February 18, 2008

Meet Adobe Illustrator (1987)

As promised a couple of weeks ago, I’ve uploaded a copy of the VHS tape that shipped in the box with Illustrator 1.0, hosted by company co-founder/president/Illustrator developer John Warnock:

Many thanks to Andrew Keith Strauss for digitizing the tape. Of the video Dr. Warnock writes, “That video demo tape was shot live, with no editing. We didn’t have video production tools at that time, and we didn’t want to pay for a professional to do it, so I did the demonstration.” It’s fun to contrast this tape with the Illustrator 88 video made just a year later.

Enable commenting in Adobe Reader, more

The Adobe Design Center crew is back on stage for a new year, posting all sorts of good content.

New Galleries

• Anastasia Gubar
• Christiane Beauregard
• Lim Si Ping

 
New Think Tank

• The value of multimedia in learning — Patti Shank
  

New Tutorials

• Flash: Prepairing and building ads with Flash — Jason Fincanon
• Soundbooth: Repairing and adjusting audio clips — Adobe Soundbooth CS3 Classroom in a Book
• Photoshop:
  Vector drawing techniques in Photoshop — Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book
• Acrobat: Enabling commenting in Reader — John Deubert

As always, Adobe training mavens Luanne Seymour and Jen deHaan are kicking out the jams, so check out their sites for fresh material. And as always, check out some of the 1000+ Adobe links on del.icio.us. Info on how to contribute links is here. [Via Luanne]