SolidWorks Student Design Contest Winners
CONCORD, Mass., May 21, 2007 – SolidWorks Corporation today named an international slate of winners of the first-ever SolidWorks World Design Contest for students and professors, citing the soaring quality of students’ design work and quantity of entries.
“The caliber of designs we’re seeing from students in these contests demands special recognition,” said Marie Planchard, director of worldwide education markets for SolidWorks Corporation. “Although these designers are just starting out, you would certainly never know it from what you’re looking at. Their achievements are testimony to the talents of the individual contestants, the competence of their engineering educators, and the power of SolidWorks® 3D CAD software to unleash their ideas for better products.”
To see all the winners, visit www.solidworks.com/StudentDesigns.
Adobe+Google for Photoshop 3D
I’m pleased to report that Adobe has teamed up with Google on 3D, enabling Photoshop CS3 Extended to browse the Google 3D Warehouse, then download 3D models right into Photoshop. The upshot is that Photoshop users now have direct access to a large & growing repository of free, community-driven 3D content.
The plug-in and more info are available on Adobe Labs. (Note: The team is working to fix a bug found in the Windows version at the last minute. Therefore the Mac plug-in is up now, and the Windows version should be up tomorrow.)
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Learning Painter X with Jeremy Sutton DVD
Take a guided tour of Corel Painter X with renowned artist and Painter Master Jeremy Sutton! This indispensable DVD-ROM is the perfect resource to help you learn the tools and techniques of a Master. In this step-by-step video guide, you will learn how to navigate your way through the Corel Painter interface, how the create artistic compositions like the Old Masters, how to sketch, draw and paint using Painterís famous brushes, how to create a painting from a photo and how to create beautiful collages using Corel Painter X.
Rounding third and heading for home with After Effects, Encore, Photoshop, and the rest
Digital Producer Magazine
By Kevin Schmitt
Like the weekly serials of old, we left off last time with a cliffhanger. What treats were there to be found in the rest of the CS3 Production Premium bundle? Which goodies in After Effects, Encore, Photoshop Extended, and even OnLocation and Ultra would appeal to motion graphics and interactive folk? Well, you didn’t have to wait too long to find out, so let’s get this sucka done.
CS3 Production Premium for Motion Graphics and Interactive Enthusiasts, Part 2
Adobe Creative Suite 3 K-12 Site License Teacher Home Use
In addition to the installation of CS3 K-12 Site License software on up to 500 computers, there are also an additional 50 teacher home-use rights licenses as stated in the CS3 K-12 Site License FAQ:
Q: Do K-12 School Site Licenses allow teacher home use?
A: Yes, each K-12 School Site License comes with an additional 50 teacher home-use rights licenses. Software used at home by teachers must be used exclusively for teaching purposes related to the teachers’ employment with the school (such as lesson planning and classroom preparation, etc.)
Adobe Edge: May/June 2007
Connecting the dots with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium | Dreamweaver CS3 — Finding balance | The edge of Flash | Adobe Flash CS3: Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files | Using Flash CS3 with Flex | Making the leap to ActionScript 3 | Fireworks CS3: Top 10 new features
creativepro.com – Review: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Without a doubt, Dreamweaver CS3 remains the premiere Web design program, and owners of Dreamweaver MX 2004 or earlier should upgrade as a matter of course. Dreamweaver 8 owners have a tougher decision. If you do a lot of front-line Web design and building sites from scratch, the upgrade to CS3 makes perfect sense, because the new CSS templates, CSS management, and Spry widgets will save you lots of time and quickly justify the upgrade cost.
Not on the front lines of video production? No worries; there’s plenty here for you
Digital Producer Magazine
By Kevin Schmitt
I was somewhat skeptical about what the forthcoming Adobe CS3 Production Premium bundle would offer outside of Flash and After Effects; after all, I have precisely zero skills when it comes to the “front end” of production (shooting, capture, editing, etc.). My interests lie squarely down the line (motion graphics, interactivity, Web distribution), so my initial thought was that the entire bundle might be of limited total value to someone like me. However, after seeing and using a pre-release version of the suite for myself, it turns out that there are a lot of hidden gems in surprising places.
Now, with my interests/allegiances clearly stated in the intro, suffice it to say that if you’re looking for hot-and-heavy breakdowns of what the situation is with programs like Premiere, OnLocation, and Ultra, it’s highly likely you’ll be disappointed. What these pieces are intended to be is a roundup of some interesting tidbits that might not be obvious from Adobe’s press materials, as well as general items of note for folks like me who skew towards motion graphics and interactivity. We’re also going to do a bit of the ol’ “getting to know you” for the Mac faithful, who have heretofore never seen Encore or Premiere Pro on their chosen platform (and will, sadly, need to wait a bit longer for OnLocation and Ultra, which both remain Windows-only – though “Boot Camp-able” – for this release). So, with that preface/caveat/warning firmly in place, let’s get to the goods.
CS3 Production Premium for Motion Graphics and Interactive Enthusiasts, Part 1
Tutorial from Computer Arts
Pattern fonts are fun to create and can save you a lot of time. Once it’s generated, you can modify a pattern to create a new look with just a few clicks…
Ever fancied designing your own pattern and making an OpenType font out of it? It’s a quick and effective way of adding decorative detail to any project. We show you how to create a simple pattern in Illustrator and turn it into a colourful font with the help of FontLab Studio.
We begin by explaining what’s important when creating a pattern and show you how to prepare it for FontLab. Part 2 of the tutorial explains how to set up and modify your pattern in FontLab and also warns you what to look out for when you optimise the vectors. In the final part of our guide, we show you how to use your font in an application like Illustrator. You will end up with a multicoloured pattern which you can use as an eye-catching background in your designs, as wrapping paper or even as a new choice for your home wallpaper.
Click here to download the support files (2.8MB)
If you have purchased or installed the Dreamweaver CS3 trial, then you can’t have helped but be impressed by the new standards-compliant CSS starter pages. To have the ability to create CSS layouts in what amounts to no more than a few clicks is a great time-saving feature: no more bug hunting, no more hours of hair pulling. The CSS layouts are simple and easy to use and provide you with a great base from which you can create your own design style.
As easy as the CSS layouts are to work with, you may have missed one of the great features of these starter pages: the ability quickly and easily to mix and match the different layouts available into a single CSS file. This tutorial will teach you exactly how you can utilize the new CSS features to implement this type of design.
Managing websites with multiple layouts
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