One of the easiest and quickest ways to start a new project in Adobe Creative Suite CS3 is to begin with one of the many prebuilt InDesign or Illustrator templates. What makes these templates so very useful are the preset layout and design settings.

The fourth edition of the Motion Graphics with After Effects book by Chris & Trish Meyer has been updated and revised for Adobe After Effects CS3 and contains many new sections on your favorite software features.

Jasc(R) Paint Shop Photo Album web gallery makes creating a web gallery for your photos or digital art so easy. Here's how.

Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) is slightly different than other graphics programs. In the next few tutorials, I will show you how to create a web banner in the Illustrator program and you will learn some of the basic skills along the way.

One of my readers sent me the URL of a special animation he saw on a website. He wanted to create an animation similar to it in Photoshop CS2. You start with an image containing some text and create the illusion that light is passing over the text much like a spotlight passes over the sky.

It´s almost Halloween so I decided to create a quick and easy text animation using the Flash Timeline Blur effect and a scary sound file. In keeping with the holiday spirit, I decided to animate a scary looking BOO!

It´s back to school time and that means lots of books and homework. Why not design some bookmarks to use as an advertising give-away for your business or group. To make a two by eight inch bookmark, all you will need is a photograph of that size or larger and Photoshop CS2.

In this tutorial, we will create a country primitive heart graphic that can be used as clipart for many projects.

Snapfire(TM) and Snapfire Plus are new photo software from Corel(R). Snapfire was recently released as a free download available at www.snapfire.com and Snapfire Plus is a budget priced upgrade which adds more advanced features.

In the last tutorial, we created a clipart heart graphic in Illustrator. Now that we have drawn the basic heart shape, we can change the Stroke and Fill to create several versions of our clipart heart.