Creative Color Effects Photoshop Tutorial

In that photoshop tutorial you will learn how to Give your photos a special mood by creating various color effects! All adjustments from the preview were done with a single tool – CURVES. Curves is perhaps the most flexible and powerful Photoshop tool for working with tones and contrast. And surely, it’s the best one to create attractive color adjustments for photos.

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Poppies of Summer Wallpaper Tutorial

In this exclusive photoshop tutorial, you will learn step by step how to create this amazing poppies effect wallpaper in Photoshop.

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How to create a simple Flash/PHP mail contact form with AS3 and MySQL

Techlabs updates us with a new cool tutorial about Action Script 3 Flash form.This article includes famous tutorial for a common trick when you add email form in a Flash website. This tutorials shows how to create Flash email form  in Action Script 3 and associate it with PHP and MySQL. enjoy reading the rest of the article here

Adobe CS4 School

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Creating Timer in Action Script 3

Introduction

In this brief article, I will show how to use the Timer in Action Script 3 to create simple animation. The Timer Event in Action Script3 enables you to repeat an action every specific time period. However, we will use this event to create the animation of a sonar point that moves through the stage.

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Adobe and Industry Leaders Establish Open Screen Project

For immediate release
Technology and Content Innovators to Drive Consistent Rich Internet Experiences Across Multiple Screens

SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 1, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders, including ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless. The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. Also supporting the Open Screen Project are leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to reliably deliver rich Web and video experiences live and on-demand across a variety of devices.

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Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition

By Ken Milburn

Expert advice and pro strategies help photographers at every level become more competent in their work routines. Through step-by-step procedures based on hard-nosed experience, professional photographer Ken Milburn describes a complete workflow sequence that begins with essential photographic equipment and digital darkroom setup, and ends once finished images are in albums, exhibits, web sites, or publications.

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The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects

Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers
By Michael J. Hammel

In The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects, artists and graphics professionals will learn how to use the GIMP and its tools to produce specific effects. Short, extensively illustrated tutorials cover a broad range of real-world projects that will be useful to those working in areas such as print advertisements, web design, photography, and user interface design.
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Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3

By Jennifer Smith, Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI)
First Edition July 2007

Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3 is like having access to a top-notch team of your very own instructors. Written by product experts and trainers who have produced many of Adobe’s training titles, the book is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, and review questions. Includes video tutorials on DVD.
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Reviewing Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Book (Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy)

The video training book is another amazing tutorial idea from Lynda publisher, it gather s the both benefits of getting the info from books and quickly learn things via video training.

The Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Video Training Book for Rich Shupe gives teaches you all the essential information needed to start working with Flash CS3 professional with both paper and video materials.

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