N.S.L: WEEK 100 – Adobe Edge Animate 1.5: Triggers and Animation Workflow

NEVER STOP LEARNING WEEK 100 WOW!!!

I don’t know how many of these I will do. What I do know is that when Freehand Profit suggested I start a weekly project, I didn’t think I’d last a month. I thought he was crazy and I probably used some fowl language at his face =D

Layout for animation

N.S.L: WEEK 99 – Adobe Photoshop CS6: “Keyboard Shortcuts” Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E

This Never Stop Learning post is about Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop CS6 Staring a function that can ONLY be accessed through a keyboard shortcut.

This combination of keys “Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E” makes a merged Copy (Layer) of all your layers and places that layer above the layer you currently have selected.

N.S.L: WEEK 98 – Adobe Illustrator CS6: Type on a Path

I’m always looking for better ways to make my text look super clean. The best way to do that is go back to the basics!!! I have improved on my workflow for creating text in a circle. I guess we NEVER STOP LEARNING!!!  =D

“Sebastian Bleak” Text on a path in Adobe Illustrator CS6

N.S.L: WEEK 97 – Adobe Photoshop CS6: Bridge “Load Files into Photoshop Layers…”

You’ve got multiple images you want to combine into 1 Photoshop file and you want each image to be on its own layer, at the START of your sesh. Adobe Photoshop ships with a program to manage your photo’s and doc’s called Adobe Bridge that can help out in these situations!

Practice composite for “Klout Music” starting in Adobe Bridge

N.S.L: WEEK 96 – Adobe Illustrator CS6: Opacity Mask

I have this small notebook that I jot down “Never Stop Learning” ideas. Last week (wk.95) I needed a break from Adobe Illustrator so I skimmed through my book and found an old Adobe Photoshop tool I wanted to learn, Shadows/Highlights. While going through that list, I saw “Opacity Mask” for Illustrator. I knew I HAD to study up on it for this weeks project.

“Fat Chance Crew” text layout with Opacity Mask

N.S.L: WEEK 95 – Adobe Photoshop CS6: Shadows/Highlights Basic

Since the past 5 posts on here have been focused on Adobe Illustrator, I WANTED to come back to Photoshop and try out something new to me.

Creepy Frog, in leaves

N.S.L: WEEK 94 – Adobe Illustrator CS6: Creative Background, WidthScribe

The way I approach what I study in my Never Stop Learning blog is to first think of “what is it that I don’t like about my design experience?” Early-on in my Adobe Illustrator career, my pieces suffered from LACK OF BACKGROUND =D Looking back I think it was SO hard for me to produce a Subject, that a background was an afterthought or NEVER thought of at all.

Star Background

For Never Stop Learning 92 I created a video Creative Background with a Single Stroke which inspired this post. This background was done with a single stroke but there was some preparation done beforehand.