Happy Tuesday everyone. Let’s start it off by talking a little bit about Twitter!

Both NAPP and Layers magazine have joined Twitter! For those of you who aren’t in the know, Twitter is a “micro-blogging” site that tells the world “what you are doing”. It’s also a great way for us to give you up-to-the-minute news on what’s going on with Layers magazine, as well as in NAPP.

Because we just joined the “Twitterverse”, we wanted to start having a little fun with it. Here’s the deal – As soon as our Twitter followers (for “NAPP-News”) reaches 200 we’re going to start asking Photoshop-related questions and giving away cool prizes to whoever “DM’s” the correct answer first!

(BTW – DM stands for “direct message” in Twitterspeak)

To join in on the fun, simply log in to (or create) your Twitter account and start following us!

http://twitter.com/NAPP_News
http://twitter.com/LayersMagazine

Hey, you can even catch up with me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/LayersTV_RC

Catch a great tutorial on After Effects and a Lee Brimelow Interview, after the jump.

After Effects Animates Rain
Steve Holmes has a nifty tutorial for animating rain shadows in After Effects. The cool part about this tutorial is that it follows a very simple premise for me: You don’t have to do something that is incredibly hard to achieve a great effect.

Click here to read Steve Holmes’ tutorial

Flash Player with Justin Everett-Church
Lee Brimelow at The Flash Blog has got a really cool interview with Justin Everett-Church who is the Senior Product Manager for Flash Player. Lee and Justin spend a good amount of time talking about some of the interesting additions that have been made to Flash Player 10 — everything from hardware acceleration (a couple of new wmodes- Direct, and GPU), to a newly ramped Drawing API.

Click here to go to Lee’s interview with Justin Everett-Church

OK.. long day.. let’s pick this up tomorrow with something reeeeally good..