A new face for the Adobe Developer center

Couple of days ago, I got an email to check the new Adobe developer center. Actually, I was amazed with the new look of the developer center, it becomes easier to navigate and unique in design, the expandable tabs makes the new site more user friendly and you can reach what you need more easier and faster than the old site.

Read more »

Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 review

Adobe Premier is one of the essential tools for any video editor to accomplish video editing and capturing various video formats, edit it and output it in different media such as tapes, TV, DVD or web.
The new version of Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 comes up with new cool features that enhance your work and give you the ability to have a client review version of you work in many methods such as PDF, Email, client review DVD version.

Read more »

Adobe Photoshop CS2 review

I remember when I first started to learn Adobe Photoshop, 7 years ago. I started with Photoshop 4; life was not so much easy as it is today. We had to go through a lot of steps to do effects we can do now with fewer steps and less time. Adobe Photoshop goes through a lot of enhancements and improvements since then.

Read more »

Reviewing Adobe Illustrator CS2 (By Rafiq Elmansy)

Its about the Active Content in IE7 again

While my contribution on Adobe General Discussion forums, I faced thousands of posts about the active content in IE7, or as many describe, the rectangle that appear around Flash objects in IE7 with click to active tap when you roll-over it.

However I thought it would useful to add this post to give the most useful link I found to solve this problem. I found the solution that Adobe gave is very helpful and easy to understand especially for designers like me, who do not feel comfortable dealing with a lot of code matters. Here is the link.

Read more »

Reviewing Joomla Template Design

With the new Joomla Template Design book for Tessa Blakeley, you can create your own Joomla templates. The book is well arranged and takes you step by step to be able to create a full functional template by the end of the book.

Read more »

Reviewing Joomla Template Design

With the new Joomla Template Design book for Tessa Blakeley, you can create your own Joomla templates. The book is well arranged and takes you step by step to be able to create a full functional template by the end of the book.
The reader of this book is required to be familiar with Joomla and working with its structure. Packt has a good book for beginner in Joomla; it is Building Websites with Joomla.

Read more »

Adobe After Effects 7 hands-on-training (Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy)

Adobe After Effects 7 Hands-on-training book for Chad Fahs and Lynda Weinman covers After Effects in an organized way, each chapter takes you step by step to explore this software. The first chapter introduce After Effects, what is it? How it is differ from other software like Flash? As well as number of common questions which come to the head of any beginner who learn After Effects.

Read more »

Reviewing Welcome to OZ (Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy)

The cinematography art is marked with the deep concern with the dramatic effect of the shoots, backgrounds, lights…etc. This concern is what makes the strong relationship between the image and the story or idea behind it.
Welcome to OZ book focuses on using the light, shadows and image contrast to produce this effect on images using Adobe Photoshop.

Read more »

What Does the word ADOBE means

I was searching on the wikipedia when I find this topic about the word ADOBE. Have you ever imagine what does the word Adobe really means? Here it is as in the Wikipedia.org:

“Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. Adobe structures are extremely durable and account for the oldest extant buildings on the planet. Adobe buildings also offer significant advantages in hot, dry climates; they remain cooler as adobe stores and releases heat very slowly”.

Read more »

Reviewing Real World Photoshop CS2

Product Details:
Writers: Bruce Fraser, David Blatner
Book Name: Real World Photoshop CS2
Publisher: Peachpit

The Real World Photoshop CS2 for Bruce Fraser and David Blatner cover in about 950 pages all you need to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 in your career starting from the hardware required to build your Photoshop friendly system to the basic knowledge of the color and image editing and ends with using Photoshop in multimedia and web.

Read more »