- As Simple As Photoshop — The phrase above is not just a slogan. First, it is the name of the program I’d like to tell you about and second, the declaration of this program’s possibilities. You may think that Adobe Photoshop, which is an industrial standard for image processing, is rather hard to learn. Who said «I know it from cover to cover»? OK, this article is not for you. If you think so, you may need somebody…
- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- Flash Text Effects Components, Artistic Writing — Flash is most likely today’s most full-featured artistic canvas in the Internet. With Flash, your imagination has literally no boundaries despite of how abstract or specific your tasks are. Moreover, another good thing about Flash lies in its capability to tightly integrate your own artistic ideas with ones created by other recognized professionals. Flash Text Effects Components is a huge set of text appearance effects, which…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- Beneton Movie GIF 1.1.1, Mature Tool For Small Movies — Despite the new cool competing technologies, simple GIF file animation is still widely used, especially in the web. There are many reasons to prefer GIF-based «movies» — they are lightweight, supported by a wide range of browsers, they don’t require any plugins or browser additions and advanced users can work with them just like with other «normal» images. Though, there is a huge lack of right tools…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- Active GIF Creator - everything you need to create attractive and lightweight GIF animations — Although Flash and Silverlight technologies are what most advanced web designers think of as the future of web interfaces, there are situations when using them is not reasonable. First of all, these technologies are quite complex and are not well suited for beginners. Secondly, there are situations when animation has to be added to a Flash-free site. Finally, seamless integration of a Flash movie into an existing design is not…
- Personal Photoshop Coach. As Simple As Photoshop — “A picture is worth a thousand words”, the saying goes, and applies far beyond the folklore: According to various studies, over 70% of information finds its path to our brain through the eye. That suggests that the quickest way to get along with complex applications, especially those like Photoshop, would be through watching a lot of examples with live illustrations and audible explanations and trying to repeat those after…
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