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Tutorial: Use Stitcher Unlimited 2009 To Build Interactive Panoramas
Learn how Autodesk's Stitcher application can combine photographs into a panorama.
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Sky’s the Limit: AKQA Shows the Possibilities with Flash CS4 (Part 3 of 3)
AKQA demonstrates how to create fireworks effects with Flash CS4 Professional. One of a three-part tutorial series!
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AgencyNet demonstrates how to create fireworks effects with Flash CS4 Professional. One of a three-part tutorial series!
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Enric Godes of Vasava demonstrates how to create fireworks effects with Flash CS4 Professional. One of a three-part tutorial series!
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Top Five Coolest Lightroom 2 How-To’s
If you haven't yet tried Lightroom 2 (or even if you have upgraded), you may not be aware of all of its cool new features. Here are five of my favorites.
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Making PDF Porfolios With Adobe Acrobat Pro 9
Assembling a slick PDF Portfolio in Acrobat Pro 9 is simple and quick. Here's how Designorati's Sam Klein did it.
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O’Reilly’s Fonts & Encodings Book Offers Much For Web Designers Too
O'Reilly's new Fonts & Encodings book is a behemoth, covering all technical aspects of fonts and font encoding. Not only that, but its chapter on fonts and webpages is thorough and illuminating.
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To Catch A (Twirled) Criminal
The news has been abuzz lately about German authorities' astonishing methods to restore a pedophile's photo that had been modified by Photoshop's Twirl filter. In reality, restoring a twirled photo is fairly easy—I will show you how.
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Using Photoshop’s Color Settings To Generate A Plain Black Channel
Novice and expert Photoshop users alike can get thrown by the way Photoshop treats black as rich black when making CMYK separations. This can be avoided with some copying and pasting of channels, but you can also tweak a single color setting to make Photoshop do the work for you.
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Illustrator CS3 Gets Kuler
The online color community from Adobe Labs delivers themes right into AICS3-via RSS
Many illustrators and Illustrator users now make use of an innovative new venture from Adobe Labs–Kuler. This is more than a source for inspiration. From your web browser you can compose, share, get feedback on, give feedback on, rate, and generally contribute to a color-interested community.
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The cascade respects three kinds of styling implementation. What are they, and how do they differ?
What came before: In the previous exploration, we attempted to explain what the “cascading” in CSS meant, and why it was important to be aware of it. This time, we’ll explore the three main types of web page style sheet implementation; inline styles, embedded, and external.
Read more on Basic CSS: Inline, Embedded, External: What’s The Difference?…
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Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh lets you add shading you never though possible with a vector application. Here’s how to get started using it.
Using Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh feature you can make complex fills that have amazing realism. I have seen incredible examples of this, like the flower that was the logo for Illustrator CS and of course, Venus, who graced the Illustrator box and the top of the toolbox for many versions. So how do you use this wonderful tool? The best way to learn it is to jump right in and experiment with it.
Read more on I’m Bananas for Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh Tool…
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Should you use Illustrator’s Object menu to create a compound path, or should you use the Pathfinder palette? Are they the same? No, they aren’t…here’s the difference so you can decide which is the best for your illustration
Read more on Compound Shapes, Compound Paths, and the Pathfinder Palette…
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Unlike InDesign and Illustrator, Photoshop does not have a “Convert To Outlines” command for outlining type in production situations…or does it?
More than one might expect, I often find myself creating my layouts in Photoshop rather than InDesign. Image-centric layouts, with only a few lines of type, are often more easily produced right in Photoshop, where the images will be coming from anyway. But there’s always the problem of getting the layout ready for the printer because Photoshop is way behind when it comes to packaging fonts and preflighting, all very important things when it comes to print production. InDesign makes it easy, but Photoshop wasn’t really designed for this even though it has most tools needed for print layout.
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Sometimes, a bitmap graphic (such as a logo or line art) needs to be converted into a CMYK file. When that happens, separation problems can happen. This technique exploits the power of Color Settings to make the conversion hassle-free.
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Has Illustrator’s Save for Web stopped working the way you know it should? Tried resetting program preferences and it didn’t fix it? Here’s why, and how to get Save for Web back!
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Straightening Buildings, Part 2: How-To Use Distort And Perspective
Back in April and May I had a couple articles showing how to straighten buildings with the Crop tool and the Lens Correction filter. Now we’ll look at a more basic method that can do the job: Distort and Perspective transformations.
Read more on Straightening Buildings, Part 2: How-To Use Distort And Perspective…
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A couple weeks ago I wrote about a technique adding 3-D motion to an image with the Radial Blur filter. Now you’ll see how a variation of that technique can actually create three-dimensional type.
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Illustrator’s Transparency palette sets the opacity of objects, and allows you to use blending modes determine how the colors of objects mix with the colors of objects they cross. Here’s how the blending modes work.
Read more on How To: An Explanation of Illustrator’s Blending Modes…
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Quick Tip: Masking A Layer With Layer Styles
Some layer styles can cause problems when the layer subsequently gets a layer mask. This quick technique will get around the problem.
Figure 1: The original image.Figure 1 shows a foreground object on its own layer and a background (which, coincidentally, is a shot of rural southeast Iowa where I grew up). The top layer, with the foreground object, has a strong Outer Glow layer style. I sometimes face a problem when I add a layer mask to the top layer and mask it with a soft brush: the layer style affects all pixels, so unless I mask all pixels completely in an area I’ll end up with a thick Outer Glow that I can’t mask effectively by masking the layer. See Figure 2.
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3-D Motion With The Radial Blur Filter
The Radial Blur filter is a great Photoshop filter, creating not only circular blur but also blur in three dimensions. This quick tutorial will show how to add three-dimensional motion to an object.
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Bringing RSS content into your bookmarks, dynamically.
Of the major browsers, Firefox seems to have little, if any, obvious support for syndicated feeds–commonly known as RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, the XML file format that provides many avid web surfers with dynamically updated content.
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Illustrator’s 3D Filters can be confusing until you understand how each of the three filters of this trio work. Here’s how to know what to choose for the effect you want.
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Using Illustrator symbols, artwork can be mapped onto the 3D objects you create. Here’s how!
Textures and artwork can be mapped onto the 3D objects you create. I’ll use the blue sphere I made in the 3D Filter How-To to create a globe. I need a map, so I downloaded one from Nasa Reusable Images. I used “World Map with Solid Red Continentsâ€. I actually wanted my continents green, but the green one available on this page would not open for me so I just recolored the red map green.
Read more on How To: Mapping Artwork onto 3D Objects with Illustrator…
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“Tagging” posts is one of the hottest current ways to be connected to other content and to be noticed. But you don’t have to have an application to tag posts for Technorati: here’s how you can do it ‘by hand’.”
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