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As promised in my previous entry, the reason I haven’t been posting much here recently is that I have been playing quite a bit of music. I’ve also been learning how to use new toys (hence the “Enabling Technologies” title) that will enable me to record easier and with a much broader sonic palette than I…

There hasn’t been much activity here recently but there is a good reason for that… more in my next entry :-) In an entry I posted back in February ( Playing Again… ) I told you about my “previous” life as a musician and how I started to play again. I told you about a…

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…

As some of you know, I’ve been a musician for most of my life (I started playing drums and guitar 30 years ago at age 11). For well over 15 of those 30 years, music had been far more than a hobby for me and my bandmates as we strived to “make it” in the…

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…

Introduction This Quick Tutorial will teach you the most efficient method for “removing” backgrounds from images quickly and easily using Macromedia Fireworks 8. This is one of the most frequently asked question on Macromedia’s and other Fireworks related public forums and the typical answers that are provided often describe methods that are less than ideal…

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,…