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An interesting project that is soon coming out of Adobe Labs is Flash Catalyst. This will allow designers to bring their web designs directly from Photoshop or Illustrator and add in interactive elements, such as how forms should work, or scroll-bars operate. Often there is a gap in communication and understanding as the developer tries to interpret from a static design how things should work. An additional benefit to these tools is that the client can see immediately at design stage how things will work once live. This would be of most benefit on larger, more complex websites with a lot of functionality.

This is not the first tool to do this kind of thing however, and it is worth looking at other software out there, most notably Protoshare, and Axure, both of which have some good features.

Some great videos by Photoshop and Digital artist guru Bert Monroy. Here is is one of my favorite videos…. enjoy…

My only comment is everyone is using the glow filter effect these days! So photoshop documents are basically “glow tastic” I guess you just need to be careful where and how you use it.

Behance network is a great new website to view some amazing pieces of graphic design and artwork. If you want to showcase your work I would certainly suggest putting it up here!

We seem to be doing more and more video effects for presentations and promo cds and I have managed to find Video Co Pilot which has a load of great Adobe After Effects tutorials on the site for you to watch and download. You can also download the projects and assets for you to working along with while watching the tutorial!

Oh and I  have also found that the Creative Cow is a great place for tutorials and help with After Effects.

Some fantastic animation from Adobe.