We're down to the last major pieces of Adobe CS5 Web Premium, but last doesn't always mean least. OR DOES IT??? HMMMM??? With that as a spectacular teaser, let's spend our final installment looking at two holdovers from those halcyon Macromedia days of yore: Dreamweaver, the venerable web site building tool, and Fireworks, the oft-overlooked prototyping and vector/bitmap editing powerhouse.
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In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to to add solid color fill layer to offset a wide range of colors that overtakes a foreground image. She then uses a pattern fill layer to add texture to the image.
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There are several ways to add a gradient to a composition in Photoshop. One way is to create a gradient fill layer, which is like a solid color filled layer, lives on its own layer in the layers panel, and does not change the pixels on any other layer in the composition. In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to create a gradient fill layer.
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When you want to add a graphic to a Photoshop composition, creating a shape layer is often the best way to go. The advantage of a shape layer over a regular pixel based layer is that a shape layer defines itself with a vector based outline. In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to create shape layers, concentrating on shapes made with the geometric shape tools.
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In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses text and how it remains editable in Photoshop as long as its layer remains as a special type layer. You can come back to a type layer at any time, to change the appearance of the text, to fix a spelling error, or to change the content of different words altogether. She shows how to edit all of the text on the type layer, working with the layers panel and the type tool.
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In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses what type layers are, and what advantages that they have over pixel-based content, plus Photoshop type layers are editable, so you can change the font, size, color, shape and even the content of the type layer. She works with type layers, including how to make a new type layer.
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Although the entire Percy Jackson film is chock-full of fantastic visual
effects, the last sequence on Mt. Olympus is when the lightning bolt
takes center stage. The lightning bolt was a complex design, with the
look of moving plasma, a w...
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When AJA Video Systems first announced the Ki Pro portable digital
recording device, it was met with great enthusiasm and won six major
industry awards. Director of Photography (DoP) Timo Plogstedt
discovered these benefits and more when rec...
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Digieffects, a developer of popular visual effects plugins,today announced that Depth is immediately available for purchase.Depth, a plugin for After Effects, easily converts an entire AfterEffects composition into a depth map. Available for $49 ...
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NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.
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In this clip, lynda.com host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at proxy bidding. He discusses the strategy and how it works. He also discusses the maximum bid, and when to use Proxy bidding.
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The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."
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In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to to add solid color fill layer to offset a wide range of colors that overtakes a foreground image. She then uses a pattern fill layer to add texture to the image.
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There are several ways to add a gradient to a composition in Photoshop. One way is to create a gradient fill layer, which is like a solid color filled layer, lives on its own layer in the layers panel, and does not change the pixels on any other layer in the composition. In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to create a gradient fill layer.
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When you want to add a graphic to a Photoshop composition, creating a shape layer is often the best way to go. The advantage of a shape layer over a regular pixel based layer is that a shape layer defines itself with a vector based outline. In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to create shape layers, concentrating on shapes made with the geometric shape tools.
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In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses text and how it remains editable in Photoshop as long as its layer remains as a special type layer. You can come back to a type layer at any time, to change the appearance of the text, to fix a spelling error, or to change the content of different words altogether. She shows how to edit all of the text on the type layer, working with the layers panel and the type tool.
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In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses what type layers are, and what advantages that they have over pixel-based content, plus Photoshop type layers are editable, so you can change the font, size, color, shape and even the content of the type layer. She works with type layers, including how to make a new type layer.
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Editor Bradley Buecker trusted Final Cut Studio to edit 422,000 feet of film!
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Although the entire Percy Jackson film is chock-full of fantastic visual
effects, the last sequence on Mt. Olympus is when the lightning bolt
takes center stage. The lightning bolt was a complex design, with the
look of moving plasma, a w...
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