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For some reason, copying and pasting between Illustrator and After Effects hadn’t been working for me. Perhaps I had changed an option somewhere.

Turns out it was a really easy fix. So for all those that haven’t had any luck with copy and paste from Illustrator to After Effects (CS4 at least) it’s as easy as changing the following:

Preferences > File Handling and Clipboard > Clipboard on Quit

Then enable the Copy As > AICB checkbox, and then enable the Preserve Paths checkbox.

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Adobe Fireworks and just recently I was reminded why.

I was putting together a small job for a client who needed to put the finishing touches onto his website. He has a video trading website and one of the requirements when listing videos for sale is to include a censorship rating. We have about 9 common labels ranging from G through to R .. and in typical fashion the artwork available was pretty poor and needed to be redeveloped. Read more

Calling a javascript function from within Flash is pretty simple. Here’s how you can use it to run some jQuery effects .

I used this technique when creating the Snowberrybeauty.com website. With this website the background was entirely done in flash with the HTML elements stacked over the top.

For the homepage of the site I hid most of the HTML elements with CSS … then just before the Flash intro has finished playing, I called the javascript function below. This faded in the HTML elements just as the intro came to a stop.

Here’s what you need.

1. In your web page set up a javascript function to fade in the desired elements.

function showHtmlElements(){
$('#element1').fadeIn(1000);
$('#element2').fadeIn(1000);
}

2. In flash, when you want to activate the function, just use some simple actionscript like this.

getURL("javascript:showHtmlElements();")

That’s all there is to it. Easy.