Archive for September, 2008

Flash CS4 Video Tutorials from Layers Magazine

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Flash General

Adobe has announced the CS4 lineup!

Hop around to your usual favorite Adobe-focused blogs, and you’ll find quite a few sites demonstrating new features (and there are tons of new features in all of these apps!).  Chris Georgenes, for example, spells out a number of Flash UI improvements at his keyframer.com site.  Colin Smith demonstrates some slick new Photoshop features at photoshopcafe.com.

And me?  I created four Flash CS4 video tutorials at the companion website for Layers magazine, layersmagazine.com.  Check ’em out!  If any of you are curious what I sound like, now you’ll know.  ;)   I’ve enjoyed working with the Layers folks very much, and will be happy to do so again, so this might just be the beginning!  Quick note:  I did include sample files with some of those videos, but until Adobe makes Flash CS4 available for purchase or trial download, you wouldn’t be able to use them (they’re saved as CS4 files, which means they don’t open in CS3 — you can actually save CS4 files as CS3 files, but naturally the new features disappear when you do).  I’m assuming Layers will update those pages when the time comes.  If not, I’ll pester them, and/or you can email me for the sample files.  Keep reading »

Back to Basics

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008