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Distress your fonts
Looking to give your fonts a grungy, distressed effect? Then look no further. Thomas Schostok explains how to vectorize your bitmaps using Illustrator CS2’s new LiveTrace function to modify a typeface in FontLab 4
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Magazine-style layouts
Is it possible to create magazine layouts with CSS and standard XHTML in Dreamweaver? It certainly is. What’s more, you can reuse those layouts in template form. Karl Hodge reveals the tweaks and cheats you’ll need
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Animate your vector artwork
Use Illustrator CS2 and Flash to turn your vector illustrations into an animation for the web
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Transparency tricks
Derek Lea explains how to add transparency to your objects and vary their Blending Modes within Illustrator to achieve rich, multi-layered, vector-based art that surpasses simple sections of solid, flat colour
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Organic imagery
There’s no easy way to create an organic, atmospheric palette in Photoshop. It takes plenty of manual work combined with a knowledge of colour and digital blending. Nigel Dennis shows you how
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Illustrate in Flash
It may not be your first choice of illustration program, but Flash has some unique vector drawing tools that will change the way you work. Trevor Van Meter reveals the skills you need to use this new approach to best effect
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Light work
3D World presents a guide to scripting a custom interface panel to control the lighting in Houdini scenes
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Advanced colour correction
Colour grading is much more than just making colours match from shot to shot – it’s also a way of selectively changing the look and feel of a clip. Here’s how…
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