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Flash CS3:

• Using Flash for the First Time - Part 1: Building a Banner
• Using Flash for the First Time - Part 2: Adding Symbols, animation, and ActionScript
• Using Flash for the First Time - Part 3: Publishing and adding a Flash file to a web page
• Migrating from Flash 8 to Flash CS3
• (video tutorial) Creating your first working, interactive Flash file
• (video tutorial) Creating and using symbols and instances
• Flash graphic effects Learning Guide

Dreamweaver CS3

• Presenting video with the Flash Video component in Dreamweaver CS3

Flash 8

• Flash 8 Best Practices
• ActionScript 2.0 Best Practices
• Using Flash for the First Time - Part 3: Publishing and Adding the Flash File to a Web Page
• Using Flash for the First Time - Part 2: Adding Symbols, Animation, and ActionScript
• Using Flash for the First Time - Part 1: Building a Banner
• ActionScript 2.0 Learning Guide
• Flash Animation Learning Guide

Dreamweaver 8

• Presenting Video with the Flash Video Extension for Dreamweaver 8
• Creating Custom Video Skins for the Flash Video Extension for Dreamweaver 8

Flash MX 2004

• Binding Data Between Components Using the Data Binding Classes
• Using the Tween and Transition Classes in Flash MX 2004
• Using ActionScript in Macromedia Flash MX 2004: Best Practices
• Building a Tip of the Day Application (Part 1): Using Screens and Components
• Building a Tip of the Day Application (Part 2): Working with Web Services
• Building a Tip of the Day Application (Part 3): Submitting Tips to the Web Service
• Creating Animation
• Data for Designers: Connecting to Data in Flash Using Data Wizards

RoboHelp

• Creating and Customizing Online Documentation with RoboHelp

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Articles from the Design Center, 2007

Tutorials from the Adobe Design Center. Also remember to search the Design Center (select a product) and browse the Video Workshop (most CS3 video tutorials are not listed here — and there are almost 300 video tutorials available in the workshop!)

Flash CS3

Getting Started

• Using Flash for the first time - Part 1: Building a banner (Jen deHaan)
• Using Flash for the first time - Part 2: Adding symbols, animation, and ActionScript (Jen deHaan)
• Using Flash for the first time - Part 3: Publishing and adding a Flash file to a web page (Jen deHaan)
• Creating a simple Flash document (Adobe)
• Work with the Timeline in Flash (Sascha Wolter)

Animation

• Tweening in Flash Professional 8 (John Ulliman)
• Spin objects in 3D space using Flash and After Effects (Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott)
• Create frame-by-frame animations with Flash (Sascha Wolter)
• Creating a 3D button animation for Flash (Tom Green, Tiago Dias)

Text

• Use Flash text to display text in your website (Garrick Chow )
• Team After Effects text animation with Flash (Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott)

ActionScript

e-learning

• Media specifications for e-learning courses Rafiq Elmansy

Video

• Building a video player with Flash (R Blank)
• Tips for rookie video producers (Scott Fegette)
• Broadcast video using the camera object in Flash (Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott)
• Frame video with a mask (Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott)

Sound

• Creating dynamic sound controls in Flash (Russell Chun)
• Enhance your Flash file with sound (Russell Chun)

Migration / upgrading

• Migrating from Flash 8 to Flash CS3 Professional (Jen deHaan)

Dreamweaver CS3

Getting Started

• Create and configure a Dreamweaver site (Lucinda Dykes)

Sites and site setup

• Organizing a local site in Dreamweaver (David Karlins)
• Collecting content for a Dreamweaver site (David Karlins)
• Prepare your web server for file handling using a remote folder in Dreamweaver 8 (Lucinda Dykes)
• Create and configure a Dreamweaver site (Lucinda Dykes)
• Creating a master-detail page relationship in Dreamweaver - video tutorial (Matthew Pizzi)

CSS

• Turn internal styles into an external style sheet in Dreamweaver (Garrick Chow)
• The Art & Science of CSS: Create inspirational standards-based web design (Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith, Jonathan Snook)

Images

• Adding dynamic images to your website using Dreamweaver (Lucinda Dykes)
• Use the image tools in Dreamweaver to work with images in your website (Nolan Hester)

Text

• Use Flash text to display text in your website (Garrick Chow )

Fireworks CS3

Getting Started

Effects/filters

• Discover the difference between live and traditional filters in Fireworks (Abigail Rudner)
• Creating lens flares using Fireworks (Alan Musselman)
• Creating crystals with Fireworks (Thierry Lorey)
  
  

Integration

• A glance at Photoshop integration with Fireworks (Jim Babbage)

Symbols

• Using rich symbols in Fireworks (Aaron Beall)
• Create a sitemap icon using reusable rich symbols (Alan Musselman)

Image editing

• Vectoring in on bitmaps with Fireworks (Dave Bricker)
• Create a night scene with Fireworks (Angelo Sabal)
• Image editing tricks with Fireworks (Jose Olarte 3)

After Effects Professional CS3

Getting Started

• Getting to know the Workflow (After Effects Classroom in a Book)

Effects/filters and animation

• Using the Keylight filter in After Effects (Tom Green, Tiago Dias)
• Some background information (Bob Donlon)
• Create the illusion of fire and smoke: CC Particle Systems II and After Effects 7.0 (Bob Donlon)
• Make motion more realistic with Motion Blur (Jeff Foster)
• Adjust Bezier curves and make motion paths take flight (Jeff Foster)
• Create a fireworks effect using After Effects (Bob Donlon)
• Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets (After Effects Classroom in a Book)
• Create animated characters from still images with After Effects (Bob Donlon)

3D

• Spin objects in 3D space using Flash and After Effects (Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott)
• Working with Vanishing Point in Photoshop and After Effects - video tutorial (Ko Maruyama)
• Using Vanishing Point to map a 3D environment - video tutorial (Ko Maruyama)
  
  

Color

• Color management in After Effects (Peter Constable)

Text

Sound

• The fundamentals of working with sound in After Effects and Flash (Tom Green, Tiago Dias )

Export/compression

• Export an After Effects project as a web video (Jeff Foster)
• Manic Compression (Bob Donlon)
• Rendering and Outputting (After Effects Classroom in a Book)
• Tips for rookie video producers (Scott Fegette)
• Create an animated DVD menu transition using Encore and After Effects (Bob Donlon)

Cross product integration

• Create an animated DVD menu transition using Encore and After Effects (Bob Donlon)

Premiere CS3

Getting Started

Video editing and effects

• Using Scene Detect in Adobe Premiere Pro (Jeff Schell)
• Apply video effects to clips with alpha channels (Jeff Schell)

DVD creation

• Team Adobe Premiere Pro with Encore DVD (Chad Perkins)

Titling

• Creating and modifying titles in Adobe Premiere Pro (Jeff Schell)

Color

• Using the Three Way Color Corrector in Premiere Pro (Jeff Schell)

Soundbooth CS3

Getting Started

Audio Editing

Export

Encore CS3

Text

• Working with text in Encore (Chad Perkins)

Menus

• Team Adobe Premiere Pro with Encore DVD (Chad Perkins)
• Create an animated DVD menu transition using Encore and After Effects (Bob Donlon)

CS3 Integration

• Creating a 3D button animation for Flash (Tom Green, Tiago Dias)
• The fundamentals of working with sound in After Effects and Flash (Tom Green, Tiago Dias )
• Spin objects in 3D space using Flash and After Effects (Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott)
• Team After Effects text animation with Flash (Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott)
• A glance at Photoshop integration with Fireworks (Jim Babbage)
• Discover seamless integration with Adobe Dynamic Link (Chad Perkins)
• Integrate Adobe Premiere Pro with After Effects using Dynamic Link (Jeff Schell)
• Use Flash text to display text in your website (Garrick Chow)
• Team Adobe Premiere Pro with Encore DVD (Chad Perkins)
• Create an animated DVD menu transition using Encore and After Effects (Bob Donlon)

Migration

• Migrating from Flash 8 to Flash CS3 Professional (Jen deHaan)
• Migrating from GoLive to Dreamweaver (Garrick Chow)

General web/video and design

• Create CD or DVD labels easily using Photoshop and ready-to-print PDF templates (Pariah S. Burke)

White papers (CS3)

• Color workflows for Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Adobe)
• Adobe PDF in creative workflows (Adobe)
• Color management workflow in After Effects (Adobe/Peter Constable)
• Color Workflows for Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Adobe)
• Adobe PDF in Creative Workflows (Adobe)
• PDF/X files in Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe)
• A designer’s guide to transparency for print output (Adobe)
• Transparency in Adobe applications: A print production guide (Adobe)
• Adobe InDesign CS3 conversion guide: A hands-on resource for switching from Quark to InDesign CS3 (Adobe)
• Adobe InDesign CS3 and XML: A technical reference (Adobe)