Join Justin Seeley, staff author at lynda.com, to learn automation techniques, shortcuts, and workflow enhancements to help you rapidly move from mockup to website using Adobe Photoshop. Seeley will reveal image optimization techniques while debunking web resolution myths. He'll also help you learn how to use Photoshop to work with HTML and CSS files, and show how these tools can help improve your workflow. He may even have time to sneak in a few new Photoshop features. In this session, you'll learn how to: • Use layer comps to simulate interactivity and multipage layouts• Create Retina display–caliber graphics using actions and batch processing• Build UI libraries with shape layers• Create image sprites• Work with pixel grid alignment and design with grid systems

Discover TopCoat, Adobe's open source UI library for creating native applications using web standards. Kristofer Joseph, the tech lead on TopCoat, will walk through how you can use TopCoat today.Joseph will cover:• How to use TopCoat to build your next native desktop or mobile application • Examples of applications using this new library • The philosophies behind the project• How to get set up as an official contributor• A sneak peek at possible future applications of TopCoat

Learn how to create amazing HTML5 apps for mobile devices — always focusing on the best performance possible — using debugging and inspection tools. You'll see how to package applications for BlackBerry 10 devices and how to set up your environment to get live reloads on your mobile devices. Open source JavaScript libraries for our UI will be used, and we'll go through some of the important ins and outs of mobile development using HTML5.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn about the UI components available in the Spark and MX libraries and the architectural difference between them.

Thomas S. Sha, Sr. Director of Engineering at Yahoo!, talks about the strengths of and community response to the Yahoo! UI library.