Creative Solutions PR @ Adobe http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/ The latest information on new products and announcements from the Adobe Creative Solutions PR team. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:43:38 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Updated with Acrobat 9 Pro Now Available In case you missed it, last week, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 which integrates the newly announced Acrobat 9 Pro into the Premium and Standard editions of the Design and Web Suites, as well as the Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection are now shipping. In addition, Adobe has added Fireworks CS3 into Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium for designers who need to rapidly prototype and generate Web sites.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro enables designers to collaborate on documents more effectively and efficiently with the ability to create and manage forms and collect forms data more easily using Acrobat 9 Pro and the Acrobat.com . Acrobat.com is a new suite of hosted services that allows designers to co-navigate PDF documents with clients or colleagues in real time. The service is currently available if you sign up for the public beta.

Acrobat 9 Pro also includes an Overprint Preview feature which allows print professionals to accurately view interactions between overlapping objects.

To read the full press release, please visit the Adobe Press Room.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2008/07/adobe_creative_suite_33_update.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2008/07/adobe_creative_suite_33_update.html General Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:43:38 -0800 Redefining The Next-Generation TV Viewing Experience Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Media Player 1.0. The new Adobe AIR application is a free customizable, cross-platform media player that provides exciting new ways for viewers to discover and interact with their favorite content, while offering revenue and brand-building opportunities for content publishers. Major television broadcasters and leading content publishers, including CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondeNét, and Scripps Networks have worked with Adobe to provide a broad range of television programming and entertaining video content to viewers.

Adobe Media Player is available for immediate download in the US at http://www.adobe.com/go/mp. To learn more about Adobe Media Player, please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/mediaplayer.

Additionally, Adobe announced Adobe TV, a network in Adobe Media Player with a series of shows that provides expert instruction and original series programming about Adobe products to the worldwide creative).

Adobe TV is immediately available online from the Adobe Web site at http://tv.adobe.com, or as a network with multiple shows in the new Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2008/04/redefining_the_nextgeneration_1.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2008/04/redefining_the_nextgeneration_1.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:20:09 -0800 Do More with Adobe kuler This week, Adobe unveiled a new kuler desktop version of the popular online color application, kuler. In addition to the ability to browse color themes for inspiration while online and offline, users can now drag and drop themes to their own desktops as transparent, scalable "tear offs." As an Adobe AIR application, kuler now allows users to access the Web-based color tool directly from their desktop for easy access and navigation. To learn more visit a feature overview or go to Adobe Labs at http://kuler.adobe.com.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2008/02/do_more_with_adobe_kuler_1.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2008/02/do_more_with_adobe_kuler_1.html General Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:07:11 -0800 Aspiring Teen Filmmakers Show Works During Sundance Students participating in Adobe Youth Voices, the company’s global philanthropy program, today had a chance to show their work at a screening hosted by Adobe in conjunction with activities related to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Traveling from East Palo Alto, Calif., Seattle, New York and Salt Lake City, six teens debuted films, sharing views on issues ranging from homelessness to friendships that dissolve racial boundaries.

A sampling of the student films include:

“Disorder,” created by Sami Kubo from Reel Grrls in Seattle, takes audiences inside the mind of a girl who struggles to communicate in a world where her way of thinking is deemed a "learning disability."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ5uysGj0FE

Members of Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula (San Francisco Bay Area) screened two works. “Just Say It,” by Maria Centeno, focuses on the visual representation of a spoken word poem telling the story of a young woman growing up in East Palo Alto. “The Pace Maker,” by Francisco Espinoza, follows a troubled 17-year old with a new lease on life, a new relationship with his father and a view of a brighter future for himself.

Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved communities with the skills and access to multimedia and digital tools that empower them to share their ideas, demonstrate their potential and take action in their communities. To view additional Adobe Youth Voices projects from around the world, visit: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/youthvoices/gallery/

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2008/01/aspiring_teen_filmmakers_show_1.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2008/01/aspiring_teen_filmmakers_show_1.html General Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:01:25 -0800 Adobe Wins Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award Adobe Systems today announced it was honored this evening with the Corporate Achievement Award from Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Presented as part of the 2007 National Design Awards, the Corporate Achievement Award recognizes corporations that help advance the relationship between design and quality of life.

The 2007 National Design Awards nominations were solicited from a committee of more than 800 leading designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures and corporate leaders from every state in the nation. A jury of experts, chosen by Cooper-Hewitt, selected finalists and winners in each category. First launched in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards were established to promote excellence and innovation in design

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/10/adobe_wins_smithsonians_cooper.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/10/adobe_wins_smithsonians_cooper.html General Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:36:52 -0800 Adobe and the BBC Announce Strategic Relationship Around Web Video The BBC and Adobe today announced a strategic relationship around the delivery of Web video. By adopting Flash Player software, the BBC will make its free service for downloading TV content—BBC iPlayer—available over the Internet. BBC iPlayer is cross platform, available for Macintosh, Linux and Windows.

The strategic relationship will also allow the BBC to provide a single consistent user experience for the majority of streamed video and audio content on their Web site.

To read the full release, please visit:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200710/101507adobebbc.html

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/10/adobe_and_the_bbc_announce_str.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/10/adobe_and_the_bbc_announce_str.html General Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:00:15 -0800 Are you interested in learning ActionScript 3.0 from world-renowned expert Colin Moock? If so, we have some great news! As part of Adobe’s ongoing commitment to the Web developer community, Adobe will host a series of FREE ActionScript 3.0 training sessions starting in October and continuing through 2008. The trainings, led by Colin Moock, will be an intensive, full day session designed for developers worldwide who use Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR extensions and who have beginner to intermediate level programming skills. He will cover topics such as object-oriented programming, classes, objects, variables, methods, packages, conditionals, loops, operators, functions, error handling, event handling, display programming, compiling, and running programis.

The tour kicks off in San Francisco on October 27. From there, it will reach nine cities worldwide including Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and major design markets in Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information or to register for a session in your city, please visit http://www.adobeas3tour.com.

Sessions are expected to fill up quickly, so be sure to sign up soon!

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/09/are_you_interested_in_learning.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/09/are_you_interested_in_learning.html General Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:31:27 -0800 Adobe Announces Winner of Adobe Stock Photos' "Take Creative License" Contest Designer Meg Richardson has reason to celebrate. She was recently announced as the winner of the Adobe Stock Photos "Take Creative License" contest, a stock imagery mashup competition. Judges narrowed submissions into the top 12 mashups, and from there chose Meg's "clean" and "beautiful" design as the winner. Contest participants pieced together images from the Adobe Stock Photos library to create an advertisement promoting the royalty-free image service. Compatible with the Adobe arsenal of tools, Adobe Stock Photos houses over one million images from some of the world’s top collections.

Titled "Let your imagination soar," Meg's winning design plays upon the theme of unbridled creativity. Her ad appears in this month's Graphic Design: USA on newsstands now, and online at http://www.adobestockphotosentertowin.com/gallery/mashup.aspx

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/09/adobe_announces_winner_of_adob.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/09/adobe_announces_winner_of_adob.html General Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:55:03 -0800 It's Showtime! for CS3 Design Premium Adobe today announced that Showtime Networks Inc. has implemented Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium edition across The Red Group, its in-house creative agency.

After successfully switching to Adobe InDesign software several years ago to produce its print marketing materials, The Red Group’s staff of 80 is currently using the efficient, highly integrated tools in Adobe Creative Suite 3 to design and produce marketing campaigns for the top-rated Showtime original drama series Dexter.

By standardizing on Creative Suite 3, The Red Group joins a community of design firms worldwide that use Adobe products to create integrated, multi-component marketing collateral.

To read the full case study, please visit http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetail&casestudyid=345467&loc=en_us

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/08/its_showtime_for_cs3_design_pr_1.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/08/its_showtime_for_cs3_design_pr_1.html General Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:14:12 -0800 Top 12 Finalists Announced in “Take Creative License” Contest It’s a race to the winners’ circle as Adobe has announced the top 12 finalists in Adobe Stock Photos’ “Take Creative License” contest. Entrants used their creativity to combine and alter images from the Adobe Stock Photos library to create an advertisement for the Stock Photos service.

Check out the 12 most creative and innovative mash-up entries on Adobe Stock Photos Web site and vote for your favorite in a special gallery located here: http://www.adobestockphotosentertowin.com/gallery/mashup.aspx.

Stay tuned: Graphic Design: USA will reveal the winning design in its September issue. You can also log on to the Adobe Stock Photos Web site on Sept. 25 to view the most imaginative and skillful creation in all its mash-up glory.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/08/top_12_finalists_announced_in.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/08/top_12_finalists_announced_in.html General Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:54:06 -0800 The latest word from Johnny L Our venerable leader, John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe, has just posted a new piece on his blog about Open Source titled “Innovate or Integrate?”

Interested in what he has to say? Check it out here: http://blogs.adobe.com/johnnyl/


]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/08/the_latest_word_from_johnny_l.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/08/the_latest_word_from_johnny_l.html General Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:32:38 -0800 And the Winners of the 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards Are… Congratulations to the winners of the seventh annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards! On August 2 in a ceremony at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, Adobe honored the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world’s top institutions. Using the latest Adobe products, more than 2,500 students from 30 countries competed in the annual program.

Students were recognized for their achievements in nine categories. To view the winning entries visit, http://www.adobe.com/education/adaa/winners.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/08/and_the_winners_of_the_2007_ad.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/08/and_the_winners_of_the_2007_ad.html General Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:52:54 -0800 So what is the name of this video remixer thing anyway? Well, we call it Adobe Premiere Express. It has been a mystery to most, because it’s working behind the scenes powering fun experiences like video remixing with music video footage on MTV.com.

Premiere Express is a free, web-based video remix and editing technology that is easy and fun to use. The drag-and-drop interface means you don’t have to be a pro to create something slick. Express users can easily create and edit mash-up style Web videos by combining video clips, music, photos, effects, transitions and titles.

Premiere Express can be found on YouTube, MTV.com and Photobucket. On MTV.com users are able to remix hot artist’s new music videos; YouTube and Photobucket allow users to upload their own videos to remix. To try out the new Premiere Express technology check out these sites:

http://remix.mtv.com/contest.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/ytremixer?turn_on=next
http://www.photobucket.com

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/06/so_what_is_the_name_of_this_vi.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/06/so_what_is_the_name_of_this_vi.html General Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:04:07 -0800 May The Best Mash-Up Win! Designers and creative pros can unleash their imagination and debut their mash-up skills by participating in the Adobe Systems Incorporated “Take Creative License” contest. Entrants combine, alter or mash-up images available on the Adobe Stock Photos library to create a winning advertisement for the Adobe Stock Photos Service. Entries are judged on outstanding use of mash-up skills. The winning entrant will have their masterpiece published in the September issue of Graphic Design: USA Magazine along with an editorial feature highlighting the designer’s creative process. Entries may be submitted through July 16, 2007.

For contest information and entry forms, please visit: http://www.adobestockphotosentertowin.com/contest/mashup.html

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/06/may_the_best_mashup_win.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/06/may_the_best_mashup_win.html General Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:34:35 -0800 Enter to Compete in the Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament 2007 It’s showtime again! Cut & Paste has announced their Call for Entries for this year’s Digital Design Tournament, the live onstage event that pit top emerging digital artists against one another in live battles.

Over the course of several fast-paced, single-elimination rounds, eight designers get whittled down to one. Each contestant will compete with the latest tools including an Apple® MacPro Workstation, Adobe® Creative Suite 3, and a Wacom® Cintiq interactive pen display. A designated theme will guide competitors to create a digital design in each round, as their work is projected in real-time before a live audience. An esteemed judging panel will decide the Jury Prize, while a global webcast will allow onsite and offsite viewers to vote for an Audience Prize online or by SMS.

Cities hosting this year’s events include: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Berlin, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney. Designers who aren’t shy about showcasing their talent and creative process in front of a live audience of peers, recruiters and industry leaders should visit the Cut & Paste website for entry and contest details, at www.cutandpaste.com.

Entries are being accepted now through July 17.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/06/enter_to_compete_in_the_cut_pa.html http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/2007/06/enter_to_compete_in_the_cut_pa.html General Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:43:48 -0800