October 21, 2007

DVD menus in AE, crystals in Fireworks, more

The Adobe Design Center yells pull and lets some new content-skeet fly*:

* New Galleries:

• Ben Thomas (of cityshrinker.com)
• Bran Dougherty-Johnson (of growdesignwork.com)

* New Think Tank:

• Graduate education: Preparing designers for jobs that don’t exist (yet) by
  Anne Burdick

* New Tutorials:

• Creating calligraphic brushes in Illustrator by David Karlins & Bruce K. Hopkins
• Create an animated DVD menu transition using Encore and After Effects by Bob Donlon
• Redacting text and images in a PDF file by Donna Baker
• Adding cool frame borders to your photos by Scott Kelby
• Creating crystals with Fireworks by Thierry Lorey

Adobe training playas (non-hatas) Luanne Seymour and Jen deHaan are blogging, so check out their sites for fresh material.  And as always, check out some of the 1000+ Adobe links on del.icio.us.  Info on how to contribute links is here.  [Via]

*Look, these intros don’t write themselves; maybe I need to devise a new template…