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Looping video backdrops in Flash
A short, seamlessly looped video is a great way to bring any website to life. Jay Birch tells you what you need to know.
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Combining photography with hand-rendering
Create richer images by blending drawing, painting and fashion photography. Alexis West describes some invaluable techniques. -
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Designing food packaging
Food packages come in all shapes, sizes and materials, but the design principles remain the same whatever the product. Peskimo shows you how to liven up any label. -
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Mastering InDesign preferences
InDesign is not just a tremendously powerful layout package, it's also hugely customisable. Susannah Hall explains how to change the default settings to suit you. -
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Creating a cardboard character
For a unique promotional item, there’s nothing like creating a cardboard character. Mark James, the man behind CardBoy, shows you how it’s done -
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Promo items with impact
Create an effective and technically complex piece of packaging that will launch a product in style. -
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Customise Flash video controls
Customising the standard video controls in is a vital step to make video-based sites look more professional, says Paul Wyatt. -
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Design for the future
Discover some of the issues and opportunities surrounding sustainable packaging through the eyes of Tin Horse, an agency that's raising its game to meet today's challenges. -
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Creating trees in Illustrator
Green is in vogue and clients everywhere want natural imagery in their promotional material. Ben the Illustrator shows you how to create a fresh-looking tree. -
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Create a band website in Flash
It's now easy to take your designs into . You can build a graphically rich website, adding interactivity and video along the way. -
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Set up a Flash MP3 interface
Skip back and forth through your songs in style, while managing the track-list with an easily updatable XML file. -
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Supersize poster creation
David Frost at AllCity Media shows how the company creates movie posters of dramatically different sizes. -
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Retouching rock photography
Retouching rock photography is a fun yet surprisingly subtle process that relies heavily on fundamental techniques. -
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Natural smoke effects
You can have smoke without fire. Brothers JJ and Robbie Johnstone talk you through creating track-matte effects using just a tank of water and After Effects. -
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Cool particle effects in Flash
Creating a particle system in may sound difficult, but as Seb Lee-Delisle shows you, it's not rocket science! -
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Design a six-panel CD package
Follow a brief to produce complete CD artwork from concept to final product, using Photoshop. -
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Capture a dynamic RSS feed in style
RSS is a great way to add content to a site, but it can look plain, or out of place. Fortunately Flash can fix it, says Paul Wyatt. -
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Rebrand your iPod
With a few simple steps you can customise a media player with your own logo and graphics. Richard Wentk shows you how to turn your iPod into a unique promo item. -
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Expressive lighting effects
Lighting effects are an effective way to add a detailed illustrative touch to a photo. Justin Maller demonstrates how to go about combining several lighting techniques. -
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Design an event logo
Events need branding as much as anything else. Derek Lea reveals the creative process and technical considerations involved in designing an appropriate and versatile event logo. -
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Character animation
This tutorial will teach you how to use to create and animate your own animatics and 2D characters. You can bring your sketches to life and add them to your website or short film.
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