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I should have blogged this a few days ago but better late than never… I’ve had the pleasure of having my Removing Image Backgrounds With Fireworks 8 tutorial published on Macromedia’s Developer Center. It is a great honor for me and I want to thank Stefan Gruenwedel from Macromedia for asking me to publish it and for …
John Nack from Adobe has posted and interesting entry on his blog requesting feedback from users on what we expect from a future version of Fireworks. There is apparently some internal debate at Adobe about the possibility of somehow “integrating” Fireworks into existing Adobe apps like Photoshop. Knowing me, you’re probably guessing that I think that is a …
Finally! Last night I uploaded my first tutorial to the pixel forge section of the site. It’s a Fireworks tutorial that discusses image background removal using a mix of vector and bitmap tools and functionality newly available in Fireworks 8 (specifically, the Marquee to Path feature). You can find the tutorial here: Removing Image Backgrounds With …
Enabling Technology can often be an empty buzzword that encapsulates other just as empty buzzwords that only an old school marketer could love. On the other hand, it can also describe useful technologies that truly empower users and let them accomplish new tasks they couldn’t do before or help then do things easier, faster and …
The April 2005 version of the MX Developer’s Journal (www.mxdj.com) was released yesterday and I just had a peek through it. About the entire first half of the issue was devoted to the recently announced acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe and I have two problems with that. First. Until the acquisition is official and approved …
I’ve been reading quite a bit about the recently announced Adobe acqusition of Macromedia and, beyond all the speculation about the future of specific products, the one thing that’s starting to hit me hard is the disapearance of the Macromedia brand. Many people speak of this as a merger but it is not a merger, …
I’m posting this both as a test as I’m trying to resolve some problems with my blogging software but also to post a link to a good summary of reactions and official statements about the pending Adobe-Macromedia merger announced yesterday. Jason Kottke has posted this summary and I wanted to link it here so that …