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AppleScript Pro Sessions Return
News: Written on October 10, 2008
Registrations are now open for AppleScript Pro Sessions, held April 20-24, 2009, in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The sessions will cover the latest scripting changes in Adobe CS4 as well as other applications.
WebAssist Debuts SuCasa Marketplace for Web Design Templates
News: Written on October 9, 2008
New online community enables users to freely share, buy, or sell low-cost website templates, page layouts, CSS menus, and more.
Free Live Webinar on Designing Flash in QuarkXPress 8
News: Written on October 9, 2008
Want to create Flash files but you're not a programmer? Design directly in QuarkXPress 8 -- no programming required.
Create Rich Media with Acrobat and Flash
How-Tos: Written by Donna Baker on October 8, 2008
If you have Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, you can combine PDFs and Flash files for previously impossible media richness.
An Event Apart Reveals 2009 Conference Dates, Locations, Speakers
News: Written on October 7, 2008
Do you want to attend a conference that helps web designers and developers gain a deeper understanding of web standards and emerging best practices, while offering fresh ideas and new directions in the web design industry? Then take note of next year's details.
CreativePro.com—Design Tools Weekly Podcast
News: Written by Jay J. Nelson Jeff Gamet on October 6, 2008
Our new weekly podcast features the insights of two industry veterans. With their wide-ranging interests, each episode has something for everyone!
Sitemasher's Innovative Website Platform Goes Prime Time
News: Written on October 6, 2008
Online Web site development and management platform enables collaboration throughout the website lifecycle.
New Features in Creative Suite 4
News: Written by Jay J. Nelson on October 2, 2008
This article originally appeared in Design Tools Monthly. Cross-Suite Interface Changes Application frame (optional): * This large window contains all your open documents and panels, on a neutral-colored background. You can move the whole thing around, even onto a second display. Tabbed windows (optional): * Each document appears as a tab in the Application Frame
Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator
How-Tos: Written by Chad Neuman on September 29, 2008
The sky’s the limit when you convert Illustrator text to outlines. It’s so easy to change each letter’s size, position, and color, and even push and pull letters into fantastic new shapes.
Mudbug Introduces Webify 1.0
News: Written on September 26, 2008
This new image editing utility serves as a easy-to-use image browser, specifically developed as a productivity tool to help prepare images for the web. Quickly and easily resize, scale, rotate and flip many images at once and save them in one of several web-friendly formats. Alter the Exposure, Gamma, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness, and Sepia of images in batch, or one at a time.
Expression Blend Takes Advantage of Latest Technology
News: Written on September 26, 2008
Microsoft is issuing an Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate free of charge.
BeLight Software Unveils Art Text 2
News: Written on September 23, 2008
Create headings, web graphics, buttons, and logos.
Info Center for Adobe Creative Suite 4
News: Written on September 23, 2008
On September 23, Adobe finally shared full information about the next version of the Creative Suite: CS4. We’ll run reviews of the core creative pro apps in October, once CS4 ships to the public. Until then, sate your appetite for information with these first looks and more. First Looks: InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop CS4 Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4. Here are first-hand impressions of three of the new versions in the Design suite.
Adobe Introduces Creative Suite 4 Product Family
News: Written on September 22, 2008
Radical workflow breakthroughs, new levels of flash expressiveness and integration anchor Adobe’s biggest software release.
First Looks: Dreamweaver and Flash CS4
News: Written by Jeremy Schultz on September 22, 2008
Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4. Here are first-hand impressions of two of the new versions
Adobe Announces Creative Suite 4
News: Written by Jeremy Schultz on September 22, 2008
Today, Adobe Systems announced Creative Suite 4 (CS4), which contains all-new versions of the company’s design, Web, and video applications. Note that this is only an announcement -- the products won't be available to the public until next month. The product suite structure of CS4 is relatively unchanged from Creative Suite 3. CS4 Design Standard and Design Premium: Adobe InDesign CS4 Adobe Illustrator CS4 Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Standard only) Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended (Premium only)
Announcing PageSpinner 5.1
News: Written on September 22, 2008
Optima System's PageSpinner 5.1 features improved 10.5 Leopard compatibility, option to auto-check HTML and PHP syntax, support for iPhone movie formats, web site commands in the Dock menu, user interface enhancements, bug fixes, and more.
Review: SiteAssist Professional 1.0
Reviews: Written by Thomas Penberthy on September 22, 2008
Rating: 4 of 5 SiteAssist Professional 1.0 ($199; upgrade $99) is the latest update from WebAssist. If your goal is to quickly frame out an elegantly coded (if conservatively styled) Web site, SiteAssist Professional is worthy of consideration.
New Book on Using Symbols in Logo Design and Other Visual Communications
News: Written on September 19, 2008
"Decoding Design" from How Books a must-have for designers seeking to understand and better use symbolism.
Interwoven's New Targeting Capabilities Include Anonymous and Known Web Visitors
News: Written on September 19, 2008
Enhanced Interwoven LiveSite capabilities allow businesses to build and strengthen customer engagement via targeted website content, offers, and experiences.