Image Slicing With Photoshop And Dreamweaver, Part 2

July 11th, 2008

Alright, here’s the second installation of our series on image slicing with Photoshop and Dreamweaver. In Part 2, you’ll see how you can further refine your sliced layout, and prepare it for output to Dreamweaver. Lots of nifty techniques are explained along the way, too. Get ‘er done!

PNG-24: Feathered Transparency With Photoshop & Dreamweaver

July 1st, 2008

Last week, the Layers Magazine website posted an article I wrote that goes into detail about creating transparent images with feathered edges using the PNG-24 file format—something that’s completely impossible with GIF. The tutorial shows how to pull this off using Photoshop and a bit of code in Dreamweaver. Sound interesting? It’s changing the way I work with graphics online, so check it out right here!

Image Slicing With Photoshop And Dreamweaver, Part 1

June 24th, 2008

No doubt you’ve heard about image slicing, but do you know what it is and how it works? Image slicing is a technique for creating a web page (or a component of a web page, like a header or navigation menu) visually in Photoshop. But how does it work? Well, that’s what this video series is all about! Check out Part One for image slicing basics. Part Two and Part Three are on their way, where we’ll be gettin’ in to Dreamweaver too!

Killer Acrobat Features: Adobe Acrobat User Community eSeminar!

June 14th, 2008

This past Thursday (June 12), I had the privilege to present an eSeminar along with the Acrobat User Community’s Lori DeFurio. Between the two of us, we discussed our favorite features in Acrobat—and there’s a lotta stuff packed into the hour-long seminar. Although the presentation was broadcast live online, it was recorded, and will be available for viewing shortly. Check out this page on the AUC site for more info!

Layers Magazine: Image Slicing in Photoshop CS3

June 14th, 2008

I’m sure you’ve heard about image slicing, but do you know what it is and how it works? Image slicing is a technique for creating a web page visually in Photoshop. Recently, I wrote up an article on image slicing utilizing Photoshop’s tools, as well as a bit of Dreamweaver, for the Layers magazine website, so be sure to check it out. Also, stay tuned, cuz I’ll be posting a video series very shortly on image slicing as well, which goes into even more detail than the Layers article! Keep ‘er locked on tentonbooks.com!

A Heap of Photoshop Zoomify With A Dash Of Dreamweaver!

June 4th, 2008

You’ve no doubt heard about it, but what’s all the buzz about? It’s called Zoomify, and it’s an awesome new feature inside Photoshop CS3 that’ll letcha add zoomable, scrollable image viewfinders to your web pages. In this tutorial, you’ll not only see how to create ‘em outta Photoshop, but you’ll also see how they’re structured in Dreamweaver, and how to make some simple adjustments as well. So whatcha still readin’ for? Get zoomin’!

Creative Suite Heavyweights: Illustrator And Flash!

May 29th, 2008

Geeze man, I get on these themes and I just can’t stop. Now, it’s even more Flash-related material, this time it’s a video tutorial on working with Creative Suite’s two vector heavyweights, Illustrator and Flash. So, have you started usin’ Illustrator to help build Flash movies? In this video tutorial, you’ll learn some killer techniques for getting material from Illustrator into Flash. We’ll start off with fully layered, fully editable Illustrator content, then you’ll see a few other methods for gettin’ the job done! Let’s check it out!

Layer’s Magazine: Handlin’ Photoshop and Illustrator Content in Flash!

May 29th, 2008

To go along with the video tutorial I posted about working with Photoshop and Flash, check out an article that I wrote for the Layers Magazine website called Handlin’ Photoshop and Illustrator Content in Flash. You’ll learn a few nifty techniques for wranglin’ your raster content, handlin’ vector objects, and a few other goodies as well. Read up!

Download, Print, And Share Ten Ton Articles Thanks To iPaper!

May 29th, 2008

Been workin’ hard to bring something called iPaper to the Ten Ton site. IPaper (developed by a company called Scribd) is a promising technology for bringing rich documentation online, when HTML-based, or PDF-based documents don’t cut the mustard. It’s actually a redeveloped version of Macromedia’s old FlashPaper. Now, and this is what I was interested in for the Ten Ton site–and for you–is that it’ll letcha search, save the document onto your hard drive, email it, and even embed the document into your website. How frickin’ sweet does that sound? Anyway, I’m excited to test it on Ten Ton, as I’d like to make it possible for you to keep articles and tutorials that are posted on the site. So check ‘er out right here and lemme know what you think!

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