Adobe Education Technologies

Adobe Digital School Collection,ADSC,Photoshop Elements,Premiere Elements,teacher resources,curriculum,lesson plans,netbooks

The lesson plans on the Adobe Digital School Collection teacher resources web page have been updated to include sample project assets and technical guides for the new release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements 8. There is also a new resource page tailored for Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and netbooks. Finally, the Adobe Education SE team is hard at work creating video tutorials taking you through some of the lesson plans/projects. These can be found on Adobe TV.

Posted by Patrick Koster at 12:01 PM | Permalink

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If you've never visited Adobe TV before or haven't been back for awhile, I highly suggest checking it out. Adobe TV is your "one stop shop" for free Adobe tutorials, demos, tips & tricks, and general design inspiration. There are various channels which are comprised of different programs, each with multiple episodes (short videos) to choose from - most are less than 5 minutes in length.

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Posted by Patrick Koster at 10:28 AM | Permalink

First off, if you haven't read Terry White's technology blog, you should surf on over and have a look (link to Terry's blog).

Terry has been covering technology for a long time, and has some interesting perspectives on its use. He will often tell you that he doesn't just work here at Adobe (he is a Director in the Systems Engineering group, helping us to better connect our workflow to your issues), but he is a true fan of the software we all promote under his guidance.

During this week's blog, I want to highlight his evening-with. Tomorrw night (April 28th), Terry will offer an open web session to cover his Lightroom workflow, and if you are looking for a real world example of a digital photography workflow, check this session out. Read on for the details:

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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.

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The number one request I hear more than any other from educators who use our tools and technologies is “where can I get low cost or free training on your tools?” I’m happy to report that Adobe has some outstanding Instructional Resources available for many of our tools and they are also free.

Screen shot above shows just a few examples of our .PDF Guides which you can download for free.

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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

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Kuler,Illustrator,Color,Community Pulse

Have you worked with Kuler yet? Before you read too much further, go try it out (link to Kuler).

You can also access it directly inside Adobe Illustrator CS4 as a way to get inspired about or just share color (see how). We here at the Adobe Education Technologies blog use it on occasion when we are looking for our own inspiration, and we were pleasantly surprised at the latest update to Kuler called Community Pulse.

The screenshot shows Community Pulse in action, namely the popularity of colors downloaded in the USA (l) and Brazil (r) in Spring 2008. Larger circles and bars indicate more popular colors (i.e., themes with those colors were downloaded more often).

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Posted by Timothy Plumer Jr at 10:24 AM | Permalink

We here at the Adobe Education Technologies blog are in full Holiday swing! To celebrate this season of giving, we wanted to share with you a great Connect Professional resource that Adobe offers to our Connect customers, the Connect Pro Resource Center. This is a web site with a variety of excellent resources for you to get the most from your online class, meeting, presentation, or portal built with Adobe Acrobat Connect.

Read on . . .

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While there are many new outstanding features in Flash CS4 that are cool and flashy (e.g. Object-based animation model, 3D transformations, Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool, Adobe Media Encoder with H.264 support, and much more) don’t overlook a very simple feature that will save you a significant amount of time during the animation process: the Motion Presets panel.

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With each new release of Adobe Creative Suite there are features so fantastic that they warrant special mention on the Adobe Education Technologies blog. For this article I would like to focus on Adobe InDesign CS4 and its ability to quickly create and export interactive Flash (SWF) files.

In case you aren't familiar with Adobe InDesign, it is the leading page layout application enabling creative freedom along with precise control over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects, and placed images. Though Adobe InDesign provides direct-to-print capabilities, many have used it to create PDF files which capture all design elements and can be shared and viewed with the free Adobe Reader. What has been missing was an easy way to create rich interactive content that could be viewed with the Adobe Flash Player. Click this link to view an example of what we can now build with Adobe InDesign CS4 (at 2MB it takes a few seconds to load, but is worth the wait - move your cursor over one of the page corners, click, and drag to turn the page): http://education.acrobat.com/idcs4toswf/

Let's examine how to create this Flash file!

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A "Teacher's Pet" has always been defined as a pupil who is perceived to be favored by the teacher. My take on this old school concept is there's a new teacher's pet definision out there these days and it has nothing to do with an educator's students at all. For my Adobe Education Technologies Blog post for today read on and learn all about the new Teacher's Pet - Affordable and free Adobe tools training!

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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.

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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. . .

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Greetings all,

In today's video blog I'll show you how to maintain the integrity of your colors when sending your images to the web from Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Lightroom 2.0.

Cheers!
Rick Miller

Video blog: Maintaining color fidelity when outputting to the web.

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You know that little graph in Photoshop, Lightroom, and on your digital camera called the Histogram? What does it tell you, and how can you use to rescue a boring photo? Watch my tutorial. We will cover this and check out some new features in Lightroom 2.0. Whoa, what about the FREE Lightroom pop quiz? Read on...

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A great training resource is worth its weight in gold whether you are a novice user or a seasoned veteran working with an application. And Adobe Acrobat 9 is one of those programs so chocked full of feature goodness that many have yet to tap into the true potential of this "Swiss Army knife of Adobe software!" So time and again I am asked for a list of great Adobe Acrobat 9 resources and I have compiled some of the best in this article. My recommendation is to copy the links below into a MS Word document, save it to your computer, and explore at your leisure.

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