Adobe Illustrator, & Photoshop share the following hot-keys

Tab - to hide all your palettes for those instances when you need all the screen real-estate you can scrounge.

Shift-Tab - will hide all your palettes save the tool bar so you can keep switching tools.

Ctrl (win) / Cmd (mac) + K - use this hot key combination to quickly access your preferences.

Working with Live Paint in Illustrator CS3

Colouring your drawings has never been so easy. Live Paint introduced in Illustrator CS2 and further refined in Illustrator CS3 makes it easy to flow color into your designs. You can easily flow vector paint into areas created by the intersections of shapes and paths.

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Creating an accordian with Dreamweaver CS3's Spry Widgets

What is an accordian you ask? An Accordion widget is a set of collapsible panels that can store a large amount of content in a compact space. Site visitors hide or reveal the content stored in the accordion by clicking the tab of the panel. The panels of the accordion expand or contract accordingly as the visitor clicks different tabs. In an accordion, only one content panel is open and visible at a given time.

Create a Antiqued Photo with Photoshop CS2

This blending mode tutorial will show you how take a normal photograph and antique it to look like a hand-coloured sepia print.

Create a Colourized Sketch with Photoshop CS2

This blending mode tutorial will show you how to turn a photograph into a coloured sketch by using the Multiply blending mode and and the Find Edge and Guassian Blur filters.

Importing Video into Flash 8

Flash video is all that and a bag of chips but how do your turn your existing quicktime, avi, and windows media player movies into .flv files. One option is to import them into Flash 8 using the import video wizard.

Adding Flash Video Movies with Dreamweaver 8

Flash Video is a new format for displaying multi-media on the web. It plays within existing flash players. Flash player is the most used multi-media plugin on the web today. Dreamweaver allows you to add and configure Flash Videos in just seconds.

Creating Smooth Shape Tweens with Shape Hinting

Morphing one object into another can be tricky and often results in what we call a messy morph. Gain greater control over your shape tweens by adding shape hints.

Selecting Fly-Away Hair with Photoshop CS2's Extract Filter

Ever tried to select fly-away hair and been frustrated with the results. Use Photoshop's Extract Filter to easily select wispy hair, and other intricate or hard to define edges.

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Illustrator CS2's Free Transform tool will allow you to distort in perspective.

With the Free Transform tool click on a corner handle of your selected object and just slightly start to drag, then hold down Shift+Alt+Ctrl (Win) or Shift+Opt+Cmd (Mac)

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