Thursday, July 31, 2008

3D Animation Program Poser 7 Upgraded To 7.04

3D Animation Program Poser 7 Upgraded To 7.04
Smith Micro today announced the immediate availability of Poser 7.04, the latest update to its popular 3D character and animation solution. Poser enables creative professionals, graphic artists and hobbyists to create art, video and animation optimized for models that depict the human figure in three-dimensional forms. The update offers performance and feature enhancements including improvements in rendering, the ability to better manage characters' speech and walking characteristics, and enhanced artistic control in creating hair, faces, material and much more. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)


Can't find or start the installer after you download Photoshop Elements 6 or Premiere Elements 4 (Windows Vista)

After you download Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 or Adobe Premiere Elements 4 on Windows Vista, the installer does not start and you can't find the downloaded file in the folder to which you downloaded it. The Launch button in the Akamai Download Manager window does not do anything. You started the download from Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, and Protected Mode is enabled in the Security settings. You started the download from Microso... Read More

Vista Style Nav Bar

Vista Style Nav Bar
Create a navigation bar with a unique Vista Style

Create a navigation bar with a unique Vista Style

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Error "Licensing for this product has stopped working" when you start any Adobe Creative Suite 3 application

Error "Licensing for this product has stopped working" when you start any Adobe Creative Suite 3 application
When you start any Adobe Creative Suite 3 application, you see the error message, "Licensing for this product has stopped working. You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstallin...

Gold Rims

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Using layers and creating layouts in Fireworks

Using layers and creating layouts in Fireworks
This video shows you the main elements of Fireworks, including layers, layouts, rich symbols, and the new Color panel. This video also shows you how to modify Photoshop layers, layer effects, blends, and live effects after importing them into Fireworks.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 application installer closes with error code 2739 in Windows Vista

When you install Adobe Creative Suite 3 or a stand-alone Creative Suite 3 application in Windows Vista, one or more of the following occur:After you launch the Setup.exe file, the application returns the error message, "This software cannot be installed ... Read More

Photoshop CS3 does not respond when you switch between applications

Menus and document windows in Adobe Photoshop CS3 on Mac OS do not respond to user input when you switch between applications.This issue can occur when you switch to another application, such as Safari or iTunes, and one of the following conditions is present... Read More

Adobe ImageReady CS2 feature location guide for Photoshop CS3

Adobe ImageReady CS2 feature location guide for Photoshop CS3
Adobe ImageReady has been discontinued. Most of its core features have been included in Adobe Photoshop CS3. This document is provided as a guide to help you locate ImageReady CS2 features that have been included in Photoshop CS3. In cases where a feature is not available in Photoshop CS3, the location of equivalent features in Adobe Fireworks CS3 is listed. Location of Adobe ImageReady CS2 features in Adobe Photoshop CS3...

Copied catalogs are not displayed in the Convert Catalog dialog box in Photoshop Elements 6

Copied catalogs are not displayed in the Convert Catalog dialog box in Photoshop Elements 6
When you copy an Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 catalog to a non-default location, the copied catalog is not visible in the Photoshop Elements 6 Covert Catalog dialog box.Photoshop Elements 6 displays catalogs to import from previous versions when they exist in the default location in Program Data/Adobe/Catalogs.Photoshop Elements 6 displays catalogs to import from previous versions when they exist in the default location in Program Data/Adobe/Catalo...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Crash when you run Web Photo Gallery on Mac OS X v10.5 (Photoshop CS2, Photoshop Elements 4)

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Error "Licensing for this product has stopped working" when you start any Adobe Creative Suite 3 application

When you start any Adobe Creative Suite 3 application, you see the error message, "Licensing for this product has stopped working. You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for help." If you receive the error message, "The licensing subsystem has failed catastrophically," when you open an Adobe Cre... Read More

PHP Programming is Your Ticket to Web Success

Just like any programming language today, PHP has its share of commands which we now call as tags These as the ones used to start and end a program or a website output in this case Read More

Remove redeye with Photoshop Lightroom

Remove redeye with Photoshop Lightroom
Remove redeye quickly and easily with the Redeye Removal tool in Photoshop Lightroom.

Message "Please insert Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to continue installation" when you install, reinstall or repair a CS3 Suite or CS3 application

When you install Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 the installer displays the message, "Please insert Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to continue installation." You are reinstalling Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium or Master Collection after the initial installation failed. You are reinstalling Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium or Master Collection after the initial installation failed.... Read More

Working with scientific images in Photoshop

Working with scientific images in Photoshop
In this excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book, learn how to create great compelling scientific images with Photoshop CS3.

Making a Logo: Dashed Lines and 3d Objects

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Working the text in Photoshop

Working the text in Photoshop
If you think typography is just for page layout applications, think again. Photoshop offers a number of text formatting options similar to those you find in InDesign, PageMaker, and QuarkXPress.

Smashy The Alien Icon Set

Smashy The Alien Icon Set

We are always looking for creative and talented artists and designers. Once we find them, we ask them to cooperate with us and release something for free. We provide them with the full freedom to showcase their professionalism and express their creativity. And we support them financially and with a broad coverage in our magazine. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place. In fact, the results are quite often pretty impressive. You can find our previous releases in our section Freebies.

Smashing Icon Set

Today we are glad to release a free Smashy The Alien icon set. The set contains 8 icons (RSS, news, home, download, contact, calendar, blog and Smashing) with a nice modest alien who is just too shy to show his face completely. You can use the set for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free — without any restrictions whatsoever.

The icons are available in .ico and .png-formats in resolutions 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px. If you love Smashing Magazine just like Smashy does feel free to place him on your blog.

This icon set was designed by Maja Bencic aka Abeja from Croatia especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

We are always looking for creative and talented artists and designers. Once we find them, we ask them to cooperate with us and release something for free. We provide them with the full freedom to showcase their professionalism and express their creativity. And we support them financially and with a broad coverage in our magazine. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place. In fact, the results are quite often pretty impressive. You can find our previous releases in our section Freebies.

Smashing Icon Set

Today we are glad to release a free Smashy The Alien icon set. The set contains 8 icons (RSS, news, home, download, contact, calendar, blog and Smashing) with a nice modest alien who is just too shy to show his face completely. You can use the set for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free — without any restrictions whatsoever.

The icons are available in .ico and .png-formats in resolutions 32�32px, 48�48px, 64�64px and 128�128px. If you love Smashing Magazine just like Smashy does feel free to place him on your blog.

This icon set was designed by Maja Bencic aka Abeja from Croatia especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Download Icon Set For Free!

You can use the icons for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. However, you are not allowed to sell or redistribute the icons without author’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission.

Smashing Icon Set

Motivation behind the design

Maja contacted us through our contact form and asked if we are interested in some kind of cooperation. We were impressed by Maja’s work, so we have comissioned Maja to design a memorable, lively and beautiful icon set for our readers.

Here are some insights about the motivation behind the design from the designer herself:

I prefer clean and simple designs with lively colors and original elements such as icons. Since I love creating characters and try to include them often in my designs, I wanted to use them for a set of trendy and cute icons inspired with cartoons and picture books.

I think these icons could be used to make web-sites more lively and friendly no matter how serious they are supposed to be. At least that’s how I like my web-projects to be. I hope people will find a way for incorporating some or all of these icons into their designs.

I started as a web designer 6 years ago, but recently I do a lot of graphic design and illustrations as well. Some of my work is presented on my website abeja.org.

Maja Benčić

Thank you, Maja!

Want to showcase your work as well?

Please notice again: we are regularly looking for creative designers and artists and we are more than happy to support them financially and with a broad coverage in our magazine. If you think you can design a professional icon set, theme, wallpaper, typeface, screensaver or whatever — feel free to contact us. You may not know it yet, but we might feature you in one of our upcoming posts.


How to make a glossy button

How to make a glossy button