3D Type Effect

Using Photoshop's built-in features, you can easily create a simple looking 3D type effect in a few easy steps.

Kelby, Scott. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Typography>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Adding Sticky Buttons to a Framed Site

Describes how to create a type of DHTML interactivity using Adobe GoLive.

Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Adobe GoLive

The Brilliance of Smart Photoshop Objects

When it comes to editing an image, that typically means going back into the image app, recreating the image, then putting the newly created image into your site. A serious GoLive advantage is that communicates directly with your imaging apps to regenerate a new image right in place on your page.

Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Adobe GoLive

Circular Type

You can easily create a simple circular type effect in just a few easy steps with this quick tutorial.

Kelby, Scott. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Typography>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Create a Client-Side Image Map

Want to add another dimension to your site's images? Consider using image maps. With an image map you can break up a single image into multiple clickable regions, each with it's own hot spot.

Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Web Design>Interactive

Create a Fun Section Divider

How to create interesting graphical dividers in Adobe GoLive to use in web designs.

Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive

Creating Disappearing Text or Images

In this tutorial, you'll see how to create text that's invisible as the page loads and appears only when a user rolls the mouse over a specific graphic, i.e., text appears on 'mouseover'and disappears when the mouse is no longer over the graphic.

Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Adobe GoLive

Creating Sticky Buttons in a Component

A more sophisticated method for denoting an active page or section of a site is to make your buttons 'sticky'–having a button remain 'stuck' in its clicked state even after it's been clicked. Two ways of setting up sticky or locking buttons are shown here.

Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Adobe GoLive

Creating Time-Triggered Events

In this column, we'll show you how to add GoLive Actions to the Timeline, enabling things to happen at specified intervals within the Scene's playback.

Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine. Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive

Creative Text Screens

TV and video are full of text screens used to fill space where there's no footage. It's something we're all stuck with, and we have an obligation to keep them well designed.

Hodgetts, Philip. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Multimedia>Video

Designing a Distinctive Table

When you're working with complex data, a table may be your best option. Often, a logical series of rows and col-umns can communicate more clearly than paragraphs. Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 introduces a robust table feature that makes it easy to line up those rows and columns—and to format them in striking ways. Here we show you how you can make an easy-to-read table while using the graphical power of InDesign to integrate it into the style of your document.

Cole, Tim. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign

Dragging and Dropping

There are a number of ways in which you can use drag and drop to get content in and out of InDesign. Here are my favorites: If you ever get a lot of content for a layout delivered to you in a folder full of images, logos, text files, etc., there's a fast and easy way to get the files into InDesign that will enable you to avoid placing them one by one.

Cole, Tim. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign

Expanding Blurring Titles

The effect where titles spread out and then blur away to nothing has become a popular way to make 'plain old text' look more interesting. It's really not that complex: What we do is 'expand' the text by animating the tracking (the space between the letters).

Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Multimedia>Video>Typography

Help is a Pop-Up Menu

Efficient layout is a key to a good website. When you've got a lot of links one option that can help is a pop-up menu. You can use a ULR popup menu in its generic form or you can use CSS to customize its look. This tutorial shows a simplified use.

Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Web Design>Interactive>DHTML

How to Change Interlaced Video Into Progressive Video

CGM DVE Vol. 3+ contains a tool which changes interlaced video into progressive video, making your footage look more like 35mm film.

Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Multimedia>Video

InDesign CS Script Automation

Harness the power of scripts to automate common tasks in InDesign.

Kloskowski, Matt. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign

Jazzing Up Your Links

You can take what you learn here to create as many different looks as you’d like for the links on your pages.

Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive

Multi-Colored Glow

By using Layer Styles, this effect can be created in two simple steps. Scott Kelby shows you how to look like a professional at a beginner's level.

Kelby, Scott. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Offset and Displace

Creating an interesting title sequence can involve many different techniques. But here's one simple trick that can be used for almost any type of project--Offset. Used in conjunction with the Displacement Map fi lter, it can also add much reality to a shot.

Holmes, Steve. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Multimedia>Video

On-Target Color

You'll probably recognize this color effect used by a certain department store that plays on the colors in its logo. The effect essentially reduces the image to three colors--a white background, red image content, and a darker red for some depth; but you can choose any color combination or mix any number of colors for a solarized or false color effect.

Hodgetts, Philip. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Multimedia>Video>Color

OS X Quick Type

The new operating system is bringing a whole new design trend and the glass-look of OS X is a very desirable look that people have been begging to learn how to recreate.

Kelby, Scott. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Typography>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Quick Plastic

The new Layer Styles features in Photoshop 6.0, you can easily create a cool, realistic-looking plastic effect for your text.

Kelby, Scott. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Typography>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Reflections in Water

Here's one way to create reflections in water. (The basic steps can be adapted to work with any image.)

Duggan, Sean. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Texture and Type Treatments

Photoshop is useful at generating interesting textures and patterns, and version 7 even has a nifty Pattern Maker filter to help you craft patterns that tile seamlessly. To create a more custom look, I like to create patterns and texture using different combinations of the built-in filters along with Blend Modes and Adjustment Layers. It's fun to spend time experimenting in the Photoshop laboratory to see what you can come up with.

Duggan, Sean. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Using Guides Effectively

Adobe InDesign 2 has some incredible features that aren't found in any other page-layout application and that's why so many designers are migrating to it. What's often overlooked, however, are the cool, subtle, yet powerful features for everyday production work.

White, Terry. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Software>Document Design>Adobe InDesign