Learn how to leverage the rich toolset in Adobe Illustrator to create vibrant web graphics, wireframes, and complete website mockups. Justin Seeley, staff author for lynda.com and an Adobe Certified Expert, will share his design expertise.Learn how to:• Build responsive layouts with artboards• Produce custom color palettes and swatches for web graphics• Craft vector shapes and text designs that seamlessly scale• Apply drop shadows and other live effects• Optimize and export different types of graphics• Speed up your workflow with reusable image sprites and Smart Objects

Layer Groups - they’re not just for organizing your layers! In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates 5 ways to use Layer Groups to create special effects in Photoshop.

Adobe Edge Reflow Preview allows you to not only create responsive layouts for the web, but also style that content all using CSS. Evangelist Paul Trani shows you how to do everything from adding color, rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients and of course how to handle imagery. And you have the confidence in knowing you're actually visually creating CSS. Download Adobe Edge Reflow Preview from the Creative Cloud today and give us your feedback through the Adobe Forums or on Twitter: @Reflow @PaulTrani

Use the clone stamp tool in Photoshop Touch to duplicate image elements for a surrealistic effect. Russell Brown shows you how to use this technique to keep your file sizes small.

Have you ever tried to import a graphic into Microsoft Powerpoint, only to discover the areas of the image you expected to be transparent have been replaced by a solid white background? In this episode, Colin shows how to export Adobe Illustrator graphics with transparency using the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.

Learn practical yet progressive examples of the most beneficial CSS3 techniques to put to use in your web pages. With browsers now beginning to support many pieces of CSS3, websites are now popping up with rounded corners, drop shadows, and unique embedded fonts. But CSS3 can do more than just add visual richness to your sites. Powerful new selectors and image-free visual effects can streamline sites and improve speed, and media queries can make sites more adaptable and usable on today's variety of browsers and user agents. See all the features of CSS3 in this session.

Learn how to create a title in the Titler, to change the font, to add a drop shadow, and to add the title to a sequence.

This very easy-to-follow tutorial walks you through adding a thin white border and a paper-like curve and drop shadow to your digital photo for a very realistic effect.

In this episode, we continue creating a realistic drop shadow in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Greg Rewis shows you how it's done in this Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial.

In this episode, we start to bring the designer’s vision to life by creating a drop shadow in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Greg Rewis shows you the dos and don’ts in this Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial.