East Dubuque High School
Brian McLane, Instructor

Good Tutorials.com
Hundreds of Tutorials!!!

Smashing Magazine
EVERYTHING graphic design!

Can't afford Photoshop? Download Gimp for free!

Digital Creations II Second Semester
 

April, 2008:
Flash MX Professional 2004

Tutorial Web Site:
http://www.learnflash.com/introflash/LF.html

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Digital Creations Menu

Web Design

Writing for Multimedia

Digital Video

Digital Audio

Animation

Photoshop

Desktop Publishing/Design

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Hoax Site: The Institute of Internet History

McNar Website Design Resource Center

Website Tips  This is a GREAT site--one of the best I have found.

Dummy Text to use while designing websites

MorgueFile: Free Photos

Frontpage CSS

FrontPage Shared Borders

FrontPage Walk-Through for Beginners

Five Ways to Improve Your Website

Robin Williams Web Design: Url's Internet Cafe

Group Website Handouts

Cool Text

Flaming Text

CSS Website Without Tables in Dreamweaver CS3

Basic CSS--tableless website

CSS from the Ground Up

Designing web pages with tables

N.Design Studio Illustrator and Photoshop Techniques

Introduction to Color Theory

Color Scheme Tool

This color scheme tool allows you to export the colors into Photoshop's colors palette. Instructions (Word .doc file)

The Open Source Web Design Toolbox

Elated Web Resources

Window Resizer

Wipeout 44 Photoshop & Flash tutorials

Basic CSS Tableless - Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver Training Center from digitalfamily.com

FrontPage tutorials from Electric Teacher

Online Web Design Course

How To Build Websites

FrontPage 2002.com

KidzOnline

Developing Webs.net

http://www.seizurerobots.com/

Web Site Hoaxes

Planning Your Website

Web Design from Scratch

Content is King

Popular Content for any Website

Web Content: Writing for the Web

More...Writing for the Web

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Copywriting 101

Brochure Writing for your Business

News Reporting Simulation

The Modern Presenter's Handbook

Writing for Multimedia: A Guide

Top7Business.com

Poynter.org
The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.

Online Technical Writing

Web Content: Writing for the Web

More...Writing for the Web

Writing for the Web

IdeaSite for Business

AdCopyWriting.com

Journalism Exercises

CopywritingSite.com

News University
News University is committed to helping journalists grow in their craft. We want to serve journalists throughout the world.

Marketing Articles: writing

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FoxJox - FoxJox.com (Fox Chicago network) is teaming up with Illinois high school students to put together the hottest High School Video site in the country.

Adobe Acrobat Project
Project Requirements
KnightCite

Five Steps to Multimedia Reporting

Video Tool Kit

You Be The Producer

http://www.mediacollege.com/

Multimedia Glossary

Video for the Classroom

Jumpcut

Eyespot

Premiere Elements Main Screen Tour

School TV

Tools and Templates

Project Ideas

Windows Movie Maker Tutorial

You Be The Producer

Digital Story-Telling

Download YouTube Videos with iDesktop

http://www.mediacollege.com/

Getting Started With Windows Movie Maker

Video: How to Trim Clips

How to use Windows Movie Maker

Movie Maker 2 Video Tutorials

Rehan's Movie Maker Corner

Creating an animated background in ImageReady

Artbeats (stock footage--might have some freebies, but I have a cd with some of their clips)

Adobe Premiere Elements Lessons:

1. Editing a Movie

2. Adding Transitions and Effects

3. Adding Titles

2nd Semester Project Rubric

Green Screen

The Director in the Classroom
An excellent site for digital video

"Green Screen Magic" tutorial and ideas for using a green screen

Whose Line is it, Anyway? Green Screen

How Green Screen Works

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Digital Audio Basics with Audacity or Sound Companion

Sounddogs.com I have a cd with some generic music clips.

www.findsounds.com

Free Sound Effects

www.flashkit.com

http://www.soundsnap.com/
Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD's

jeffsounds.com

Alta Vista MP3/Audio search

www.sounddogs.com

www.a1freesoundeffects.com

www.koumis.com/soundfx.htm
(also has video and still images)

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Excellent  ImageReady and Flash Tutorials

Flash MX 2004 tutorials from Entheos

Flash tutorials from Tutorial Guide

Flash Tutorials form InsideGraphics

Flash MX for beginners

ImageReady Tutorials from Tutorial Guide

ImageReady Animation Handout
The Photoshop files for needed for this tutorial are called smiley and doggy, and can be found at J/Digital Creations/Animation.

ImageReady tutorial: Man of Many Hats

ImageReady tutorials from Informit.com

ImageReady tutorials from InsideGraphics

Developing Webs.net

Morphing Text with Flash MX

Virtual Artroom.com: animation

flashadvisor.com

flashkit.com

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Turn yourself into a werewolf with Photoshop.

Transform a person into an alien with Photoshop.

Creating alien skin with Photoshop.

Make cat eyes with Photoshop.

Make cracked skin with Photoshop.

Horror movie face

Enlarge facial features

Replace a face with a skull.

Make cat people.

An excellent alien tutorial.

Bloodthirsty zombie

Create a vampire with Photoshop.

Photoshop Roadmap

PegaWeb Photoshop Tutorials

More Photoshop Tutorials from McCanna.com

Free Stock Photos from StockPhotoXposure.com

FreeStockPhotos.com

Free Stock Images from Turbophoto

Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool

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poster presentation

What Makes a Good Logo?

dafont.com: free fonts

What the Font? Find the names of famous ad fonts.

themeworld.com: free fonts

Newsmonkey online newsletter creation

CRAP Design

Summary of "The Non-Designer's Design Book"

Another Summary

CRAP Design

Resume: Putting the CRAP Principles into Action

Resume: Putting the CRAP Principles into Action

Designing with Type

The Three C's

Document Design Online Class

word search creator

Free cartoons for student use

Concert Tour Simulation

Concert Tour Desktop Publisher Deadlines & Schedule

Three Basic Types of Logos

Which Type of Logo is Best for my Business?

Top 10 Rock Band Logos

Band Logos 1950s to Present