Join Ethan Malasky, Adobe senior engineering manager, for a fun, immersive presentation in which he "interacts" with cartoonish characters to illustrate the various graphical features found on the web today and the ones coming soon. Malasky will cover:• The history of the graphical web• The background and details behind SVG, Canvas, and WebGL• Next-generation CSS features like CSS Shaders, Compositing, and Blending

In this lesson, instructor Tom Green demonstrates the powerful text and drawing functionality accessible from the Flash Catalyst toolbox. He shows how to create text boxes, accents, and a graphical scrollbar.

This tutorial offers a walkthrough of Catalyst’s built-in support for Illustrator-based workflow. Learn how to go from one program to another to make graphical adjustments and corrections on the fly.

In this lesson, Adobe Community Professional Tom Green shows how to optimize graphical elements for more efficient rendering with Adobe Flash player. See how you can create a more responsive user experience.

This tutorial by Tom Green shows how to design a data list in Adobe Fireworks and import it into Flash Catalyst. He shows how to create a standalone FXG file, and then convert its graphical assets into functional Catalyst components.

Tom Green takes the graphical data list constructed in the previous lesson and adds "dummy data" that can you can use as a placeholder for client presentations, and to which developers can connect back-end databases.

Take a critical look at the game interface, the part that most players fail to acknowledge but that provides information to facilitate game flow and can add to the overall immersive gaming experience. This session will delve into several topics, such as why graphical interfaces are key in game design, how to avoid overloading your players with too much information or visual clutter, and best design practices and tips.

Use the new Watermark Editor to create custom text and graphical watermarks and apply them to photos when you export, print, or create slide shows or web galleries.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase explores using a graphical object as a button and various ways of animating its look as you click on it to get a smooth 3D-like interaction.

Doug walks you through the ActionScript code to combine the timer with animation principles, creating timeline-free and random movement of graphical objects.