (variables, expressions, and functions) and tells you where to get the information you need.
Flash Interface Design: Bud Greenspan's 10 Greatest Winter Olympians
Feb 7, 2003
CNNSI had three goals for a minisite running in the weeks before the 2002 Winter Olympics. Thoughtbubble Productions used Flash to accomplish all those activities in a single page.
Flash MX 2004 Components
Nov 7, 2003
Matthew David gives you an overview of the different components you now have with Flash MX 2004, what you can do with them, how to build a simple form, how to change their style, and how to bind an array to your components.
Flash MX Animation Techniques
Jul 19, 2002
Flash animation is modeled on the same principles used in the large-scale animation productions of yesteryear. Use the fundamentals of Flash to develop successful character animation, from personality to environment.
Flash MX Printing
Apr 25, 2003
See how to customize printing from a Flash Player by using the print action feature.
Flash MX: New Name, New Features
May 31, 2002
So what makes Flash MX worth the upgrade? Matthew David explains why Flash MX will stand out as a pivotal version.

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