Dreamweaver’s Spry Drop Down Menu – CS4 Tutorial Spry drop down menus make creating drop down menus cake work in Dreamweaver! In this video we will create and edit our drop down menu and then edit the CSS to create a truely customized drop down menu. Learn how to use and edits the generic CSS...
Combining & Compositing Images Using Photoshop CS4 In this video we will use simple techniques to combine a couple images. We are actually using a couple image which are pretty difficult to combine and my hope is that you will take a few tricks from this video that will help you with combining images of...
Basics of Using 3D Objects – Photoshop Tutorial 3D is very new to Photoshop only really coming into existence when CS3 was released. In CS3 however the 3D capabilities were pretty limited, but with the release of CS4 3D exploded into Photoshop and now has it’s own set of tools and even it’s own panel....
How To Write a Simple XML Document – Dreamweaver Tutorial In this video we will quickly run over XML, what it is, and what it is used for. We will then sit down and write out our very first XML document just a simple list of six people. We will use Dreamweaver, but really any...
Tweening with Actionscript 3.0 – Flash Tutorial 40+ minutes of video on tweening with Actionscript 3.0. We are going to start out simple with a simple fade in animation and things will get more complex from there. I do label this tutorial advanced, but I try to explain everything out in a decent way which...
3D Spiraling Light Beams – Photoshop Tutorial In this tutorial I start with a simple 3D object created in Photoshop and to really show off the 3D nature of this object we will “wrap” it with light, specifically these light zips, or bands. A pretty cool effect and really as soon as you create the...
Quick Black and White Photographs! – Photoshop CS4 When working with large numbers of photos occasionally I will try batch processing a black and white conversion over a folder of images, but my problem always was the simple desaturate command in Photoshop never really did the trick, the photo(s) always looked way to flat. Using...
Create Vector Fire & Flames – Illustrator Tutorial These flames are inspired by a little comment at the end of the web box icon video tutorial also created in Illustrator and fittingly we are going to create these flames coming out of that box! The sweet thing about this effect is it is really different...
Create a 3D Vector Box Icon – Illustrator Tutorial In this Illustrator Tutorial we will be using Illustrator CS4 to draw this nice little 3D box which can easily be edited for use in tons of different ways! The beauty of this box is that it is all vector and very easy to use in...
Create Spry Tooltips – Dreamweaver Tutorial One of the coolest new features in Dreamweaver CS4 is the addition of Spry ToolTips. Those of you that have used Spry anything know it is a breeze to create Spry objects and with a little CSS knowledge it is easy to edit too! We will discuss creating, add...
Smooth Skin and Sharpen Portrait Photographs – Photoshop CS4 Soften and Smooth Skin! This is a huge thing when working with studio photography, models, or anyone really. Smoothing skin can really add a lot to an image, but if you do it the wrong way it really can look terrible. We will also look at...
Simple Thumbnail Gallery Webpage – Dreamweaver Tutorial Here it is, finally creating a tutorial with a little foresight as far as using what we make here for many other tutorials. We will create a simple metal type panel with these six thumbnails sitting on it. Using CSS to style the panel and the thumbnails we...