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  • Digital Photography
  • Web Effects I

  • Unity through RepetitionUnity through Repetition
    Unity is a key concept of design which is especially important when designing campaigns. In this series of half page print ads running in a local hispanic paper for my radio station, the tough part was making all of the wildly different photos provided by record labels look similar. How did I do it? Click to find out.
  • Sweet LightningSweet Lightning
    I had to get a couple of extra flashes for an upcoming photo shoot and I couldn't get the Vivitar 285HVs that I love so instead I picked up a couple of Promaster 5750 and I was floored.
  • Cutting & Protecting Vivitar 285HV GelsCutting & Protecting Vivitar 285HV Gels
    Get perfectly sized photography color correction gels for a Vivitar 285HV and learn a fairly cheap and convenient way to protect them.
  • Five Skills of Great PhotographersFive Skills of Great Photographers
    Understanding how to get a correct exposure is just the tip of the iceberg. To capture great images, you need to learn to master these five skills.
  • Readability tipsReadability tips
    Over the years, research into the readability of documents and personal experience has yielded important information relevant to graphic artists. Here are some of the important findings.
  • Digital PhotographyDigital Photography
    Digital photography has become an indispensible tool of graphic design. This lesson shows you the basics of photography. From the inner workings of the tools to tips on how to take good pictures.
  • Photography: Improving photos with reflectors/ diffusersPhotography: Improving photos with reflectors/ diffusers
    Using reflectors with your photography is a fairly inexpensive way of improving the quality of your photos. The effects can be quite dramatic.
  • Extreme Motion: Photoshop to Flash Part IIExtreme Motion: Photoshop to Flash Part II
    If you've finished the first part of my From Photoshop to Flash tutorial, you learned that transparent PNG's are the best way to export files and bring them into Flash. In this tutorial, I'll take some of the special effects you developed in Photoshop and teach you how to achieve the illusion of extreme motion in Flash.
  • From Photoshop to FlashFrom Photoshop to Flash
    So, you need to bring that Photoshop logo into Flash? Here's the best way to export your files. I'll also teach you how to use some filters and prepare some special effects for your Flash projects.
  • Animating TypographyAnimating Typography
    Learn the quickest way to animate anything in flash. This lesson focuses on a typical letter by letter animation on a long word. The techniques can be applied to any graphic as well.
  • Stoping & Encapsulating AnimationsStoping & Encapsulating Animations
    Flash animations, by default repeat over and over. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use the Stop() command, and then I'll show you how to grab the animation on your timeline and encapsulate it so that it can be self contained as it's own movie clip.
  • Reveal Masking with FlashReveal Masking with Flash
    Masks are a great way of revealing artwork. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do a reveal special effect using two versions of a photograph I doctored up in Photoshop.
  • From Illustrator to FlashFrom Illustrator to Flash
    Learn the best way to bring Illustrator files into Flash...ready to animate.
  • Using Photoshop Layers to Colorize ArtworkUsing Photoshop Layers to Colorize Artwork
    Learn to use Photoshop Layer modes to easily colorize sketches or black and white art.
  • Sounds in FlashSounds in Flash
    I've read a lot of books about Flash and Flash MX and they list different ways of adding sounds to your movie clips. By far, the most useful is to create a sound object and attach a sound to it from the libary.
  • Extracting data from a serverExtracting data from a server
    Every once in a while, you need to be able to load data from a web page or a site that is external to your current Flash Application. This PERL script loads a page from the web and reoutputs it as a local file.