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Free support resources now available for CS6

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

Following the exciting release of Adobe® Creative Cloud™ Student and Teacher Edition, and Adobe Creative Suite® 6 last month, I wanted to let you know about some fab new support resources we’ve made available for free to help you make the most out of the new software.

 We’ve launched a brand new portal within the Adobe Education Exchange which hosts a raft of free resources and support to enable schools and colleges to enhance their classes and help prepare students for the workforce. Ranging from video tutorials and technical guides, to tried-and-tested curriculum plans, they are each designed to help you deliver rich learning experiences.

Here’s a snapshot of what’s available…

 CS6 tutorials on Adobe TV

  • These give you the means to learn at your own pace and showcase how Adobe software is being used in education. There are hundreds of videos to browse through, including tutorials which supplement the CS6 teaching resources

 Curriculum guides

  • These are free, year long, project-based curriculum plans, great for anyone teaching visual design, web design, and video production – and all newly updated for Adobe Creative Suite 6

 Technical guides

  • Quickly get up to speed on how to use CS6 by downloading these product technical guides

 Tutorials from our Adobe Education Leaders

  • These CS6 tutorials are developed by our very own Adobe Education Leaders around topics including digital imagery, graphic design & digital publishing, animation and rich media and web design

 You can check these out for yourself by visiting: http://adobe.ly/J5g9I9 .

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Unleash student creativity with Adobe Generation

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

 We’ve launched an exciting new initiative this week called Adobe Generation. In a nutshell, this is a series of four online courses (each lasting ten weeks), designed to teach UK students (age 14-19) key skills they will need to succeed in a range of creative careers. Games Design is the first course we are running, which we kicked off last night, and it’s developed by a fab team of teachers and industry experts from across the world.

 As well as getting an insight into all the ins and outs of games design, students get to learn from some of the brightest creative talent around at the moment. Sessions are taught over Adobe Connect by different creative experts, including US games designer and educator Roxana Hadad, who teach a specific element of games design and give insights into their working lives. They also set weekly tasks for students to complete ahead of the next session, which are reviewed and commented on on a student forum.

 For students looking to brush up on their skills in between sessions, we’ve made a bunch of web-based learning resources available, including video tutorials, ‘how to’ guides and a recording of each session. And if that wasn’t enough, we’re also giving a certificate to each student who completes the course – which will look great on their CVs and UCAS applications!

 The Games Design course is running every Thursday from 7-8:15pm until July 12th– check out www.adobegeneration.com to sign up or to get more information.

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Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6 now available with 80% educational savings!

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

After a very busy couple of weeks following the launch of Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6 , I’m excited to announce that the Student and Teacher Editions are now available to buy – Creative Cloud as of today (11th May) and Creative Suite 6 since earlier this week (7th May).

 We’ve been overwhelmed by the excitement about the new product portfolio, which is great value for institutions, educators and students alike with 80% savings available on both point products and suites.  

 You can still buy our industry standard products as individual point products or as a collection (Design Standard, Design & Web Premium, Production Premium and the Master Collection). But Creative Cloud gives you another way to access our tools and services.

 It’s a membership based offering in which you get the complete Creative Suite 6, but also Adobe Muse, our new visual web design tool, and Edge, the HTML5 animation app. In addition, we’ve added a lot of services including Business Catalyst for web hosting, Typekit for fonts, and up to 20 gigabytes of cloud storage for syncing and sharing your files.

The Student and Teacher Edition of Adobe Creative Cloud will be available for £18.26 (ex VAT) per month based on annual membership. For information on Adobe licensing go to www.adobe.com/uk/aboutadobe/volumelicensing/education.

For more detailed information about educational upgrade policies and pricing, as well as the full portfolio of suites, please visit www.adobe.com/uk/education

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Photoshop Lightroom 4 now available

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

With all of the excitement around the Creative Cloud & Creative Suite 6 launch I wanted to reminder you that back in March we released version 4 of  Photoshop Lightroom following a two month beta trial period which started in January. For anyone not familiar with Lightroom, its our professional photo management application used by photographers – both amateur and professional – to quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase their snaps.

With this latest upgrade, there are a raft of workflow improvements and features which nod to the increasing use of, and need to integrate, both still images and video within photography workflows. With new video capabilities increasingly being built into cameras, more and more photographers are finding they are expected to also have key video editing skills.

This means that today’s students will also be expected to have these skills when they enter the workplace, whether straight from school or after having completed their higher education. To make Lightroom 4 more accessible to a broader range of students and teachers, a Student & Teacher edition of the new software is available for £59.09 inc VAT, which is 50% less than previous versions of the product. If you want to learn more about how you can use Lightroom 4 in your lessons, then check out our series of how-to videos.

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Join us for a Twitterview on Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Adobe Creative Cloud

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

I’m excited to announce that our first ever UK Education Twitterview this Thursday will be around the newly launched Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Adobe Creative Cloud.

 On Thursday 26th April between 3:30pm and 4:30pm (GMT), the Twitterview will be a chance to fire any questions you have on these announcements to our UK Education Manager, Mark A ’Bear.

If you’re not familiar with Twitterview, the process is simple. Join us on Twitter between 3:30pm and 4:30pm on Thursday (@AdobeUKEdu) and include the hashtag #CS6edu when you tweet. If you can’t make it on the 26th, please leave your questions or remarks in the comments section of this post or DM us in advance and we’ll make sure Mark answers them.

We hope you’ll join us!

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