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From reviews of books by David Karlins

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2 HOW TOS: At last... an excellent Illustrator "tips" book! How come they didn't come out with this sooner? ... A highly focused survey of the one-hundred most essential things anyone needs to know to use Illustrator CS2 - User Group Bookshelf

DIGITAL SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY: TAKE WINNING SHOTS EVERY TIME: No matter what the readers’ sport or level of expertise, Digital Sports Photography will make them a better photographer. - LET'S GO DIGITAL

PC MAGAZINE GUIDE TO PRINTING GREAT DIGITAL PHOTOS: If you’re serious about your printed images, this one’s for you.
- Bill Camarda, Read Only

ILLUSTRATOR CS2 GONE WILD: [A]n emphasis on adapting the techniques with your own creativity in the book's pages, rather than a slavish set of step-by-step instructions ...
- Web Teacher

HOW TO DO EVERYTHING WITH ILLUSTRATOR CS:If layout and illustration are your thing, this is absolutely your book.
- Andrew Allentuck, Toronto Globe and Mail

BUILD YOUR OWN WEB SITE:If you have finally decided to put up your own web site, "Build Your Own Web Site" by David Karlins is the book for you. ...
- Cleveland PC User's Group

David Karlins

The PPINET writing, teaching, design, and consulting team is headed by David Karlins.

David is a Web designer, author, teacher, consultant, and an amateur, unpublished movie critic.

Macworld review of Flash CS3

Flash CS3 Professional, the first version of Flash released under Adobe’s aegis, is arguably the most dramatically enhanced program in the new CS3 suite. Flash has two interacting components: ActionScript, Flash’s powerful programming language, and the timeline-based stage, Flash’s unique design environment for generating vector-based (scalable) animation. My only complaint with Flash CS3’s predecessor—Macromedia Flash Professional 8 ()—was a lack of really exciting innovations in the design aspects of the program. I no longer have that complaint. The most exciting new features in Flash are on the design side, along with some fine-tuning and nice small enhancements in the coding environment. Read article

Macworld: Review of Flash Professional 8

Flash Professional 8 constitutes a leap in the evolutionary chain for Macromedia’s Web video and animation authoring program; it provides significant enhancements in scripting, graphical effects, Web-video display, and development of media destined for mobile devices. (Macromedia is also offering, for the first time, Flash Basic 8, a lower-priced version of the software that includes much of the program’s core functionality, but which is targeted to designers who don’t need high-end digital video or mobile phone authoring features.)

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Macworld: Review of FlashPaper 2

FlashPaper 2, part of the Macromedia Studio 8’s version of Contribute 3 (, February 2005), allows you to effortlessly convert Microsoft Office documents to Flash (SWF) files.

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CreativePro: Review of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

The release of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (as part of Studio 8) comes at a time when the graphic and interactive design community is buzzing with speculation about what apps will be left standing after the Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia is completed. While Macromedia spokespeople told me they can't yet comment on acquisition issues, Dreamweaver will likely emerge from the process as the single dominant professional Web design package. I got an official "no comment" from contacts at Macromedia, but sources at Adobe winked and nodded when asked if Dreamweaver would win the battle of the Web-development tools.

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Samples of Content from Books by David Karlins

From Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Tips for Drawing with Brushes in Illustrator CS2

The heart of Illustrator is the ability to define vector paths, usually using the Pen or Pencil tool. The paths can have an infinite variety of fills, stroke properties, and other effects. Among these effects is an amazing variety of brushlike stroke attributes. In this chapter, you'll learn how to draw with brushes; create calligraphic, art, and scatter brushes, and more. Read Excerpt

From PC Magazine Guide to Printing Great Digital Photos

Printing to Other Media

You can print digital photos on a wide variety of printable media. Epson alone sells printable surfaces that include scrapbook photo paper, Memorex inkjet printable CD-Rs, glossy photo greeting cards, inkjet transparencies, iron-on transfer paper, and photo stickers. In short, you can use your digital photo portfolio for all kinds of projects that display excellent-quality photos on surfaces ranging from overhead transparencies to DVDs to T-shirts. Read Excerpt

Printing Great Photos from Inkjets

In just a few short years, inkjet photo printers have branched off from their evolutionary predecessors, the inkjet office printer. From slow, crude producers of dotty text and marginal-quality graphics, the current generation of six-, seven-, and even eight-color photo printers produces prints that most people cannot distinguish from photo lab pictures. Read Excerpt

Preparing Your Digital Darkroom

What is the digital darkroom? It's many things-software that organizes and edits your photo files and hardware that allows you to view, store, and process photo files (see sidebar). The final stages of the digital darkroom include printer, ink, paper, and perhaps other media to create a print. This book walks you through the entire digital darkroom process, and this chapter gives you an overview of what you need and how you use it. Read Excerpt | Download PDF

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