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Articles by Sara Froehlich
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Unleash your Creative Brains with the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Video Podcast
For some time there has been a video podcast devoted to the Adobe Creative Suite 2 family and today the first episode for Creative Suite 3 is here!
Join host Terry White for a special episode covering the all new Adobe Creative Suite 3 Family. See the latest enhancements and new tools. Check out the new sleek interface. You will also learn what’s new in each of the Suites. Not only has Adobe been working hard on the new versions of familiar applications like Illustrator and Photoshop, but it has also been hard at work integrating the former Macromedia products like Dreamweaver and Flash.
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
Get your creative juices (and your creations!) moving with new Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software for Mac and Windows!
Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software, the successor to Adobe Production Studio, allows you to create visually innovative work for film, broadcast, web, mobile phones, and other portable devices. New releases of Adobe’s post-production and graphic tools are combined with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional and intuitive new audio tool Adobe Soundbooth.
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection
If you design across media and need all the power Adobe has available, then Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3 Master Collection is for you. It has everything you need to design for print, web, video, and even mobile!
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Illustrator CS3: What’s New? Lots!
One of the most anticipated Adobe Illustrator upgrades ever is right around the corner. Gone are Venus and the Illustrator flower icons, and in their place is a simple “Ai†icon denoting Illustrator’s default file format. The rest of the changes in Illustrator, however, are not simple, and features like better Flash integration and new Live Color, as well as lots of improvements in interface and efficiency, make this a must-have upgrade. Things that make you go “hmmm†they aren’t…these are things that make you go “Wow!â€
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Corel is now shipping the next generation of Painter: Painter X!
Corel is now shipping the next generation of Painter: Painter X! Painter X has new features including the new RealBristleâ„¢ Painting System and new composition tools, and a printed user guide. And if you act fast, the Paint Can is back in a Limited Edition!
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Learning with pictures rather than words is the philosophy of In Pictures, and they have recently launched a line of free online tutorials on Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, and more.
In Pictures, the company that brought readers free e-books last year, recently launched a new line of free online computer how-to tutorials. Currently there are 12 tutorials on Microsoft Office 2003, OpenOffice.org and Dreamweaver 8. Because In Pictures tutorials are based on pictures, not text, you learn by seeing examples as you work. These tutorials are an effective way to get started learning a new software package, or seeing what’s new in newer versions of software you already use.
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Corel Delivers Industry’s First Full-Featured Graphics Suite Certified for Windows Vista
Corel is pleased to announce that CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 has been Certified for Windows Vista – the first full featured graphics suite to achieve certification status. For those of us who have already moved to Windows Vista, this is good news indeed!
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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.
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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
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Freeware Friday: optikVerve virtualPhotographer
Beautiful photography effects are just a few clicks away with optikVerve virtualPhotographer
virtualPhotographer is one of the best Photoshop compatible plug-ins you will find anywhere. With presets you can easily create tons of special photography effects such as Film Grain, Soft Focus, B/W, B/W tinting, High Contrast and many more are a click away.
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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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Freeware Friday: InterfaceLIFT
Designers need pretty desktops too, and InterfaceLIFT can fill that order with lots of free quality icons for Mac and Windows.
Want to spruce up your desktop? InterfaceLIFT has lots of beautiful icons for both Mac and Windows, as well as high quality Mac Destop images and Windows wallpaper in a variety of sizes, many for the widescreen monitors we all love.
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Freeware Friday: Zoomify EZ
The problem: when posting a full-size image on the web for a client to view, sizing the image so it fits on the screen hides the details; viewing the image full-size means they have to scroll and can’t see the full effect of the image. The solution: Zoomify EZ.
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In Pictures ebook Series Offered Free until August 1
Want to learn MySQL, Perl, or PHP? How about Photoshop CS2 or Dreamweaver 8? Here’s your chance, and until August 1, it’s free!
Until August 1, 2006, the In Pictures series of ebooks, published by Visibooks LLC, will be free for download in pdf form. There are books on many subjects: Office 2003 products like Excel and Word, Front Page 2003, Dreamweaver 8, Photoshop CS2, Photoshop Elements 4, and many others. These books cover the latest versions of the software.
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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.
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Freeware Friday: Illustrator Brushes Website
Looking for an Illustrator reference with tutorials, brushes, and more? Try the Illustrator Brushes Website!
The creator of the highly successful Photoshop Brushes Website has created a site for Illustrator users: the Illustrator Brushes Website. There are tutorials on brushes and free brushes for download.
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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.
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Freeware Friday: Desktopple
Desktop, Desktop, wherefore art thou, Desktop? With Desktopple from FoggyNoggin Software, you can clear your desktop fast!
My desktop is messy. I admit it. That’s where files are downloaded to, it’s where I put stuff so I don’t lose it until I have time to attend to it, and that’s where I throw stuff I will be “filing tomorrowâ€. Sometimes tomorrow just doesn’t show up.
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Freeware Friday: MorgueFile
Need a photo fast? Try MorgueFile.com and have thousands of high resolution images at your fingertips.
MorgueFile.com is one of the best places for free and royalty free photos. The term “Morgue File” comes from the newspaper business–it’s a repository for past issues of a newspaper–but this morgue file is a repository for an astounding number of high resolution photos perfect for use by graphic designers. -
CorelDraw X3
With 40 new and enhanced features, CorelDraw X3 is a substantial update. Would coming out and calling CorelDraw X3 “CorelDRAW 13†have jinxed it? I don’t think so…the new features speak for themselves.
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Corel Painter IX.5 Wins 2006 World Class Award from PC World
Corel Corproration has announced that Corel® Painter(TM) IX.5 was honored by PC World with a 2006 World Class Award one of The 100 Best Products of the Year.
PRESS RELEASE
Ottawa, ON – June 5, 2006 – Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) today announced that Corel® Painter(TM) IX.5 was honored by PC World with a 2006 World Class Award one of The 100 Best Products of the Year. Winners were announced in the July 2006 issue of PC World (online now and available on newsstands June 13).
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The Gimp comes loaded with special effects. In a few clicks, create a filmstrip effect from a series of photos.
The Gimp is an excellent image editor and creator. And if you want special effects fast, it comes equipped with some eye-popping effects that take only a few minutes to create. In this week’s How-To, we’ll look at one of them: the Film effect.
Read more on How To: Fast and Easy Filmstrip Effect in the Gimp…
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Freeware Friday: Twisting Pixels PixelSampler
Twisting Pixels makes great Photoshop-compatible plugins, and you can have eight great photo effects for free with PixelSampler!
Twisting Pixels makes several Photoshop compatible plugins–PixelCreation, PixelPaper and PixelPack–with special effects for your images, All of them work as as standalone programs or from within Photoshop or other programs that support Photoshop plugins. PixelSampler contains eight film-style effects for free.
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