Macromedia Flash 8 Course by Teachmeit
Posted by admin in Macromedia on August 23, 2010
TeachMeIT provides online training on Macromedia flash 8 to make your Web site dynamic and more interactive. To make your Web site attractive and appealing, you need to have the right quotient of designs, color combinations, and interactivity. Flash 8 enables you to infuse dynamism and interactivity into your Web site. You can also create small files that require less bandwidth and can be easily downloaded. Flash can also be used with other Web development tools.
Flash is an authoring environment used to create high-impact, fully interactive, and animated Web sites. You can use Flash to create movies containing navigation controls, animated logos, and complex animations with synchronized sound. Flash supports a robust, fully featured object-oriented Action Script 2.0 similar to JavaScript. Action Script enables you to create highly interactive animations. Further, you can integrate Flash movies with other Web applications such as HTML and XML. Flash also supports Macromedia Generator, a server-based application that dynamically updates Flash graphics and animation using external data sources.
Flash is available in two versions, Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8. Flash Basic 8 provides all-important functionalities required for creating interactive movies and animations. Flash Professional 8 includes all features of Flash Basic 8. In addition, you can use Flash Professional 8 for authoring complex animations and content for mobile devices.
In addition to the enhancements provided by both versions of the software, Flash Professional 8 provides certain additional features that enable you to create and manage complex animations.
The most common method of viewing a movie is to use Internet browsers, such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, which are equipped with Flash player. You can also play the movie in Flash player installed with the Flash application. Further, you can create the movie as a Flash stand-alone projector that can be viewed with a self-contained Flash player included within the movie. You can also view the movie with the Flash ActiveX control in Microsoft Office. In addition, you can export the movie or a section of the movie in other file formats.
Flash provides several improved learning aids that help new and advanced users learn to operate the program. Flash provides two kinds of help, online and offline. In online help, interactive lessons and samples appear in your Web browser. Flash also provides a variety of online resources such as a regularly updated Web site.
To access the offline learning aids available in Flash, you need to display the Help panel. You do this by selecting the Help – Flash Help command or pressing .
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Printing knowledge: Print Preparation > PDF > Color
Posted by admin in Adobe Print to Pdf on August 10, 2010
Color Conversion
The color gamut of RGB is broader than CMYK and the file size is smaller as well, but CMYK is the better choice for documents that will be used on the Web and for print. CMYK documents work well enough in the RGB environment, but RGB doesn’t work as well in the CMYK environment.
Trapping
Trapping can help compensate for registration problems by slightly expanding one color into another and eliminating the gaps and color shifts between colors. PDF stores the trapping instructions in such a way that the trapped images will look the same on any computer and also when the images are output.
For trapping to be effective, it must compensate for less than perfect registration without forming noticeable lines of unrelated color around objects caused by the overprint. Process colors that share a sufficient percentage of common colors do not require trapping, because any registration problems will reveal a color that is similar to each of the adjacent colors. An example of where trapping would not be necessary would be a printed item containing mostly reds and oranges. If the object on such a page were not in perfect register, the result would not be visually distracting because the colors in the gaps and overprinted areas would be similar to any adjacent colors.
The sequence in which the process colors are printed also influences ink trapping. For standard four color printing, the correct sequence to print the process colors are black, cyan, magenta, and finally yellow. Printing in the correct sequence will help ensure the best results. A change in the standard sequence will result in a change in the ink trapping characteristics.
Color Management
Device color spaces refer to the color space of the input device such as a scanner and the color space of the output device such as a printer. Data that is scanned may not display the same colors on a monitor and a printer, so a color management system is necessary. There are many differences between color profiles, so there is no guarantee that colors will be consistent throughout the workflow.
The ICC (International Color Consortium) was developed to set standards for device independent color. ICC profiles are electronic files that describe all of the color characteristics of a device. They can be either generic for a certain device such as a scanner or a monitor or they can be customized with profile generation tools. Color profiles are important because the color spaces of devices such as scanners, monitors, printers, presses, and digital cameras vary greatly.
PDF is able to support objects that are specified in different device dependent, device independent, or special color spaces. Acrobat supports Adobe Color Engine (ACE) and ICC Color Management that are in Photoshop and Illustrator. Displaying and printing color documents is more consistent. InDesign does not support this.
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