Welcome to WZ2K: Digital Illusions Explained

WZ2K: Digital Illusions Explained has been offering free training material, PDF's, Downloads and Video Tutorials for well over 6 years. Concentrating on industry standard design software: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator as well as fundamentally important skills like CSS and real world applications. We also cover Photographic techniqes with a range of tips & tricks, guides and image feedback available via the Image Gallery.

In addition, we review books, plug-ins, extensions and design tools and tell you straight if they deserve a place in your design arsenal.

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Noteworthy News

The WZ2K team constantly scour the web, magazines and press releases to keep you up to date with the happenings in the design industry so you don't have to waste time searching for it. Below are the latest additions to the sites news archives.

Site News WZ2K Photo Challenge - April 2nd-16th

News  > Site News  Published: 05/04/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

WZ2K welcomes a new challenge to site and forum visitors in the shape of the Bi-Monthly photography challenge.

The April 2nd-16th challenge is a nice easy start and encourages you to get out and see the world through your lens in a different way.

Why not take part and start stretching your photographic skills. [Read full article]

On the Web MySpace politics site: Large potential audience

News  > On the Web  Published: 20/03/2007 by: votekick Comments:

MySpace launched a US. presidential campaign site Monday, and it has the potential of reaching millions of people who don't otherwise go to political Web sites, one analyst said.

MySpace, a division of Fox Interactive Media Inc. [Read full article]

Photoshop News Photoshop CS3 - 2 Versions?

News  > Photoshop News  Published: 08/03/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

Photoshop is about to become a one-two punch. Adobe will unveil two versions of its flagship image editor when it announces the rest of its Creative Suite 3 bundle on March 27, the company has said.

Photoshop CS3 -- which is already available as a public beta -- and Photoshop CS3 Extended will share many of the same features, but the Extended version will target some new markets for the company. [Read full article]

Adobe News Illustrator CS3 - Most significant update in years

News  > Adobe News  Published: 07/03/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

With the recent beta release of Adobe Photoshop CS3, all eyes have been on Adobe's flagship application, but Think Secret sources recently disclosed inside details on the next upgrade to the company's illustration software, Illustrator CS3.

Information surrounding the next release of the software, code-named Jason, has been sparse since Think Secret first broke word on some of its major new features in March. Since that time, sources have gleaned more insight into those features, as well as others planned for the software's release, currently on track for a Spring 2007 ship date. [Read full article]

Adobe News Adobe CS 3 - March Launch?

News  > Adobe News  Published: 07/03/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

Adobe has said that it will be announcing the details of its next version of its Creative Suite of design applications on March 27.

On 8.30pm (UK time) on that date, Adobe will launch the event in New York City -- with the event available as a Web cast. [Read full article]

On the Web Firefox bug fixed

News  > On the Web  Published: 26/02/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

Mozilla has released an update to its Firefox browser, fixing a number of security flaws in the product.

The Firefox 2.0. [Read full article]

Photography News New DSLRs from Canon, Pentax and Fujifilm

News  > Photography News  Published: 26/02/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

Camera manufacturers including Canon, Pentax and Fujifilm will show new digital SLRs for professional photographers at the PMA07 show in Las Vegas next month. The new models balance traditional and advanced features to retain existing customers and tempt new ones.

Canon will show the EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR, an upgrade of its classic 1D model that shoots 10. [Read full article]

Photography News New Digial SLR from Canon

News  > Photography News  Published: 26/02/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

Canon Thursday announced 43 new products, ranging from compact cameras and DVD camcorders to photo printers and a surveillance camera. Crowning jewel was the EOS 1D Mark III -- a successor to Canon's existing and hugely popular EOS 1D digital SLR camera.

The EOS 1D Mark III is a 10. [Read full article]

Photography News 8 New Cameras from Nikon

News  > Photography News  Published: 22/02/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

Nikon has taken the wraps off of its 2007 Coolpix digital camera line -- eight new models added to its Life (L), Style (S) and Performance (P) series, at prices ranging from $119.95 to $399.95 depending on features. [Read full article]

On the Web Bug postpones Firefox update

News  > On the Web  Published: 22/02/2007 by: Psmeg Comments:

Mozilla will delay the next security update for Firefox so it can test a fix for a flaw that could be used by attackers by skirt security restrictions.

The flaw, disclosed Feb. 14 by Polish researcher Michal Zalewski on the Full Disclosure security mailing list, could let a malicious site manipulate the authentication cookies for other sites' pages. [Read full article]

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