One of the highlights for us will be the reveal of Adobe Anywhere for video – a modern, collaborative workflow platform that will give teams using our professional video tools – such as Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects – the ability to work together across virtually any network, using shared media. They’re products that together with the rest of our Creative Suite Production Premium and Creative Cloud, are being using by a number of the leading broadcasters and global news agencies, including the Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN.

We’re also announcing several new collaborations with broadcast solution partners at the show who will support integrated workflows with our video tools. These include media asset management and graphics companies who are leading in the broadcast news and sports sectors – such as Chyron, Dalet, EVS and Vizr.

Not only that, but anyone with Final Cut Pro or Avid who fancies switching to Adobe CS6 Production Premium or Creative Cloud, can take advantage of a promotion we’re currently running offering up to 40% off! You can find all the information on the Adobe website.

If you’re at the show, be sure to pay us a visit. We’ll be at the Adobe booth in Hall 7, Booth 7.G27 in the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre. For anyone that didn’t make it to Amsterdam, we’ll be keeping everyone up to speed on the show from here.

Let us know what you think of this year’s show and are most excited about seeing!

The new support for built-in contact forms allows you to easily add, configure, and style contact forms within your website designs. By using this new feature, you no longer have to embed HTML code from 3rd-party online form providers. This is just the beginning of work the Muse product team is doing to bring more extensive content management capabilities directly into the product through tighter integration with our site hosting platform, Adobe Business Catalyst. This video shows how easy it is to work with contact forms.

We’ve also added the ability to add and link to downloadable files of any type including .pdf, .zip, .dmg, & .exe, as well as support for HTML5 animations created with Adobe Edge. There’s more, so be sure to read the release notes to find out all the new goodies in this updated version of Muse.

If you already have Muse installed, just open the app and click “Install Now” on the updater screen to get these new features. If you have yet to try it, download it here on Creative Cloud.

We went out with a bang on Day 5 of #CreativeWeekUK with a packed studio for our very last live debate. Four great panellists – Glyn Dewis (@GlynDewis), Erin Moroney (@erin_moroney), Timothy Allen (@timothy_photo) and Richard Curtis (@richardcurtis) – spent the best part of an hour debating whether digital photography is ‘all tech and no talent’. All the talk around digital retouching certainly kept things interesting and the discussion continued long after the cameras stopped rolling – both in the studio and on Twitter. It was the perfect end to #CreativeWeekUK.

Throughout #CreativeWeekUK, thousands of you got involved on Twitter by tweeting your questions and opinions to the #CreativeWeekUK hashtag. In fact the latest figures show that in total #CreativeWeekUK was mentioned 5,443 times. And thanks to you all, we even trended on Twitter!

All the live shows were broadcast online from studios in the heart of London, and we were very lucky to have Tower Bridge as our backdrop for the week. But if you missed any of it, or want to watch some of the lively debates, show and tell sessions or product showcases again, then you can download it all on-demand at your leisure from here.

We were joined by three great panelists for our live debate at the start of the day. Dan Jones (Maverick TV), Marc Goodchild (ex BBC) and Justin Weyers (Made Visual Studios) chatted about everything from independent productions and YouTube testing, right through to how the skills of hungry graduates can be best used in industry and what the future of video production has in store.

As always, the #CreativeWeekUK Twitter community played a huge part in the debate, with contributions including whether new technologies and production tools raise standards or just client expectations. And they also had their say in our daily poll with 90% of people agreeing that smaller budgets do make for more original content. What can we say…get creating!

We also welcomed Jason Levine over from the US who spent some time showing off the latest video tools Adobe has to offer including the new, streamlined Premiere Pro interface.

If you want to catch up on any of this week’s shows, then be sure to visit our website. Plus there’s still time to get involved in the final couple of days of #CreativeWeekUK by taking part in our competition. We’d love to hear from you!

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/uk/2012/07/11/creativeweekuk-day-two-can-print-and-tablet-publishing-co-exist/feed/ 0 http://blogs.adobe.com/uk/2012/07/09/creative-week-hosted-by-adobe-kicks-off-today/ http://blogs.adobe.com/uk/2012/07/09/creative-week-hosted-by-adobe-kicks-off-today/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:09:29 +0000 The @AdobeUK Team http://blogs.adobe.com/uk/?p=448 Creative Week UK is finally here! The event, which is a celebration of the creativity in the UK, will be packed full of lively debates, creative challenges, exclusive demonstrations and inspirational case studies – all broadcast live online and presented by David McClelland.

Here’s the lowdown of all our speakers and contributors throughout the week:

Monday 9th July – Creative Industry Overview

-          Brendan Dawes a UK-based, MoMA exhibited is an artist and designer (live debate)

-          Joel Gethin Lewis, co- Director of experiential design agency Hellicar & Lewis (live debate)

-          Dr Chris Gerry from The Skills Lab (live debate)

-          Rufus Deuchler, Sr. Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe Systems (Creative Cloud Evangelist demo and how-to sessions on Adobe Touch Apps)

-          Iconic British designer Wayne Hemingway (show and tell)

-          Chris Thompson, Head of Business Development at Ravensbourne College (show and tell)

-          Marc Lewis, pioneer of London’s new school dedicated to the art of advertising School of Communication Arts (show and tell)

Tuesday 10th July – Design & Publishing

-          Jeremy Leslie, Creative Director at magCulture and publishing industry commentator (live debate)

-          Publishing analyst and cultural commentator Danuta Kean  (live debate)

-          Future Publishing’s digital Editor-in-Chief Mike Goldsmith  (live debate)

-          Artist & Illustrator Pete Fowler (show and tell)

-          Three directors from creative agency Studio Output, Dan Moore, Rob Coke and Ian Hambleton (show and tell)

-          Adobe Certified Expert Tony Harmer (how-to session on creating stunning pattern designs)

-          Rupert Knowles, Adobe UK’s Design Product Manager (product demos, live debate and how-to session on InDesign CS6’s Content Collector Tool and Digital Publishing tools)

-          And Rufus Deuchler, Sr. Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe Systems will again be joining us (Creative Suite Design and Adobe Muse Evangelist demo)

Wednesday 11th July – Film & Video

-          Dan Jones, Head of Multiplatform, Maverick Television (live debate)

-          Multi–platform and interactive specialist, Marc Goodchild (live debate)

-          Director at Made Visual Studios, Justin Weyers (live debate and show and tell session)

-          Oli da Costa, founder of Fraktiv (show and tell)

-          Adobe evangelist, Jason Levine (CS6 Video Tour)

-          Dado Valentic, Director and chief Colourist at Mytherapy (how-to session on All-new SpeedGrade CS6)

-          London-based artist, Birgitta Hosea (how-to session on ray-traced 3D in After Effects)

-          Niels Stevens, Adobe UK’s Video Product Manager (how-to session on Adobe Audition CS6 for audio sweetening)

-          Matthew Gyves, Adobe’s Business Development Manager (how-to session on new features in Adobe Premiere CS6)

Thursday 12th July – Web & Mobile

-          Chris Jenkins, Head of User Experience, Tribal DDB London (live debate)

-          Alex Morris, Interaction Designer, Mark Boulton Design (live debate)

-          Rob Borley, Emerging Technologies Consultant, Headscape (live debate)

-          Joe Benton, Student Web Designer (show and tell)

-          MD of The Virtual Forge, Matt Wicks (how-to session on how to create for multiple devices and show and tell session)

-          Adobe’s Web Evangelist, Paul Trani (live debate, CS6 Web Tour and how-to session on the new features in Flash Professional CS6)

-          Adobe UK’s Web Product Manager John Cole (how-to session on Adobe Proto and Dreamweaver CS6)

-          Adobe’s Nordic Web Product Manager Johan Lopes (how-to session on Dreamweaver CS6 for responsive design)

-          Steve Burnard, Adobe UK Product Manager (how-to session on Fireworks CS6 for mock-ups and interactive content)

Friday 13th July – Photography & Imaging

-          Photographer Timothy Allen (live debate)

-          Photographer Erin Moroney (live debate)

-          Photographer and Photoshop World instructor Glyn Dewis (live debate and show and tell session on Compositing and Retouching Techniques using Photoshop CS6)

-          Julieanne Kost, Adobe Evangelist (demo on new Features of Photoshop CS6)

-          Fine art and commercial photographer Allan Jenkins (show and tell session on producing Victorian-era Cyanotype prints)

-          Fine art photographer John G Moore (show and tell session on his photographic style)

-          Adobe UK’s Digital Imaging Product Manager Richard Curtis (live debate and how-to session on Photoshop Lightroom 4’s book module)

-          Commercial photographer Debbie Jones (how-to session on creating client previews in Lightroom 4)

-          Digital artist Steve Caplin (how-to session on 3D with Photoshop CS6 Extended)

For more details on the event and to sign up for updates, visit the Creative Week website at www.adobecreate.co.uk/creativeweek.

Check out the full report here, which also includes different perspectives from leading creatives including Wayne Hemingway MBE, Brendan Dawes, Dan Jones and Joel Gethin-Lewis, as well as Chris Thompson from Ravensbourne.

Recently, there’s been growing pressure for production companies to deliver more for less and we can’t wait to hear your view on whether this is leading to lower standards, or driving the industry forward with renewed creativity. Some of the topics up for discussion include;

• Are quality standards being affected by reduced budgets – or are studios forcing more creative solutions instead?
• How could clients make it easier for you to do great work within their budget and timescale requirements?
• Do clients just expect you to do more with less, or are they approaching you with less ambitious ideas?

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this and the other questions we’ll be posing, so follow @AdobeUK to watch the conversation from the start.

Remember, everyone who uses #CreativeWeekUK in their tweets during the Twitter Chat will automatically be in with a chance of winning tickets to the Film & Video day of Creative Week on Wednesday 11^th July, which will be jam-packed with exclusive demos, lively debates, creative challenges and inspirational case studies!

If you aren’t one of the lucky ticket holders, we’ll be broadcasting all the sessions live online, so why not register now?

Check out his interview here:

Ever wondered what goes through the mind of a leading illustrator during the creative process? We grabbed 5 minutes with leading illustrator Mr Bingo to find out just that! Speaking at the recent Adobe CS6 and Creative Cloud launch in London, Mr Bingo talks about going to the pub for inspiration, setting up shoots, developing his ideas from initial sketch to digital animation and shares his secret for client success!

He also talks about how Adobe products like Photoshop and Flash transformed the way he worked, helping speed up the process and facilitate his creativity.