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I hope that you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend and that you got a chance to spend time with family and friends. I’m in my home office this week and that means that I’ve got some live streams scheduled:
Monday, 11/26 at 1PM PT – How to Customize your Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Apps
Continue reading “What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 11/26 thru 11/30”
I’ve had an amazing couple of weeks! As many of you know, two weeks ago was Adobe MAX in LA. Last week was PhotoPlus Expo in NYC. From coast to coast I had a very busy presentation schedule with live in person audiences. I got to kick off Adobe MAX to an audience of close to 15,000 people. See my Photoshop presentation here. Last week I was doing sessions at PhotoPlus Expo in the Adobe Theater as well as the conference track. I also got to speak in the Nikon Theater. See that presentation here.
Now with the major shows out of the way for a while, I’m back to live streaming. Here’s my schedule for this week:
Continue reading “What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 10/29 thru 11/2”
I’m in my home office this week and that means I get a chance to do some live streaming/tutorials.
Here’s what I’ve got going this week:
Monday, 8/20 – Creative Cloud Tips and Tricks on the Creative Cloud Facebook Page
Tuesday, 8/21 – How to Design a Flyer in Adobe InDesign CC on the Adobe InDesign Facebook Page
Continue reading “What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 8/20 thru 8/24”
I’m back from my travels and that means that I’m back to my regularly scheduled live streaming.
Monday 5/21 – How to Automate Adobe Photoshop CC – on the Adobe Creative Cloud YouTube Page. Learn Actions, Droplets and more. Continue reading “What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 5/21 thru 5/25”
This week I have the privilege of bringing in two members of the Illustrator product team to answer questions and talk about what they’ve been up to with Adobe Illustrator CC.
Wednesday, 5/16 at 9AM PT – Live with members of the Adobe Illustrator Product Team.
Continue reading “What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 5/14 thru 5/18”
I’m looking forward to another fun week of live streaming. This week I’ll be focusing mostly on topics for graphic designers.
Tuesday – 3/27 1PM Pacific Time – A Quick Guide to Master Pages on the Adobe InDesign Facebook Page
Continue reading “What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 3/26 thru 3/30”
That’s right folks! The June 2016 Update to Adobe Creative Cloud is here and I’m going to be going over many of the updates including the ones to Photoshop CC 2015.5 and more, LIVE on my Twitch stream TODAY! Join me live at 10AM – 12 Noon EDT on twitch.tv/adobe for a first look. In case you can’t make it to the LIVE show, I’ll have more on my YouTube channel later today and if you just can’t wait, check out Victoria Pavlov’s video on the NEW Face Aware Liquify feature (one of my favorite new features):
All new versions of your favorite Adobe creative applications are here! As you might expect it has been a busy few months for me not only getting up to speed on all that’s new for Design and Photography (the areas I focus on), but also creating content so that you can get up to speed quickly.
Last year when we released the 2014 Release of Creative Cloud there was a lot of confusion because the installer installed the new CC 2014 apps along side your existing CC apps. People didn’t know if they needed to keep the older apps installed or not. This time around the powers that be have decided that it’s best to “uninstall” your older CC applications by default. Of course you can choose NOT to do this if you want to hang on to your older applications. My colleague Jeff Tranberry has done a great job outlining what’s going here.
I just released 25 NEW videos outlining the individual top features of Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Muse CC, Lightroom CC and the updated Mobile Apps. I put them all in a single playlist to make it easy on ya:
I’m off to bed now. Enjoy!
One New Years Resolution completed. At the beginning of the year I promised to deliver a new Adobe Creative Cloud Tutorial each day during the month of January starting on January 2nd. I’m happy to say that my 30 Days of Creative Cloud Tutorials are done and have been very well received! At last count the video have had over 80,000 views and climbing. I also received lots of direct feedback on Twitter and my Facebook page. Most of the tutorials focused on the questions I get every day over and over again. I also took the liberty of working in mobile workflows wherever I could. Of course I’ll continue to do more throughout the year and cover new features as they are added to Creative Cloud. In the mean time, check out what you’ve missed here in this playlist featuring all 30 videos:
As much as I love technology, for many artists nothing beats good ole pen/pencil and paper. Sure we can now sketch right on our iPads or draw with a Wacom tablet right on our computers. However, if you just love the feel of paper then you’ll really like the NEW Moleskine Smart Notebook, which is now Creative Cloud connected. The idea is simple, draw with whatever tools you like to draw with in your notebook. Once you have your analog masterpiece on the page, fire up the companion app on your smartphone and capture your drawing. Once you capture it the app will automatically detect the alignment points on the page and align as well as fix the perspective of your drawing in the app. Next you can process the image and convert it to vectors. Lastly with one tap you can upload both the original capture as a JPG and the vector conversion as .SVG which you can open in Adobe Illustrator and edit the vectors.
Rather than continue to describe it, here’s a video from start to finish:
You can get the Moleskine Smart Notebook here.
You can get the companion App here: