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Adobe Illustrator CS2 Tip – Adding Equidistant Vector Points to a Circle.

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Adobe Illustrator CS2 Tip – Adding Equidistant Vector Points to a Circle.

This is a tip you have to try to really appreciate. Draw a perfect Circle by pressing the Shift key while clicking and dragging with the Oval tool. Your circle is made up of four Segments (four Anchor Points) by default. As part of creating a geometric design you need to add Anchor Points that are equidistant from each other around the circle? To keep it simple, lets say you need a total of 12 evenly spaced Anchor Points.

Select your Circle and go to the Filter menu > Distort > Zig Zag. In the dialog window that opens, set the size to ZERO, Ridges per Segment to TWO, and for Points, select Smooth. It works, but why? In setting the Size of the Zig Zag to ZERO, the Path will not Zig nor Zag. For each Ridge that we add, an Anchor Point is added to each Segment equally spaced from all existing Anchor Points. So if we add TWO Ridges per Segment, that’s EIGHT new Anchor added to our existing FOUR Anchor Points for a total of 12. By selecting “Curved” for Points, it remains a circle. Selecting Corner Points would result in a Polygon instead. You can also use the Roughen Filter to produce similar results.

Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider

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Adobe Flash Player 9 Leads a New Generation of Dynamic Media and Rich Internet Applications

New Cross-Platform Runtime Offers Unprecedented Performance and Enhanced Programming Model for Delivering Vibrant User Experiences

SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 28, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 9 (formerly Flash Player 8.5), the next-generation Flash Player client runtime. Flash Player provides a more secure, lightweight, robust runtime environment for rich media and enterprise-ready rich Internet applications. Flash Player 9 achieves up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript 3.0 and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM), which features a Just In Time (JIT) compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to native machine code for maximum execution speed. (more…)

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Google Launches Checkout, not the Rumored GBuy

Google has launched Google Checkout, a payment system for online retailers that’s tightly integrated with Google AdWords. Checkout isn’t the rumored PayPal killer, but it does offer some compelling features for both merchants and online shoppers alike. Rumors have been flying for more than a year about a payment system under development by Google. Reports emerged that Google was developing a micropayments system, an online wallet, even a PayPal killer (see this blog post for a chronology of Google payments speculation over the past year). (more…)

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt on impending GBuy online payment system

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s most recent public comments on Google’s impending online payment system, or GBuy, were made at the June 15 Conde Nast luncheon in New York City. (more…)

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Mac OS X 10.4.7 released, fixes Photoshop 9.0.1 printing issue

Apple has released Mac OS X version 10.4.7 and included fixes are a fix for the Mac printing issue from Photoshop 9.0.1 as well as issues relating to saving files to AFP mounted volumes. (more…)

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Spider-Man 3 Teaser Trailer – Now Available

Columbia has released a teaser trailer for Spider-Man 3–presumably to show with the Superman previews. It has some good bits showing the black spidey suit, Sandman, Hobgoblin, Topher/Eddie, Gwen Stacy and of course Venom! Check it out!

Spider-Man 3 Trailer 

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