When you're working in Adobe Illustrator, eventually the amount of colors you have to deal with exceeds your ability to find what you want in an efficient manner. Not any longer… Enter the new and improved Color Finder. Let Andy Anderson, and Infinite Skills demonstrate to you this powerful feature, and how you can use it to locate colors by their name, and even by their composition.

Shift the musical pitch of a composition in real time or bend the pitch by changing the tempo over time. Jeff Sengstack, the InfiniteSkills.com author of Learning Adobe Audition, explains how to use keyframes to change pitch and duration over time in both the Editor panel and in a Multitrack Session.

Learn how to use Adobe Fireworks to create icons and sprite sheets and extract CSS properties. Tools and techniques we'll explore include the Pen tool, composite paths, the Path panel, and CSS Properties.Dave Hogue, vice president of experience design at Fluid, will explain:• How to use vector tools in Fireworks to create icons for websites or mobile apps• How to create a CSS sprite sheet of the icons and design an icon toolbar• How to extract the CSS properties of the toolbar so that it can be built in Adobe Dreamweaver or Adobe Edge Code and Brackets

In this movie, Ian Robinson introduces the After Effects interface, identifying the most essential panels—the Project panel, the Timeline, and the Composition panel. He also introduces workspace presets, which instantly reconfigure the After Effects workspace for specific tasks.

Explore the various ways you can set up projects in After Effects including importing individual or multi-layered files from Illustrator and Photoshop. Review some of the options for sorting folders and elements in the project window to keep you organized. Plus take a look at the Flowchart panel and get an understanding of the value of flowcharts as a visual reference to easily see how your project elements relate to each other.

Learn how to work in the Timeline panel. Hide and show layers with the Video switch. Learn about layer duration and how to use composition markers. Zoom in and out in the Timeline panel, and move forward and backward in time.

Add layers to a composition by dragging footage from the Project panel into the Timeline panel. Change the stacking order of layers.

Learn about the After Effects workflow. Import footage into a project. Create layers in a composition by dragging footage into the Timeline panel. Render and export a movie by using the render queue.

Render and export a composition as a playable movie file. Change output module settings in the Render Queue panel to choose output format and file destination.

Adjust the colors in a layered composition using the Color Balance, Hue/Saturation, and Brightness/Contrast adjustment layers. Resize the Layers panel.