(DIY) Do It Yourself...

Our goal with this post is to help other artists who may be struggling with "do it yourself" questions. Please help us reach that goal by adding your own tips and asking questions.

While working on various projects we have come across many useful programs. We also have had many problems arise. We are posting tips for others who have the same questions we had. Hopefully this page will help you by giving you the answers to all your questions in one convenient place. Obviously we can not answer every question you might have, but if you have one that is not posted here you can contact us and we will try to help you if we can. You can also ask us a question by leaving a comment.

Great site with tutorial help for: Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop and Web Design.

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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/330/330081.html

One question that we had trouble with was how to shrink an Adobe PDF file without losing resolution. The best solution was to save our Photoshop projects as jpegs first instead of as pdf files. After saving all your files as jpegs and placing them in the same folder you simply import the entire folder into Adobe Acrobat and it converts each file to a PDF. This cut the file size down by more than half and the print resolution was still excellent.

Interested in making your own video projects? Join the DIY Film Club for information and support.

Looking for programs that work? Here are some suggestions for you to consider for your own projects:

Adobe Acrobat Pro
Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 Upgrade from Acrobat Pro

Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash Pro CS4

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 8

Magix Music Maker
Music Maker 16

Sony Cinescore
Home Studio Soundtrack Pack, Volume 2

Sony Vegas Pro
Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack

Sony DVD Architect
DVD Architect Studio 4.5

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