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Text that appears in the position where a graphic will be while the graphic loads. Normally, it identifies the graphic, such as Picture of Kennedy. Because some Web graphics can be very large, providing alternate text enables a user to decide whether to wait for the image to load.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Creating Masks (part 2) - Create the mask

Flash does not recognize different Alpha levels of a mask. For example, a mask drawn with a fill at an Alpha value of 50% will still mask at 100%. However, with ActionScript you can dynamically create masks that will allow transparencies.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Creating Masks (part 1) - Define the Mask and Masked layers

You can make a circular mask and allow your audience to only see through the circular area, so that you get a keyhole or spotlight effect.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Controlling Movie Clips

When you move an anchor point, the segments that are connected to it change. When you move a straight segment, the anchor points on the segment move with it. If an anchor point connects two segments, moving the anchor point changes both segments.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Working with Points and Paths - Selecting and Moving Points and Segments

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Working with Points and Paths - Drawing with the Pen Tool

When you drag with the Pen tool, you can create smooth points and curve segments, which have direction handles you can use to change the curved segment.

Exporting Files from Illustrator CS5 (part 3) - The Joint Photographic Experts Group Format

An extremely popular raster-based format, JPEG files are used mainly for exchanging photographic content and artwork. Although the JPEG format is used heavily in web design, it is also the format of choice for the electronic delivery of stock photographs and for digital cameras.

Exporting Files from Illustrator CS5 (part 2) - AutoCAD Drawing, AutoCAD Interchange File & The Flash Format

The DWG and the DXF formats are both used for exchanging files with computer-aided design (CAD) applications. They can be especially helpful when you want to send Illustrator artwork to architects, interior designers, or industrial designers. Both formats support vector and raster elements.

Exporting Files from Illustrator CS5 (part 1)

Illustrator is a robust application that supports a wide range of file formats. Although Illustrator does a great job opening just about any graphic file format, it can also export files in different file formats for a plethora of uses.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 : Edit Tabbed Panels

The Spry panel tabs have separate styles for each of the three active link states: Tab, Tab Selected, and Tab Hover. You can specify different colors for each setting.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 : Add Content to Tabbed Panels

You can insert anything into a panel that you can insert into a Web page, and you do so in much the same way. Just make sure that you have selected the panel in which you want to add content in the Properties inspector while you have the blue Spry tabbed panels bar selected.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 : Three Ways to Fix the Color in Indoor Shots

The culprit is Auto white balance . With Auto white balance, shooting indoors you get what you see here—a photo that looks way too yellow (or if I had shot in an office, where the standard is fluorescent lighting, it would be too blue).

Getting Started with Photoshop CS5 : Saving a Document

Each output device, whether monitor or paper-based, requires a specific format, and it’s best to know this information at the beginning of the creation process.

QuarkXPress 8 : Fine-tuning spacing (part 2)

QuarkXPress lets you adjust the amount of space between two characters with kerning and between a range of selected characters with tracking. Kerning is often used to remove space between particular character pairs, particularly in larger font sizes.

QuarkXPress 8 : Fine-tuning spacing (part 1) - Specifying hyphenation and justification

A distinguishing factor of good typography is expert spacing, with no gaps in justified text, a smooth edge on left-aligned paragraphs, no awkward hyphens or line breaks, no large gaps between letters, and more.

QuarkXPress 8 : Working with style sheets

If you bold words within a paragraph, you might use a character style sheet. When you use style sheets, you can easily make global changes across a project by revising style sheets rather than manually reformatting text.

Corel Painter X : Graphic Techniques - It is Only a Mask (part 2) - Airless Airbrush

The ideal brush category for working with selection masks is Airbrushes. Traditional airbrushes spray tiny droplets of pigment mixed with compressed air. The instrument connected to that compressed air source is a metal device with a nozzle and a small reservoir for pigment.

Corel Painter X : Graphic Techniques - It is Only a Mask (part 1) - Fancy Schmancy

An active selection of whatever shape has a moving marquee like an animated dashed line. The cute nickname for this is marching ants. You might want to turn off the marching ants (without losing the selection) to see your work better

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Removing External Content

The easiest way is to remove the Loader object from the Stage, so the audience can no longer see it. You will use the command removeChild() and specify the name of the Loader object in between the parentheses to remove it from the Stage.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Loading External Content

Loading external content keeps your overall project in separate modules and prevents the project from becoming too bloated and difficult to download. It also makes it easier for you to edit, because you can edit individual sections instead of one, large, unwieldy file.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Customizing - General Preferences Controls

The number 2000 ensures that fonts with large character sets are always subset, creating smaller files. Custom fonts with a few characters are set in their entirety.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Customizing - Modifying the Menu Commands

You may feel that the menus in InDesign are too long for you to easily find the command you want to choose. Or you would like one menu command to stand out from the others. You can easily customize the menus to highlight or hide certain commands.

CorelDRAW X5 : Working with Single-and Multi-Page Documents - Page Commands

There are several ways to add and delete pages from a document; three ways are using menu commands, using shortcuts while holding modifier keys, and using certain page views.

CorelDRAW X5 : Working with Single-and Multi-Page Documents - Naming Pages

Document Properties is a CorelDRAW feature that provides details about a document you save without having to type in the margins. To access Document Properties—to both enter and view information—right-click on a blank part of the page.

Saving Files from Illustrator CS5 (part 4) - The Flex Exchange Graphic Format & The Scalable Vector Graphics Format

SVG is an XML-based file format that is used primarily on the web and has recently become more popular in creating content for mobile and handheld wireless devices.

Saving Files from Illustrator CS5 (part 3) - The Portable Document Format

By default, a PDF saved from Illustrator is also a dual-path file, containing both PDF data and native Illustrator data .

Saving Files from Illustrator CS5 (part 2) - The Encapsulated PostScript Format

When Adobe introduced PostScript to the world, it forever changed the face of design and publishing. Since desktop publishing became a buzzword, the format in which designers and printers exchanged file information was always EPS.

Saving Files from Illustrator CS5 (part 1) - The Native Illustrator Format

The two files in an Illustrator file print and display the same and are identical except the native Illustrator version maintains more editability in the Illustrator environment.

Dreamweaver CS5 : Create Tabbed Panels

Dreamweaver's Tabbed Panels widget, available from the Spry menu, makes it easy to add a set of panels that can be changed by clicking the tabs at the top of the panel set.

Dreamweaver CS5 : Edit a Drop-Down Menu

After you have added a drop-down menu to your site, you will want to change the appearance to better match the design on your Web pages. You can edit the colors, fonts, and other features of a drop-down menu by editing the corresponding CSS rules.