Buttons are important for user interaction, so they are part of almost every interactive composition. In the first part of this episode you will learn how to easily create reusable multistate button components that can be used across projects. The second part uses these button components to create a slideshow - with a self generating, dynamic navigation.

Low Key lighting is used to accentuate the contours of an object by throwing areas into shade while using a fill light to illuminate the subject and control contrast. Let Infinite Skills author Andy Anderson show you how to take an ordinary image and add a dramatic low key effect with the click of a button.

In this movie, James Fritz shows how to add and edit a layered Photoshop file to create a button with dynamic states in Muse.

Learn how to leverage After Effects to create engaging and rich online advertising campaigns. See how PointRoll combines the power of After Effects and the back end of Adobe Flash Professional to create compelling and highly interactive rich media, all within being "in spec" to allow flight across publisher standards. Learn how to optimize your video for web deployment, use best practices, embed metadata/cue points markers for integration with Flash, and even use tracking data from Mocha for After Effects v2 (included with After Effects CS5) to enable dynamic video. To follow along with John, download the assets by clicking on the "Download sample files" button.

Transform page layouts into dynamic Flash SWF files without working in the Flash authoring environment. Create digital documents with interactive buttons, hyperlinks, and unique page transitions for playback in a web browser or the Flash Player.

Encore CS4 ships with several gigabytes of content to help you create dynamic menus for your DVDs with ease. But what if you want to take a button from one and a background from another?