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 Dreamweaver MX Focus Day Photoshop Focus Day Day 1 and 2 Sessions
Dreamweaver MX Focus Day — December 8
Real-world design and site management. Macromedia Dreamweaver dominates the Web design scene, thanks to its excellent layout controls, its versatility, and its vast community of enthusiastic users and extensions developers. The Dreamweaver MX Focus Day addresses every aspect of this powerful program as well as its companions in the Studio MX 2004 family. Your lead instructor is Joe Marini, one of the original Dreamweaver engineers and one of our most popular speakers. Learn how to apply the concepts from the previous days to your work in Dreamweaver, and take your designs and your productivity to new heights. It's a dream day for Dreamweaver users of all kinds.
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| 9:00 a.m. |
Studio MX 2004's Greatest Hits Joe Marini
If you're like many Dreamweaver users, you aren't taking advantage of everything this program can do. It's time to master those features you haven't had time to explore. Learn the best production practices with Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX, and Flash MX. Learn why they share the MX moniker and what that means to you. You’ll also learn how to fully exploit the features of each product for the best end results. |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Customizing, Automating and Expanding Dreamweaver MX Joe Marini
Dreamweaver has always been a malleable program that you can mold to fit your needs. But extensibility takes a big leap forward in the latest releases of Dreamweaver MX. Learn about Dreamweaver’s customizing features and how to write your own Dreamweaver extensions. Even if you’ve never written an extension before, you'll learn how to customize Dreamweaver and turbocharge your productivity. |
| 12:45 p.m. |
Combining Flash and HTML Tom Green
It isn't surprising that Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX work well together. But what's the best way to employ Flash on a site that's primarily based in HTML? Learn where to use Flash — and where not to — and find out the best ways to combine Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX. |
| 2:15 p.m. |
Standards-Based Design and Browser Compatibility Joe Marini
Web standards advocates (including our speakers) are strongly urging the adoption of table-free, CSS-based designs, and for a lot of good reasons. The good news is that it's easier than ever to create this modern markup using Dreamweaver. Learn how to apply the concepts of standards-based design to your Dreamweaver-based sites. Find out where browser-compatibility pitfalls still exist, and see how Dreamweaver can help you avoid them. |
| 3:45 p.m. |
Adding Interactivity with Dreamweaver MX Joe Marini
Learn how to make your Web pages come alive with Dreamweaver MX! Make image rollover buttons, use Dreamweaver’s built-in support for Fireworks and Flash content, use pre-built JavaScript behaviors to validate form input, and build interactive drop-down menus. |
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Photoshop & Web Graphics Focus Day — December 8
Capture. Enhance. Manage. Deliver. This workshop, specifically developed for any Web developer or designer who has to incorporate graphics into their Web sites, is designed to teach you everything you need to know to produce quality images at the right file size. This all-day Photoshop deep-dive class will begin with a flurry of interface tips to make every Photoshop user faster and more efficient, then move on to specific image correction techniques to make your Web graphics look their best. In the later portion of the day, we’ll cover production tips for reducing file size, automating repetitive production tasks and best practices for incorporating images into Flash-based content.
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| 9:00 a.m. |
Photoshop Power Shortcuts
Michael Ninness
Shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts! Do you dream in keyboard shortcuts? When you drop your keys, do you think (Ctrl + Z) or [Cmd + Z]? There are so many keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop (over 650!) that someone actually wrote a book just on Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. Crazy, but true. This always popular always-popular session will kick off the conference and teach you the Photoshop shortcuts you can implement into your workflow to immediately improve your productivity. They may not all be flashy, but they are sure to make you smile as you realize how much time and effort they’ll save you.
- Mmm… Scrubby Sliders!
- Changes to window management and the Full Screen Mode
- Interface and navigation tips
- Keyboard shortcuts, and more!
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| 10:30 a.m. |
The Digital Darkroom
Michael Ninness
When working with digital images, you often have to deal with the same four problems — the images are the wrong resolution, too dark, too soft or have a color cast. The session will show you how to make the most of your pixels, whether you started with a traditional scan or captured an image with a digital camera. Whether you are going to print or the Web, you will learn how to put your best image forward.
- Perform tonal corrections without sacrificing details
- Instant color cast removal
- Sharpening 101
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| 12:45 p.m. |
Blend Mode Magic
Michael Ninness
“Was it Multiply? No. Was it Difference? No. Was it Color Dodge…?” Admit it – The layer blending modes in Photoshop are a big mystery, right? Unless you’re a geek, no one really knows what the heck these things actually do. If you are one of those designers that cycle through the different blend modes in the pop-up menu until the image looks the way you want it, then this session is for you. You’ll learn which blending modes you must memorize, and more importantly, how to incorporate them into your daily workflow in ways you’ve probably never thought of.
- Instant image correction
- Painting with light
- Special Effects
- The Advanced Blending options
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| 2:15 p.m. |
Size Matters— Power Optimization Techniques
Michael Ninness
Learn the essential parameters of designing Web graphics that look great, load fast, and encourage return visitors. See how Photoshop and ImageReady combine to combat the evils of bloated graphics. This session will reveal the hidden optimization tools and techniques to squeeze out every extra byte while retaining image quality.
- Resizing vs. Resampling and Crop tool tips
- Channel-based (selective) optimization
- Preserving crisp type edges when saving to JPEG
- Controlling color when saving to GIF
- Automating production with ImageReady Droplets
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| 3:45 p.m. |
Photoshop & Flash: Optimizing Pixels and Workflow
Michael Ninness
Getting a layered Photoshop document into Flash used to be a time consuming and labor intensive process of saving out each layer in the Photoshop document as a separate .PNG file, importing each .PNG into Flash independently, converting it into a Symbol, creating a layer, placing each Symbol on its own layer, and then repositioning all the elements to match the original layered layout as it was in Photoshop. With the Export to Flash (.SWF) feature in the new ImageReady CS, this headache finally goes away. This session will also cover how Flash handles embedded bitmap files and how you can control the optimization of each bitmap independently.
- New Export to Flash (SWF) feature in ImageReady CS
- Using Illustrator to prepare Photoshop files for import into Flash
- Using the PSD2FLA Photoshop plug-in
- How to control Flash’s optimization settings for embedded bitmaps
- How to load external JPEGs into a SWF file at runtime
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