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 duplicating tips pen tool tips and coloring shortcuts. Both mac and PC shortcuts are mentioned. Dont forget to Follow Creative Sweet TV on Twitter @CS_TV and visit www.creativesweettv.com

However, the same actionscript will work if the app is published as an AIR app. So on a postive side, copy and paste may be possible for AIR app. Yet to be confirmed.

 I don’t have a Flash Lite 4 phone so I cannot test if Flash Lite 4 app would have Copy and Paste function.

Below is the AS3 code I used:

stage.showDefaultContextMenu = false;   // for Flash app only.

var edit_cmi:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Edit”);
edit_cmi.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT, doSelect);

// Cut, Copy and Paste are for AIR app only.

var cut_cmi:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Cut”);
cut_cmi.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT, doSelect);

var copy_cmi:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Copy”);
copy_cmi.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT, doSelect);

var paste_cmi:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Paste”);
paste_cmi.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT, doSelect);

var cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();

cm.customItems.push(edit_cmi);
cm.customItems.push(cut_cmi);
cm.customItems.push(copy_cmi);
cm.customItems.push(paste_cmi);
myBox_mc.contextMenu = cm;

function doSelect(e:ContextMenuEvent):void
{
 trace (e.currentTarget.label);
}

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 are for print and onscreen. What is the best way to reduce the size of an image, and how to get the best results when doing any type of image resizing. If you work with someone who doesn’t seem to understand that you can just take a really low resolution image and blow it up to a billboard, then force them to watch this show from start to finish. It may just save YOU a lot of frustration.

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 access that and auto format it using Paragraphs styles. Simple? Fun ? You betcha. Follow Mike on twitter @CS_TV

<style type=”text/css”>
#myBox {
 width:480px;
 background: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
 border-color:#000;
 border-style:double;
 border-width:thick;
 border-radius:15px;  
 box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
}
</style>

As seen in the screenshot above, IE9 (preview edition) rendered the above correctly Same cannot be said for other browsers yet without some browser specific attributes which I am totally against. If no one use any browser specific attributes, may be it would encourage all browsers to use standard CSS attributes.

Fortunately I have found that if during the  installation process of Photoshop Elements, I set United States as the country, then Photoshop.com becomes available even when I am installing from Australia.

So far I haven’t come across any problem yet with this workaround. May work for you too.