Photoshop Elements 10 has some new features for your creative projects.

New Characters and Universal Poses, Morphing Tools, Posing Tools and Setup Room

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.

Now that we have begun our first project, we can start working on a few decisions for our book. Most of you will want the cover of your book to be the opening page and you will need a few buttons for navigation.

Just as Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard in graphic software, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is the membership organization for Photoshop users. Membership in NAPP is open to everyone from those new to Adobe Photoshop to expert users.

The National Association of Independent Artists is a non-profit, volunteer supported organization that has been helping artists for almost a decade. The purpose of NAIA is to work as an advocate for artists/crafters who exhibit their work at outdoor or indoor art and craft shows.

Take a look at your computer. Are you one of those people that have sticky notes all over the sides and top of your computer? Or maybe you're the type that gets so involved in your work at the computer that you don't notice how much time has passed until the kids start asking what's for dinner?

Many artists like to create artwork as vector art in Illustrator and then move into Photoshop to add special effects or for other reasons. When you move from Illustrator to Photoshop you have several options.

MotionArtist is a template-based, easy-to-use software that helps you create Flash animations for your website. You can do this without any knowledge of Flash or the need to have Flash on your computer.

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.