Great Website - graphicfetish

Here's a great site I found while reading a Facebook post from UNH Printing and Mail Services. It's called Graphic Fetish and it's a great site for ideas on design, illustration ideas, tutorials, photography and more. Check it out and let me know what you think. If you are a Facebook user, you may want to "like" UNH Printing and Mail Services. They are a great resource.

HTML 5 Basics

Rendering animated models in mobile games

Updating jQuery and jQuery Mobile in Dreamweaver CS5.5

Greg Rewis is the Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Creative Suite Web Premium at Adobe Systems, Inc.

This is his personal blog. The views, comments, rants and other mindless drivel are his and his alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe Systems, their employees or partners in any way.

Greg can be reached at:blog@assortedgarbage.com

ColdFusion Builder 2 is now available! Try it for 60-days, then keep on using it for FREE!

Adobe® ColdFusion® Builder™ 2 software is the only professional IDE for quickly and easily building ColdFusion applications. Customize your work environment to improve workflow, and easily expand functionality with extensions built with CFML.

For more information, go to the Adobe ColdFusion Builder webpage. You may also want to follow ColdFusion on Facebook.

Photoshop Guru Bert Monroy

Many of you have heard me talk about digital artist and Photoshop guru Bert Monroy. Some of you also had a chance to see him with me in Boston a few years ago. Whether you had that pleasure or not, you should check out Bert's podcast site, Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy. It's a great way to enhance your Photoshop skills.

Here's the latest, Create a Photo Drawing in Photoshop:



You should also take a look at Bert's artwork created entirely in Photoshop using filters, shapes, etc. They are truly magical.

Packaging web applications as mobile apps using Dreamweaver CS5.5

From the Adobe Dreamweaver Developer Center and Jon Michael Varese:

"Dreamweaver CS5.5 now includes integration with PhoneGap—an open-source development framework for building mobile apps. The integration between the two is seamless, and you do not need to know anything about PhoneGap to take advantage of its functionality.

The Dreamweaver/PhoneGap integration lets you quickly deploy your web applications as native apps for Android- and iOS-based mobile devices. (A native application is one written to run on a specific operating system/device.) The PhoneGap framework acts as an API bridge between web applications and mobile devices. It helps you wrap web applications within mobile apps, even if you aren't familiar with coding languages such as Objective-C or Cocoa.

This tutorial shows you how to package an existing mobile app built in Dreamweaver. It does not show you how to build that application from scratch, nor does it show you how to deploy the packaged application on a mobile device. Those topics will be covered in other tutorials, scheduled for later publication." Read on......

Education Evolution

An Insider's Look at InDesign!

For all you InDesign fans there is an upcoming seminar in Boston, November 4th that you shouldn't miss. I've already registered ($129). Unlike most Boston seminars, you can park right at the facility in student parking spots or take the MBTA right to the school. Here's the write-up:

Have you unlocked the full potential of Adobe InDesign? In one power-packed day, we will show you the tips, tricks and techniques you need to take on those tight deadlines. Boost your productivity with a whole new skill set that will have you working at lightning fast speeds. CS3, CS4 and CS5 users welcome.  

For more information and to register: 
http://www.mogo-media.com/seminars/the-indesign-seminar-series/2011/boston/  

Location: Bunker Hill Community College Charlestown Campus - Lecture Hall C202 250 New Rutherford Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02129

Ask a CS Pro: Gradients and Gradient Mesh in Illustrator

Want to know more about Illustrator? Join Adobe Illustrator's Ask a Pro webinar on Friday. Here's the info from the Adobe Illustrator Facebook page: 

Ah, the humble gradient...so often designers overlook it or misuse it because they don't understand its design value or don't know how to use it properly. In this session you’ll learn techniques to give your art depth, dimension and pizzazz. Once you master these skills, you'll have access to new ways to infuse excitement into your designs and art creation!

Here's a an idea of what to expect during the session:
• Adding light perception and depth with a basic gradient
• Bringing your art alive with Gradient Mesh
• The value of Gradient Swatches
• A nifty hidden feature in CS5 that lets you finally add a gradient to live text.
• Understanding that crazy Gradient Tool
• How the Gradient Panel can help
• Non-uniform gradients with Gradient Mesh
• Other topics as time allows, so feel free to post your requests here!

We'll see you this Friday, May 20, at 12 p.m. PT in our Connect Room:http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/askcspro. The room will open up 15 minutes before the session starts. Just click on the link above and sign in as a guest to join.

Session start time for other time zones are:
ET: 3 p.m.
CET: 9 p.m.
GMT: 19:00

Dreamweaver CS5.5 and Mobile

Reminder - Meeting Today!

Want to learn how to make an image dance in the clouds? Join us today from 1:30 to 3:30. I will show you some cool Photoshop techniques that you can use on your website, flyers, posters, etc. We have some great giveaways as well. Hope to see you there! Faye

New Website You Should Check Out

I found a new website for you Photoshop/InDesign buffs. The site is graphicdriver.   This site is unlike most sites I recommend. Most of the cool stuff comes at a cost. They do have freebies. The image to the left is one of them. You do not pay anything to become a member and the form to get started is quick and easy to fill out. What it does have is a list of templates, etc. that come at a very small price. For example, you are trying to create a brochure, but have no idea where to start. You can buy an InDesign template for around $6. Now, you are buying the template for one time only, but for that price, I consider it a great deal. The templates are complex and vary widely by design. You can also buy a vector image for a presentation - again it is a one time only deal, but a high quality vector image for $3 is still a steal. Check out their site and let me know what you think.

Scott Fegette, Senior Product Manager at Adobe Speaks

From Building 43: Listen to Scott Fegette, Senior Product Manager at Adobe (a very funny, brilliant guy) speak about the way desktop publishing has changed since it's inception: 

Adobe TV: Reader's Digest: Multi-Platform Digital Publishing on Tablet Devices

How to Automatically Change Your Default Printer Based on Your Location

From How to Geek and Mike Toepfer:

Windows 7 has a ton of great features, most of which are really obvious—but there’s also some great features hidden away that you might not know even exist. One of these is that Windows 7 can automatically change your default printer based on which network you’re connected to.

How to Isolate and Save Vocals Using Audacity

Mike Toepfer sent me this link about removing music from vocals that I think you will find interesting. The same rules apply for removing the vocals (karaoke) and saving the music, just done in reverse. Thanks Mike!

Ask a CS Pro: All About InDesign Styles (Part 1 of 2)

As you know from my previous post, I follow InDesign on Facebook and the following webinar was announced on the page and I thought I would share it with you. Join in if you can. I think it will be well worth your time. InDesign is an amazing program and often users don't use it to it's full potential. Here's a way to learn how:

Adobe Connect Room: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/askcspro

Never found a use for InDesign styles yet? Or perhaps you’re comfortable with Paragraph and Character styles but you haven’t quite figured out what nested styles, grep styles, or object styles are about. In part one of a two part webinar series, Senior Product Manager Kiyo Toma will lay the foundation for styles in InDesign, including why styles are important for every designer, an overview of Paragraph, Character styles, and Nested styles.

Join us this Friday, May 6 at 12 p.m. PT in our Connect Room:http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/askcspro. The room will open up 15 minutes before the session starts. Just click on the link above and sign in as a guest to join.

Session start time for other time zones are:
ET: 3 p.m.
CET: 9 p.m.
GMT: 19:00

About Kiyo Toma

Kiyo Toma is a Senior Product Manager with the InDesign product team at Adobe Systems. He's been involved in design, publishing, and technology for 23 years, setting his first line of type on a 512K Apple Macintosh computer.

While mastering early versions of Quark and Pagemaker, Kiyo eventually tired of washing toner and developer fluid from his hands and focused his career on technology. He then proceeded to learn a number of markup languages (HTML, SGML, and XML) but just as he was tiring of typing angle brackets, he was lucky enough to find employment at Adobe Systems, where he has been working for 13 years.

Hope to see you there!

Adobe Creative Suite (Facebook link)