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eBooks for Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver

computer_teacher — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:44:08 +0000

Here are 6 freely available ebooks covering 5 Adobe applications as linked here. These are Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver.

Adobe Application eBooks:

- Photoshop Quick Reference ebook

- Adobe Illustrator ebook

- Fireworks ebook

- Flash MX ebook

- Flash ebook 2

- Dreamweaver ebook

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3 Photoshop eBooks

computer_teacher — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:39:15 +0000

Here are 3 Photoshop eBooks, one for Photoshop CS and two covering Photoshop CS2. These will teach you many of Photoshop’s features and tools and how to use them. The CS ebook deals mainly with photographs, the CS2 ebooks cover editing graphics and photos, and using many of the editing tools available in the application. These Photoshop ebooks are in pdf format.

- Photoshop CS eBook

- Photoshop CS2 eBook 1

- Photoshop CS2 eBook 2

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Dreamweaver Course Materials

computer_teacher — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:25:42 +0000

Here are some excellent Dreamweaver Course Materials at University of Minnesota. Dreamweaver is a web development application for Mac and Windows operating systems. These Dreamweaver course materials describe some of Dreamweaver’s new features, tips to quickly create and manage websites, incorporating Dreamweaver with an already existing site, using CSS and designing page layouts.

Dreamweaver CS3: Creating Basic Web Sites 7.67 Mb, 113 Pages
This Dreamweaver course materials discusses the creation of a new website, the use of a template, using formats and editing web pages.

- LESSON 1 – CREATE A NEW SITE
- LESSON 2 – CREATE A NEW PAGE
- LESSON 3 – CREATE A PAGE HEADER
- LESSON 4 – CREATE A PAGE BODY
- LESSON 5 – CREATE A PAGE FOOTER
- LESSON 6 – CREATE A CLASS STYLE
- LESSON 7 – UPLOAD A NEW SITE TO A WEB SERVER
- LESSON 8 – CREATE A TEMPLATE
- LESSON 9 – USE A TEMPLATE
- LESSON 10 – UPDATE A TEMPLATE
- LESSON 11 – APPLY OTHER COMMONLY USED FORMATS TO CONTENT
- LESSON 12 – SYNCHRONIZE A SITE
- LESSON 13 – DETERMINE A WEB SITE’S FORMATTING
- LESSON 14 – SET UP DREAMWEAVER TO WORK WITH AN EXISTING SITE
- LESSON 15 – EDIT WEB PAGES FORMATTED WITH HTML
- APPENDIX A – TURN OFF THE CSS EDITING OPTION
- APPENDIX B – RGB HEX TRIPLETS

Dreamweaver CS3: Creating Basic Web Pages Intro Handout 803.6 Kb, 2 Pages
This Dreamweaver course material explains to users how quickly create web pages along with their structure, containers, content and the best practices followed in designing them.

- THE BASIC EQUATION FOR A WEB PAGE
- STRUCTURE / CONTAINERS
- CONTENT
- BEST PRACTICES

Dreamweaver CS3: CSS for Presentation 1.46 Mb, 79 Pages
This Dreamweaver course material provides information on using CSS within Dreamweaver, CSS features, its basics, and how to implement control over various functionalities of a web page.

- LESSON 1 – CASCADING STYLE SHEET BASICS
- LESSON 2 – CREATE A NEW STYLE SHEET
- LESSON 3 – CREATE CLASS STYLES
- LESSON 4 – CREATE CSS STYLE RULES FOR HYPERLINKS
- LESSON 5 – ADDING STYLE SHEET TO ADDITIONAL PAGES
- LESSON 6 – USE CSS TO CONTROL BACKGROUND IMAGES (OPTIONAL)
- LESSON 7 – ADD CSS TO A SITE THAT PREVIOUSLY USED HTML FORMATTING (OPTIONAL)
- APPENDIX A – CSS PROPERTIES
- APPENDIX B – GLOSSARY

Dreamweaver CS3: CSS for Page Layout 8.29 Mb, 184 Pages
This 184 page Dreamweaver course material discusses the preparation of web page layout using CSS, column creation, creation of a printer style sheet and creating a callout box.

- LESSON 1 – PREP A TABLE-BASED LAYOUT FOR A CSS LAYOUT
- LESSON 2 – APPLY CSS RULES FOR A BASIC FIXED-WIDTH CSS LAYOUT
- LESSON 3 – REFINE THE FOOTER LAYOUT
- LESSON 4 – CREATE THE TWO COLUMNS
- LESSON 5 – CREATE A FAUX COLUMN
- LESSON 6 – CREATE A HORIZONTAL NAVIGATION BAR
- LESSON 7 – CSS FOR DESIGN: AN UNORDERED LIST INCOGNITO
- LESSON 8 – CREATE A PRINTER STYLE SHEET
- LESSON 9 – CREATE A 3 COLUMN LAYOUT
- LESSON 10 – SET A MINIMUM WIDTH FOR A LIQUID LAYOUT
- LESSON 11 – CREATE A CALLOUT BOX WITH ROUNDED EDGES
- LESSON 12 – CREATE A VERTICAL NAVIGATION BAR (EXTENDED LESSON)
- APPENDIX A – DON’T REINVENT THE WHEEL: RESOURCES ON WHICH TO BUILD YOUR CSS LAYOUT
- APPENDIX B – THE BOX MODEL
- APPENDIX C – GREAT RESOURCES FOR CSS LAYOUTS

Class Files (.zip)
This section contains the class file for the above course materials that can be downloaded and view at leisure later.

- Dreamweaver CS3: Creating Basic Web Pages
- Dreamweaver CS3: CSS for Presentation
- Dreamweaver CS3: CSS for Page Layout

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3 Photoshop Tutorials

computer_teacher — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:12:38 +0000

Here are 3 Photoshop Tutorials, hosted at the University of Pennylvania Library. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program and is the current market leader in image manipulation software. These Photoshop tutorials discuss the basics of Photoshop, and also several intermediate features, such as Layers and the Crop Tool in Photoshop.

Photoshop Basics
This tutorial discusses the bare basics for Photoshop, such as what Photoshop is, where to get it, different file formats, image resolution and selection tools. This tutorial can be downloaded for later reference. The course explains the below features of Photoshop.

- What Photoshop is and where to get it
- The basics of image resolution and file formats
- How to use the Photoshop interface
- How to paint and erase
- How to use the selection tools
- Basic techniques for retouching your photos and improving image quality

Photoshop, Beyond the Basics: Intro to Layers
This tutorial discusses Layers in Photoshop and how it is used effectively in images. Layers are used to add opacity, masks and styles. This section also explains the different types of layers, such as normal, background, type and adjustment layers. The workshop hand outs can be downloaded here. This workshop explains the below topics.

- What layers are and why they are useful
- How to use the Layers palette
- How to create, move, reorder, and align/distribute layers
- About layer opacity
- About different types of layers, such as the background, normal layers, and type layers, and adjustment layers.
- About layer masks
- How to add layer styles

Using the Crop Tool in Photoshop
This tutorial imparts knowledge on the Crop tool and how it is effectively used to crop sections of an image. This tutorial can be downloaded for later use.

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11 Photoshop Tutorials

computer_teacher — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:16:36 +0000

Here are 11 Photoshop Tutorials, located at handson. These Photoshop tutorials discuss and demonstrate various Photoshop features and tools, such as effects, transparency, backgrounds, colors, masks, and texture wrapping. All of these tutorials can be downloaded and saved for later use.

11 Photoshop Tutorials:

Glass effects
This tutorial imparts knowledge to users on the glass effect and how it can be created in Photoshop.

Drop shadows
This tutorial shows users how to effectively use shadows on images and how shadows can have many variations.

Lighting effects
The lighting effects discussed here show users how to work with the various lighting effects available in Photoshop.

Transparency
Transparency is used by designers between layers and this tutorials show how to use them well.

Dealing with High contrast backgrounds
This tutorials show how to work with high contrast backgrounds and how to use them in Photoshop.

Tiled backgrounds
This tutorial explains how to use tiled backgrounds when working with Photoshop.

216 colors
This tutorial shows how to work with 216 colors when working with GIFs in Photoshop.

Nifty little insert bars
Working with insert bars in Photoshop is discussed in detail in this tutorial.

Lighting effects – Button mask
The tutorial explains working with button masks with a lighting effect in Photoshop.

Lighting effects – more on masks
This tutorial discusses other masks and effects available on masks in Photoshop.

Texture wrapping
This tutorial explains how textures can be wrapped around an object or a shape.

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9 Photoshop Tutorials

computer_teacher — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:35:28 +0000

Here are nine Photoshop Tutorials at SwitchOnTheCode.com. These Photoshop tutorials explain some of the important techniques and features used in the most popular graphics editing program, Adobe Photoshop. I think you will find these tutorials useful and helpful.

Creating Duotone Images in Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial covers taking an image and making it duotone. Duotone simply means two colors.

Do you suck at Photoshop?
This is a series of tutorials created by Donnie Hoyle. This section covers the volumes from 1 through 4.

You Suck At Photoshop – Volume 5
This video tutorial will introduce you to Photoshop’s color select tool.

You Suck at Photoshop – Volumes 6 and 7
The volumes 6 and 7 are covered here. If you don’t like the player, the videos can also be found on YouTube.

White Balance Your Images with Photoshop
With the help of Photoshop, we can fix some of the color problems with a simple click of the mouse. This section covers that.

An Extensive Guide to Photoshop Layer Styles
This tutorial will go through every layer style found in a default installation of Adobe Photoshop CS3, show what it does to your image, and describe some available options.

Photoshop Tutorial – How to Make a Color Picker Gradient
This section will go through all the steps required to create the gradient image using Photoshop.

Photoshop Tutorial – Actions
This section of the tutorial is going to provide a step-by-step guide on how to use Photoshop Actions. Actions are an easy way to apply the same thing (cropping, rotating, filters, etc.) to a large collection of images.

Photoshop Tutorial – Create a Seamless Texture from a Photo
This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a seamless texture from almost any photo.

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3 Adobe Acrobat Tutorials

computer_teacher — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:52:46 +0000

These 3 excellent Acrobat Tutorials at Health Science Center Training, University of Florida, will provide you understanding about how to use Adobe Acrobat 8 and its new features. Acrobat is a family of computer programs developed by Adobe Systems to create, view and manage PDF files. These Acrobat tutorials start with the basic features and cover more advanced ones, such as Forms. These Acrobat tutorials are in doc and pdf format and can be downloaded for later reference.

Acrobat 8 Fundamentals Tutorial (746 Kb, 11 pages)
This tutorial discusses the basics of Adobe Acrobat 8 such as the creation of PDF documents, its user interface, the navigation pane, bookmarks and signatures. This tutorial also can be downloaded as pdf.

- Getting Started
- PDF Documents
- Creating PDF Documents from Originating Applications
- The Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Interface
- Toolbars
- Navigation Pane
- Creating PDF Documents from within Acrobat
- Security
- Signatures
- Bookmarks
- Working with pages
- Editing Text and Images – Advanced Editing Toolbar
- Comment and Markup

Acrobat 8 Forms Tutorial (421 Kb, 15 pages)
This tutorial explains to users how to create forms, how to use the forms toolbar, creating spreadsheets from data files and submitting forms.

- Forms
- Creating forms
- Forms Toolbar
- Add Form Fields to the .pdf document
- Form Field Characteristics
- Creating multiples
- Positioning and Aligning fields
- Selecting Fields
- Submit the Form
- Returning the information by email – Users view
- Create Spreadsheet from data files
- Form Field Recognition

Acrobat 9 Fundamentals Tutorial (421 Kb, 17 pages)
This tutorial presents users with the important features of Adobe Acrobat 9. These features include creating PDF documents, security features, the toolbars, editing text and images and creating headers and footers.

- Getting Started
- PDF Documents
- Creating PDF Documents from Originating Applications
- The Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional Interface
- Toolbars
- Navigation Pane
- Creating PDF Documents from within Acrobat
- Security
- Signatures
- Bookmarks
- Working with pages
- Editing Text and Images – Advanced Editing Toolbar
- Comment and Markup
- Creating Headers and Footers

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Flash and ActionScript References and Cheat Sheets

computer_teacher — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:44:40 +0000

Here are some excellent Flash and ActionScript References and Cheat Sheets at appletree’s quick reference cards. Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to integrate video and sound into web pages to create animation and compelling multimedia presentations. These ActionScript and Flash reference materials will help you work more efficiently and effectively with Flash. These are in pdf and jpg format.

Adobe Flash Platform Rich Internet Application Development 2.1M
This document provides an insight of the Adobe Flash platform for creating rich internet applications.

Flash CS4 OSX Shortcuts 275K
This document discusses the keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Flash on the OSX platform.

Flash CS3 Quick Reference 347K
This is a quick reference that details the fundamentals, tools and keyboard shortcuts of Flash CS3.

Flash ActionScript quick reference 200K
This document is a quick reference to the operators, program flow control, global functions, constants and compiler directives in ActionScript.

Actionscript 3.0 Flash Display 217K
This document discusses the display functions used in ActionScript for displaying various objects.

Actionscript 3.0 Migration 90K
This is a migration document for converting ActionScript 2.0 code to ActionScript 3.0.

Actionscript 3.0 Packages 24K
This document provides a list of ActionScript 3.0 packages.

Actionscript 3.0 Top Level 50K
This document provides a brief look at the top level functions of ActionScript 3.0.

Actionscript 3.0 Migration Cheatsheet 90K
This document acts as a cheatsheet for migration to ActionScript 3.0.

AcitionScript 3.0 Cheatsheet Migration 90K
This document is a quick preference that provides migration information on migrating applications to ActionScript 3.0.

AcitionScript 3.0 Cheatsheet Top Level 50K
This document provides a top level look at the functions, constants, classes and arguments used in ActionScript 3.0.

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7 Flash ActionScript eBooks

computer_teacher — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:04:57 +0000

I just wrote a post on intelligentedu.com/blogs for 7 Flash ActionScript 3.0 eBooks that you may want to take a look at if you’re seeking more information and to learn about Flash ActionScript. Here is the direct link to these ebooks.

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Photoshop References and Cheat Sheets

computer_teacher — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:36:51 +0000

Here are some excellent Photoshop References and Cheat Sheets at appletree.or.kr. The following Photoshop references and cheat sheets explain and list many techniques and shortcuts used in this popular graphics editing application. By using these documents you’ll be able to perform Photoshop’s graphics editing tasks easier and faster. These quick reference guides are available for both PC and Mac platforms, and are in pdf format.

   Adobe PenTool Cheatsheet 506K
   Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Quick Reference Card for Mac OS 328K
   Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Quick Reference Card for Windows 271K
   Adobe Photoshop CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts 51K
   Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Quick Reference Card for Mac OS 165K
   Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw Shortcuts Mac 98K
   Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw Shortcuts Win 97K
   Adobe PhotoShop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts Mac 42K
   Adobe PhotoShop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts PC 43K
   Adobe PhotoShop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Mac 45K
   Adobe PhotoShop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts PC 45K
   Photoshop Brush Cheatsheet 466K
   Photoshop Lasso Cheatsheet 444K
   Photoshop CS3 Quick Reference Card Mac 307K
   Photoshop CS3 Quick Reference Card Windows 525K
   adobe lightroom cheat sheets.zip 1.5M
   adobe photoshop elements 5 quick reference card 343K
   photoshop bw cheatsheet.psd 5.1M

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22-page Dreamweaver Tutorial

computer_teacher — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:46:11 +0000

Here is a nice Dreamweaver Tutorial, hosted by the University of South Dakota. This Dreamweaver tutorial covers a host of topics of website development such as setting up a site, either locally or on a network, and adding website components such as tables, cells, pictures and hyperlinks. Actions such as moving, drawing, resizing and coloring, that can be carried out on these components are also explained in detail. This Dreamweaver tutorial is in pdf format, is 471kb size and 22 pages in length.

Contents of Dreamweaver Tutorial:

Introduction

Setting up a Site
- Local/Network

Windows and Panels Overview

Menus Overview
- Create and modify a table in Standard view
- Insert a table
- Merge and split cells
- Change row height and column width
- Add color to a table
- Add a border color
- Set a relative width table in Standard view
- Create a pixel width based table
- Design a page in Layout view
- Create and save a new document
- Draw a layout cell
- Add multiple layout cells
- Move or resize a layout cell
- Resize a layout cell
- Set a relative width table in Layout view
- Working with Text
- Inserting Pictures
- Creating Hyperlinks
- Combining What you Learned

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43 Photoshop Tutorials

computer_teacher — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:08:35 +0000

Here are 43 Photoshop Tutorials, hosted at Tutorials Portal, that will help you quickly customize and learn Photoshop’s interface and workflows. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program and is the market leader for image manipulation software. These Photoshop tutorials describe various text and color effects and how they can be applied to vector images. Some of these effects include bubble text, glowing text, adding a reflection, paint effect, carved text and animated loaders. Also discussed are colorizing an image, rain effects, and an old photo effect. All Photoshop tutorials provided here are easy to understand and follow, whether you’re a novice or expert user.

43 Photoshop Tutorials:

- Smarter Than The Average Bears
- The Creation of Lava Woman
- The Making of a Humanoid
- How to make a “Text on Fire”!
- How to make a Black & White picture
- 3D Cover For Software Box
- Video Tutorial – Adding a new sky and reflection in an image
- Bubble Text
- Love Heart Picture
- Gold Text Effect
- Glamour Effect
- Electric Glow Text
- Focus Zoom
- Watercolor Image
- Zombie Face
- Ice Text Effect
- Add Advertisement to a Taxi Cab
- Rain Effects
- Shadow Image
- Carved Text
- Paint Effect
- Starburst
- Redwood Texture
- Effective Airbrushing
- Color Overlay
- Barcode Tutorials
- Loading Firefox
- Website Badge
- 3D Callout Icon
- Image Clone
- Tech Border
- [GIMP]Quick Sig Tutorial
- Cartoon Background
- Reflection with Water Reflect Effect
- Simple Old Photo Effect
- Again, Simple Sig Tutorial
- Brighter Your Image
- Glowing Text Effect
- Colorize Your Image
- Another Tech Border
- Animated Matrix Effect
- Grunge Edge
- Simple Sig

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18 Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:23:31 +0000

These 18 excellent Flash Tutorials, at tutorialsportal.com, provide users with a lot of information on the basic and advanced features of Flash and how to go about working with it. Flash, from Adobe, is a very popular method for adding animation and enhanced user interaction to web pages. Flash files are generally created and imported into web pages. The Flash tutorials below demonstrate how to create effects in Flash such as glowing lights, flowing water and drawing on paper along with animations such as shine, a writing pen, and scratchy film animation. All these Flash tutorials are explained in a simple and easy to understand format with quick tips and tricks to help quicken the workflow.

18 Flash Tutorials:

- Scratchy Film Animation
- Create an Animated Shine
- Learn How to Dress Jessica Rabbit
- Customize Your Cursor in 3 Easy Steps
- Animate a Writing Pen
- Glowing Christmas Lights
- Create a ‘Drawing’ Effect in Flash
- Make an Object Move Along a Path
- How to Make a Character Walk
- Water Effect
- Mouse Cursor Appearance
- Scratchy Film Animation
- Create an Animated Shine
- Animate a Writing Pen
- Glowing Christmas Lights
- Create a ‘Drawing’ Effect in Flash
- Make an Object Move Along a Path
- How to Make a Character Walk

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39 Dreamweaver Tutorials

computer_teacher — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:54:21 +0000

Here are 39 well done Dreamweaver Tutorials, at Health Science Center Training, University of Florida, that provide users with important information using Dreamweaver’s features. Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development application for both Windows and Mac operating systems. These Dreamweaver tutorials cover features in the following versions: Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver 8, Dreamweaver MX. They also will show you how to use CSS and Dreamweaver templates. The tutorials can be downloaded and saved for later reference.

39 Dreamweaver Tutorials:
- Cascading Styles Instructions 35 Kb
- Cascading Style Sheets 298 kb
- CS3_Cascading Style Sheets 478 kb   PDF 194 Kb
- DIVs_behaviors CS3 1.4 Mb
- Dreamweaver CS3 Basics 1.7 Mb   PDF 621 Kb
- Dreamweaver CS3 Basics CSS 2.1 Mb    PDF 788 KB
- DW_CS3_Templates 1 Mb    PDF 346 Kb
- DW CS3 forms 800 Kb    PDF 220 kb
- DW Layouts 228 Kb
- CSS 256 Kb   PPT 256 Kb
- Dreamweaver MX Basics 13 Mb
- dreamweaver4 1.3 Mb
- DW 8_Cascading Style Sheets 983 Kb
- DW 8_CSS 244 Kb
- DW 8_forms 1 Mb    PDF 201 Kb
- DW 8_layers_behaviors 1.5 Mb
- DW 8_templates 1.1 Mb
- DW 8 basics 2.23 Mb   PPS 648 Kb
- UF and College of Medicine 36 kb
- Dreamweaver_Basicsx 1.3 Mb
- Dreamweaver_Basics2x 1.3 Mb
- Dreamweaver Basics 317 Kb   PPT 317 kb
- Dreamweaver Forms MX 667 Kb
- Dreamweaver MX 1. 7 Mb
- Dreamweaver basics 1.23 Mb
- Dreamweaver 4 Forms 1.2 Mb
- DW 2004 845 Kb
- Cascading Style Sheets 300 Kb
- Dreamweaver MX 2004 Basics 1.6 Mb   PDF 1.7 Mb   PPT 163 Kb
- Dreamweaver MX Basics 13 Mb
- Dreamweaver MX 1.7 Mb
- Dreamweaver MX2004 Basics 1.7 Mb
- DW_Basics_Outline 28 Kb
- Layers_Behaviors_Exercise 27 Kb
- Dreamweaver 4 1.3 Mb
- Dreamweaver MX Forms 666 Kb
- Dreamweaver MX CSS 809 Kb
- DW 2004 845 Kb      697344
- Templates 1726976

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17 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials

computer_teacher — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:56 +0000

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