In the last tutorial, we assembled the images for our portfolio that we will be making in Photoshop and Flash Catalyst. Now let's work on the layout.

Fireworks CS5 has many enhancements to help ease your workflow.

Fireworks has many great features for creating screen-based graphics, comps and interactive designs.

Fireworks CS5 Pixel Grid and Compound Shapes are two new features that will help you work faster and more efficiently.

Easily create design elements or pages in Fireworks that can be used in other Adobe applications.

Filling an entire layer or a selected section of a layer with a pattern is an easy and fast way to create backgrounds for scrapbooking pages, greeting cards and other projects. Photoshop CS makes it as easy.

This is a fast and easy project for you and your child to make together. You will use The Logo Creator software to create a Father's Day image which your child can then email to his father at work or print on a blank greeting card.

Build a Photoshop frame from fall colored leaves.

The Linear animation can be used to create many effects in your book apps. In our sample project, the story calls for the sky to suddenly turn dark because of a storm. We can use the Linear animation and the Hide Layer feature to create this effect on the background of the scene.

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.