I recently presented at the Prepare to Win event in Phoenix on creating the perfect pdf, as well as cross media. Preparing a PDF for print can be a tough task. With so many options and potential unknowns it’s nice to know that Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro takes a lot of the guessing out of [...]
My new Lynda.com title is hot off the press and available on Lynda.com! I’m proud of it because the creating, recording and testing process went amazingly smooth and it shows. Creating a First Site in Dreamweaver CS4 So if you’re new to Dreamweaver and web design then it is the perfect course for you! All [...]
Last weekend I recorded my latest Lynda.com title “Creating Your First Website in Dreamweaver CS4″. It is a really good title since it’s a “soup to nuts” title teaching you everything you need to know about creating your first website in Dreamweaver. Here’s the offiical description: Creating a First Web Site with Dreamweaver CS4 does [...]
Check out the new version of Adobe TV!! Â http://tv.adobe.com It was architected and designed based on substantial input from users and is the first website in the world to deploy a video player built with the Adobe Open Source Media Framework (aka Strobe), and one of the first sites built using Adobe ColdFusion 9. The [...]
I’ll be at the AIGA Salt Lake City meeting on September 24th where I will be speaking about the new features of Flash CS4 Professional! The features I will cover include: New motion tween for quick, easy animation creation Prebuilt Motion Presets Bone tool for quick character animation Fundamentals of ActionScript Attendees will also learn [...]
I occasionally get asked about what size you should design a website at. This question has an inherent issue because of the following: The array of monitor resolutions The fact that web pages can be scaleable http://webstyleguide.com/page/dimensions.html
Probably the most exhaustive list of Photoshop tutorials, textures, symbols, tips, psd source files, and brushes to amp up any design. A great resource. Props to the creator.
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Almost anything you do in Photoshop can be recorded as an action to be run later. So anytime you find yourself doing the same thing over and over, think about turning it into an action. Here’s how you make one: In the Actions panel, click the Create New Action button , or choose New Action from [...]
As if Photoshop wasn’t robust enough, it also gives you the ability to load it up even more with creative assets known as presets. Presets are custom settings for specific tools that ultimately allow for more creativity. There are presets for many different tools such as brushes, shapes, patterns, gradients, swatches, layer styles, and even [...]
Research shows that every unnecessary click has the ability to slow down users’ productivity. And with CS4 these clicks have been dramatically reduced, thus speeding up productivity. The independent study was conducted by Pfeiffer Consulting, who did more than 100 benchmark tests with the following key highlights: InDesign CS4 – Production level errors can be [...]
Intersted in learning all you need to know about Flash to create your own dynamic content – in on day? Join me this summer in a city near you to learn all you need to know to be dangerous. And the great thing is, no former knowledge is required! Now it would help if you’re [...]
My latest lynda.com title is “Creating a First Web Site with Flash CS4 Professional” is now live! Check it out! Description: Information on how to learn Flash is prevalent, but it can be frustrating to understand how to make an entire working web site using this unique technology. Here’s a course that cuts through the [...]
I guess you should be careful when you try to attack the competition. They could one up you: from the online advertising blog http://www.thedenveregotist.com
Information on how to learn Flash is prevalent, but it can be frustrating to understand how to make an entire working web site using this unique technology. Here’s a course where I cut through the clutter and offer practical tools for creating a dynamic web site, even for first-time developers. In Creating a First Web Site [...]
Peace, Love, Print! Creative Media & Print Expo ’09 is the premiere, laid back and freak out print conference where I will be coveing mind blowing features in Adobe Creative Suite 4. It’s being held in Phoenix (April 9th) and Denver (May 12). If you’re in the area come join me for some serious Adobe [...]
First of all, why the heck would you want to do this? A couple of reasons: It gives the ability for someone else to modify the Flash content without knowing Flash! It keeps you from making many different swfs for projects that are highly similar. i.e. If you need to create many different video players [...]
I recieved this position from Tiffany at Sony Imageworks. Seems like a pretty cool position so I thought I’d pass it along: The position is based in Culver City California. Basic Description: The Senior Designer is responsible for the original design and maintenance of Sony Pictures web-based projects, client projects, and other design elements, including [...]
Here is an interesting article about the state of the computer book market and some current trends in technical knowledge and the popularity of computer languages. You will see that C# has been steadily growing year after year while Java has been going in the opposite direction during the same period. PHP, ActionScript and Python are [...]
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! [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
 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 [...]
Now I’ve made Flash widgets before, but nothing like this Sprint Now Widget. The mother of them all.
