Adobe Education Technologies

Photoshop Lightroom,BETA,Adobe Labs

We here at the Adobe Education Technologies blog like to think of ourselves as amateur photographers (except for Rick—who is a real photographer, but the rest of us try to keep up). We are all VERY excited bout the next release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom—version 3 BETA, and you can see it yourself on Adobe labs: (link to the Labs Lightroom 3 BETA site)

Some of the new features included for you to play with in the Lightroom 3 beta are:

• Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries
• State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots
• Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease
• Portable sharable slide shows—with audio—designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slide shows as videos and include audio
• Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own
• Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want
• New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy
• More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta

Read on for more resources and information about the next release of one of our Adobe favorites:

Continue reading "Lightroom 3 is in Beta and available for you to try" »

Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 5:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Software as a Service,Collaboration,Buzzword,SHARE

We here at the Adobe Education Technologies blog use this stuff all time. Attend tomorrow's eSeminar to find out how you might:

Hear how Acrobat.com can make you more collaborative from the visionary behind the product. Webinar: Wed, 6/24, 12-1 pm PDT

Description:
Meet Erik Larson the visionary leader behind Acrobat.com. We at Adobe have embraced Acrobat.com because it makes us more competitive and just makes work more enjoyable. Erik will share how Acrobat.com provides a fundamentally different and better way to work through stories and real-world examples. Come hear about the future of Acrobat.com and the vision behind the product. This will be an interactive session; Bring your questions and thoughts.

Details:
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Time: 12-1pm PDT
Meeting URL: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/comseminars

No registration required. Just click on the URL above or enter it into your browser.
More details are on the Acrobat.com blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/acom/

Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 7:24 AM | Permalink

Widgets,Flash,Certificates

Adobe Captivate 4 has a new feature called "Widgets" which are a collection of Flash-created SWF files that you can add to your projects. Captivate ships with a bunch of them, and one of them in particular—the Certificate widget—is pretty fun. With it, you can offer a certificate to someone who passes a quiz you have created. There is even a button to print the certificate so you can proudly display your certificate of completion. We here at the Adobe Education Technologies blog built one called the Certificator, and you can see it in action by clicking the following link (link to the certificator: http://se.adobe.acrobat.com/certficator/). To learn more about how this was created, grab the Captivate project files, and start learning how to create your own widgets, read on. . .

Continue reading "Some Widget fun with Captivate 4" »

Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 6:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Adobe CS4 enterprise deployment resources,Adobe CS4 deployment toolkit,Adobe Installation and Licensing Blog,Adobe Forums,Adobe Support Advisor,Adobe CS4 Clean Script,imaging,silent installation,silent uninstallation,disable updater,disable service extensions

One of the goals of the Adobe Education Technologies blog is to provide access to Adobe resources in a concise form. Adobe.com has many great resources to help education IT departments deploy Adobe Creative Suite 4 across their enterprise, yet this information is not consolidated. So here you go:

Adobe Creative Suite Help and Support Home Page
http://www.adobe.com/support/creativesuite/

Adobe Creative Suite Forums
http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites

Adobe Installation and Licensing Blog
http://blogs.adobe.com/OOBE/

Adobe Support Advisor
http://www.adobe.com/support/loganalyzer/

Adobe CS4 Deployment Toolkit and Guide
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/

• Adobe CS4 Deployment Toolkit TechNote
  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405452.html

Adobe CS4 Enterprise Manual Deployment Guide
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/pdfs/manualenterprisedeployment_cs4_help.pdf

• Adobe CS4 Deployment TechNote
  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405714.html

• Adobe CS4 Clean Script TechNote
  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406241.html

• Adobe CS4 Imaging Technology Limitations TechNote
  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405453.html

• Adobe CS4 Silent Installation TechNote
  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405451.html

• Adobe CS4 Silent Uninstallation TechNote
  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/kb403994.html

• Disable Adobe CS4 Updater TechNote
  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408711.html

• Disable Adobe CS4 Service Extensions TechNote
  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404813.html

Happy Installing!

Posted by Patrick Koster at 9:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Adobe Education Technologies,Adobe Photoshop Elements,auto adjustments,smart fix,color correction,levels,exposure,contrast,sharpening,red eye removal,cropping,rotation

After importing photos into the Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer you may need to make adjustments to ensure your photos look their best. You can quickly and effectively resolve common photo issues with a single click of a button. Simply choose the purple Fix tab located in the upper-right of your screen.

Continue reading "Quickly Fix Common Photo Issues with Adobe Photoshop Elements" »

Posted by Patrick Koster at 3:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Continue reading "The Adobe Configurator for Photoshop CS4" »

Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 7:28 AM | Permalink

Hello all,

The Acrobat 9.1 updater is now available, and I would suggest that you grab it and install it if you haven't already done so. Form the Acrobat team:

"Product updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 that patch the recent security vulnerability are immediately available for download. They are currently available for Windows and Macintosh and several language versions. This updates the products to version 9.1."

For more information and to download the updater, please read the tech note:

Link to the tech note.

Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 6:31 AM | Permalink

Adobe Education Technologies,Photoshop Elements,Photomerge,Photo Compositing

Just in case you aren't familiar with photo compositing, this technique combines two or more photos into a single new photo. Some examples where this technique would be useful are:

• combining multiple photos to create a more expansive (panoramic) final photo
• creating the perfect group photo from multiple photos
• creating the perfect scenic photo from multiple photos eliminating unwanted elements (like people)

Adobe Photoshop Elements offers powerful, yet easy-to-use Photomerge technology to make these difficult and time-consuming tasks a snap. Here are three Photomerge tutorials (note 5-10 sec pause at the beginning for buffering):

• Photomerge Panorama
• Photomerge Group Shot
• Photomerge Scene Cleaner

Try Photomerge for yourself. If you don't currently own Adobe Photoshop Elements, download the latest trial version from Adobe's website!

Regards,
Patrick Koster
Senior Solution Engineer, Adobe Education

Posted by Patrick Koster at 9:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Guest post by Jim Hoerricks, Forensic Image/Video Analyst.

(Jim Hoerricks is a Photoshop Instructor, an Author, and a court qualified expert witness in Forensic Video Analysis who also happens to work for a law enforcement agency in one of the US' major metropolitan areas)

I’ll start off today’s post by first thanking Rick Miller for inviting me to be today’s guest blogger, and by introducing myself. I’m Jim Hoerricks, Forensic Image / Video Analyst and best selling author of Forensic Photoshop – a comprehensive imaging workflow for forensic professionals (www.forensicphotoshopbook.com). I also blog at forensicphotoshop.blogspot.com. For more of my bio, check out the book’s link.

I’ve used Adobe products since the early/mid 1990’s. Some Adobe Products, like Pagemaker, I used before Adobe bought them from their respective owners.

Rick asked me to write a post about the Creative Suite and how it might benefit Criminal Justice students and practitioners. As always, I am happy to help.

So often, we think of Criminal Justice as laws, procedures, court cases, and lots of PT. (If you don’t know what PT stands for, get down and give me 20) I’m here to tell you that the state of modern policing is that … and much more. To illustrate my point, I’ll go down the list of Creative Suite products and show you how each piece fits perfectly within the Criminal Justice curriculum. By the time we’re done, I think that you’ll agree with me that owning the Creative Suite 4 Master Collection is the way to go.

Continue reading "Creative Suite 4 for Criminal Justice" »

Posted by Rick Miller at 4:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 5:54 AM | Permalink

When it comes to creating and sharing your personal or professional digital photo creations with the world there is no better tool or place to do so than with an Adobe tool or Adobe web based service. In this post on the Adobe Education Technologies Blog I'll cover some of our easy to use tools to get you started!

Continue reading "Creating Easy to Make and Share Photo/Web Galleries!" »

Posted by Richard John Jenkins at 5:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

If you have heard of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (aka AIR), but wondered what it might be good for, then you are probably not alone. Instead of going on about it, I thought an eLearning example might help. In fact, an award-winning example might help even more, so I am going to send you from the Adobe Education Technologies blog over to my good freind RJ Jacquez' blog. A Captivate presentation on the AIR application itself is also available. It takes a moment to load, but it is worth the wait.

Keep in mind that here at Adobe we have a number of really useful blogs out there, ours the best, though, so keep on coming back.

Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 3:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Acrobat 9,PDF,portfolios,electronic forms,Presenter 7

The Adobe Education SE Team hosted a series of education-focused sessions covering various Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended features and workflows. If you missed the live sessions or want to see them again, take a look at the recordings listed below:

• Interactive PDFs with Adobe Acrobat 9
  http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/p27737015/
• Electronic review and collaboration with Adobe Acrobat 9
  http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/p27737015/
• eForms with Adobe Acrobat 9
  http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/p15262120/
• ePortfolios for students and educators with Adobe Acrobat 9
  http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/p21811377/
• An In-depth Look at PDF Creation
  http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/p78644014/
• eLearning with Presenter 7 in Acrobat 9
  http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/p89418989/

Posted by Patrick Koster at 1:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Soundbooth,Audio,Labs,Beta,Transcribe,Speech,Speech-to-text

Go to Labs 

Now that we have announced and we are showing CS4, you may want to get started. If so, go to the Adobe Labs website: http://labs.adobe.com. There you’ll find three of the CS4 applications in beta for you to try. Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth are there, and if you own Creative Suite 3 you can plop your CS3 serial number into the applications and run them until we release CS4 (sometime later in the quarter). One particular thing I recommend that you try is the Transcription feature in Soundbooth. It will turn your speech into text, and it’s incredibly easy to use. After you download the app and install it, follow these steps. . .

Continue reading "Want to try some CS4 on for size?" »

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Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 9:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I will be presenting a free Adobe Education eSeminar on the topic of Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro and Blackboard Integration on September 23, 2008. If you use Blackboard and have ever considered using a virtual classroom technology, you will want to see this one. Here is the official description of the presentation...

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:00 A.M. PDT
Extend the reach and scope of your online learning experience by using the advanced communication features of Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro within the Blackboard learning environment. Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro offers an ideal platform for virtual classrooms or meetings and generally requires no additional software on end-user computers by employing Adobe Flash Player to enable the virtual meeting room. This complete solution for integrating Blackboard software (Release 7.3 and higher) with Adobe Connect Pro is now available for free to Blackboard or Adobe Connect Pro Administrators.

Click here to register for this event.

To learn more about the Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro and Blackboard Integration solution, please go to the Acrobat Connect Community Website Blackboard Integration FAQ.

You can also download the Blackboard integration solution brief or the LMS primer from the Adobe Acrobat Connect 7 education page.

TIP: The Adobe Connect User Community Website is a great resource for learning more about Adobe Acrobat Connect and/or virtual classroom technology.

Posted by John Schuman at 8:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

For those using Adobe Presenter 7 (if you are not familiar with Presenter, check out our previous blog entry Presenter Cards), you may have noticed an issue with quizzes.

Let's start with what you can do. In Presenter, you can build a quiz into your project to assess the students' attainment of the information. Each question in a quiz can be weighted and count towards an overall score. Based on that score, you can allow a user to pass or fail the quiz, and by choosing a behavior, have them jump to a particular slide in the presentation or to a URL. Often the URL is either another Presenter project (moving them to the next level of material) or the URL of the project with the quiz the userfailed to make them review the material. Either way, it is useful to employ the behaviors as instant feedback and action based on the results of a quiz. See an example by clicking on the following link: Quiz Example. Attached to the quiz is the PowerPoint project file (I didn't use any audio to keep the file small. Feel free to experiment with it).

Continue reading "Adobe Presenter 7 quiz issue" »

Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 10:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)