Flash tidbits, struggles, revelations, and teaching

My new truck came in and I just got back from picking it up at the Toyota dealership. I ordered it about a month ago from Toyota and had some accessories added on while at the factory.

I’ll admit, it’s been a while since I used Illustrator. I used to use it exclusively many years back, but I moved over to Fireworks for my Flash work and I never looked back. With CS3 coming soon and its better integration with Flash, I figured I’d dust off Illustrator. I think the second thing I tried to do was create a gradient that went from 100% opacity to 0%.. this is something I have been doing since I started with Fireworks. I can’t believe Illustrator doesn’t have this. I have to create an opacity mask? Crazy.

Someone needs to create a plugin for this…if they haven’t already.

I just happened to swing by the Dx3 conference page and saw this:

Due to unforseen circumstances, D×3 has been cancelled.

For further inquiries, please contact: registration@dx3conference.com

Wow! I had just gotten approval at work to attend this conference too. Maybe we’ll find out more in the next few days. I hope they re-schedule because the conference looked awesome and had all the right people and topics that mattered to me.