Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro for creative folks.

July 2nd, 2008

       

 A Special video about Adobe Acrobat 9.0 pro. Acrobat 9.0 has some really cool stuff included for online collaboration, sharing and most especially for Pre-press. Its really wicked so why not watch this short rundown on some of the great features. 

Blend it Like Photoshop (No. 46)

June 25th, 2008

Holy cow. I didn’t know Photoshop could do that. The blend if sliders have been in Photoshop forever and this technique shows how you can put them to really good use. Its starts of quite romantic and then the electricity starts. Drop a background out in seconds.

Acrobat 9 and InDesign (No. 45)

June 9th, 2008

First look at Acrobat 9.0. This episode we take a file from InDesign CS3 and create an interactive PDF file. But wait Acrobat 9.0 is on the loose, and it plays very nicely with Flash, swf and flv video. Yep its all interactive creative sweet hi-jinx this week thats for sure. Why not sign up for the Acrobat 9 reader pre release and have a look here.

Freestyle Texture tip (No. 44)

May 26th, 2008

 

Back to Basics this episode. We start with a blank new document in Photoshop CS3 Extended and create a great texture using gradients, noise and blending modes. Also if your in New Zealand and love InDesign, why not attend the InDesign Conference in Auckland? http://www.mogo-media.com/

Dr.Browns Retouchin’ techniques

May 13th, 2008

OMG, Just launched recently a website dedicated to all things Adobe AND its video. check it out. http://tv.adobe.com/ My favorite Video Show from Adobe TV is Dr. Browns Laboratory.  No one knows who he really is, but the dude sure knows Photoshop.  Enjoy!

Sweet online meetings (No. 43)

May 11th, 2008

 This week we continue on, and try to help everyone save the planet by holding some meetings online. Thats right, using Acrobat Connect we can chat and collaborate live with each other. There is also a new competition. Just post a creative video as a response on Youtube, about how you can save the planet by June 15th 2008 and you could win a copy of Photoshop Elements for Mac or Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements for Window. Get To It!

Creative Green TV (No. 42)

April 23rd, 2008

Want to do your bit to stop the destruction of forests and halt global warming? Mike McHugh and Special Guest Paul Burnett show you how using Adobe Software. If your eyes are sick of reading off the screen, get the screen to to read it for you. Using Acrobat 8.0 we initiate a shared review and more. Special Thanks to Sarah Davies who deep down inside is a hippie.

Adobe Media Player

April 15th, 2008

AMPWatch what you want, when you want.The Adobe Media Player is cool and it has heaps of free TV channels including Comedy Central, CBS, Nickelodeon and MTV just to name a few. Its an Adobe Air Application that means its cross platform.You can even subscribe to creative Sweet TV using this Feed.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/creativesweettv/amp

AMP  get player

Mission Eyedropper (No. 41)

April 10th, 2008

 

Creative Sweet TV needs your help. Heaps of Eydropper tips this week AND… I am really hoping you can help us complete our mission… A team of guys from work and myself are working on a project as part of a team builder. From 4.30pm today *April 10th) until 12pm tomorrow (Friday 11th of April) we are trying to sell one million pixels herehttp://millioneyesofsight.com. All the proceeds going to The Fred Hollows Foundation www.fredhollows.org.au and as the pixels are sold they will reveal a picture. Follow our progress at http://millioneyesofsight.comSo how can you help us complete our mission? Pixels can be bought for a donation $2 or more on the on the http://millioneyesofsight.com. Every donation of over $25 goes into a draw to win one of four copies of Photoshop CS3. For those of you in Australia this is fully deductible, tax receipts will be sent out to you. We need all the help we can get so if you would be so kind as to send this message on to five friends on my behalf and it will really help us.

Selective FOCUS in Photoshop CS3 (No. 40)

March 31st, 2008

A great technique on how to change the focus on an image. Using Channel, layers and a filter in Photoshop CS3. Mike and his team “Generation Eye” from Adobe are planning a huge fundraiser to raise money for the Fred Hollows Foundation. All help will be appreciated. Stay tuned and get ready to dig deep.