Design wisdom in red and grey.
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.
Continue reading ‘Rapid Fire #9: Fun With The Satin Gradient’
After a short hiatus, I’m back with a tutorial that shows you how to extract a logo and/or logotype from a raster image, using only Adobe® Fireworks®‘ Live Filters. With this method, you also have the option to re-color the lifted logo in anyway you want: solid, gradient, or textured. All of this, while avoiding the temptations of the quick-and-dirty Wand Tool 
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I’ve only worked on or played around with a Mac for a total number of hours that can be counted with my two hands, and most of those hours were spent testing how Web page layouts would hold up on Safari. So when Apple made available Safari 3 Public Beta to Windows users, it meant that I could finally complete my cross-browser testing suite (Swift just doesn’t cut it for me).
Lucida Grande is such a nice font to use in websites, but because it doesn’t come standard with Windows, we turn to Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Sans to make sure users get a similar look. Unfortunately, both typefaces have imperfections that make them less-than-worthy candidates for substitution. Oh, dear.
That annoying IE peekaboo bug just doesn’t know when to stop. Apparently, even IE7 exhibits this bug, and it appears to be worse than its predecessor. If you happen to be pressed for time (or are lazy to search the Internets for a solution), applying a couple of stylesheet rules to the affected element should solve most peekaboo problems for both IE6 and IE7:
position: relative; /* peekaboo bug fix for IE6 */ min-width: 0; /* peekaboo bug fix for IE7 */