Layers TV Episode: 19

Corey has a workaround for exporting animations created in Photoshop CS3 Extended to a Flash video format.

• With your animation open in Photoshop, go under the File menu to Export > Render Video
• Don’t choose Flash Video from the format drop-down because it will crash Photoshop
• Render your animation as a QuickTime video instead
• Launch the Flash Video Encoder and locate your animation saved in QuickTime format
• Adjust the Flash Video Encoder settings to whatever you need and then Start the Que
• When it’s finished, you now have your animation in Flash Video format.

Special guest Dave Cross shares some tips and tricks to use in Illustrator.

• Display birthday cakes in the Brushes palette – this tip has absolutely no practical value
• Use the Transform dialogue to create an exact copy of your illustration and line it up perfectly with the original
• Create a series of objects with the blend tool
• Use the Blend command under the Object menu to wrap your objects around a shape
• Align your objects in different ways with the Align palette
• Use the Rotation tool and let Illustrator do the math for you when trying to figure out how to evenly space your objects
• Make sure you stop by Kelby Training.com and check out the list of classes for the Adobe suite applications.