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In a previous thread, i am nick made a request for a Star Wars inspired menu. This is what I came up with. I hope its close to being spot on. I made this yesterday and I accidentally deleted it. For some reason it had a lot more steps yesterday

Here are the source files! Good luck!

[Flash] Motion Guides

This is a tutorial to use motion guides in flash. Motion guides let you move an object along a path.

Preview 

Download Sample Files (.fla)

[Photoshop] Burn Tool Tutorials

This is a demonstration of the Burn Tool

[Photoshop] Dodge Tool Tutorials

This is a demonstration of the Dodge Tool.

[Dreamweaver] Image Maps Tutorial

Sometimes you have one image that you want to carve into several slices that can be linked to different pages. To do this, I use the Image Map tool in Dreamweaver.

Animated Roll-On/Off with Flash

One of my favorite things in flash is the ability to create an animated roll on and roll off for menu buttons. This tutorial will help you create a basic on.

Preview of menu

Sources:

button_img

.fla file

[Fireworks] Scan-lines Tutorial

Is Social Bookmarking Being Used Against You?

You have probably heard a lot about social bookmarking lately. As a matter of fact, you can spend lots of time and effort today just to find out what Social Bookmarking is all about. Well, not here. I am giving you this information.

I have done the hard part of the research and found this to be a super way to get more traffic to your site. While social bookmarking is a good hobby imagine if you could replace the website option with blogs? There are thousands of blogs out on the web there is no doubt about that and the most popular ones will be very hard to find. The best news is, it’s 100% FREE!

To demonstrate the differences between Social Bookmarking sites to normal search engines - let’s talk about Google for example as a search engine and how it works compared to Social Bookmarking site such as Furl or Delicious. In any social bookmarking site -your screen will show a range of tags which are in different colors size and intensity which marks the popularity of the tag. These Social Bookmark sites provide a great means of sharing quality content sites - so start bookmarking today!.

We all spend more and more time on the Internet- whether we’re researching; looking for work; or just browsing for fun. If you are looking for a great blog to read in the morning then you will love the chance to find out the most popular blog via your favorite bookmarking site!. Social bookmarks are usually public- hence the ’social’ and they also allow other users to comment on the links you have saved.

Social bookmarking saves uploading a bunch of urls to your domain or remembering to send them to your Aunt Sally before you visit on the off chance you’ll need to remember that special something while you’re away. I get a goodly amount of traffic from social bookmarking sites like technorati as well but I would call that site a business bookmarking site so I’m not going to mention it here. Check out http://www.trafficwebsecrets.com/socialbookmarking/bookmarking_demon.html.

• But remember; in the final analysis others will make the decision on whether your way of bookmarking is ethical and useful or spam. A good way to make social bookmarking more useful is to use the notes or comments fields when tagging pages. The simplicity of Social bookmarking websites allow you to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browser: Put Social Bookmarking on Autopilot!

Author: Greg Haehl

Magic - The Game With The Audience

Magic at its core is a game. A game with the audience’s mind and perception.

Magic tricks, performed by well rehearsed magicians, are games played on the mind that make a witness believe what the magician wants him or her to believe.

A talented magician will undoubtedly use many different kinds of mind games to maneuver an audience into a mind set that allows him to create illusions.

A good magician is an actor, an illusionist, a game player who diverts the audiences attention away from the real trick, that which is actually happening with impeccable timing and shrewdness.

The magician appears to be performing the impossible, right before your very eyes, but distraction is the really game he is playing with you. It is most important in his magic trick that he manipulate or influence the audience into believing what they think they see, by controlling their attention.

Misdirection and sleight of hand is the magician’s finest skill. Even the mechanical or scientific props that are necessary for some of his visual tricks are only as good as the magician’s performance and sleight of hand distractions that lead the audience to believe what they just witnessed.

Timing is also crucial to the Magician’s successful execution of the magic trick. Many times the timing and deception is used to trick the audience into believing the trick is taking place in real time when in fact, the deception actually had taken place a bit earlier.

Equipment designed to aid the magicians performance is certainly available. Although, some of what you see on stage really is only window dressing, just for “looks”, and has nothing to do with the trick you are seeing done.

Learning to play the visual mind games that magicians play is not all that difficult initially… perfecting such techniques to a higher level, however, does require hours and hours of practice. Practice techniques that are best done in front of a mirror in order to ensure a seamless execution of each move.

You can find video instructions on how exactly to perform magic tricks and play the magic games at various web sites.

You will be able to find hundreds of tricks that anyone (old or young, tall or short) can learn to do who has the will to practice enough in order to achieve a level of proficiency.

Once you get started practicing even the most simple of magic tricks, you’ll soon get hooked and forever enjoy learning more and more about the craft.

Author: Tammy Foster

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