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Are You Right or Left Brain Thinker

| November 4, 2009 | 31 Comments
Are You Right or Left Brain Thinker

Do you feel like a developer or a designer? whatever your feelings are,  actually it has a relation with another factor than just feelings, it depends on your brain right and left parts. Lets see how your brain power can affect your desire to be an inspired designer and guru developer.

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Become an Adobe Certified Expert

| April 27, 2009 | 58 Comments

certifiedBecome an Adobe Certified Expert

No doubt that passing the certification exam for any of Adobe products is a good proof for your employer and in your resume for your profession in this tool. This does not mean that you have to know every thing about the product as many people wrongly think, it is a totally misleading concept.

The certification exam proofs that you got the maximum knowledge of the product and you are able to solve and understand project problems, structure using this tool.

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The Anatomy of Video Player

| February 14, 2009 | 0 Comments

video playerThe Anatomy of Video Player

For better understanding and customization for the FLV Component in Flash, you should have a strong understanding of the video player and it is works. In this video tutorial by David Hassoun from Adobe TV. He will teach us how the video player works and how to use these principles in using and customizing FLV component in Flash.

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Creative Designer Job opening: Able to work under pain!!

| January 21, 2009 | 12 Comments

Creative Designer Job opening: Able to work under pain!! Do not worry, it is not a real job, it a metaphoric expression. As a creative designer, I find working in a new idea is such a painful process, this pain that comes with joy when the idea is being formatted under your hand.

Most creative designers are sharing this feel with different degrees according to the personality of the designer and the level of creativity inside the project.

This painful joy or joyable pain is not new symptom, it is a syndrome that is related to all who work in art field and its digital version of computer graphic and graphic design.

If we go back in history to the Renaissance age, we will find many artists like Michael Angelo and others.

Now a days, the creative work got 3 levels of creativity according to an article I read before but do not remember the source:

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What is Adobe Text Layout Framework

| December 5, 2008

textlayout 225x50What is Adobe Text Layout Framework

The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be used with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional or Adobe Flex®, and is already included in the next version of Flex, code named Gumbo. Developers can use or extend existing components, or use the framework to create their own text components.

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ADC Presents – Buidling Adobe AIR Applications with Flash CS3

| June 24, 2008 | 0 Comments

In this great video, Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow show how to create your frist AIR application using Adobe Flash CS3. Lee shows a smaple of an existing Flash project and turn it into an AIR application.

Plot the perfect course: Media specifications for e-learning courses

fla8it elearning 2 intPlot the perfect course: Media specifications for e learning courses

by Rafiq R. Elmansy
Adobe URL: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/fla8it_elearning/
An important part of planning e-learning courses is to document the course’s media specifications. Media specifications help you create a course that achieves its goals; without media specifications, the course design can distract the audience from the content. Course developers follow the guidelines and rules in the media specifications when creating the course.

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Quick tips for integrating Adobe Creative Suite 3 products

| February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments

fig01Quick tips for integrating Adobe Creative Suite 3 products

by Rafiq R. Elmansy
Publishing info:
Adobe Edge, Feb 2008
URL: http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/february2008/articles/article6/index.html?trackingid=BSFZU

IT IS NOT MY PERSONAL PHOTO!! is my X-Ray eye

| December 2, 2007 | 0 Comments

Ok, let start blogging. But first I would like to mention that I have a much more handsome face than you can see in the thumb. So, why I use this one?! This image is for a very poor Egyptian man, the years and pains left in his face a sign for what he saw in his every day life.
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So you think you are a Creative Person (Tell about you)

| October 21, 2007 | 16 Comments

The creative person could be a designer, coder or a project manager, in this article, I am addressing the graphic designers, web designers, animations and photographers who enjoy the pain of the new idea and controlled by it.

Through my working experience as a graphic and web designer, I saw that the real creative person is driven with his or here creative nature. The love of the new ideas, the desire to be part of it drives him/her to choose him/her career.

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Who does not use Photoshop!

| October 10, 2007 | 13 Comments

I myself can not give up using Photoshop, and who can. Since more than 7 years, I have never seen such a widely known and famous between professionals and non-professionals software like Photoshop is. Many of the computer users needs Photoshop on different levels starting from the non-professional who like to edit his/her own digital camera photos to the creative person who is sinking in Photoshop to the depth.
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