At the CGSociety.org Society of Digital Artists site you will find high quality artwork from professional and nonprofessionals in all genres of digital art. Although emphasis is on 3D digital art and topics from the film industry, the 2D artist can find much to keep them interested.

This book by May Flaum and Audrey Neal shows the paper scrapbooker how to use digital elements. But, it also can inspire the digital scrapbooker to considered using paper elements in their digital layouts.

What is the difference between Adobe Bridge and Photoshop Lightroom.

So far in this on-going Photoshop animation project, we have created a text fade effect and a simple framed based text animation for the blinkie. Now, we will morph the text on the J3 Designs (website name) layer using Photoshop’s Warped Text feature and the Animation palette.

Now that we have planned out how we will build our blinkie animation in Photoshop, we are ready to get our hands dirty. As in the Flash version, our Photoshop version´s first animation will be a fade-in and fade-out of the designer’s name.

The design and basic phases of the animation were already built in Flash and I knew that they worked. All I needed to do was create a gif animation in Photoshop that matched the Flash animation as close as possible.

This book by Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser is an inspirational showcase of marketing materials including bags, labels and point-of-purchase materials.

In the last article, we discussed the new Acrobat 9 PDF Portfolio feature. Now that I have impressed you with just that one new feature, it’s time to WOW you with a few more.

The PDF Portfolio feature is sure to be a favorite for anyone who needs to make a great first impression with their portfolio. We will build a simple, bare bones PDF Portfolio in order to demonstrate the basic steps involved in the process.

If you haven’t taken a look at the new Acrobat 9, you are about to enter a whole new world. These new PDFs look and behave more like desktop applications because they can include audio, video, interactive multimedia, animated navigation and other Flash based features.