Officially Launching My YouTube Channel

I've been using YouTube for a long time now as a way to provide video content on this blog. I remember the early days of YouTube being primarily for teenagers and vehicle for people to show off their babies and pets. 🙂 The quality, well, um, kinda sucked! I just didn't really find it remotely good enough to host the kind of content I wanted to share. Well all that has changed now. YouTube is GREAT for sharing videos in 720p HD quality, up to 10 minutes in length. It's easy to use and to embed the clips right on my site. Now don't get me wrong, I know that there are other GREAT video sharing sites out there too like Smugmug (which does all the way up to 1080p with a paid account), Vimeo, BlipTV, etc. However, I find that YouTube seems to be the most universal and has the largest audience. After all, if I go through the trouble to produce a video and make it available for free I wan to have the largest possible viewing audience I can get.  Also since YouTube is BUILT-IN to the iPhone and now the iPad, I can reach millions more people with this one service than I can with any of the others. Another nice surprise was that Apple gave the iPad's Safari the ability to view embedded YouTube clips right in the page without having to launch the App or go to another browser window. Sold!

 

A funny thing happened on the way to this post

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Adobe Creative Suite 5 is Here: First Look!

I'm thrilled to finally be able to talk about Adobe Creative Suite 5! Today is the day that Adobe launches the biggest and most impressive release of Creative Suite to date with over 250 new features across the Entire Suite.

I'll quote one of the freelancers that I showed CS5 to under NDA in Germany, "It's not only Cool, but it's Useful!" That's exactly how I feel about many of the features throughout the entire suite. A lot of times you have a really "cool" technology or feature, and it demos really well, but you may not have an everyday use for it. However, with CS5 there are so many Cool and Useful features that I will use every day that I'm just giddy! The Official CS5 Launch will be broadcast here at 11AM EDT TODAY, but since you're a visitor to my site I will share with you these 5 "Pre-Launch" videos (in YouTube HD!) of My Top 5 Favorite Features in Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium right now so that you get  a jump on some of the new exciting features:

 

My Top 5 Favorite Features in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended (Yes, it's 64bit on both Mac and Windows 🙂 )

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfkjHnsAsvg

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Adobe Creative Suite 5: The Movie

As you know Adobe will be Announcing CS5 on Monday, April 12th. At that time ALL of the details will be revealed about this upgrade and all the mind blowing features throughout the entire suite. This Creative Suite launch will be one of the most highly broadcasted events in Adobe's history because never has there been a time like the present where video content will be made so freely available. Of course I'll have lots of video content here on and on my Creative Suite Video Podcast, my YouTube channel and Adobe TV but the folks over at NAPP are doing something really special on Monday and throughout the week. Check out their video here:

Click here to watch on your iPad or iPhone

Photoshop User CS5 Learning Center from Kelby Media Group on Vimeo.

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Photoshop World 2010 Orlando Wrap Up

This year's Photoshop World East was a BLAST! I've been to Photoshop World more time than I can count. However, this particular conference seemed much more "upbeat". I didn't run into a single "cranky" person the whole time. Everyone was all smiles and having a great time. As an instructor, I feed off the energy of my audience. So when my audience is having a good time and learning, it gets me excited and drives me to show more and teach more. So I not only had a great crowd in each of my sessions, they were really into what I had to say and show. That makes all the difference in the world!

Here are some highlights and I've included the Keynote video too! Enjoy 🙂

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Adobe Creative Suite 5 is Coming!

 

That's right! Adobe Creative Suite 5 is Coming and You can signup for the launch event here.

 

In the meantime check out this sneak peek of some future technology 😉

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

 

See the Photoshop World Keynote with even more sneak peeks!

here.

Lightroom 3 Public Beta 2: What’s New?

Today Adobe has released the Lightroom 3 Public Beta 2. You can download your copy right here for free. The Lightroom 3 Public Beta 1 was downloaded by over 350,000 photographers and you guys gave us valuable feedback. Much of that feedback went into making Lightroom 3 even better. This new beta incorporates many new features and tweaks. Rather than list them all (you can get the list on the Adobe Labs site), I'd rather show you!

Check out this video:

 

If you missed my first video going over LR3 Public Beta 1, you can check it out here.

More of my videos are available at CreativeSuitePodcast.com

I’m teaching at Photoshop World Orlando

As many of you already know Adobe Photoshop World East is next week in Orlando and I'll be there presenting and teaching a couple of classes on the Conference Track as well as doing presentations on the show floor.
 

Wednesday, March 24th

I'm in the Adobe Booth on the tradeshow floor
2:15-3:00 PM – Cool Photoshop CS4 Features for Designers – In this session I'll show some Photoshop CS4 techniques for graphic designers including some integration tips with InDesign and Illustrator

4:15-5:00 PM – Design Across Digital Media with Adobe CS4 Design Premium – In this session I'll show tips and techniques that allow you to take your design products beyond print. Create interactive content and use video more effectively.
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