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If you want to add great-looking Flash video to your Web site fast but don't want to get bogged down in the details, Creating a Web Video in Flash: Visual QuickProject Guide is just the book for you. The full-color projects in this book teach you all the techniques you need to enhance your Web site with Flash video.
Explore the various video formats and players and discover why Flash Video is the best solution for delivering video content to your Web site visitors. Learn how to choose the right delivery method: progressive download, streaming, or embedded.
See how 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.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful Web design tool: As part of Creative Suite 3 (which includes Photoshop CS3 and Flash CS3), it's a key component of an overall Web design workflow that encourages users to rely on all of their applications to seamlessly create graphically rich content for the Web and motion graphics.
This information- and image-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Dreamweaver CS3 features they're most likely to use, including Spry framework for Ajax and Spry widgets and effects, and Absolute Placement objects; the book showcases each in a stand-alone tip, complete with a relevant hint or two and helpful screenshot.
This is how readers can learn just what they need to know, exploring the program at their own pace, exploring just the features and tools they need.
 Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
by David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins
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As part of the Adobe's Creative Suite 3, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them.
Before they know it, users will be using the new path eraser tool and making vivid artwork using the new Live Color feature and the updated recolor filters, as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash. .
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 Dreamweaver 8 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
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Dreamweaver 8 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques is a highly focused survey of the one-hundred most essential things anyone needs to know to use Dreamweaver 8. New web designers will find clear, basic, easy-to-understand explanations of the techniques, tools, and tricks they need to quickly create professional quality web sites. Experienced users or designers migrating from GoLive, FrontPage, or HTML hand-coding will find a handy reference with insights, tips, and shortcuts that will help even experts be more productive..
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Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques was written specifically for CS2, and integrates the important new features of Illustrator CS2, including Live Paint, Live Trace, new Type format features, and helpful new interface innovations. Written by veteran illustrators David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins,Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques breaks down confusing concepts and clearly explains and illustrates how to master the challenges of drawing and editing vector paths. David Karlins teaches Illustrator at San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program, and Bruck K. Hopkins has been a professional illustrator for a decade, creating everything from fine art to technical drawings.
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.
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