In this training video, host Patrick Ripley covers the use of colors in a document, and setting up colors in Adobe Illustrator. He covers the swatches palette and discusses the white, black, orange and green colors in the Swatch for the document. He shows how to add a new color, how to work in the new Color Swatch, and working with process colors. He also covers the various color models, such as those for Web and print.
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New York-based design and animation studio Offspring recently completed an exciting collaboration with agency JWT/Team Detroit to deliver a graphically adventurous campaign introducing American automaker Ford's newly revamped F-150 pickup truck.
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Without doubt advances in digital media technology are having a profound effect on all our lives. Internet based tools for media sharing; social networking, communication, and collaboration - collectively captured under the Web 2.0 banner - are dramatically rising in popularity. The same basic technology trend, one focused on interoperability, modularity, speed and flexibility rather than raw capability or performance, is having an equally profound effect on professional digital media content.
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As editors know, half of completing your show is the video, and more and more, sound design is becoming a huge part of small to full size productions. In the good old days, editors used to have to sift through tons and tons of CDs, and a very large catalogue to find just the right sound for an element in the show they are working on.
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It only took the better part of a decade, but Dreamweaver CS4 finally adds enough features and enhancements to earn a reprieve from what I thought would be the inevitable call to nuke it from orbit. And while it doesn't get all the way to where I'd personally like to see the product, Dreamweaver CS4 seems to have reversed its slow (and sad) decline, and for the first time in a very, very long time, I've come to like where things are going.
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MacSpeech Dictate version 1.2 is the latest software build that allows you to dictate directly into your Mac with impressive accuracy. So, with limited editorial, I will attempt to write this entire article using only MacSpeech Dictate, using the keyboard as little as possible. I'm speaking this right now...
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The company unveils the Storm, a device that lets users take pictures,
play movies and music and visit Facebook and MySpace pages with ease --
and has the 'world's first "clickable" touch screen.' CHECK OUT THE PHONE HERE
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MOGADISHU (AFP) ? Somali pirates who hijacked a Saudi oil super-tanker
demanded a 25 million dollar ransom Thursday amid calls for tougher
action to end threats to one of the world's key maritime routes. As global frustration built and a...
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Thank you Rockstar, it's about time we're finally talking release dates for the Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content you promised ages ago. We won't hold your tardiness against you, though you are rather tardy here. February ...
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Samsung on Wednesday night said it has begun mass-producing 256GB
solid-state drives. This size tops the largest-capacity SSDs found in
laptops today. Samsung currently offers 64GB and 128GB SSDs for laptops. The new 256GB drives are faste...
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While its original camera has been out for a year - the newest offering in the Flip line up is now HD. And, while this tiny camera offers a simple version of the HD spec, the 1280 video does give you the option to easily feed the clips into your HD timeline without difficult scale manipulation.
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I just finished testing the new Canon prosumer DSLR, 50D and its one nice camera. It offers many improvements over the previous model, the 40D. Its easier to use than the 40D, is the same size, actually weighs less yet outperforms it in almost every category. For the price ($1,399- just $100 more than the list price of the 40D when it was introduced last year) the 50D offers a a whole lot more bang for your buck.
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Altec Lansing has been building iPod speaker systems for quite a while now, and before that was a purveyor of PC speaker systems in various price ranges. As Apple has offered multiple generations of its iPod music and video player, Altec Lansing has offered a speaker system to take advantage of what the iPod can do.
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