PhilWeavers Is Now An Open Forum

PhilWeavers, the Philippines’ unofficial-but-authoritative organization for Web professionals, has today issued an official announcement regarding their shift to open membership:
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Are Vista Fonts Ready for the Web?

Windows Vista™ ushered in a new set of screen-optimized typefaces, touted as successors to the Core Web fonts we’ve all become accustomed to. Already, we’ve seen early adopters and trendsetters updating their font-familys to prioritize the newer fonts (Calibri, Cambria, and Segoe UI being current favorites).

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Fireworks Zone: Tutorial Design Contest

Our good friends over at Fireworks Zone are holding a tutorial contest for Adobe® Fireworks® users. At stake are three (3) copies of GenoPal Pro and other goodies for the Fireworks enthusiast. The deadline for entries has been moved to the 30th of March, 2008, so send in those awesome Fireworks tutorials, already!

Proceed to the contest page for more details.

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Rapid Fire #10: Circular Shadows & Highlights

Before and after

Gradients and masks are all it takes to create lighting effects for circular shapes in Adobe® Fireworks®. Generate as many layers of shadows and highlights as you need. Let me show you how…

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Rapid Fire #9: Fun With The Satin Gradient

Blue light swirls

One of the things that make image editing apps exciting to use is the constant thrill of stumbling upon something unexpected, but produces interesting results. One such thing is Adobe® Fireworks®’ Satin Gradient, and how its (kinda) unpredictable behavior makes it easy to create abstract glowing light swirls with.

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