Craig Grannell
Articles by Craig Grannell

Tutorials: Create a sprite sheet using Adobe Flash Pro CS6
Easily generate a sprite sheet from one or more animations for a gaming project.

Features: Learn the secrets of the world's best designers & illustrators
Top talent including Noma Bar, David Carson, Catalina Estrada, Ben The Illustrator, Bob Staake and Holly Wales reveal their favourite…

Reviews: Adobe Fireworks CS4 review
For years something of a poor man’s Photoshop aimed at web designers, Fireworks finally came of age 18 months ago. With Fireworks CS4, Adobe…

Reviews: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 review
Dreamweaver has become associated with website creation in the same way that Photoshop is identified with image editing. However, despite…

Reviews: BBEdit 9 review
BBEdit is a feature-packed editor includes support for a huge array of programming languages, has absurdly long menus, and preferences that…

Reviews: Fusion 11 review
Billing itself as ‘the complete all-in-one Web site design tool’, NetObjects Fusion 11 aims to fit snugly between Dreamweaver and a slew of…

Reviews: Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 review
Once a Jasc rival to Photoshop, Corel’s direction for Paint Shop Pro has become increasingly niche, positioning it as a tool for working on…

Reviews: Adobe GoLive 9 review
GoLive appears to be living on borrowed time. Adobe’s own literature and Web site seems to suggest migrating to Dreamweaver is a good idea,…

Reviews: Fireworks CS3 review
With Fireworks CS3, Adobe has subtly repositioned the application into a Web site planning and mock-up tool, making it a near-essential…

Reviews: Dreamweaver CS3 review
Dreamweaver is almost as ubiquitous in the Web-design arena as Photoshop is in the world of print. Unusually for a Web tool, its huge range…

Reviews: Coda review
Although Web designers have long enjoyed all-in-one solutions, hand coders have been lacking such a tool. Coda aims to deal with this…

Reviews: Expression Web review
First impressions of Microsoft’s efforts are mixed. Unsettlingly, the interface looks like a cross between Word and Dreamweaver, and even…