A book not out yet but looks to be promising: http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590597486 Video is one of the hottest things on the Web today, and a lot of web developers want to use it to produce mind-blowing interactive experiences for their users. However, there is a shortage of information on how best to do this; friends of ED aims to remedy this with books like From After Effects to Flash: Poetry in Motion Graphics.After Effects ands Flash […]

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, presentations, games, and more. Depend on Flash CS3 and Adobe Flash Player to ensure your content reaches the widest possible audience. Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® Flash® CS3: (my favorites are in bold) Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® import—Import Photoshop (PSD) and Illustrator (AI) […]

First off, what is After Effects? It’s mainly used to create high end visual effects and motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. As for the new version, there’s a ton of new features and enhancements! My favorite: Puppet Tool! Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Shape Layers—Easily create and animate vector graphics with new Shape Layers. Add and animate strokes, fills, gradients, and vector effects. You […]

What is it? Well, it’s for more efficient video production. Creating/editing entire shows can be done in the program. It now also includes Adobe Encore CS3 and Adobe OnLocation CS3, formerly the award-winning DV Rack HD. Save time from on-set capture using Adobe OnLocation through to output, expand your creative options via integration with Adobe After Effects® CS3 Professional and Photoshop®, and deliver your content to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices. Top […]

For years, pretty much every creative professional such as graphic and web designers, photographers, and prepress specialists have relied on Adobe Photoshop software to help create creative visuals. But Photoshop has also become the digital imaging standard for a wide array of other professionals—including people working with motion graphics for film and television; 2D and 3D design imagery in manufacturing, architecture, and engineering; and medical and scientific professionals dealing with specialized images. To best meet […]

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software allows you to efficiently create sophisticated vector artwork for virtually any medium. Access tools quickly and easily, explore color variations, and share files seamlessly between Illustrator and other Adobe professional applications as you prepare content for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs. Top new features: (my favorites in bold) Live Color—Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color, which lets you select any artwork and interactively edit […]

Accelerate web design and development with Adobe® Fireworks® CS3 software, the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images for the web and rapidly prototyping websites and web applications. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and timesaving integration with Adobe Photoshop® CS3, Adobe Illustrator® CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3, and Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional software. Top new features: (my favorites in bold) New Macintosh and […]

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.  And an alpha is available for download!  Download/install at your own risk. I’ll be doing so…

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It’s coming!  This statement was just released today concerning CS3: “Adobe Creative Suite 3 will be announced March 27th 2007. Adobe is celebrating the launch at an event in New York City that will be webcast live at 3:30 pm ET on that date. On March 27th Adobe will reveal in detail the features and suite configurations that make this the largest software release in Adobe’s 25 year history. Adobe plans to ship CS3 after […]