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Adobe InDesign CS5 : Saving Files in Other Formats

InDesign's Save, Save As, and Save a Copy commands let you save documents and templates using InDesign's native file format. The Export command opens the Export dialog box, from which you can save documents and some individual document elements such as stories and graphics in several other formats.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Saving Documents and Templates

When you open a new document, it's assigned a default name (Untitled-1, Untitled-2, and so on) and the first page appears in the document window. At this point, you're like a painter standing in front of a blank canvas.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Objects - Selecting and Grouping Objects

Selecting and grouping objects makes it easier to work with multiple objects as if they were a single object. You can easily select, isolate, cut, copy, paste, move, recolor, and transform a grouped object.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Objects - Using the Magic Wand Tool

The Magic Wand tool (so named since it looks like a magic wand) is unique in the fact that you do not drag and select with this tool; you simply click. The Magic Wand tool creates a selection based on the shift in brightness ranges within an image.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Objects - Using the Direct Selection Tool, Using the Lasso Tool

Use the Lasso tool when you want to select shapes that are very close to shapes you don’t want to select. This tool allows you to draw around the shape, selecting everything contained within the drawn area.

Corel Painter X : Drawing People - Portrait (part 2)

Notice that the Resat (resaturation) value for Smeary Varnish is zero, indicating that no new color will be applied. Play a bit with this brush to get the feel of it and consider tweaking its behavior.

Corel Painter X : Drawing People - Portrait (part 1)

Stages in my head study are shown in Figure 2. Using a dark color, establish the major lines and shadow shapes. Work with strokes that vary in direction, following the planes and curves of the face.

CorelDraw 10 : Page and Document Setup - Viewing Document Info

With CorelDraw 10, it's easy to learn just about anything you want to know about the contents of a document (known as the document info). For example, you can see how many objects are in the document, what fonts have been used, the page size and orientation, when the document was created and last modified, and where on disk the file is stored.

CorelDraw 10 : Page and Document Setup - Deleting Pages, Document Navigation

When deleting pages, you are allowed to delete all but one. Thus, if a document contains only a single page, you cannot execute the Delete Page command. Similarly, if a document has two pages, you cannot delete a page range.

CorelDraw 10 : Page and Document Setup - Adding Pages

To insert a new page at the end of the document, click the tab for the current last page and click the right plus (+) icon.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Objects - Understanding Selections, Using the Selection Tool

There are several ways to select objects in Illustrator. With the Selection tool, you can select an object’s stroke or fill. You can only select an object using the fill if the path appears in Preview mode, and the Object Selection by Path Only check box is deselected in Selection & Anchor Display preferences.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Objects - Working with Perspective Objects, Customizing a Perspective Grid

The Perspective Selection tool allows you to select, move, scale, copy, and transform objects in perspective. You can also add normal objects, text, and symbols to the perspective grid. When you move or change a normal object to the perspective grid, its appearance and scale change to adhere to the grid.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Objects - Creating Perspective Objects

The Perspective Grid tool allows you to display a perspective grid that you can use to draw shapes and create scenes with 1, 2, or 3-point perspective. For example, you can create a row of trees down a street to create perspective.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 : Styles and Their Attributes (part 3) - List options, Positioning options, Extensions options

CSS gives you greater control over bulleted points. With Cascading Style Sheets, you can now display a specific bulleted point based on a graphic image, or you can choose from the standard built-in bullets, including disc, circle, and square.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 : Styles and Their Attributes (part 2) - Block options, Box options, Border options

One of the most common formatting effects in traditional publishing, long absent from Web publishing, is justified text — text that appears as a solid block. Justified text is possible with the Text Align attribute, one of the seven options available in the CSS Block category.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 : Styles and Their Attributes (part 1) - Type options, Background options

After you've selected a type and name for a new style or chosen to edit an existing style, the CSS Rule Definition dialog box opens. A Category list from which you select a style category (just as you select a category of preferences in Dreamweaver's Preferences dialog box) is located on the left side of this dialog box.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 : Working with Automate Commands - Using the Fit Image Command

The Fit Image command is a quick way to adjust an image to a specific width and height without changing its current aspect ratio. While the same process can be accomplished using Photoshop’s Image Size dialog box, this way is quicker and works more reliably when used to change the size of an image within an action.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 : Working with Automate Commands - Processing Multiple Image Files

The Image Processor command in Photoshop allows you to convert and process multiple files without first creating an action, which is something you need to do with the Batch command. The Image Processor options make it easy to convert a set of files to either JPEG, PSD, or TIFF, or all three formats at the same time.

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Optimizing artwork

In Flash Catalyst, graphic optimization options include converting vector graphics to bitmaps, compressing images, and converting embedded images to linked files. When you import a design document, you can choose fidelity options that do some of the graphic optimization for you.

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Importing artwork

Objects placed outside the Illustrator artboard or Photoshop canvas are clipped. Before importing, make sure that all artwork appears inside the artboard or canvas. You can reposition these items after importing them into Flash Catalyst.

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Preparing a design document

. The way you approach the design and organization of your artwork has a significant impact on the structure of the project in Flash Catalyst and the underlying code. The following ideas will help protect the integrity of your design and minimize re-working or re-structuring assets after bringing them into Flash Catalyst.

Adobe After Effects CS5 : Animating Text - Animating imported Photoshop text

If all text animations involved just two short words, such as Road Trip, life would be easy. But in the real world, you may often have to work with longer blocks of text, and they can be tedious to enter manually. Fortunately, After Effects lets you import text from Photoshop or Illustrator.

Adobe After Effects CS5 : Animating Text - Animating using parenting

The next task is to make it appear as if the virtual camera is zooming away from the composition. The text scale animation you just applied gets you halfway there, but you need to animate the scale of the compass as well.

Adobe After Effects CS5 : Animating Text - Animating with scale keyframes

The text layer was scaled to more than 200% when you applied the Fit To Comp command to it earlier in this lesson. Now, you’ll animate the layer’s scale so that the type gradually shrinks down to its original size.

Adobe Fireworks CS5 : Working with Vector Graphics - Scaling vector objects, Adding text to your design

Since CS4, Fireworks uses the same text engine as Illustrator and Photoshop, so copying and pasting text from these applications, or opening a Photoshop file containing text, has become much more predictable. Prior to CS4, Fireworks used its own proprietary type engine to render fonts.

Adobe Fireworks CS5 : Working with Vector Graphics - Changing the appearance of basic vector shapes

You can scale, skew, and distort basic vector shapes using the Transform tools in the Tools panel . You can change their fill, stroke, color, and even texture using the Properties panel. In this section we’ll concentrate on basic modifications.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Working Within the Flash Environment - Working with Frames

A frame displays content at a specific moment on the Stage. The order in which frames appear in the Timeline determines the order in which they appear in the document.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Working Within the Flash Environment - Changing Layer Properties, Using Guide Layers

The Layer Properties dialog box makes it easy to changes several layer options at once. You can change a layer name, show or lock a layer, change a layer type or outline color, and modify the layer height to show more information in the Timeline. Setting layer properties of a folder automatically sets the properties for all the layers within that folder.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Working with Objects and Layers - Duplicating Objects

Duplicating objects can be a powerful way of creating geometrical artwork. You can duplicate one or more selected objects by dragging them, using keys, copying to and pasting from the Clipboard, or using the Step and Repeat command.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Working with Objects and Layers - Resizing Objects, Moving Objects

When an object is too big or small for its location, you can resize the object to fit. When you select one or more objects with the Selection tool, square resizing handles appears on the corner and midpoint, which you can drag to change the size of the object.