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Adobe Fireworks CS5 : Improving Your Workflow - Cool shortcuts

The client for Nature Tours is wondering about changing the font for the banner, and has asked to have a look at just the website banner. Without changing the layout at all, you can export a specific area of the page.

Adobe Fireworks CS5 : Importing and resizing images

Everything lines up nicely, except those first two images. They were shot with a different camera, and their dimensions differ from the other images. You will crop these two images right on the canvas.

QuarkXPress 8 : Editing text - Dragging and dropping text

When Drag and Drop Text is enabled, you can select text and drag it to a new location with the mouse—basically another way to cut and paste text. To do this, click on the selected text, drag the text insertion point to a new location, and release the mouse button.

QuarkXPress 8 : Modifying text boxes

QuarkXPress gives you precise control over how text is positioned within a box, including the number of columns in the box, how far text is inset from the edges of the box, whether text is rotated within the box, and more.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Using the History Panel

The History panel stores steps taken in the active project file during the current editing session only. It does not store steps from the last time you had a project file open or from other files edited during the same session.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Working with Compound Shapes, Editing with Find and Replace

JavaScript is a very complex language based on object-oriented programming, which abstracts items and attributes as objects that are then grouped, changed, or otherwise manipulated.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Using Scripts - Exploring JavaScript

JavaScript is a very complex language based on object-oriented programming, which abstracts items and attributes as objects that are then grouped, changed, or otherwise manipulated.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Using Scripts & Script tips

When writing scripts, you can associate a script to a specific InDesign menu action so that when a user chooses that menu item, a script runs automatically (technically, by assigning a script to a MenuAction command's Prenotify or Postnotify property when writing the script's code).

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Changing stroke and fill (part 2) - Change stroke color and weight, Add and modify gradient fills

Stroke is the line or outline that defines a shape you draw in Flash Catalyst—as in the “stroke of the pen” or “brush strokes.” In Flash Catalyst, you can choose a solid stroke, a gradient stroke, or no stroke at all.

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Changing stroke and fill (part 1) - Change the fill color

When you first start Flash Catalyst, new shapes are created with a solid white fill. But as soon as you change the fill color of a shape, any new shape that you draw takes on the most recent fill color that you’ve applied.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Layers - Showing and Hiding Layers and Objects, Merging Layers and Groups

If you have objects on multiple layers and want to consolidate them onto one layer, you can merge them together. You can merge two or more groups, or a combination of groups and sublayers (if they are both in the same top-level layer).

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Layers - Duplicating Layers and Objects, Locking Layers and Objects

You can duplicate a layer with the New Layer button. Drag the layer over the New Layer button and Illustrator creates an exact copy of the layer and appends the word copy at the end of the original layer name.

Dreamweaver CS5 : Editing Content in the Browser (part 2) - Registering an InContext Editing site & Making edits online

The InContext Editing experience is easy-to-use and intentionally simple, with a limited number of options. Once editing is enabled, a toolbar appears at the top of the browser.

Dreamweaver CS5 : Editing Content in the Browser (part 1) - Setting up InContext Editing templates

One of the primary uses of Dreamweaver templates is updating client sites. With primary portions of the design, such as the logo and navigation, locked targeted editable areas, Web page content can quickly be modified.

Dreamweaver CS5 : Using Dreamweaver Templates - Updating Templates & Removing Template Markup

If, for any reason, you need to remove all of the markup from a template itself, the fastest way is to create a document from that template and then issue the Detach from Template command.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 : Fixing Problems Caused by Your Camera’s Lens

Photoshop CS5 definitely has some overlap with the included Camera Raw 6 that comes with CS5 (and is part of Photoshop), in that you can do a lot of the same things in Photoshop that you can do in Camera Raw.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 : Removing Tourists the Easy Way

The nemesis of the travel photographer is the tourist, because nothing looks worse than a beautiful, iconic tower, palace, cathedral, or statue with a bunch of tourists roaming around.

Adobe After Effects CS5 : Adding transparency & Rendering the composition

After Effects provides a variety of formats and compression types for rendering output; the format you choose depends on the medium from which you’ll play your final output or on the requirements of your hardware, such as a video-editing system.

Adobe After Effects CS5 : Applying an animation preset

Precomposing is a way to nest layers within a composition. Precomposing moves the layers to a new composition. This new composition takes the place of the selected layers.

Adobe Fireworks CS5 : Batch-processing images

We needed only thumbnail images for this page in the design. However, should you wish, you could link the thumbnails to the full-sized versions of images using Dreamweaver or your preferred web-design software so that, when clicked, the full-sized images open for viewing.

Adobe Fireworks CS5 : Working with Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge can save you a lot of time by letting you view, sort, and open images you wish to use in Fireworks. You can also add information to certain types of images, such as JPEG files or Fireworks PNG files, using the Metadata panel in Bridge.

QuarkXPress 8 : Flowing text - Using the automatic text box

QuarkXPress provides two ways to flow text through text boxes and pages—using the automatic text box or linking boxes manually. The text in a series of linked boxes is referred to as a story, and you can perform operations such as spell check and search and replace on a story rather than an entire layout.

QuarkXPress 8 : Importing and entering text

You cannot currently import text from Word 2007 (.docx format). To import these files into QuarkXPress, save them from Microsoft Word in Word 97 format .

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Working with Drawing Objects and Combine Object Commands

In older versions of Flash, you had to take special care to avoid unexpected results when shapes overlapped on the same layer (as described in the section on working with compound shapes).

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 : Modifying Item Types

Regardless of the number of layers in a Flash project (.fla), neither the file size nor the performance of the final .swf file is adversely affected because Flash flattens layers upon export.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Customizing - Type Preferences

I grew up using computer word processing programs that have drag and drop text features. So I always have Drag and Drop Text turned on for both Story Editor View as well as Layout View.

Adobe InDesign CS5 : Customizing - Interface Preferences

Select Auto-Collapse Icon Panels to cause selected docked panels to automatically close when you move back to a document.

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Drawing basic shapes and lines

For most designers, using the Flash Catalyst drawing tools is a cinch. For anyone new to vector drawing tools, you’ll find the best way to master them is to practice. A little experimentation, combined with the Undo command, goes a long way.

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Using the rulers, guides, and grid

Flash Catalyst offers four main aids to assist you while drawing. These include the rulers, the custom guides, a visible grid for measuring and aligning artwork, and the Properties panel for positioning and sizing objects down to the exact pixel.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 : Working with Layers - Arranging Layers and Objects

You can change the stacking order of the layers in the Layers panel. When you change the order in the Layers panel, the objects in the document window change too.