Articles by Kim Cavanaugh

Adding Flash Video to PowerPoint Presentations

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:00:00 EST

PowerPoint has been capable of accepting and playing back videos for quite some time, at least as far back as Office 97. In most cases the process is quite simple. Go to the Insert menu, click on Insert Movies, and away you go. At least in theory.

Reflections on the State of Almost Everything

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:00:00 EDT

I've had a few days now to recover from and reflect on my experiences at this year's TODCon (a.k.a. 'The Other Dreamweaver Conference'), held this year in Orlando.

Uncovering Fireworks Masks: Masking with Bitmaps

Wed, 18 May 2005 10:15:00 EDT

In last month's article I led off with the same quotation from Yeats. At the risk of seeming culturally challenged, I'll lead off with it again for the second treatment of how masks function in Fireworks, simply because it is so apt.

Uncovering Fireworks Masks

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

It is not so much what is behind the mask that matters - just as Yeats so famously describes - as is what is revealed. This is certainly true of graphical masking techniques in general, and particularly in the case of Fireworks masks where you have so many options for hiding and revealing your creations to the world.