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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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Get the most out of all the new features in Dreamweaver CS4 including new features like CSS-based page layout with Absolute Placement objects, Spry datasets for pages built with live data, Spry validation forms for collecting user input, and Spry effects.

This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS4 features you’re most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example.

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Adobe Illustrator CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS4 features you’re most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example.

INCLUDES New features: Tabbed document view) | Working with Multiple Artboards | Relying on enhanced Smart Guides | Working in Isolation Modes | Clipping with WYSIWYG Masks | Defining an Interactive Crop Area | Applying or Using Blob Brushes | Enhanced gradient tool/ gradients with transparency] | Editing Objects with the Appearance Panel & more!

Enhancing a Dreamweaver CS3 Web Site with Flash Video:
Visual QuickProject Guide

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Learn to use the Flash Video Encoder prepare Windows Media and QuickTime movies for the web, and to encode them as fast-downloading Flash Video files. And learn to embed your Flash Video files in Dreamweaver web sites, generating appropriate Flash Player skins. Creating a Web Video in Flash: Visual QuickProject Guide shows you just what you need to get your project done fast.

OTHER RECENT BOOKS BY DAVID KARLINS:

Digital Sports Photography - Take Winning Shots Every Time
by Serge Timacheff and David Karlins
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Written with amateurs, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and semi-pros in mind, the book addresses the new digital photographer who has either recently converted from film or who might be attempting serious photography for the first time. Helps readers take advantage of the numerous innovations in software and online services that are available today to help photographers get their photos optimized, distributed, and printed. Hundreds of dynamic color images help non-professional photographers get the most out of shooting any sport.

Adobe Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild
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Covering the latest release of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator Gone Wild features over 50 eye-popping illustration effects, with enough detail so that readers with familiarity with Adobe CS can step-by-step recreate the techniques in the book. Readers will learn to create beautiful and complex DNA-like strands of materials, Escher-like patterns, spectacular car body effects, warped-out buildings, surreal complex shadowing, jewels with semi-transparent layers, liquid type, and much more.

The book combines technical detail and aesthetic quality with insights, behind the scenes tricks, and war stories from the world of cutting edge professional graphic design. David Karlins is one of the most widely published authors on Illustrator and vector graphic design. Bruce K. Hopkins, was the fabric pattern designer for Joe Boxer shorts during their heyday, creating dozens of highly recognizable designs. His spectacular Space poster series and other fine art has been featured in books and galleries.