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Building Your Own Live Webcast with UStream – Part 3 Getting video onto the web these days is a lot easier than it used to be! In fact, since Flash added video support years ago and sites like YouTube became available for general usage, video content has become almost a…
- Filter Forge 2.0 Review
A cool powerful Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Elements and Corel plug?in, also a stand?alone application for Windows and Mac OS X that allows designer/artists/photographers to build custom filters to enhance images. Types of filters include seamless textures, visual effects, distortions,…
- JPEG to Adobe Camera Raw
I’ve often been asked about the differences between Adobe Camera Raw files and JPEG files and if in fact a JPEG can be processed in Camera Raw. Let me say first off, all digital cameras do not create Raw files…
- Depth of Field
You know that kind of blurry thing you sometimes get in the background of your pictures? I mean the good stuff, not the “Oh drat! I didn’t focus properly!” kind of stuff. Well, this article talks about Depth of Field.…
- Nice Popup Messages with jQuery
Sometimes in your web application you need to pop up a message that isn’t critical enough for a JavaScript popup and it doesn’t require any action on the user’s behalf, this is a little script that can get that done…
- The CS5 CSS Starter Page Series – Part 6: Converting to Horizontal Navigation
In the last tutorial of the CS5 CSS Starter Page series, we finally completed the Yukon layout. In doing so, the mysteries of the fixed-width CSS Starter Pages in Dreamweaver CS5 were de-mystified. With that behind us, it’s time to…
- How to Report Non-Calendar Years in PHP and MySQL
Calendar years make reporting easy. The calendar year 2010 is simply distinguished from 2009. What could be easier than selecting all records from the current calendar year? SELECT * FROM `records` WHERE YEAR(`record_date`) = YEAR(NOW()) Some organizations, however, maintain reporting…
- HTML5: ApplicationCache API
With the ubiquity of web-based applications, it is more important now than ever that web applications be accessible when the user is offline. While browsers have been able to cache components of a website, HTML5 addresses some of the difficulties…
- Creating a Vertical Scroller Component in Fireworks
In this video tutorial, we’ll look at how to move assets from Fireworks over to Flash Catalyst, and turn those assets into an interactive scroll panel. …
- Welcome to Workflow Lab
Planning a project involves, among other things, planning work flow. This AIR app from Adobe, makes work flow planning a breeze….
- CMX Masterpiece Photo Collection 16: Moby Dick
Summer in South Florida is pretty sticky, especially if you venture two steps away from the A/C into the great outdoors. Many people choose to take their summer vacation in a tropical climate with warm waters and white, sandy beaches.…
- Repoussé video on Facebook/YouTube
The folks who run the Photoshop Facebook page have posted another of my Repouss? videos. This one covers compositing 3D text into a photograph. So far, this and my
- Building Your Own Live Webcast with UStream – Part 2
Getting video onto the web these days is a lot easier than it used to be! In fact, since Flash added video support years ago and sites like YouTube became available for general usage, video content has become almost a…
- A PHP CodeIgniter Library for Authorize.net Customer Information Manager (CIM)
When a client chose to use Authorize.net’s Customer Information Manager (CIM) for processing credit card payments from within their CodeIgniter-based web site, I went into research mode. Years ago, I programmed a shopping site which used Authorize.net’s Advanced Integration Method…
- New Features Now Available in Adobe Illustrator CS5 – Part 3
See the new and enhanced features of Adobe Illustrator CS5….
- Improved Export Workflows in Fireworks CS5
Fireworks CS5 has improved some of the existing export work flows, compared to prior versions. While these may seem small items, you may find this information quite helpful when you plan to export your graphics….
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Stack Your Focus A common problem, especially in macro photography (very close up photography), is trying to get the important parts of the subject in focus from foreground to background. When your photographing flowers for example as macro subjects, most of the times…
- The CS5 CSS Starter Page Series Part 5: Adding Navigation Systems
In the last installment of this series, we completed all parts of the layout except for the navigation. In this tutorial, we’ll style the unordered list of links into a set of vertical buttons. This is the default navigation styling…
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Resolving the “_s1″ Suffix Problem in Fireworks CS5 Fireworks CS5 has brought some cool new features to the table, but one of those new features is causing a bit of a ruckus within the Fireworks user community. State naming. Prior to CS5, if you had multiple states in…
- Fireworks CS5 Classroom in a Book is now in bookstores!
I’m very happy to announce that my latest book, Fireworks CS5 Classroom in a Book is now available!This revised edition builds on my first Classroom in a Book (CiaB), and covers new topics such as wireframing, working with Device Central,…
- Happy 4th of July!
Everyone at Community MX wishes to thank the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, and remember those who have lost their lives defending our liberty. To allow all of our partners to enjoy the long holiday weekend with…
- Happy 4th of July!
Everyone at Community MX wishes to thank the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, and remember those who have lost their lives defending our liberty. To allow all of our partners to enjoy the long holiday weekend with…
- Building Your Own Live Webcast with UStream – Part 1
Getting video onto the web these days is a lot easier than it used to be! In fact, since Flash added video support years ago and sites like YouTube became available for general usage, video content has become almost a…
- New Features Now Available in Adobe Illustrator CS5 – Part 2
See the new and enhanced features of Adobe Illustrator CS5….
- Discovering Photoshop – Part 5: Working with Eyes
Welcome to the latest tutorial in the Discovering Photoshop series! In this tutorial we will be looking at three different tools, each provides a step to correcting eye problems (amongst many other uses of course) in your photographs. We will…
- The CS5 CSS Starter Page Series Part 4: Refining Details with CSS
n the last tutorial in the this series, The CS5 CSS Starter Page Series Part 3: Structuring with CSS, we used CSS to manipulate the page into two columns with a header and footer. We painted the broad brush strokes,…
- Zoomify Your Images
Have you ever tried to load up large detailed files to your web site so people could see the quality of your work? Most of the time Photoshop users will try and accomplish this by either uploading a smaller version…
- Discovering Photoshop – Part 4: Patch Tool
The patch tool provides a quick and efficient way to manipulate unwanted areas of your image, perhaps you would like to remove a tattoo from a photograph or simply just enhance an image a little. The patch tool provides a…
- What If MySQL Could Eliminate PHP?
The hallmark of a successful programmer can be measured in economy of code. Being proficient means doing more work with less code. In working with MySQL data in PHP scripts, one can eliminate a lot of heavy lifting in PHP…
- 3D Graphic Cube in Photoshop CS5 Extended – Part 2
You’ve got the cube, now it’s time to make the shadows. In this 2nd part, you’ll see how to place lights and adjust shadows to finish up our graphic logo cube. The 3D Graphic Cube in Photoshop CS5 Extended Series:…
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