Adobe Illustrator is one of those Applications many people use, but hardly really use. People often just use it to do basic vector editing, and some aren’t even capable of doing just that – as Illustrator is quite different compared to Photoshop but the partly similar Interface suggests otherwise
Veerle wrote/recorded a tutorial which explains how to use the pen tool in illustrator and how bezier curves work.
Flash 8 introduces several new technologies which enhance and optimize it’s runtime speed, especially when dealing with loads of vectors or bitmap data.
Guy Watson, over at macromedia.com (funny, it say’s ‘Adobe (formerly macromedia) now) explains the magic and details behind these techniques, and how one can use them to increase Flash’s speed
Macromedia – Developer Center : Using Bitmap Caching in Flash
At first I wasn’t sure whether to blog this or not, but judging by the lack of time I could invest into this site lately any posting ain’t a bad posting.
So take it as something mainly interesting for those which have little experience in creating templatees
This devlobby.com tutorial explains in detail how to create a simply web layout in photoshop, mind it’s garned with Windows screenshots but hey, there’s little difference between Photoshop on Mac and Windows
When creating a layout for a new site, the first step is to define the dimensions. For example 780×460 for 800×600 centric layouts, 990×630 for 1024×1024 centric layouts and so on. The problem is that these dimensional values vary from browser to browser; Firefox leaves more height under Windows than under Mac OS X, Internet Explorer on Windows leaves less height than on Mac OS X. So if you want to create a site which on the one hand tries to use as much space as possible given the screens restrictions, and on the other hand can be displayed without scrollbars in as many browsers as possible, you either have to take a lot of screenshots from different browsers – or you just take these godsend Free Photoshop browser templates from Webdesigners Toolkit
The following prefined templates are available:
Windows:
Mac OS X
Mac Classic
Free Photoshop browser templates for webdesigners and screendesigners
Adobe has been busy adding the Macromedia Products to their portfolio lately:
Those all-in-one packages are a couple hundred bucks cheaper than what you would pay if you’d buy them seperately. Not a bad deal, is it?