Peter and I saw the AIR bus our way out of the Adobe SF offices last night, parked in the back alley. We had only seen pictures of the inside – this was our fist glimpse of the outside.



For info, http://onair.adobe.com/
Peter and I saw the AIR bus our way out of the Adobe SF offices last night, parked in the back alley. We had only seen pictures of the inside – this was our fist glimpse of the outside.



For info, http://onair.adobe.com/
We recently added new content to Adobe Design Center. We refresh content on the Design Center twice each month. The new content from our most recent refresh is as follows:
New articles and tutorials:
Please check out the following new content on Design Center:
New Dialog Box:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/
Adobe Magazine for Creative Professionals
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/adobemag.html
Interface surgery: Design for mental models
Robert Hoekman, Jr.
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/mentalmodel.html
New Think Tank:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/
Bespoke futures: Media design and the vision deficit
Peter Lunenfeld
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/lunenfeld.html
New tutorials:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/
Get to know important document settings in Illustrator
Mordy Golding
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/illustrator/articles/illcs3am_docsettings.html
Crop an image with Photoshop Lightroom
Matt Kloskowski
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/lightroom/articles/lir1am_croptool.html
Using DirectX and VST plug-ins in Adobe Audition
Bruce Williams
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/audition/articles/aud2am_directx.html
Export an After Effects project as a web video
Jeff Foster
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/aftereffects/articles/aft7am_ae4web.html
Adobe on Del.icio.us
We use bookmarks on del.icio.us to help increase the body of instructional content available to our community, and add links to our del.icio.us bookmarks throughout the Design Center. We regularly add new bookmarks to our del.icio.us site, and accept links from the community.
Currently we have 858 links.
You can check out our links at http://del.icio.us/adobe.
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We added new content to Adobe Design Center last week. We refresh content on the Design Center twice each month. The new content from our most recent refresh is as follows:
New articles and tutorials:
Please check out the following new content on Design Center:
New Dialog Box:
Paula Scher
Type is image
New tutorials:
Color workflows for Adobe Creative Suite 3
Adobe
Transparency in Adobe Applications: A Print Production Guide
Adobe
A Designer’s Guide to Transparency for Print Output
Adobe
Remove spots from an image in Photoshop Lightroom
Matt Kloskowski
Organizing a local site in Dreamweaver
David Karlins
Building a video player with Flash
R Blank
Creating nested sequences with Premiere Pro
Terry Nauheim
Adobe Video Workshop
Over 200 videos in the Adobe CS3 Video Workshop are live! You can find the Video Workshop here:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
We will start to add new community video tutorials to the workshop soon. Watch this space! Post in the comments if you have a video tutorial that you created and want to share!
Adobe on Del.icio.us
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New CS3 Text tutorials and articles
New video tutorials and text articles cover everything CS3, from new features to how to get started to advanced techniques for experienced users.
New text articles/tutorials
Flash CS3 Professional
Creating a simple Flash document
Adobe
Migrating from Flash 8 to Flash CS3 Professional
Jen deHaan
List of Flash tutorials
Adobe
Dreamweaver CS3
Collecting content for a Dreamweaver site
David Karlins
Defining a local site in Dreamweaver
David Karlins
Fireworks CS3
A glance at Photoshop integration with Fireworks
Jim Babbage
Using rich symbols in Fireworks
Aaron Beall
Vectoring in on bitmaps with Fireworks
Dave Bricker
Acrobat
Using Acrobat in a review cycle
Acrobat 8 Classroom in a Book
Think Tank
Just the facts: How technology is changing the news
by Liz Danzico
New product design centers:
CS3 Video workshop
205 videos just released about all CS3 products! Video tutorials brought to you by both Adobe and community experts. For over half a year, this has been the focus of my life it seems, from the Flex app, to the content in it. Check out the many tutorials on the web and design products, including a bunch of tutorials on how to use the products together. And if you buy one of the products in a box, you’ll get this thing on a DVD.
About the workshop: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/about.html
Application: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
CS3 Workflow guides
Two Workflow guides are out that show you how to use products together, and provides an overview of new features.
Enjoy!
We recently added new content to Adobe Design Center. We refresh content on the Design Center twice each month. The new content from our most recent refresh late last week is as follows:
New articles and tutorials:
Please check out the following new content on Design Center:
After Effects to DVD
Bob Donlon
Adding dynamic images to your website using Dreamweaver
Lucinda Dykes
Discover seamless integration with Adobe Dynamic Link
Chad Perkins
Prepare your InDesign files for print production
Claudia McCue
Using the Keylight filter in After Effects
Tom Green, Tiago Dias
Put the “art” in chart with Illustrator
Mordy Golding
Special Illiustrator video tutorial series launched:
Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator
Mordy Golding
Getting started
Migrating existing FreeHand content
Working with multiple pages
Basic object editing
Advanced object editing
Working with text
Live paint and Live trace
Enhancing creativity
Enhancing productivity
And a PDF created by Adobe: “Adobe Illustrator CS2: FreeHand to Illustrator migration guide”
Adobe on Del.icio.us
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We recently added new content to Adobe Design Center. We refresh content on the Design Center twice each month. The new content from our most recent refresh late last week is as follows:
New articles and tutorials:
Please check out the following new content on Design Center:
Interface surgery: Converting an implementation-model design into a mental-model design
by Robert Hoekman, Jr
Words at Play
by Devicq.com and mucca.com
Anchor objects to text in InDesign
by John Cruise, Kelly Kordes Anton
Create a web gallery in minutes using Photoshop Lightroom
by Matt Kloskowski
Creating dynamic sound controls in Flash
by Russell Chun, Paul Robertson
Discover the difference between live and traditional filters in Fireworks
by Abigail Rudner
Using the Three Way Color Corrector in Premiere Pro
by Jeff Schell
The fundamentals of working with sound in After Effects and Flash
by Tom Green, Tiago Dias
Adobe on Del.icio.us
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We recently added new content to Adobe Design Center. Our next refresh is planned for early December.
**** All new! **** Fireworks Design Center!
New articles:
New Dialog box:
A raw workflow in the real world [Photoshop]
Jeff Schewe
New Think tank:
Big, chunky pixels: New lo-fi animation
Dan Nadel
New gallery:
iamalwayshungry
* Gallery
* IAAH site
New tutorials:
Some background information [After Effects]
Bob Donlon
Tweak to get the perfect trace [Illustrator]
Mordy Golding
Use Flash text to display text in your website [Dreamweaver, Flash]
Garrick Chow
Use watched folders to automate PDF creation [Acrobat]
Garrick Chow
Create a night scene with Fireworks [Fireworks]
Angelo Sabal
Apply video effects to clips with alpha channels [Premiere Pro]
Jeff Schell
Set up a Version Cue PDF review [Version Cue]
Ted LoCascio
Team Adobe Premiere Pro with Encore DVD [Encore DVD, Premiere Pro]
Chad Perkins
Please check out the following new articles on Design Center:
New Dialog box:
Why shoot raw? By Bruce Fraser
New gallery:
artist: Kristin Henry
Kristin’s site: www.galaxygoo.com
New Hot Topic:
Best Practices By Jen deHaan
New tutorials:
Apply multiple headers using one master By David Blatner and Anne Marie Concepcion
Using a sharpening workflow in Photoshop CS2 By David Blatner and Bruce Fraser
Manic Compression By Bob Donlon
Apply video effects to clips with alpha channels By Jeff Schell
Image editing tricks with Fireworks By Jose Olarte 3
Total Training videos: Tweening in Flash Professional 8 By John Ulliman
We have some special new features to announce that are new to the Design Center. We have created new product Design Center pages that contain the following features and links to product-related content:
* Featured articles and tutorials
* Blogs and podcasts
* Delicious link
* Related links, community, and more resources
* Product tutorial search: allows users to view and all product tutorials, and search and sort by specific topics or keywords.
Find an example of a typical product page here: After Effects Design Center
Please check out the following new articles on Adobe Design Center:
New Dialog box:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/
More is better: Address multiple learning styles
by Luanne Seymour
Creating lens flares using Fireworks
by Alan Musselman
New ThinkTank:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/
Seeing is believing: Information visualization and the debate over global warming
by David Womack
Form in Motion: An interview with filmmaker Matt Hanson
by Andrea Codrington
New gallery:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/gallery/
Manny Tan
* on Design Center
* Personal site: www.uncontrol.com
Studio aka
* on Design Center
* Personal site: studioaka.com
New tutorials:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/
Create a PostScript file for conversion to PDF in Acrobat
by Garrick Chow
Asset creation and general setup in Adobe Creative Suite 2
from Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book
Managing dictionaries in InCopy CS2
by Adam Pratt and Mike Richman
Acquire Audio using the Extract Audio From CD command in Adobe Audition
by Bruce Williams
Turn internal styles into an external style sheet in Dreamweaver
by Garrick Chow
Spin objects in 3D space using Flash and After Effects
by Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott
A Quick tour of GoLive CS2
from GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book
Creating a GoLive sitefrom GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book
Adding and formatting text
from GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book
Managing and publishing websites
from GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book
Working with tools of mass distortion
by Mordy Golding
Learning curves in Photoshop CS2
by Steve Caplin
Integrate Adobe Premiere Pro with After Effects using Dynamic Link
by Jeff Schell
Tell us your feedback! Feedback links can be found on each article above.
Just finished the notes for the sneak peeks – Live blogging from MAX 2006.
Read the complete notes on the post here:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/dehaan/archives/2006/10/day_3_sneak_pee.cfm
Please note this is pretty much completely unedited. And very long.
Going to stretch out these fingers. Ouch!