Quote: Hrrmrm... it looks like the shadows got off pretty bad there.. on the buttons. If you wish I can send you over a PSD file of the aqua buttons with their alphas i…

Quote: Originally posted by pscates: <STRONG>Here you go, alphamatrix...a nice update of the MacNN thing above. If you're gonna do the aqua type, then go all the w…

I'll send the files later today...

Quote: Originally posted by Synotic: <STRONG>I'll send the files later today...</STRONG> I never received it.

I think he forgot!

Hi there I am a student at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle Washington. I want to learn how to make the aqua buttons in illustrator but every time I click on that link it sen…

Quote: Originally Posted by ARENA Nice tutorial pscates! Don�t you have a similar one for Photoshop? I need one, that can teach me how to apply the Aqua effect to any shape in P…

Quote: Originally Posted by loki74 pscates--I cant get to your site! the link keeps bringing me to those "home.net is for sale!" thingies..its what adamescobar is talking about …

Quote: Originally Posted by himself pscates hasn't been around since october of 2003... *slaps forehead* holy crap i didnt even notice that it was a dead thread! ...aaa…

Assuming you are using ATM Deluxe, have you tried deleting all the known fonts in ATM and slowly build up the library as fonts are needed? I was getting all kinds of crashes in ATM…

If MacMerc.com's suggestion doesn't work, dump ATM and throw out Xpress's preferences and the Finder preferences. Start with both fresh, not just one or the other. If the crashes …

I've been using dreamweaver for 8 months now (without prior knowledge of html). This is really the best software to build webpages. It really is. I use adobe products as well, but …

nice page spike... I'm in the same place... Does Dreamweaver integrate pretty well with graphics I will create from Illustrator? I deal with going back and forth with Freeha…

To answer your 2 questions: 1) I'm not familiar at all with Illustrator. I use Photoshop and fireworks for graphics. Dreamweaver will let you easily import graphics from photoshop…

Definitly go with Macromedia Dreamweaver 4. I love Adobe as much as the next guy, but Photoshop / ImageReady / Dreamweaver is my killer combo. As for fireworks...stay away (IMHO). …

i'm gonna assume you have some experience in desktop publishing based on your familiarity w/ adobe stuff, if that is the case & depending on what you what to do- consider freew…

This is the age old question. It really depends on which one you like more to be honest. Both do the job well. I work with both packages and find each better at certain aspects. I …

Quote: In regards to using illustrator with GoLive : If you layout your entire web page in a to scale pixel sized illustrator comp (ie 800x600 or 1024x768) then export t…

JPEG is an acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the committee that established the baseline algorithms of that file format. It's possible to save an image as JPEG using no…

Quote: It's possible to save an image as JPEG using no compression (100%). For example, a TIF that starts out as 1.03 MB and is saved as a JPEG at 100% quality goes down…

Of course there is compression, i simply meant to use the 100% option. I actually should have said to export a tiff for slicing. And yes you are right gif's for illustrations and j…

Call me a retard but I can't seem to figure out how to use dreamweaver I have no idea. I use GoLive and to me just seemed easier to figure out.

Quote: Originally posted by Lynn Grillo : <STRONG>The integration between the Adobe apps (GoLive, Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator 9 and LiveMotion) is pretty a…

Quote: Originally posted by I'mDaMac: <STRONG> I can't wait for native Macromedia apps for OS X.</STRONG> That's when i'll move to OSX... (waiti…