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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’m headed out to Adobe in San Francisco to be a part of Adobe Live – Graphic Design this week. I’ll be hosting the 9am – 11am and 1pm – 3pm Pacific Time slots this week. You can watch at behance.net/live. One of the things I’ll be doing before the main streams that start on Tuesday, is a “Learning” stream that starts on Monday. My first one will be today at 9AM Pacific Time. I’ll be covering How to Get Started with Adobe InDesign CC. If you’ve ever wanted to learn InDesign, this hour long live crash course will be a great place for you to start!
Continue reading “What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 2/19 thru 2/23”
I’ve been doing a series called “Back to the Basics.” These videos have been done in the form of live streams on YouTube (for Photoshop) and Facebook (for InDesign). While I don’t have a schedule that is locked in stone, I figured it would be best to post here more regularly about the streams I’m planning to do that week. I’ll do my best to start posting my schedule here on Mondays. Let’s see how it goes. In the meantime, you can catch the replays of the ones I’ve done thus far here:
Continue reading “Back to the Basics with Adobe Photoshop CC & InDesign CC”
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:
In this episode of Adobe Creative Cloud TV, I’ll show you how to use Lightroom Mobile to get client feedback on your photos. Find out which photos your clients like and perhaps want to purchase.
I cover the new features of Lightroom 5.7 as they relate to Lightroom Mobile in the video above. However, there are some more things you should know:
Integrated a utility to import images from Apple Aperture and Apple iPhoto libraries into Lightroom:
New Camera Support in Lightroom 5.7
Newly supported cameras for Tethered Capture in Lightroom 5.7
New Lens Profile Support in Lightroom 5.7
Apple iPhone 6
Apple iPhone 6 Plus
Canon EF SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Canon EF SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM S014
Canon EF Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8
Canon EF Zeiss Otus 1.4/85 ZE
Fujifilm X Fujifilm X100T
Fujifilm X HandeVision IBELUX 40mm F0.85
GoPro Hero
GoPro Hero4 Black Edition
GoPro Hero4 Silver Edition
Leica M Leica SUMMARIT-M 35 mm f/2.4 ASPH
Leica M Leica SUMMARIT-M 50 mm f/2.4
Leica M Leica SUMMARIT-M 75 mm f/2.4
Leica M Leica SUMMARIT-M 90 mm f/2.4
Leica M SLR Magic 50mm T0.95 Hyperprime Cine Lens
Leica M Voigtlander VM 12mm F5.6 Ultra Wide Heliar ASPH.
Leica M Voigtlander VM 15mm F4.5 Super Wide Heliar II ASPH.
Leica M Voigtlander VM 21mm F1.8 Ultron ASPH.
Leica M Voigtlander VM 21mm F4 Color Skopar
Leica M Voigtlander VM 25mm F4 Color Skopar
Leica M Voigtlander VM 28mm F2 Ultron
Leica M Voigtlander VM 35mm F1.2 Nokton II ASPH.
Leica M Voigtlander VM 35mm F1.4 Nokton Classic
Leica M Voigtlander VM 35mm F2.5 Color Skopar
Leica M Voigtlander VM 40mm F1.4 Nokton Classic
Leica M Voigtlander VM 50mm F1.1 Nokton
Leica M Voigtlander VM 50mm F1.5 Nokton
Leica M Voigtlander VM 75mm F1.8 Heliar
Leica S Leica SUMMICRON-S 100 mm f/2 ASPH.
Nikon F Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED
Nikon F Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 400mm f2.8E FL ED VR
Nikon F SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Nikon F SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM S014
Nikon F Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8
Nikon F Voigtlander SL 40mm F2 Ultron ASPHERICAL
Nikon F Voigtlander SL 40mm F2 Ultron ASPHERICAL Close-up Lens
Nikon F Zeiss Otus 1.4/85 ZF.2
Pentax HD PENTAX-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5 ED AW SR
Pentax HD PENTAX-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR
Pentax HD PENTAX-DA 20-40mm F2.8-4 Limited
Sigma SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Sigma SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM S014
Sony Alpha SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Sony Alpha SIGMA 24-105mm F4 DG OS HSM A013
Sony Alpha Sony DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM
Sony Alpha Sony DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6
Sony Alpha Sony DT 55-200mm F4-5.6
Sony Alpha Sony 75-300mm F4.5-5.6
Sony Alpha Sony 300mm F2.8 G SSM
Sony Alpha Sony 500mm F4 G SSM
Sony E HandeVision IBELUX 40mm F0.85
Sony E SLR Magic 50mm F0.95 Hyperprime Lens
Sony E Sony FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS
Sony E Sony FE PZ 28-135mm F4 G OSS
Sony E Zeiss Loxia Biogon T* 2/35
Sony E Zeiss Loxia Planar T* 2/50
Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 5.7
Download Links
Lightroom 5.7:
ACR 8.7 now supports HiDPI displays on Windows. Please use the following steps to enabled HiDPI on Windows:
Bug Fixes:
Please note – If you have trouble updating to the latest ACR update via the Creative Cloud application, please refer to this installation note.
DNG Converter 8.7
See more of my Adobe Creative Cloud Videos on my Adobe Creative Cloud TV and get the App below. It features EXCLUSIVE CONTENT that no one else gets to see. My iOS App is a Universal App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. I also have an Android version on the Amazon App Store:
I get asked all the time, “how do I create a custom menu in Adobe Muse?” In this episode of Adobe Creative Cloud TV, I’ll show you how to create a Super Mega Custom Menu in Adobe Muse CC. The menu of all menus that you can do whatever you want in.
See more of my Adobe Creative Cloud Videos on my Adobe Creative Cloud TV and get the App below. It features EXCLUSIVE CONTENT that no one else gets to see. This episode has a BONUS CLIP that is available only in the App! My iOS App is a Universal App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. I also have an Android version on the Amazon App Store:
In this episode of Adobe Creative Cloud TV, I’ll show you how to use the three NEW Filters in Photoshop CC 2014 in the October update. You’ll see the design process using the new Flame Filter, Tree Filter and Picture Frame Filter.
See more of my Adobe Creative Cloud Videos on my Adobe Creative Cloud TV and get the App below. It features EXCLUSIVE CONTENT that no one else gets to see. My iOS App is a Universal App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. I also have an Android version on the Amazon App Store:
In this episode of Adobe Creative Cloud TV, I’ll show you how to use Adobe Photoshop Generator to make webclip icons for your website so that when people bookmark your website to their home screens on iPad, iPhone or iPod touch they’ll get your custom icon.
See more of my Adobe Creative Cloud Videos on my Adobe Creative Cloud TV and get the App below. It features EXCLUSIVE CONTENT that no one else gets to see. This episode has a BONUS CLIP that is available only in the App! My iOS App is a Universal App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. I also have an Android version on the Amazon App Store:
Yesterday on my Facebook fan page I posed the question about my tutorial videos: “When a new feature update comes out to an Adobe application such as Photoshop CC, which do you prefer from me: 1. A single video that covers the new features (could be long 20-40 minutes) OR 2. multiple smaller videos that cover each feature individually (example, “New Camera Shake Reduction in PS CC”, “New Live Corners in Illustrator CC”, etc.)?” and I got a ton of great responses. This prompted me to want to ask my broader readership here. As you might expect, the feedback I got on Facebook was mostly do “shorter” feature specific videos. Some said, they wanted BOTH, the longer overview video and the shorter videos. There were a good number of folks that said they actually prefer the longer videos. However, if I went by just the feedback I got on Facebook it would be just do the shorter videos.
Here’s the irony of it. While everyone says they want shorter videos, when I look at my actual YouTube stats that show my Top 10 Most Viewed Videos over the last 30 days, they are all the longer ones. None of my shorter videos ever make the top 10 list:
| Video | Views | Minutes Watched |
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85,391 (20%)
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794,692 (23%)
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41,463 (9.7%)
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455,321 (13%)
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22,234 (5.2%)
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221,416 (6.5%)
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19,031 (4.5%)
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247,635 (7.3%)
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18,205 (4.3%)
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158,675 (4.7%)
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14,244 (3.3%)
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135,710 (4.0%)
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13,762 (3.2%)
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146,995 (4.3%)
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9,941 (2.3%)
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102,132 (3.0%)
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9,906 (2.3%)
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58,687 (1.7%)
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8,998 (2.1%)
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75,116 (2.2%)
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I know when someone sends me a video link, if it’s only a minute or two I’m liable to watch it right then and there. If it’s several minutes long then I’ll probably say “I don’t have time for this now, I’ll watch it later and later may never happen. However, I’d still like to hear from you. Which do you prefer? (yes both is great and I could do the longer one and chop it up to make the shorter ones, but is that worth it?)
In this episode of Adobe Creative Cloud TV, I’ll show you how to take advantage of linked smart objects in Photoshop CC. Not only can we place files as links in Photoshop now, but they can even be RAW files. See a workflow from Lightroom to Photoshop to InDesign and Muse.
See more of my Adobe Creative Cloud Videos on my Adobe Creative Cloud TV and get the App below. It features EXCLUSIVE CONTENT that no one else gets to see. This episode has a BONUS CLIP that is available only in the App! My iOS App is a Universal App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. I also have an Android version on the Amazon App Store: