I’m still in Miami hosting the Creative Jams. However, I’ll be back in my home office live streaming on Wednesday of this week. I’ll start by doing a stream on:
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What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 4/16 thru 4/20 (and 3 NEW Tutorials!)
I’m looking forward to this week’s live streams. I plan to kick things off this week with a stream on…
Monday, 4/16 1PM PT – What’s NEW in Adobe Spark on the Adobe Students Facebook Page
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What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 4/9 thru 4/13
I’m back from the D3 Art & Design Conference and Expo and ready to get back to my live streaming schedule. This week I’ll be kicking off a special stream for the Adobe Education Team on Monday, 4/9 at 4PM PT on the Adobe Education Facebook Page.
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My Live Streaming Studio Setup – 2018
Live streaming has become a big part of my life. So much so that it’s actually a major part of my day job. I stream live Adobe tutorials regularly to YouTube and Facebook. Since this is what I do for a living I wanted to have high production values.
Therefore I setup a dedicated live streaming studio in my home. Being a photographer I’ve setup a few photography studios and no matter how you equip your studio you can always find more gear that you want and ways to improve it. I’ve been building out this live streaming studio since May 2016. I have everything I “need” to do my streams, but I’m always looking out for ways to improve upon what I have.
Like a photography studio, your streaming setup can be very basic or very elaborate
What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 3/26 thru 3/30
I’m looking forward to another fun week of live streaming. This week I’ll be focusing mostly on topics for graphic designers.
Let’s start with a little InDesign CC
Tuesday – 3/27 1PM Pacific Time – A Quick Guide to Master Pages on the Adobe InDesign Facebook Page
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My 1st Tesla Model S Road Trip – No more range anxiety!
In September 2017 I took delivery of my new Tesla Model S. Although I had put in an order for a Tesla Model 3 on day one of pre-orders, I later decided to cancel that order and go for the Model S instead. This would be my first EV (electric vehicle) and I spent an entire year researching it and talking with other Tesla owners before pulling the trigger on my order.
Driving the car has been nothing but fun! It’s awesome saying goodbye to gasoline and more importantly gas stations. I work from home so I don’t really have much of a daily commute. I charge the Tesla each night right in my garage, therefore I wake up every day with a “full tank.”
This also means that I never really have to charge away from home, unless I decide to take road trip
I had a business trip coming up to the Tampa Florida area (about 480 miles away) and decided to drive instead of flying. It would also give me the chance to take some video equipment along that would be easier to bring in the car rather than flying with it.
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The Thinnest iPhone X Case I’ve Ever Seen
Often when you choose a case for for your smartphone you usually choose between a nice thick case that offers more protection for drops and other mishaps or you choose a case that is thin and protects against scratches. I tend to go for thinner cases as I rarely drop my iPhone. I would go without a case at all if they were scratch proof or less slippery. The thin iPhone X case
The pros and cons of a thin case
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What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 3/19 thru 3/23
This week I kick things off my Live Streaming on Adobe Live! That’s right, on Monday 3/19 at 9AM PT I’ll do a Pre-Show for the three day Graphic Design stream. I’ll focus on Adobe InDesign CC and specifically show you how to use the new InDesign templates on Adobe Stock as well as how to publish your documents on-line.
Next up, on Tuesday…
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What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 3/12 thru 3/16
I’m back from my travels to WPPI Las Vegas and KelbyOne in Florida and that means it’s time to get back to my regular streaming schedule! I’m kicking off this week with part six of my Back to the Basics with Adobe Photoshop CC – Working with Text – Monday, 3/12/2018 at 1PM Pacific Time.
Live Streaming For the rest of the week…
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TetherBlock Can Save You From an Expensive DSLR Repair
As a portrait photographer I shoot in studio most of the time. One of the side benefits of shooting in a controlled environment like a studio is that you can also shoot tethered to your computer. I’ve been shooting tethered into Lightroom Classic CC for years. While every DSLR out there has a USB port (usually on the side) for image transfer, they are rarely designed for having the cable attached 100% of the time. This is to say that when you’re moving around the cable itself can get pulled and stress the port that it’s plugged into. Unfortunately that stress over time can actually break the connection inside the camera resulting in an expensive repair. Back when I was shooting a D700 I had to have it repaired twice. Just recently I had to have my Nikon D810 repaired. That repair was the most expensive to the tune of a few hundred dollars because it involves having to replace the logic board in the camera.
Reduce the stress and save the port with a TetherBlock
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