Worldwide Photo Walk Update
With the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk less than two weeks away, I thought it a good idea to make a video letting you guys know how we are thinking of collecting all of the images to process for the prizes.

There are going to be 2 different ways to upload your image - through the Photo Walk website, or through an export plugin using Adobe Lightroom. In both cases, you’re going to need to be able to sign in to the Photo Walk website, and you’re going to need your city name written down somewhere. Because of that, it’s probably a good idea that you check both of these early, before you get to the walk. Click on the video above to go over what you’re going to need to do!

Free Bogen Seminar July 17th
Bogen’s at it again, putting together a webinar for those of you who are into sports photography. Check it out:

Register and Join Our FREE Webinar on Friday, July 17th from 2 pm to 3 pm EDT! Listen to special guest, professional photographer Michael Clark, speak with David Fisher, our webinar host.

During this session David & Michael discuss:

• Adventure photography fundamentals (light, autofocus, histograms, exposure)
• Artificial lighting
• Photo equipment
• Outdoor gear
• How to approach and shoot rock climbing, mountain biking and whitewater kayaking -What it takes to be a pro!

For more information, click on this link to be taken to the Bogen Webinar website

Contest Time
Go to the Contact page, select the Layers Blog drop-down, then fill in your name, email address and answer to this week’s following question. Remember, the contest will end Thursday 5PM,. and the winner will be announced Friday morning.

The Contest Question:This one is going to be a 2 Parter because of the enormity of the prize Part 1: In the Photo Walk video above, I show my city as an example. What was my Photo Walk City name? Part 2: Who wrote the review for the NIKKOR AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8G lens on the Layers Magazine website?

The Prize:

Moose Peterson was kind enough to donate to us a beautiful version of the picture above, printed by our friends over at Artistic Photo Canvas! Back in May of last year, Moose had talked about the details of this shot - with it taking him about 30 years to get! I tell you, looking into it, you almost feel like you want to walk right -into- the redwoods, and we could not be happier to be giving it to a wonderful home! We’ll also give you a subscription to Layers Magazine as well!!

I’m a big fan of artwork, and I believe all of you should have some in your homes.. this is very exciting for me, so I hope you all enjoy it as well. We’ll see you back here tomorrow morning!

…for once in my life I wanted to just walk around and totally enjoy the experience…

Guilty as charged. It’s true, I took most of the photographs in this article with my Canon PowerShot G10 compact camera, including the opening photograph of a rusting truck. The locations for my shoots were Socorro, New Mexico, and nearby Bosque del Apache, where I was co-leading a photography workshop with famed wildlife photographer Greg Downing for NatureScapes (www.naturescapes.net).

I use the word “confessions” in jest because I’m known for shooting with top-of-the-line digital SLR cameras that produce knockout images in all lighting conditions, indoors and out. In addition, these digital SLRs accept more than 50 lenses and dozens of accessories that expand the camera’s capabilities. So like some pros I know, I’d have to plead the Fifth (tongue in cheek) when asked about shooting with a less-than-the-best camera.

Why did I use a compact camera for taking important images in these totally cool locations—places I’d never been before? I wanted to see if I could get good shots with a basic camera. What’s more, for once in my life I wanted to just walk around and totally enjoy the experience without lugging around my 40-lb SLR backpack, although I did have it nearby in the trunk of my car at all times.

So friends, here are some compact-camera images, along with some important info about compact cameras. I promise to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Opening arguments
I love this shot. It’s clean, meaning that it has very little digital noise. I took it with my compact camera on the first day of the trip in Bosque del Apache. I put the camera on a tripod, set the ISO to 100, the exposure mode to Av (Aperture Priority), activated the self-timer, and took the shot.

At low ISO settings, compact cameras deliver relatively low-noise images as long as the light level isn’t too low. It’s in low light and at high ISO settings where noise increases, and it’s in low light and at high ISO settings where digital SLRs really shine when it comes to minimizing noise.

I also took this shot with my compact camera. Check out the detail and color before you read on. Take your time. Nice shot, don’t you think

Okay, I’m kidding. I actually took this shot earlier that morning with a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II and 24–105mm lens, using the same settings that I used on my compact camera. It’s also one of my favorite images from the shoot. It’s a beautifully clean image, and I challenge anyone to see, at least on the pages of this magazine, any difference in image quality between this and the previous image. That goes for making an 8×10″ print of each image, too.

Here’s a test shot taken earlier that morning with the compact camera. For this shot, I set the ISO to 800 and hand-held the camera to test the noise, which is evident in the image, but that was expected. So one of the key differences between the two types of cameras is noise.

Cross-examination
Another key difference, and the reason I will not get divorced from my digital SLRs, is that I can use dozens of lenses on my digital SLRs, whereas my compact camera has only a built-in zoom. For this photograph, I used a Canon 400mm DO IS lens on my Canon EOS-1D Mark III to get the shot.

Unlike my compact camera, my digital SLR focuses much faster; has no shutter lag (although it’s not bad in the G10); has more focusing points (allowing it to focus more accurately in more situations); has a higher frame rate, not to mention a much larger image sensor for higher-quality images and enlargements; and an on-sensor noise-reduction feature.

Perhaps what I miss most in compact cameras are very wide lens settings, such as 14mm, 15mm, and 17mm. I especially like those focal lengths for landscapes and when shooting in close quarters indoors. And, of course, I miss the telephoto zooms. But you know what, whenever possible I do what we did before we had zoom lenses: I zoom with my feet!

In the compact camera’s defense, it has many of the exposure modes (Av, Tv, P, M) that my digital SLR offers. It even has exposure compensation, offers a histogram, and features an overexposure warning. What’s more, it shoots movies—not high-def like my Canon 5D Mark II, but movies good enough for fun and for posting on YouTube. Speaking of YouTube, one of my Bosque del Apache movies is posted on YouTube (www.youtube.com). Type Rick Sammon in the Search field to check it out.

Witness tampering
This shot from a compact camera was taken in bright light with the ISO set to 100. Check out the color, detail, sharpness, and lack of noise. I took this picture so that I could compare it to the following picture.

Here’s another shot of the bus taken shortly before sunset. This time the bus was in the shade, and to get the depth-of-field and shutter speed I needed, I had to set my ISO to 400. You may not be able to see the grain in the image in this magazine, but it’s there in the shadow areas. Also, the picture looks a bit flat.

No problem. Photoshop to the rescue! With a few basic adjustments, some in Adobe Camera Raw, I was able to transform a lackluster shot into an image with vibrant colors.

A confession on the stand
Okay, now it’s time for another confession: All the compact-camera images you see here were created from JPEG files. That’s right! Rick “RAW Rules” Sammon shot JPEGs for the first time in nine years to test the camera’s capabilities. And guess what? Processing those images in Camera Raw (which you can do in Photoshop CS3 and CS4), combined with a few additional tweaks in Photoshop, yielded some very nice images, including this photo of a caboose.

The mug shot
I’ll end this article with a photograph of me that was taken with my G10 during the presentation at the NatureScapes event. Surely it’s a grab shot with a harsh shadow caused by the on-camera flash. But it’s a fun shot, and that’s what compact-camera photography is about—having fun without the bag-drag that’s associated with professional photography.

It’s also about knowing what the compact camera can and can’t do, and how to use the camera’s capabilities to get great shots—some, like the second photograph in this article, can’t be differentiated from a photo taken with a high-end digital SLR.

From now on, I’ll never leave home without my compact camera, and I’ll never stop shooting with SLRs for my serious work.

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Click here to go straight to the Layers Back Page Contest

The concept is pretty cool. You design something based on the contest’s mission, and if selected, you win awesome prizes. This time around the contest is pretty straightforward:

“Your mission is to create a poster or flier promoting a sporting event where a mobile device is going head-to-head against a desktop computer. Each device needs to be an illustration of your own creation (no photos of the actual devices allowed, but you can use photos in other parts of your design).”

The judges will be looking at the overall design, creativity, use of type, and quality of the illustrations. Keep in mind, if you want to win the grand prize, you have to show us your skills as an illustrator. (Note: Please proofread your designs, or have someone proofread them for you. Typos have a negative impact on the judging.)

The grand prize winner will receive a medium Wacom Intuos4 and a copy of Corel Painter 11. That’s a retail value of $778! With Intuos4 offering 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity and the latest version of Painter adding incredible new features such as tablet tilt, you’ll be creating masterpieces that will make the masters themselves roll over with jealousy.

Adobe Illustrator Drawing Tools, Part 2
Today, we have Certfied Adobe Expert Jeff Witchel giving us a quick run down of how to use the drawing tools inside of Illustrator CS4. Click on the link below to get to the tutorial:

Jeff Witchel - Illustrator CS4 Drawing Tools

Tomorrow is an off day for us, preparing us for the July 4th weekend. May you and yours have a happy July 4th! We’ll see you back here Monday morning!

Troubleshooting A New Version Install
Anytime you upgrade to a new version of any software, you run the risk of transforming a perfectly stable system into one that has myriad little glitches—for no apparent reason. Nonlinear-editing systems seem especially vulnerable to these quirks, regardless of which operating system you’re running. Some common problems that can occur after upgrading your video-editing application may include a frozen screen, frozen cursor, flickering dialog, completely blank dialog, or a number of error messages, such as: (1) API failure. (2) Illegal instruction. (3) Unhandled exception detected. Application will be terminated. (4) Sorry, a serious error has occurred that requires [this application] to shut down. (5) The application has unexpectedly quit. The system and other applications have not been affected.

There are a number of specific steps you can take to minimize the chance of this occurring or fix the problems once they’ve taken hold of your system. In this article we’ll look at both Mac and Windows systems and give you specific strategies to follow to get a clean editing system up and running as efficiently as possible.

Basic Troubleshooting
Many times you can get a system error or frozen screen because you don’t have enough RAM for your new application. Or there’s a driver conflict or even a corrupt file. To ensure that your installation was completed smoothly (i.e., no corruption of files) and that you have the necessary hardware requirements to run the new software, here are a few suggestions:

Make sure that your old system meets your new software’s system requirements. I recommend always going above the minimum system requirements suggested. Your system will always run better.

Update your video card driver. More and more applications are offloading their processor-intensive tasks from the computer’s CPU to the graphics card GPU. Checking that you have a properly updated graphics card will make a world of difference in your system’s performance.

Do you have the correct version of QuickTime installed? Sometimes you need the very latest version; other times, the newest version will really mess up your system. Make sure you know which version you need.

And do you have a working QuickTime file installed? You could have a damaged QuickTime file, so to be safe, remove QuickTime, delete any QuickTime files or folders remaining on your system, and then reinstall the QuickTime software—better safe than sorry.

Check for dust on your CD/DVD and CD-/DVD-ROM drive. Dust or dirt on a CD/DVD can seriously corrupt an installation or at least interfere with a CD-/DVD-ROM drive’s ability to recognize parts of the media. Examine your install media disc for dirt, dust, and (the dreaded) oily fingerprints, then gently wipe the bottom of the disc from the center outward with a soft, lint-free cloth. Also, examine your loading tray to make sure that it’s free of any kind of dirt, dust, or debris.

Optimize and check your hard drives for damage. This includes your scratch disks! There are a ton of disk utilities for checking drives for disk fragmentation and general damage. Use any of them to check your system on a regular basis.

Disconnect peripheral devices. This includes any device connected by FireWire, USB, Serial ATA, IDE, or SCSI. Always disconnect these devices one at a time so that you can find the specific one that’s giving you the problem. Also, it may not be the device that’s the problem; it might be the cable connecting the device.

Troubleshoot third-party plug-ins. Frequently, third-party plug-ins won’t be compatible with your new version of software until they’ve been updated. Simply remove them from the plug-ins folder and then restart your application. If the problem recurs, then they weren’t part of the problem. If it doesn’t recur, then contact the manufacturer or programmer for an update to the plug-in.

Specific troubleshooting tips for Mac
The following tips are specific to any troubleshooting on the Mac:

Log in as a user with administrator privileges. It’s been my experience that installs run more smoothly in this mode.

Start the system in Safe Boot mode. Press-and-hold the Shift key immediately after you hear the start-up tone, then release the Shift key when the Apple logo appears. Safe Boot appears on the Mac OS X start-up screen.

Re-create the application’s Preferences files. You can do this by going to Users>[Username]>Library>Application Support>[App Company Name]>[App Name] and then dragging that folder or file to the Trash. This eliminates any problems caused by a damaged Preferences file and it restores settings to their defaults when you re-create the Preferences files. If the problem recurs after you re-create the Preferences files, then the problem isn’t related to Preferences files.

Set up a default printer in the Printer Setup Utility. I know this sounds stupid, but you’d be amazed at how many times this works! You can find it in Applications>Utilities>Printer Setup Utility, or if you’re running Leopard, go to System Preferences>Print & Fax.

Repair disk permissions by running Disk Utility. Also found in the Utilities folder is the Disk Utility. If you log in to an account with administrator privileges, but are still unable to install or run your program, then your disk permissions may be damaged.

Specific troubleshooting tips for Windows
The following are specific tips for troubleshooting Windows systems. First, three quick things that you probably already know how to do: Install current Windows service packs and other updates; disable start-up items and services; and verify that all of your device drivers are compatible.

Then, three things you may have to Google to find out how to do them on your specific (XP or Vista) system: Troubleshoot your codecs; set the virtual memory paging file to the default size; and optimize the handling of temporary files using Disk Cleanup Utility.

Install the application from the desktop. Some system components, such as device drivers and virus protection utilities, can conflict with an installer and result in an incomplete or failed installation. To prevent these conflicts, install from the desktop. Simply copy the application install folder from the install disc to the desktop, then double-click the Setup.exe file, and follow the onscreen instructions as usual.

Run the application in a new user account. Create a new user account that has the same permissions as the account that you use when the problem occurs. If the problem doesn’t recur, then the original user account may be damaged. For instructions on creating a new user account, click on the Windows Help tab and check out “To add a new user to the computer.”

Scorched earth
If all else fails and you’re running an Adobe application, it may be time for “scorched earth.” Adobe provides a simple program called Clean Script for both Macs and Windows that removes all existing Adobe programs from your system.

When you launch the script, you’re given the choice of Level 1 or 2 for removing Adobe items from your system; however, if you really want to get every trace of Adobe software from your system so you can do a super-clean reinstall, then you want to type in the number 4. It’s a hidden level that basically tears a rip in the space/time continuum, returning you to a time when Adobe wasn’t even available on this planet. Really, it removes every hidden file that could possibly be linked to an Adobe application.

Unfortunately, this level is only available in the CS3 version of Clean Script. The CS4 version allows you to uninstall only a specific Adobe bundle.

Remember, this script wipes everything off your drive so make sure that you’ve made a backup of your Lightroom galleries, Acrobat documents, PSD files, etc. If this is the level of clean that you need, check out www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html and www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs4clean.html.

If you’re a Nikon shooter and you’ve been contemplating buying a reasonably priced, professional prime lens, you should give serious consideration to the new NIKKOR AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8G. What makes this lens so special? For less than $200, you get a fast, lightweight, well-made lens that features Nikon’s Silent Wave Motor, so focusing is quick and quiet.

The 35mm proved to be a versatile lens. With a minimum focusing distance of 12″, you can get close to flowers or any other subject for detail shots. I also used this lens at a quaint wildlife attraction with good results, especially in the dark reptile exhibit and the underwater viewing area.

The 35mm is a fantastic lens for photographing family gatherings. In my experience, a 50mm lens is a bit too long for intimate spaces and sometimes it’s not possible to back up enough to fit everything or everyone in the frame. This isn’t a concern with the 35mm lens. I used it in living rooms, at a restaurant, and on a back porch and never had an issue with the focal length. It’s easier to move a bit closer to frame a shot than to move a wall.

The lens is sharp at all f-stops, in all lighting conditions. Color and detail are incredible, and the bokeh is beautiful. I didn’t encounter lens vignetting, even when shooting with the included lens hood and sunlight coming from the side. There was no distortion in the images, and chromatic aberration was reasonably well controlled but did show up in photos with high-to-extreme contrast. It was faint but present.

If a wide-angle prime lens is in your future, have a look at the NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G. You’ll be glad you did.
—Mike Mackenzie

Company: Nikon USA
Price: $199.95
Web: www.nikonusa.com
Rating: 5
Phone: 631-547-4200

NIKKOR 35mm lens examples:

Click on thumbnail for larger image. All images © Mike Mackenzie

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There are many reasons why centered type often doesn’t look that way, and the fix is usually visual rather than mechanical. It’s a truism of typography: If it doesn’t look right, it’s not right—even if your accurate-to-a-micron program says so. This conflict between what your eyes see and what your software says is probably most obvious in the case of centered type.

Before we launch into corrective measures for program-generated off centering, let’s look at the principal cause of operator-induced imbalances.

Misplaced word spaces
When you create a centered block of type, you want it to have a nice shape, an aesthetically pleasing variation in the lengths of the lines. This usually doesn’t happen by itself, and the fix is to hard-end the lines manually using Shift-Return (PC: Shift-Enter). This forces a line break without starting a new paragraph. But when you do this, the word space at the end of the line can easily get pushed to the next line, where it will create a one-word-space indent, pushing the line off-center to the right. This is alarmingly easy to do without noticing, and it’s amazing how often you’ll see this in print once you start looking. It may take a second glance to notice that the third line of this Thomas Paine quote is off-center to the right.

An important thing to note is that, although you may leave a word space at the end of a line when hard-ending lines like this, InDesign will not take that space into account when centering the line. Even though your cursor shows that the space is there—and you can even select it—it doesn’t affect the centering of the visible type. The same cannot be said, however, for a word space that starts a line. To quickly check for those misplaced spaces, quadruple-click with the text cursor in the centered paragraph (to select the entire paragraph) and look for highlighted spaces in untoward places. As shown here, a misplaced word space at the beginning of the third line is the culprit.

Measures right, looks wrong
Most likely, though, apparent bad centering results from design choices or simple optical illusions.

In the design category, a leading culprit is putting a centered heading over flush-left text. Because the ragged right-hand margin of flush-left text holds a lot of white space (particularly if hyphenation is limited or disallowed), a centered heading will always look off-center to the right.

So instead of centering your heading across the entire measure of the column, you want to center it over the “apparent measure.” To find this, align a vertical ruler guide with the end of the shortest line in the flush-left text. The apparent right-hand margin of the text will be about halfway between this ruler guide and the true right-hand margin. The distance between this halfway point and the ruler guide is about the amount that you have to indent your heading from the right to get it to appear centered.

This recipe, of course, works best for the numerically oriented. For the visually confident, just nudge the heading to the left using the Paragraph/Right Indent field in the Control panel until it looks centered. It’s best to do this with guides and frame edges hidden, so all your eye has to work with is the text. Other visual points of reference don’t appear on the printed (or online) page to mislead your eyes.

Where this effect creates the thorniest problems is in tables. Centered headings in text tables rarely look centered unless the tab entries below them are also centered. Flush-left, justified, or decimal-aligned entries will all tend to make centered column headings look off-center. In this “before” table the column margins have been highlighted to show that the column headings are mechanically centered, even though they look wrong above flush-left columns.

In these situations, the best solution is to complete the table and leave the heading cells blank (use an em space as a place-holder, if you like). Then, only after you have all of your gutters balanced and the table entries look properly positioned, you can go back and add your headings. They’ll look bad, but using right indents (for justified or flush-left columns) or left indents (for decimal-aligned columns), you can nudge them into better positions. Some of them will never look perfect—this is a game of visual compromise. Here, we’ve applied right-hand indents to push those heads into visually centered positions.

An italic title over roman text (even if it’s justified) can also look off-center, simply because the characters are all leaning to the right. The larger the type, the more dramatic this effect can be. Again, the solution is to apply an indent to push the centered text to the left.

Character issues
When your program is centering type, it’s making its calculations based on the widths of the characters in each line. But there’s no way it can appreciate that some characters have very little mass on the page, and these visually carry little more impact than an empty space. When such a graphically weak character appears at the end of a line, it seems to push the line slightly in the opposite direction. (Imagine what the line would look like if the character were the same color as the background.)

Although many of these visually weak characters are punctuation marks, such as commas and periods, they take up a surprising amount of space. A period and its side bearings, for example, account for about a quarter of an em in a typeset line. Double-quotation marks take up about half an em. And an em dash, of course, occupies a full em of space, as do points of ellipsis (…). When characters such as these appear at the end of a line, those lines will likely look off-center, because such a line’s center of gravity—so to speak—is shifted away from the weak character.

Quotation marks are the most common culprits. In this pull quote, the graphic weakness of the quotation marks makes the first line look off-center to the right and the third line look off-center to the left. [Insert pull quote.pdf]—crop, if needed

In these cases, indents—which are Paragraph attributes in Adobe programs—are of no help, unless you end each line with a return, making a separate paragraph of each line. The alternative is to use Shift-Return (PC: Shift-Enter) to hard-end the lines and use fixed spaces (thin spaces, at one-eighth of an em, should suffice) to pack the other end of the afflicted lines to make them look centered.

Just say “no” to hyphens
One last bit of advice is to avoid hyphenation in centered type. First of all, hyphens don’t look very good in such settings, although the occasional hard hyphen (as found in a compound modifier, such as English-speaking) at the end of a line won’t kill you. Still, it would be better to hand-rag the lines to avoid such an occurrence. In addition, hyphenation has the effect of making the length of the lines more uniform in a block of text and in centered passages, and this is probably the opposite of what you want. It’s the shape of a block of centered text that makes it interesting and provides the contrast between it and its surroundings.

“Flow is the world’s first Visual Workflow Manager, built from the ground up to keep creative professionals streamlined and informed. Flow gives you a total understanding of your project, visually and intuitively. In one simple interface, you’ll see all your project files, how they’re related to each other, and where they’re located - on a local drive, on a network volume, even on a DVD you burned a few months ago. ”

To this end, our own Dave Cross has got a cool video talking about some of the features - an abridged version of a Kelby Training course due to go up very soon on GridIron flow. Click on the links below to get to the software and video:

Dave Cross - Intro video on GridIron Flow software
More of GridIron Flow - From the GridIron website

Dave also just released a new course about GridIron Flow on Kelby Training. Visit the Kelby Training site to get more info about the class and how to sign up.

Your Weekly Contest and a Really Cool Youtube video follows you after the jump!

Auto Tune The News - Your Giggle Moment Here
Sometimes we cant all be serious and news-y. Sometimes you just need a chuckle..

Over the weekend I stumbled onto The Gregory Brothers(thanks to John Nack)- a group from Brooklyn that have created something awesome. Michael Gregory and co are the folks responsible for “Auto Tune The News” a series of videos on YouTube. The premise is simple: Auto-Tune is this program that’s used to take a vocal track and ‘fix’ any notes that are off key. Used a lot, it has that robotic sound that you find in Cher’s “Believe” song. Well… everyone argues that the use of AutoTune can make people with no pitch (or musical ability) sound great. Michael takes it to the next level. Using broadcast news clips, making some really cool background music, and rapping in it, Michael creates a funny, well produced music video that pokes fun and shows off his creativity. It kinda reminds me of cool music mixed with The Daily Show. This needs to be up there if it hasnt been already! I could only hope that a LayersTV episode would look like this.. that would be awesome.

Click on the video above or click on this link to check them out. Definitely worth a chuckle! (Make sure you check out the JFK “Ask not what your country can do for you” speech AutoTuned.!)

Contest Time
Go to the Contact page, select the Layers Blog drop-down, then fill in your name, email address and answer to this week’s following question. Remember, the contest will end Thursday 5PM,. and the winner will be announced Friday morning.

The Contest Question: In the current Layers Magazine, Jacob Cass writes an article about something in the magazine. What’s he writing about?

The Prize:A copy of Joe Mcnally’s Hot Shoe Diaries as well as The Moment it Clicks!

Thanks for stopping in today everyone. Be sure to stop back in tomorrow!

IK with Flash CS4 and Lee Brimelow
Inverse Kinematics (IK) is a system that allows animators to set up animation constraints by laying out a structure of bones, which determines how certain pieces are allowed to move. This is heavily used in 3D modeling tools for character animation. One of the most anticipated new features of Flash CS4 is the new built-in support for IK animation as well as the ability to control these animations at runtime using ActionScript. This tutorial will walk you through the basics of creating a simple IK animation.

If you’d like to download the file used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, click on this link. All files are for personal use only.

1 OPEN THE EXAMPLE FLA
Open crane.fla in Flash CS4 and inspect the contents. This file targets Flash Player 10, but the IK features will also work in Flash Player 9. In the Timeline panel you’ll see five layers. The first four contain the supporting artwork for the dock scene. All of the crane pieces that will be used in the IK animation are held in the crane arm.

To continue the rest of the tutorial, click on this link.

Thanks for stopping in everyone. We’ll see you guys back on Monday!