Graphic Design Blog: April 2010 Archives

Graphic Design Blog > April 30, 2010

Adobe releases Creative Suite 5 bundles: Digital Photography Review

[News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Adobe Creative Suite 5 products integrate with Adobe CS Live*, a set of five online services that accelerate key aspects of the creative workflow and enable designers to focus on creating their best work. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time and currently include: Adobe BrowserLab, Adobe CS Review, Acrobat.com, Adobe Story and SiteCatalyst®

Moving Forward (Adobe Featured Blogs)

[Adobe Featured Blogs] Welcome to Adobe Featured Blogs, a one-stop information and conversation destination for virtually anyone interested in what's going on at Adobe. Here you'll find the latest company and product news from Adobe's multiple lines of business.

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April 30, 2010

Adobe releases Creative Suite 5 bundles: Digital Photography Review

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Moving Forward (Adobe Featured Blogs)

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April 29, 2010

Download Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX 2004 in 24 Hours ...

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Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX 2004 in 24 Hours | eBook ...

[eBook Home Index And Review] “Since its introduction in 1996, Macromedia Flash has become the standard for delivering high impact, vector-based graphics to the Web. Flash is deceptively simple at first, yet has great depth and flexibility.Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 5 in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well-organized introduction to this powerful product, and gives the beginner an overview of the entire package, without becoming too overwhelming”

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April 28, 2010

Becoming a Photo Editor & Career Aspects of Photo Editing Job ...

[Study Discussions - Study Abroad, Career Guidance] It involves high sense of morality, ethics and esthetics. Professional image editors are generally employed by website developers, publishing corporations, newspapers, government agencies, non-government organizations, journals, magazines and television and radio stations.

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PicPick 2.2.8: Capture and image editing in one program - Free ...

[Free Software Download and Review @Esoft.Web.id] Once you capture the window you can apply effects PicPick retouch or conventional editing tools (paintbrush, lines, shapes, color selection tool, insert letters, etc.).. Some effects are that you have to focus and blur the image, apply grayscale, mirror the image horizontally or vertically, adjust the properties of brightness, saturation, contrast and color, etc.

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April 27, 2010

Using Adobe ImageReady to make a complete website? « Graphic ...

[Fast Cash Design . com] I know ImageReady is still around and part of adobe products so it can’t be that bad right? I know it’s a basic tool but I’m only building a fairly basic site, no flash or anything.

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Animation in Imageready: TEXT EFFECTS : By Paras Kalra | Learn ...

[Learn Photoshop Now] A Simple Video Tutorial Text Animation in Adobe Imageready, Photoshop + ImageReady For More visit www.paraskalra.com.

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April 24, 2010

9 [More] Powerful Image Editing Web Apps You May Need to Bookmark ...

[Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers] These tools are easy, free and less complicated than many complicated desktop based image editing tool out there, and I should not forget to mention the thousands of their version coming ever now and then, and you will be paying more for more complexity. So, these tools can help you out for free and because they are web based so you can have them wherever you have internet with you.

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April 23, 2010

Poll: How important is typography to your designs?

[About Web Design / HTML] Web Typography is important to most websites, but most Web designers don't think a lot about it beyond the font family and font size for their text. Do you pay more attention to your font stack than to the colors on your site?

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Design Inspiration: Showcase of Beautiful Typography and Text ...

[DesignM.ag] Every once in a while we showcase various works of typography and text effects for your design inspiration. In today’s post we have 30 items to feature, covering a wide variety in types and styles of design.

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April 22, 2010

Duplicate fonts in Snow Leopard? ””Lena Shore Graphic Designer Lena ...

[Lena Shore, Graphic Design, Web Design & Hosting, Illustration] If you have, then maybe you can answer me this: Ever since I upgraded I now have a bunch of “duplicate” fonts showing in Font Book along with a few that are in the Font Directory but not showing up in Font Book.

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40 High-Quality Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs | Fonts ...

[instantShift] Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Below you’ll find Collection of High-Quality Latest Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs by which you can save money and focus on making great applications.

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April 21, 2010

I have a rollover graphic I made in ImageReady CS2 w/ html, but ...

[BHBodeezy] I created a rollover graphic with the rollovers being links to pages online. I made it in Adobe ImageReady CS2 with slices, creating layer based rollovers.

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April 20, 2010

Create a Retro Urban Gig Poster in Photoshop | Psdtuts+

[Psdtuts+] Given the clean, pixel-perfect nature of Photoshop, artworks always risk looking too perfect therefore it’s important to learn how to bring nature’s random variations into our digital creations. In this tutorial we’ll create an atmospheric poster for a dance party using the textured, retro look that’s so popular nowadays.

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image

[Free Photoshop Tutorials] Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers begins with an overview of the Photoshop interface and the fundamentals of how to use Photoshop, followed by how to configure and optimize your computer’s performance to run the program and then it dives straight into the essentials of Camera Raw image editing. The Sharpening chapter shows how to use the Camera Raw controls to obtain optimum capture sharpening and noise reduction and the Essentials chapter outlines how to work with all the basic image adjustment tools that are in the program, some of which have been there since the very beginning.

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April 17, 2010

Adobe ImageReady Basic Tutorial

[Learn Photoshop Now] This is for any person who know ASL (American Sign Language) and wish to learn Adobe imageready Basic Tutorial. Technorati Tags: Adobe, basic, imageready, tutorial.

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April 16, 2010

Where can I download an Adobe InDesign trial? « Indesign Help ...

[Fast Cash Design . com] Adobe, from what I can tell, usually offers 30-day trials for a lot of their products, including InDesign. Unfortunately, with CS5 being released soon, I’m having trouble finding an InDesign CS3 or CS4 trial.

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Articles on InDesign CS5 - InDesign Docs

[InDesign Docs] Not only do the changes the company has stuffed into the latest version of InDesign ($699 list new, $199 list upgrade) rank among the most extensive and useful any product has received in Creative Suite 5, they also represent a major (and long overdue) sea change for the product itself."

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April 15, 2010

adobe macromedia breeze | Internet Software Tools | PhotoShopped

[PhotoShopped] Import File Formats: Macromedia Flash (SWF) EPS Illustrator 1.1, 88, 3, 4, 5.5, 7 CorelDraw 7, 8 Micrografix Designer 3 Photoshop 2.5, 3, 4, 5 Acrobat PDF 4 FreeHand 5, 5.5, 7, 8, 9,10 DCS 1, DCS 2, DXF, RTF, ASCII, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, Targa, BMP, WMF, EMF,CGM, PLT FH 11 template …

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adobe macromedia breeze | Internet Software Tools

[Internet Software Tools] PC Workflow: Graphic Symbols Docking Panels Anti-Alias View Designed for Windows XP Built for Mac OS X Multipage Design and Production: Master Pages Multipage Environment Connector Lines Tool Connector Line Styles Intuitive Design Tools: Extrude Tool Eraser Tool Blend Tool Macromedia Standard Pen Tool Freeform Tool Symbol-Based Brush and Spray Strokes Design Power: Multiple Attributes Live Effects Live-Edit Graphic Primitives Image Alpha-Channel Support Vector Transparency Perspective Grid Interactive Transforms Productivity: Object Panel Output Area Swap Object for Symbol Animation: Release to Layers Animation Effects Effects: Enhanced Gradient Fills Gradient Fill Handles Brush Enhancements Calligraphic Stroke Macromedia Flash Integration: Action Tool SWF Import / Reexport Launch and Edit with Macromedia Flash FreeHand MX Importer for Macromedia Flash Navigation Panel Create Print Layouts for Macromedia Flash Macromedia Fireworks Integration: FreeHand MX Importer for Fireworks Fireworks PNG Importer Launch and Edit with Fireworks Universal English 1 User Adobe Systems, Inc Macromedia FreeHand MX v.11.0 Retail Macromedia FreeHand MX v.11.0 – Complete Product Desktop Publishing Processor: Pentium II 300 MHz or higher Operating Systems: Windows 98 SE Windows Me Windows NT 4 with Service Pack 6 Windows

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April 14, 2010

InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Roundup of InDesign CS5 Features ...

[InDesignSecrets] Perhaps for CS6, the emphasis will shift to periodicals and improved layout abilities, especially making handling complex frame and text layouts easier, as well as fixing all the text formatting inadequacies (footnotes won’t span columns, no endnotes, no sidebars, no simple way to shade or block in text paragraphs like Word has had for a decade or more).

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Adobe Releases InDesign CS5 Digital Publishing Software | iPhone ...

[iPhone World's iNews Aggregator] Our iNews aggregator fetches the latest stories about all things i -- Apple, iPhone, iPod, iTouch and iPad -- from leading online publications.

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April 13, 2010

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available - Adobe creative suite 5 ...

[Gizmodo: software] 5 product family, a breakthrough release of the industry-leading Web, design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Focusing on interactivity, performance and maximizing the impact of digital content and marketing campaigns, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full-version upgrades of flagship creative tools while delivering significant workflow enhancements to designers and developers.

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Flash CS5 First Look: Adobe Drops a Hefty Update Into Stormy ...

[Webmonkey] Also, we should note that Adobe has done away with the Web Standard edition of Creative Suite, so now the Production Premium edition ($1,700) is the cheapest CS5 bundle you can buy that includes the Flash apps. For that price, you also get Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Bridge and several other apps.

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April 10, 2010

CS5 Countdown is on... (Adobe Featured Blogs)

[Adobe Featured Blogs] Even if the flash CS5 would be banned from use I bet adobe will come out with apps that will enable developers better than a lot of the mac development apps. Not only that windows has embraced flash as obvious replacement for java desktop apps and it's invading windows apps as well, socket connection and calling executables is what really changed the game!

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Adobe: We'll Be Fine Without Apple | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo ...

[MediaMemo] Secondly, multiscreen is growing beyond Apple’s devices. This year we will see a wide range of excellent smartphones, tablets, smartbooks, televisions and more coming to market and we are continuing to work with partners across this whole range to enable your content and applications to be viewed, interacted with and purchased.

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April 09, 2010

A Basic Look at Typography in Web Design « gabriel catalano | in ...

[gabriel catalano | in-perfecciÃ³n] Lack of typography consistency is one the biggest mistakes new web designers make. Font properties are best controlled globally, and it’s good practice to set the font family, size, color, line height and weight for the body element of all your pages through CSS, such as in the following example:

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Showcase of Big Typography in Web Design - DesignM.ag

[DesignM.ag] A current trend in web design is to use oversized text, often in headers. In this post we’ll showcase 30 websites that make excellent use of big, beautiful typography.

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April 08, 2010

QuickPrinting.com Article: Quark Acquires GLUON Assets Including ...

[QuickPrinting.com: Industry News & Trends] Quark and GLUON have partnered for years to integrate QuarkXPress Server with GLUON’s HyperPublishing System to create automated print and multichannel solutions for corporate marketing departments, printers, advertising agencies, publishers, designers, and governmental agencies. The acquisition of GLUON’s HyperPublishing System allows Quark to strengthen its ability to offer customers the technology for creating customized, design-rich documents that can be dynamically changed or created on-demand.

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Quark acquires Gluon assets | MAC NEWS

[MAC NEWS] Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from Macworld UK.

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April 07, 2010

Macromedia Studio 8 » Area51WareZ - Updated Daily!

[Area51WareZ - Updated Daily!] hs.numberOfImagesToPreload = 0; hs.showCredits = false; hs.lang = { loadingText : 'Loading...', fullExpandTitle : 'Expand to original', restoreTitle : 'Click to close or click and hold for moving picture.', focusTitle : 'Focus on title', loadingTitle : 'Click for undo' };

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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips | WebsHost.net

[WebsHost.net] This book of about 300 Dreamweaver MX tips didn’t wow me at first…I flipped around and saw a bunch of things that I already knew about. But when I sat down and read through the book one tip at a time I began marking tips with post-it notes.

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April 06, 2010

Intergrating Macromedia Flash 8, PHP and MySql - PHP

[DaniWeb IT Discussion Community] I'm currently creating a basic math tutor for kindergartners and i'm using dreamweaver 8 as my text editor with PHP and MySql. One of my modules involves lessons in which i would want to put addition and subtraction and i have created a flash documents to demonstrate(addition and subtraction) as part of the lessons module.

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Developing Extensions for Macromedia Flash 8

[Latest - Ebook30.com] Developing Extensions for Macromedia Flash 8 describes how to build Flash JavaScript extensions to enhance the developer’s experience while working in the Flash authoring environment. This book explains how each type of extension works and describes the JavaScript application programming interface (API) functions that Flash calls to implement the extension.

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April 03, 2010

Whoila Blog » Blog Archive » Why is Macromedia Fireworks so slow?

[Whoila Blog] Why isn't there an app that tells you why your computer is so slow · Why is Macromedia Fireworks so slow? Got trees from Poppy's Nursery · Sample contract for people hiring contract developers off freelance sites .

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Design and Deploy Websites with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and ...

[download free java, medical, programming ebooks] Then get this guide and regain control by learning to design and deploy Dreamweaver sites specifically for use with Macromedia's hot, new content-management tool Contribute. In the first Macromedia-authorized book to cover this natural .

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April 02, 2010

Mark Minasi's Reader Forum - Deployment of Macromedia Flash 10 player

[Mark Minasi's Reader Forum] My current bugbear is deployment of Flash 10 to my desktops and laptops. Whilst I've signed up to the Adobe licencing and obtained an MSI installed for the Flash Player 10 ActiveX, and successfully rolled it out via a GPO, actually getting it to WORK with Flash-enabled websites is proving more problematic.

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A2Z softwares: Macromedia Dreamweaver

[A2Z softwares] Over three million strong, the Dreamweaver community offers many benefits, including the Macromedia Developer Center, developer certification programs, training and seminars, user forums, and independent community support sites. More than 800 free downloadable extensions are available through the Macromedia Dreamweaver Exchange.

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Graphic Design Blog > April 30, 2010

Adobe releases Creative Suite 5 bundles: Digital Photography Review

Moving Forward (Adobe Featured Blogs)

April 30, 2010

Adobe releases Creative Suite 5 bundles: Digital Photography Review

Moving Forward (Adobe Featured Blogs)

April 29, 2010

Download Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX 2004 in 24 Hours ...

Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX 2004 in 24 Hours | eBook ...

April 28, 2010

Becoming a Photo Editor & Career Aspects of Photo Editing Job ...

PicPick 2.2.8: Capture and image editing in one program - Free ...

April 27, 2010

Using Adobe ImageReady to make a complete website? « Graphic ...

Animation in Imageready: TEXT EFFECTS : By Paras Kalra | Learn ...

April 24, 2010

9 [More] Powerful Image Editing Web Apps You May Need to Bookmark ...

April 23, 2010

Poll: How important is typography to your designs?

Design Inspiration: Showcase of Beautiful Typography and Text ...

April 22, 2010

Duplicate fonts in Snow Leopard? ””Lena Shore Graphic Designer Lena ...

40 High-Quality Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs | Fonts ...

April 21, 2010

I have a rollover graphic I made in ImageReady CS2 w/ html, but ...

April 20, 2010

Create a Retro Urban Gig Poster in Photoshop | Psdtuts+

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image

April 17, 2010

Adobe ImageReady Basic Tutorial

April 16, 2010

Where can I download an Adobe InDesign trial? « Indesign Help ...

Articles on InDesign CS5 - InDesign Docs

April 15, 2010

adobe macromedia breeze | Internet Software Tools | PhotoShopped

adobe macromedia breeze | Internet Software Tools

April 14, 2010

InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Roundup of InDesign CS5 Features ...

Adobe Releases InDesign CS5 Digital Publishing Software | iPhone ...

April 13, 2010

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available - Adobe creative suite 5 ...

Flash CS5 First Look: Adobe Drops a Hefty Update Into Stormy ...

April 10, 2010

CS5 Countdown is on... (Adobe Featured Blogs)

Adobe: We'll Be Fine Without Apple | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo ...

April 09, 2010

A Basic Look at Typography in Web Design « gabriel catalano | in ...

Showcase of Big Typography in Web Design - DesignM.ag

April 08, 2010

QuickPrinting.com Article: Quark Acquires GLUON Assets Including ...

Quark acquires Gluon assets | MAC NEWS

April 07, 2010

Macromedia Studio 8 » Area51WareZ - Updated Daily!

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips | WebsHost.net

April 06, 2010

Intergrating Macromedia Flash 8, PHP and MySql - PHP

Developing Extensions for Macromedia Flash 8

April 03, 2010

Whoila Blog » Blog Archive » Why is Macromedia Fireworks so slow?

Design and Deploy Websites with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and ...

April 02, 2010

Mark Minasi's Reader Forum - Deployment of Macromedia Flash 10 player

A2Z softwares: Macromedia Dreamweaver

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