What this means for the average Flash user and their clientele is that this new advancement will uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will also provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Fun times with Flash content and search engine optimization are finally right around the corner.

If you're looking more for more info on this topic, check out Adobe's official press release.

 Keyboard Shortcuts are keystrokes used to quickly invoke a command. As well, shortcuts usually (but not always) involve a modifier key such as Ctrl/Cmd, Alt/Opt, or Shift. For example, instead of choosing Select » Deselect from the menus, you could simply press Ctrl/Cmd+D.

Keyboard shortcuts can improve your efficiency, and in some cases, they can even invoke commands that might not otherwise be available (e.g., zooming while a dialog box is open, or inserting a Select forward layer command into an action).

One of Photoshop's strengths is that it makes extensive use of keyboard shortcuts; but, there are so many that it's difficult to remember them all. So, I've created a "cheat sheet" that's organized by menu, as well as alphabetically by key. These "cheat sheets" are available in the following flavours:

You may never think about color when you design. You may just think what looks good is what is good. Well think again, because it goes much deeper than that.

This week I want to begin talking about color theory. Before I do, I want to stress that some of this is hard and true “Color Theory” as it has been written for the past 100 years. Some of it is my own personal opinion about color. As an artist we must rely on intuition as much as we rely on theory and practice. It’s like a musician; you can teach them all the music theory you want, buy you should never “train-out” their ear. That’s what makes them an artist. Let’s begin this week by talking about some really simple ideas about color and then move on later to more complex ideas, psychology and practice.

So we have been talking about color right? Big deal, who cares? Well you do, if you want to present effective graphics.

Last week we began talking about color theory and we discussed analogous color. Let’s talk about this more.

Last week, we mentioned the beginning stages of what analogous color is. I mentioned that we can have several colors that are similar to one another, but yet different. That’s almost right, but not quite. What we looked at last week is really what is called “monochromatic”. I didn’t want to confuse you with the term monochromatic, because a lot of people that hear that think that we are talking about a single color. What we are really talking about when we say monochromatic is a single hue, but several tints or shades. This is what we looked at last week. Remember, as a scheme, this is monochromatic.

Ok, so we have now talked about colors that are similar. Now let’s talk about colors that are disimilar. To do so, let’s take another look at the color wheel.