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In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast I'll start with no document open and show you how easy it is to go from nothing to a good layout in a matter of minutes.
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In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast we'll tackle one of things that confuses most new Lightroom users and those switching from Adobe Bridge to Lightroom. The question of "where are my photos and what has Lightroom done with them?" will be answered.
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Have first look at Adobe Edge above.
Also be sure to check out Adobe's FREE HTML 5 Camp in San Francisco on July 22, 2011. Details here.
What a way to end the 3rd leg of our Adobe CS5 Evolution Tour! Mexico City was the last stop of this leg and definitely one of the most fun in terms of a very cool venue and great audience. We have typically held these events in convention centers or large movie theaters. However, in Mexico City we walked into a two story night club.
I had this strong urge to whip out two turntables. I'm not sure why.
The music was thumping and it was "Club Adobe" all the way. Granted there was no dancing (dang it!), but there was a lively party atmosphere as we showcased design, web, mobile authoring and video/audio workflows to the 500 attendees on hand.
It was great to see so many fans too.
Gilberto runs the Adobe Mexico Users Group.
Time for a much needed Sumer Vacation! Stay tuned for more tour dates and events.
Wow! Thanks Brazil for a fantastic day. You guys rock and were definitely one of the most energetic crowds we've presented to to date. We're all pumped and can't wait to come back.
It was great to start the day with young 13 year old Breno on stage to kick things off with a Content Aware Fill demo.
Thanks again Brazil!
We look forward to seeing you all in Mexico City Tomorrow. Be sure to search/follow the #CS5Evolves hash tag on Twitter.
If you've attended any of our tour stops on the Adobe CS5 Evolution Tour or if you were at the Adobe Photoshop World Keynote in Orlando, then you may have seen us do a live poll of the audience. Rather than simply asking for a show of hands, audience members participated with their mobile devices. Polleverywhere.com is a web based service that allows you to setup and conduct Live Polls in real-time. The cool factor is that the poll results come in and can be displayed in real-time. This usually gets people a little more involved when they see that they can actually drive the results right in front of their eyes.
Another option is the ability to create a custom URL where your users will go on their devices and instead of keying in the onscreen codes, they'll actually see the poll questions on their own screens and the responses are then tappable. When you switch to the next question their browser will update on the fly.
Once you setup an account, you can then start to create your Polls ahead of time. During your event, class, seminar, etc. you can then bring up the site, go full screen and people can answer the questions by either using SMS texting (standard text messaging rates do apply) to a local/regional number for the area that you are conducting the poll in OR they can simply go to the mobile friendly poll4.com web page on their device and enter the codes there for free. You can even enable the Poll via Twitter so that people can Tweet their responses and lastly there is the option to have a Private Link like this one. The page uses Adobe Flash to update live and in real-time. As the votes come in the bars will move for all to see. The data is saved to your account and you can close the polls whenever you like to prevent further voting.
If you don't want to do it live there are several options for embedding the polls into your website, like I've done here (click on your answer):
The results can also optionally be embedded for all to see as either LIVE update via Flash:
Continue reading “Polleverywhere.com Powers My LIVE Audience Polls”
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In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast I'll show you how to take advantage of a NEW feature in Adobe Bridge CS5 that allows you to do a Batch Rename on a folder of images, but only changing part of the names to what you want while leaving the rest of the name intact. String Substitution baby!
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The second leg of our Adobe CS 5 Evolution Tour has ended and I'm getting geared up for South America next week. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has participated in the tour those far. We've had a blast presenting to over 9,000 fans/customers thus far in the various regions around the world. In some cities the events were webcasted to thousands more who couldn't be there in person. The tour has been a great success thus far and I'm really looking forward to continuing it next week. Here are some highlights:
Six stops in 18 days!
This leg of the tour started off in Warsaw Poland with an amazing sold out crowd! People were literally lining the walls and sitting on the floor off to the side of the stage.
Photoshop/Camera RAW never looked so BIG!
Continue reading “Thank You Warsaw, Amsterdam, Moscow, Istanbul, Sydney & Melbourne!”
One of the main features of the iPad 2 that I use the most over the iPad 1 is the ability to mirror my desktop out to a projector when doing demos. I've been using this feature extensively on my latest Adobe CS5 Evolution Tour. You can use either the original Apple VGA Adapter or the NEW Apple Digital AV (HDMI) Adapter. While this works GREAT for live presentations I also wanted to take advantage of it when recording tutorial videos or App reviews. The problem was finding a solution that allowed me to take either the VGA out or HDMI out of the iPad 2 back into my computer.
Continue reading “BlackMagic Intensity Pro: Capturing an iPad 2 Demo via HDMI Out”