http://www.layersmagazine.com The How-To Magazine for Everything Adobe. Quick tips and tutorials for the entire Adobe Creative Suite. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:56:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NONLINEAR PRESENTATION TOOL Prezi is a Flash-based visualization, storytelling, and presentation tool that allows you to create nonlinear presentations. Using the simple editor, you can place text, images, video, Flash files, and draw lines to show relationships between each item. The final result is a visual map that lets users zoom ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/prezi.html New episodes are coming soon. In this old episode, RC goes start to finish through a Flash CS4 project using the new 3D tools and importing an audio file. Corey talks about the distortion features inside of Adobe Illustrator. You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes. {module:tv/episode110} Thank ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/layers-tv-episode-110.html VISUAL COMPUTING FROM THE DESKTOP The new professional-level Quadro FX 4800 with 1.5 GB of memory brings a much-needed performance upgrade to the Mac Pro lineup. But why do you need a $1,799 graphics card? If you’re not a full-time design/graphics professional with a large budget, you probably don’t. But if ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/nvidia-quadro-fx-4800-for-mac.html Happy Thursday everyone! Just wanted to pop on in and share what's new in the intranets: Terry White's New Iphone App Terry white over at his techblog is usually covering all sorts of technology and letting us know what his favorite apps are for the iphone. He's taken that ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/terry-whites-new-app-printing-from-lightroom-2.html This tutorial gets you started with importing 3D objects from third-party programs into Photoshop CS4's 3D layers. Look for Parts 2, 3, and 4 coming soon! {module:flashlink} http://www.layersmagazine.com/importing-3d-content-into-photoshop-cs4.html CARTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE FOR ILLUSTRATOR The MAPublisher plug-in for Illustrator CS3 and CS4 is not for the timid: You should be familiar with GIS (Geographic Information System) data and have a need to publish that data in a visual format. Simply put, the plug-in uses GIS data to create maps in Illustrator. ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/mapublisher-8-1.html Virtually attach flash video to your project using action script. Click here to download the files to follow along with this tutorial. {module:flashlink} http://www.layersmagazine.com/stealth-object-in-flash-part-2.html VISUAL WORKFLOW MANAGER KEEPS YOU TOTALLY ORGANIZED GridIron Software’s Flow cannot be fully explained in this amount of space—it’s too vast and too valuable. Instead, I’ll tell you what it does and what it’s good for. In my testing, it works as promised, and beyond. Flow is a “visual workflow manager” that ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/gridiron-flow.html Congratulations All Around A big congratulations to Joe McNally, Scott Kelby, and David Duchemin for rocking the top 5 of the top 10 Best Books- Art and Photography on Amazon.com! Joe McNally earns the top spot this year for his Hot Shoe Diaries, with Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Book Vol ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/great-amazon-book-news.html Typographically speaking, the term “script” refers to any typeface that’s designed to look hand-drawn. Script faces come in many forms, from formal engraving faces to loose advertising faces to those that attempt to imitate everyday handwriting. They fall into three general categories (shown here): calligraphic (including chanceries, uncials, and blackletter ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/the-art-of-type-following-the-script.html MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING SOFTWARE Director 11.5 will be familiar to users of previous versions but some additions improve productivity, for example: multiple undos/redos, stage docking, enhanced user interface, Sprite, channel naming, and a new Help System. But the hot addition in audio is 5.1-channel surround sound that, along with real-time mixing ability, ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/adobe-director-11-5.html Printing images from Lightroom's Print Module. {module:flashlink} http://www.layersmagazine.com/printing-images-from-lightroom.html