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If you want to be a pro at using Adobe Illustrator you need to know these essential tips. These are my absolute favourite and most used tips and shortcuts. Pay close attention because there a quite a few. Drawing tips … Continue reading →

I have been playing with the Actionscript 3 Context Menu when building a Flash app. I found that I couldn’t add menu like “Cut”, “Copy” and “Paste” into the context menu. Any other word (like “Edit”) would work. My conclusion therefore is it may not be possible to build a Flash app (running inside a [...]

If you’re just starting out with Photoshop and need to get a grip on what resolution you need then this is the episode of Creative Sweet TV for you. We take a good close look at what the required resolutions … Continue reading →

With Social Media being so hot right now, how can you prove that you are, in fact a Social Media Expert? Why not download this PDF from acrobat.com and using just one easy step graduate today! Print it out, stick … Continue reading →

The LiveCycle Collaboration Service (nee Cocomo) team have been hard at work and have just announced their latest set of capabilities including screensharing, record & playback and a new javascript sdk. If you are new to LCCS, its a great service that is part of the LiveCycle family and allows Flash, Flex and now HTML [...]

Fun video share for a Friday. I’m not sure who this guy is, but I totally agree with his motto! “All I wanna do is write a plan and architect, implement the project and make you money!” Check out the video: No related posts.

Learn how to create live captions in InDesign CS5 that use the data entered into the meta data of an image. Adobe Bridge can allow you to eneter a description into the IPTC core data and then InDesign CS5 can … Continue reading →

For too long, it has not been possible to style an html page elements with attributes like rounded-corner, opacity and drop-shadow effects using CSS2 only without some kinds of browser specific hacks. CSS 3 changes all that and I am very excited when I found out I can achieve all that now with the following [...]

If you’re like me, or other knowledge workers who work with documents, you most likely have hundreds, if not thousands of PDFs stashed away in folders on your computer. As much as I love Windows 7 , I was surprised to find out recently that the integrated search does not index PDF content!  Turns out [...]

For some unkown reason to me, only US customers have the Photoshop.com feature within Photoshop Elements. All non-US customers have the Photoshop Showcase (what is that???) instead. It is very annoying to me as I have a Photoshop.com account and want to be able to share and sync albums from within Photoshop Elements. Fortunately I have [...]