If you are really interested in learning web design in general and Photoshop ( and maybe flash) make sure you've checked the new Lynda.com latest tiles!

Flash CS3 Animation Secrets

Flash CS3 Animation Secrets was created and produced by Chris Georgenes. We are honored to host his material in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.

Artist, web designer, and Flash expert Chris Georgenes divulges his favorite secrets for animators in Flash CS3 Animation Secrets. From customizing the workspace for better efficiency to creating flames, smoke, and steam, Chris reveals his techniques for mastering difficult effects. He also covers nesting movie clips, using sound, seamlessly looping animations, and more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics include:

• Customizing the workspace and setting keyboard shortcuts
• Nesting movie clips
• Animating drop and cast shadows
• Setting up a motion blur effect
• Using pan and zoom camera effects
• Looping animations seamlessly
• Making characters walk and talk
• Animating handwriting
• Creating fire, smoke, and steam
• Making it rain

Flash CS3 for Designers

Flash CS3 for Designers was created and produced by Colin Smith. We are honored to host his material in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.

Flash CS3 for Designers is more than just a primer on the workings of Flash CS3. Instructor Colin Smith takes fellow designers step-by-step through the workings of Flash CS3, using his unique professional perspective. He teaches drawing, editing, transforming, and filtering graphics; working with bitmap images; basic and advanced animation techniques; adding sound and video; and putting the whole project together with ActionScript 3. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics include:

• Understanding Flash CS3
• Drawing with Flash CS3 tools
• Working with bitmaps and vector graphics
• Adding animation to a project
• Working with blur, motion, squash, stretch, and tween
• Adding sound and video filters
• Using ActionScript 3 to create dynamic projects

Photoshop CS3 Channels & Masks: Advanced Techniques

The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. As he builds transitional blended layers, fashions a depth map, makes edge adjustments, and takes on extreme channel mixing, Omni Award-winning expert Deke McClelland teaches Photoshop users that where there's a will, there's a way. Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks: Advanced Techniques covers mapping texture on an image, turning flesh into stone, using vector masks, working with all different channels, creating a rustic edge effect, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics include:

• Distorting and shading with a DMap
• Understanding bits and channels
• Creating paths with the Pen tool
• Using blend modes and the Dodge and Burn feature
• Understanding channel mixing
• Using layer masks, clipping masks, and knockouts
• Applying Smart Filters

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