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Code-Free Flash Video

Tom Green — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:12:55 +0000

You can easily get your flash video up and running on your web page without having to write one bit of code.

Magazine Cover Design in InDesign

Terry White — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:17:57 +0000

It may sound like a simple thing, but you better believe that a lot of thought goes into the design of a magazine cover. Covers compete for attention next to dozens of other magazines on the rack.

Trendy Circle Brush in Photoshop

Matt Kloskowski — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:47:56 +0000

There’s a design trend that’s blown up over the past year and it’s based around one simple shape—the circle. Not just one circle, though, lots of them.

Animate the Splash Using Photoshop and After Effects

Corey Barker — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:29:02 +0000

In this Olympic-inspired tutorial, Corey teaches an effect where he extracts areas of an image in Photoshop and then animates them using After effects in order to create a 3D movement effect with the image.

Black and White Fine-Tuning in Photoshop CS3

Sean Duggan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:11:54 +0000

In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some ways to shape and enhance the tonality of a black-and-white image with some quick and simple techniques.

Illustrator Brush Patterns Into Photoshop

Matt Kloskowski — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:40:42 +0000

In this tutorial, Matt uses an artistic brush to make a pattern in Illustrator and then takes that pattern into Photoshop to use as a weathered layer effect.

Reduce Noise in Photoshop CS3

Mike Rodriguez — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:20:41 +0000

In this tutorial, Mike Rodriguez uses Photoshop's reduce noise filter to clean up one of his photographs.

Paragraph Rules in InDesign CS3

Dave Cross — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:54:19 +0000

Dave Cross shows us how to take advantage of InDesign's paragraph rules by creating and applying new styles to your text.

PDF for Graphic Files Using Acrobat

Taz Tally — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:56:34 +0000

You can also save graphic images—and in particular, commercial print-bound graphics—as PDF images.

Production Premium: Professional Color Correction

Richard Harrington — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:28:50 +0000

Getting great color is significantly easier when you combine good production practices with the right filters in post

Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator

Corey Barker — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:40:49 +0000

This is a quick demo using a blend of live effects, filters, and even a little gradient mesh to create a seemingly complex logo treatment.

3D Graph Effects

Corey Barker — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:45:31 +0000

In this tutorial, Corey demonstrates how easy it is to create 3D graphs using Illustrator.