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One of the biggest achievements for me this year is starting as a contributer writer at Adobe design and developing center, with the support of the great helpful persons their especially Stefan Gruenwedel and Jen deHaan.
I have 3 articles for this year and following are the names and the links of these articles:

1- Plot the perfect course: Media specifications for e-learning courses

2- Achieving Amazing Easing Effects in Flash

3- Adding 3D to Flash Projects Using After Effects

When searching for the new Photoshop CS3 video tutorials in YouTube.com, I found more than 10 video tutorials to introduce the new beta version of Photoshop.
I would like to share the link with you in case anyone did not know, here it is

Mike Chambers has uploaded a new video that shows some Apollo application with Christian Cantrell, App developer in Apollo team. The video gives clue about how Apollo work and emplement technologies such as Flash, HTML, AJAX…etc.
Fine links to the video at Mike blog
Or on Google video

Product Details:
Writers: Bruce Fraser, David Blatner
Book Name: Real World Photoshop CS2
Publisher: Peachpit
ISBN: 0-321-33411-6
URL:
http://www.peachpit.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321334116&rl=1

The Real World Photoshop CS2 for Bruce Fraser and David Blatner cover in about 950 pages all you need to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 in your career starting from the hardware required to build your Photoshop friendly system to the basic knowledge of the color and image editing and ends with using Photoshop in multimedia and web.
This book covers Photoshop CS2 from A to Z in 14 chapters. It starts with introducing Photoshop interface and tools, and then it goes in the following chapters to describe the essential image concepts such as pixels, bit depth, resolution…etc.

After this essential knowledge, the book covers the basic color concepts and how to implement the Photoshop tools to adjust images.
The last chapters include how to workflow your work through Adobe Bridge, how to output your images and how to work with your images for web and multimedia projects.

This book is a very good book for beginners and intermediate Photoshop users, who would like to hit the point of using Photoshop in their real life.

Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy

On Dec 15, Adobe has released the beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3. The version is available to download thrugh the Adobe Labs site . Also, Deke McClelland has published a training video about the new version at Lynda.com, its free and you can visit it at:
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=327

After publishing the rough cuts version of Colin Mook`s Essential Action Script 3 .o. Oreilly has published a new Action Script book (ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook ) for Joey Lott, Darron Schall and Keith Peters.
Also, an Action Script3 pocket refernce book is planned to be published by March 2007.
Read more about these books in oreilly site