Tag Archive: Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator Tips from an Expert on Twitter

This week on Twitter, my friend Jean-​Claude Tremblay took the ini­tia­tive of spend­ing almost a full day post­ing tweets about Illustrator tips, tricks and tech­niques under the hash tag #AITTT. There is a trea­sure trove of use­ful tips and tech­niques in there and, if you use Illustrator at all, you owe it to your­self to go through them and learn from his expe­ri­ence. That will save you time in your work and you will dis­cover fea­tures you prob­a­bly didn’t know existed in Illustrator.

Adobe Digital Editions: I’m Really NOT Impressed

Last week, I pur­chased an eBook from Adobe Press (Flash CS3 related) because I wanted to get back up to speed with Flash since I’ll need to use it for upcom­ing projects. This was the first time I bought an eBook and the only rea­son I did was because I wanted it right away and didn’t want to wait for…

How Illustrator (and other software) Gets New Features

There’s a VERY inter­est­ing new post from ex Adobe Illustrator Product Manager Mordy Golding on how Illustrator gets new fea­tures. He goes into great detail into the process of how a new ver­sion of an appli­ca­tion as com­plex as Illustrator is planned and devel­oped and what kind of cri­te­ria the team needs to weigh to decide what fea­tures makes it…

My Tutorial is on Devnet

I should have blogged this a few days ago but bet­ter late than never… I’ve had the plea­sure of hav­ing my Removing Image Backgrounds With Fireworks 8 tuto­r­ial pub­lished on Macromedia’s Developer Center. It is a great honor for me and I want to thank Stefan Gruenwedel from Macromedia for ask­ing me to pub­lish it and for guid­ing me through the…