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Boost Your Skills: 20 Awesome Flash Tutorials

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for “Rich Internet Applications” (“RIAs”) (source: wikipedia.org)

If you’re interested in more in-depth info, you can continue reading over at Wikipedia by clicking here, or go check out Adobes own product site here.

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Smart Photoshop Tips, Tricks and Resources

Adobe Photoshop is usually seen as one of the most powerful photo manipulation and graphics software on the planet, and with good reason to. Photoshop lets you almost do anything you want, from creating high-resolution images to producing quality life-like graphics, Photoshop has it all.

Even though Photoshop is a very powerful monster application, it can be hard and complicated to master. This is why we’ve compiled useful and elaborative resources to help you on your Photoshop endeavor.

Tips and Tricks

Tucked Away Options Behind Box Arrows

With the sometimes busy screen filled with images and projects its easy to miss some of the smallest details within the Photoshop interface. I’m specifically speaking about the tiny arrows at the top right-hand corner of every box. These small arrows disguise various options that are useful. If you haven’t had the chance, open up one of these arrows and discover a new perspective to using Photoshop.

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Want to know what’s RED HOT? Adobe Flex

I am not going to insult your intellence and try to teach you how to use Adobe Flex because frankly, I am just learning.  Over the past few months, every major project and intitiative I’ve heard about has components built using Adobe Flex.  With the emergence of Flash as a usable technology and ActionScript as a top notch coding language, Adobe Flex has quickly become the hottest new tool in ubertrendy web development circles.

So what is it?  And what does it do?  Well, the according to Adobe: “Create engaging, cross-platform rich internet applications.  Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.” More »