What I’m Live Streaming About This Week – 2/19 thru 2/23

 

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!

Join me live as I host  the following live streams:

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Back to the Basics with Adobe Photoshop CC & InDesign CC

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:

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30 Days Later – 30 NEW Adobe Creative Cloud Tutorials

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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:

 



How to Use Lightroom Mobile to Get Client Feedback on your Photos

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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.

 Lightroom 5.7 and Adobe Camera RAW 8.7 Released Today!

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:

  • Previously available as a separate and downloadable plug-in, this utility has now been integrated into Lightroom 5.7

New Camera Support in Lightroom 5.7

  • Canon EOS 7D Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X
  • Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
  • Casio EX-100PRO
  • Fujifilm X30
  • Fujifilm X100T
  • Fujifilm X-T1 Graphite Silver
  • Leaf Credo 50
  • Leica D-Lux (Typ 109)
  • Leica M-P
  • Leica V-Lux (Typ 114)
  • Leica X (Typ 113)
  • Nikon D750
  • Olympus PEN E-PL7
  • Olympus STYLUS 1s
  • Panasonic DMC-CM1
  • Panasonic DMC-GM1S
  • Panasonic DMC-GM5
  • Panasonic DMC-LX
  • Pentax K-S1
  • Pentax QS-1
  • Samsung NX1
  • Sony ILCE-5100
  • Sony ILCE-QX1

Newly supported cameras for Tethered Capture in Lightroom 5.7

  • Nikon D4S
  • Nikon D810

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

  • The crop overlay displayed an intermediate step when progressing through images in the filmstrip with overlay displayed.
  • The lens profile for the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4 would not auto-select when using Lens Profile Corrections.
  • ICC profiles resulted in incorrectly clipped shadows and blacks in Lightroom. Note that this is related to the issue identified here and only occurs on Mac OSX 10.9 and later
  • Fixed crash when rapidly adding corrections with the Spot Removal tool.
  • Fixed bug that prevented the Filter Brush cursor from displaying while changing brush size when the Graduated and Radial Filter overlay is turned off.
  • Improved quality of Camera Matching color profiles for the Nikon D810. Fixes visible banding issues with the Camera Standard, Camera Vivid, Camera Landscape, and Camera Monochrome profiles.
  • (http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_5_icc_profiles_clipped_shadows_under_osx)
  • Context menu (right click on PC or control+click on Mac) was disabled for images contained in Lightroom mobile collections.
  • Fixed issue that prevented Lightroom 5 from reading Photoshop Elements 13 libraries.
  • Cover images set by Lightroom mobile were sometimes incorrectly reset by Lightroom desktop.
  • Sync with Lightroom mobile sometimes stalled when asset is added to same album on both LrM and LrD and later deleted
  • Resolved issue that caused Lightroom to crash when creating a Print and saving it to a mounted DVD directly inside Lightroom.
  • Publishing images to Behance using the Behance Publish Service has been restored.

Download Links

Lightroom 5.7:

Mac  |  Win

Adobe Camera RAW 8.7

ACR 8.7 now supports HiDPI displays on Windows. Please use the following steps to enabled HiDPI on Windows:

  • Go to Photoshop -> Preferences -> Experimental Features
  • Click on “Scaled UI 200% for high-density displays”

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed crash when rapidly adding corrections with the Spot Removal tool.
  • Fixed bug that prevented the Filter Brush cursor from displaying while changing brush size when the Graduated and Radial Filter overlay is turned off.
  • Improved quality of Camera Matching color profiles for the Nikon D810. Fixes visible banding issues with the Camera Standard, Camera Vivid, Camera Landscape, and Camera Monochrome profiles.

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

Mac   |   Win

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How To Create a Super Mega Custom Menu in Adobe Muse CC

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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.

 

 

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See 3 New Filters in Photoshop CC in this Design Tutorial

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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.

 

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How to Use Photoshop Generator to Make iOS Webclip icons for your site

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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.

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When it comes to tutorial videos, which to you prefer?…

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
85,391 (20%)
794,692 (23%)
41,463 (9.7%)
455,321 (13%)
22,234 (5.2%)
221,416 (6.5%)
19,031 (4.5%)
247,635 (7.3%)
18,205 (4.3%)
158,675 (4.7%)
14,244 (3.3%)
135,710 (4.0%)
13,762 (3.2%)
146,995 (4.3%)
9,941 (2.3%)
102,132 (3.0%)
9,906 (2.3%)
58,687 (1.7%)
8,998 (2.1%)
75,116 (2.2%)

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?)

How To Take Advantage of Linked Smart Objects in Photoshop CC

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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.

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