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How to deploy Adobe Creative Suite 6 across your campus this summer

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

If your school looking to deploy Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) across campus this summer, then this one’s for you. We’ve created a bunch of resources to help ensure a smooth installation process using Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE). 

In a nutshell, AAMEE is a straightforward and customisable way to wrap CS6 applications as MSI or PKG packages for silent deployment across your school. It means you can automatically enter and validate volume serial numbers over the internet prior to installation, choose which applications are installed, disable automatic updates, and turn off manual registration.

 Take a look at this onDemand eSeminar to find out more. You can also download free guides and toolkits by clicking here.

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Getting creative for the Olympics

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

After seven years in the planning, London 2012 is almost upon us. With the final preparations underway, I got thinking about a recent chat I had with Matt Snelson, Assistant Head at The County High School, Leftwich in Cheshire.

The school recently held its annual Media Arts Day, which this year was themed around The Olympics. The day saw students from Years 7 up to 11 all taking part in workshops spanning the entire curriculum. These included taking part in alternative sports in Physical Education, an Olympics Enterprise workshop in Maths lessons, Drama classes running Street and Chinese dance,  Olympic Song Writing in Music, and a whole host of creative workshops including clay-based animation and website creation to name but a few!

Several of the workshops involved pupils engaging with tools such as Adobe Creative Suite. For instance, Fireworks was used to create animations and Photoshop to make Olympics themed banners. Students also used Premiere Pro and After Effects to help put together a video wrap-up of the day, and Soundbooth to create a radio show for the school’s radio station LOL (Leftwich out Loud) FM. What a great way to get students experimenting with creative tools!

 

Students using Photoshop to re-create the Olympic logo

Have you done anything special to celebrate London 2012 with your school? If so, I’d love to hear from you!

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Adobe Digital Media Education Summit 2012

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

We are now back from a jam-packed few days at the Adobe Digital Media Education Summit in Istanbul and wanted to tell you about the fantastic time we had!

The conference was a unique opportunity to hear from leading educators about how they implement digital media in film, video and design schools, as well as gaining insight into how technology ties into teaching goals.

We kicked the conference off on Tuesday evening with some welcome drinks at Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, which gave us the opportunity to get to know the speakers and attendees we would be spending the next two days with.

Wednesday and Thursday were full of interesting workshops and heated debates, where we had the chance to hear from some of the best speakers in the industry including Andy Balzdell (CelAction), Lee Brimelow (Platform Evangelist, Adobe) and Sue Tong (The Illuminated Film Company).

 

Here’s a snapshot of what some of you were saying on Twitter:

Thanks so much to everyone that joined us in Istanbul – we couldn’t have done it without you.

If you haven’t joined our LinkedIn group yet then you can do so by clicking here.

 
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Creative Week, hosted by Adobe, has now kicked off

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Liz Wilkins

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.

 

 

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