Al Lemieux

BIO Al is the Associate Director of the Graphic and Web Design program at the Waltham, MA campus at CDIA. He has over 10 years experience in web and graphic design, video editing, Flash and motion graphics. He has been teaching Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and various other software application programs and topics in the corporate environment and private sector since 1996. Al has developed original learning activities and materials for New Horizons Computer Learning Center, Harvard Business School and Northern Essex Community College. He is a certified Adobe Photoshop expert and a member of the Adobe Flash and InDesign Users Groups in Boston. He hosts four technology blogs focusing on current trends in web design and technology, Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator. Al received his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

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Quark Promo for CDIA Students

May 6, 2010 Quark is offering a limited-time promo code to CDIA students for your own copy of QuarkXPress 8. With the code, the price of a[.....]

Graphic + Web Design

Flash CS5 Features Revealed

September 22, 2009 September 22, 2009 At the recent FOTB (Flash on the Beach) conference, senior Adobe Flash product manager, Richard Galvan, revealed some of the new[.....]

Graphic + Web Design

The End of the Road for Quark

June 22, 2009 June 22, 2009 The desktop publishing software wars have been going on for about two decades now and there still isn’t a clear winner.[.....]

Graphic + Web Design

Working with PSD files in Quark/InDesign

June 19, 2009 June 19, 2009 Quark heralds their PSD Import options as “the best integration with Photoshop’s PSD file format of any layout tool available today.”[.....]

Graphic + Web Design

CS4 Backward Compatibility

June 2, 2009 June 2, 2009 CS4 has been around about nine months now and so everyone should’ve upgraded, right? Well, not exactly. The adoption rate has[.....]

Graphic + Web Design

Zoom

March 6, 2009 March 6, 2009 Browsers are getting smarter and smarter. Take Apple’s foray into browsers – Safari. Safari 4 offers all kinds of gidgets and[.....]

Graphic + Web Design

Fun With Patterns

December 17, 2008 December 17, 2008 Creating patterns in Illustrator and Photoshop can be a blast. No, seriously. So, I was trying to come up with something[.....]

Graphic + Web Design

Google's Top Draw

December 5, 2008 December 5, 2008 Cornering the search engine market is but just one of Google’s many talents. We’ve been wowed by Google Earth and Google[.....]

Graphic + Web Design

Some Flash Inspiration

November 17, 2008 November 17, 2008 Flash certainly offers much richer interfaces and web experiences than standard HTML environments. It’s a wonder that every site doesn’t leverage[.....]

Web Development

Keep Google Happy

October 31, 2008 October 31, 2008 If you’ve had a website long enough, maintaining all of the links, both internal and external, can be a real hassle.[.....]