See how User Defined Variables (UDVs) in RoboHelp 10 allow you to create "instant update" instances of text or phrases for product names, address, UI gestures and more. Change the definition of one UDV and all instances update throughout your project. You can even insert UDFs into topic titles or boilerplate snippets. This powerful feature is extremely simple to use, as easy as editing and formatting normal text.

See how snippets in RoboHelp 10 give you a library of re-usable sections of text, UDVs (variables) or graphics. Save once, use many times. Edit the snippet once, and all instances change. You will be amazed at the simplicity of the user interface. You can even select and copy sections of repetitious text from your content (lists, cautions, etc.) and copy it into a new snippet!

Discover how you can you can program CSS the way you program the rest of your application: with variables, functions, and operations. This session will reveal tools and techniques that will improve your efficiency and flexibility when working with style sheets.In this session, you will:• Explore different approaches to making CSS "programmable"• Learn how to maximize the structure and reusability of your style sheets• Investigate existing CSS toolkits such as Sass, Less, and Stylus• See how these toolkits can be used in real-life projects

Although Word has a loose equivalent to user variables, this features is far easier and more straight-forward in FrameMaker 11. Unlike Word, no macros or arcane program strings are required. User variables are ideal for product names, company locations, designated staff members ... anything that is likely to change in your document. Simple actions allow you to globally update not only the content of variables, but their appearance as well. You can combine this feature with conditional text control, which allows you to swiftly "show" or "hide" different sections of text, tables or entire graphics that are associated with a certain version of your documentation. This allows a single set of source files to produce multiple versions of your documentation for various customers or internal content consumers. These features can be invoked with simple keyboard shortcuts while authoring, and you can import their values and setting from one document into an entire book!

Unlike Word, FrameMaker 11 has page headers and footers that are not limited to the top/bottom margin of the page. FrameMaker master pages allow simple actions to created rotated running headers or footers in the Left/Right page margins, or "anywhere" on the page. Headers and Footers are created with logical system variables that ensure that "file name" or other metadata will update automatically when source information is changed.

In this movie author Julieanne Kost discusses one of the most commonly used filters in Photoshop, the Unsharp Mask filter, which allows you to make an image appear sharper. She also talks about adjusting the three different variables for this filter: Amount, Radius, and Threshold.

Learn how Photoshop and Bridge can help you to print multiple images per page. Julieanne Kost also shows you how to use the Units menu within the contact sheet to adjust all of the variables in your document. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop.

Learn more about the power of the Mask Feather tool and how it can be used in design work for creating both outside and inside feathers on a single mask. Discover how to set and adjust multiple points in the mask, context menu features such as Hold, and how to use the tool to add a nice blur effect to a text mask.

Learn how you can use the Variable Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator to rapidly trace complex brush strokes and turn a scanned image into fully-fledged vector art.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn how to make the Panel skin more flexible by allowing it to access custom variables set in a custom component.