Today's feature: PS CS5 - Working with Variables
Hello, Friends! In this episode of 'The Complete Picture', Adobe's Julieanne Kost demonstrates the incredible power of 'Variables' in Photoshop. We'll learn how to cut out hours of our production time when we need to combine text and photographs.
By the way, this feature has been in Photoshop for many releases, however only a small number of Adobe customers know about its immense power for tasks such as automating event photography, creating web banners and graphics. Enjoy!
Working with Variables for Automating Event Photography, Creating Web Banners & More
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Today's feature: How to Configure a High-performance Workstation for Production Premium CS5.5
In today's video, Adobe's Karl Soule shows us all we
need to know to get maximum performance from the applications in Adobe
Production Premium CS5.5 for video production. We will learn all of the hardware-related factors that influence
how the software behaves, and see how to properly balance a system with Intel
Xeon processors, the right amount of RAM, and high-performance Intel solid state
drives. Enjoy!
Today's feature: 5 Things You May Not Know About Indesign CS5
Hello, Friends! Let's listen and watch as Adobe Evangelist, Terry White details five (5) things about InDesign CS5 that are useful for everyday work.
(1) Rulers/Guides: InDesign horizontal and vertical rulers/guides can be established simultaneously, rather than separately.
(2) Reversed P Icon: InDesign lets you know when images have been flipped with a reversed icon of the letter 'p'. This is very valuable for making sure your image doesn't have reversed logos and backwards text.
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| HP EliteBook 2340P Notebook |
Today's feature: Advanced Image Processing with the HP Z210 and the HP Elitebook Hello, Friends! On this episode of 'The Russell Brown Show', Adobe's Russell Brown talks about how those of us using the HPZ210 Workstation and the HP Elitebook can get the most out of Photoshop by using such exceptional tools. In his demonstration Russell is using an HP Z210 Workstation, powered by Intel Xeon processors, and an HP EliteBook when he goes on the road. Enjoy as you watch, listen and learn!
Today's feature: Build Web Apps Without Coding
Adam Broadway, Adobe Product Evangelist, demonstrates the 'Web Apps' feature in Adobe Business Catalyst during a two-video presentation. This feature enables web designers (perhaps you too) to build searchable, database-driven web applications with a point and click approach.
In the first video he introduces the Web Apps feature. In the second video he continues his exploration of this feature by explaining how to import a large volume of items from a database into a 'Recipes' application, while giving it a customized look.
Isn't this a really neat feature? Just think of the possibilites, particularyly in our "there's an app for that" world!
Today's feature: How to Hide Someone’s Face in a Video Using Photoshop CS5
For the 'No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith' show, Adobe Expert Colin Smith demonstrates how to publish a video with portions of it hidden from view. Specifically, Colin shows us how we can use the Extended version of Photoshop CS5 to import a video and add a non-destructive blur layer that follows a person's face anywhere in the frame. Once completed, the final result can be exported to any video format or individual, still images so we can guarantee no one else will ever know who was under that blur.
In the video, as Colin demonstrates, you'll see an enactment of a 'real-life' use for this amazing feature of Photoshop CS5 Extended.
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| Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 |
Today's feature: 'Part 5 - Interaction Design & Forms and Dialogs'.
David Hogue, Interactive Experience Design Expert focuses on five key principles of interaction design: Consistency, Visibility, Learn-ability, Predictability, and Feedback. In this final presentation of the series, 'Classroom: Five Essential Principles of Interaction Design', Hogue teaches how to effectively design interactions for forms and dialogs, including ways to smoothly guide users through a good user-experience using the key essential principles discussed in this series.
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| Adobe Flash Catalyst |
Today's feature: 'Part 4 - Interaction Design & Images and Media' .
David Hogue, Interactive Experience Design Expert, highlights the five key principles of interaction design, Consistency, Visibility, Learn-ability, Predictability and Feedback, which are the focus of the 'Classroom: Five Essential Principles of Interaction Design' series.
In this presentation, Hogue focuses on how Interaction Design is applied to the delivery of images and media through the use of patterns, timing, size and more. Afterwards, he utilizes Adobe Flash Catalyst to show an example displaying some Interaction Design applied to a light-box project.
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| Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 |
Today's feature: 'Part 3 - Interaction Design & Text'
David Hogue, Interactive Experience Design Expert focuses on five key principles of interaction design: Consistency, Visibility, Learn-ability, Predictability, and Feedback. In this lesson we see how these five essential principals of Interaction Design apply to the presentation and the delivery of text, and understand how people tend to view and consume text on a digital device. Afterwards, we follow a quick exercise in Adobe Flash Catalyst to take a look at an example of creating a liquid layout.
Today's feature: 'Part 2 - Interaction Design & Navigation'
David Hogue, Interactive Experience Design Expert reminds us of the five key principles of interaction design (featured in 'Part 1 - Five Essential Principles of Interaction Design'): Consistency, Visibility, Learn-ability, Predictability, and Feedback. With an understanding of these five principals of Interaction Design, we'll now learn how to apply those concepts to craft effective navigational systems for digital interfaces. Near the end of this presentation, we can follow along with the quick tutorial in Adobe Flash Catalyst to see some ways drop-down navigation bar elements can be presented.
How to Design Your Interfaces in The Most Effective Way with The Behavior of The User in Mind
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
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| Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 |
Today's feature: 'Part 1 - Five Essential Principles of Interaction'
David Hogue, Interactive Experience Design Expert, highlights five key principles of interaction design: Consistency, Visibility, Learn-ability, Predictability and Feedback. Specifically, Hogue clarifies what interaction design is and how these five essential principals of interaction design could help you make better interaction design decisions. This quick introduction will help you get started thinking about how to design your interfaces in the most effective way with the behavior of the user in mind.
Today's feature: 'Video and HTML5 - Part 4: Flash with HTML5 Fallback - Choosing a Path'
Stephanie Sullivan Rewis wraps up her four-part series on HTML5, showing an alternate method to serve video on the web and how to decide which method to employ for your clients. Rewis covers ways to integrate native video, including using the video tag and when to use Flash video versus when to use native video.
These tips are great to know for implementing Flash for video! You can get Adobe Flash Professional CS5, today!
Today's feature: 'Advanced PDF Slideshow Enhancements to Photoshop Exported Documents'
Discover some advanced techniques for enhancing your PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat Pro X. Then, learn some techniques for exporting these documents to an Apple iPad via 'The Russell Brown Show'. In order to do/follow this tutorial, you'll need to have an up-to-date version of Acrobat X Pro. Enjoy!
Today's feature: 'What's New in Adobe Ideas (AI) Version 1.2'
Watch and learn how to capture and explore your ideas, anywhere you go, with the Adobe Ideas creative mobile app which is an ideal companion for the drawing software you love, including Adobe Illustrator CS5 and Adobe Photoshop CS5
Among the new features in AI are the 'Hand Tool', the 'Move Tool' which enables you to move layers and images, and the optional Apple VGA Adapter. I really like the ability to use the VGA Adapter for digital whiteboard functionality; that is so nice!
How to Take a Series of Images and Export to a Portable Device as a Portfolio
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Friday, March 04, 2011
Today's feature: 'Exporting Adobe Bridge Images to an Apple iPad'
Learn the step-by-step process to export your portfolio of images from Adobe Bridge to an Apple iPad via The Russell Brown Show. Hear why you need to turn off 'Include Original Metadata'; know why you don't want to include it. Great tips; very helpful! Enjoy!
Remember Adobe Bridge is available in the following stand-alone CS5 software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Flash Professional CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and Adobe After Effects CS5.
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| by Phil Simon |
Three Emerging Technologies to Go Mainstream in 2011 Hello, Everyone! Today's feature has Sumi Das, BNET Correspondent, talking with Frank Gens, IDC Chief Analyst, about three technologies, Web-connected tvs, mobile devices and the cloud, that he expects to become mainstream sometime this year and why.
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| Gear4 Unity Remote Universal Remote Control |
January 5, 2011Hello, Everyone! Today's featured software and device is: UnityRemote by GEAR4. I became aware of UnityRemote via a video I received from GEAR4, at YouTube. I think this is a really nice app/application and gadget for replacing all your remotes with your iPhone.
To learn more about UnityRemote check out GEAR4.
Thank-you for sharing with us GEAR4 USA!
