We start by creating a wireframe of a mobile site using Adobe Proto Touch app for Android, using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. We then save the HTML 5 file to the desktop via Adobe Creative Cloud. Then the html is opened in Adobe Edge Preview for animation. We then create some great SVG graphics in Adobe Illustrator and leave on the editing capabilities. Then we copy paste some animations, and round trip the graphics back to Illustrator for kicks. Its fun its flexible and most of all its HTML5 animation. Enjoy.
Sometimes you think somethings are impossible and then it appears in Photoshop. There are a few things that have made their way into Photoshop over the years that have made me do a double take. I love those magic surprises. The first time I saw the Content Aware Scale Feature (introduced in Photoshop CS4) I had to check to see if it was April 1st, because I thought after many years of being a designer that “that” was impossible. Anamorphic-ally scaling an image but without distorting it! It actually wasn’t in Photoshop that I saw it. It was on Youtube.
Shai Avidan (who presented the video) is now a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe. I was blown away by this as were many other people and this lead to to the technology being developed to the create the now famous Content aware fill. See a great tutorial from Russell Preston Brown. There have also been some pretty funny spoof type videos made as a homage to this great technology. This one here, the Photobomber and my own, lame attempt at an infomercial.
But hold the Phone, there appears to be a new kid in town. We have heard of sharpening before, but have you heard of deconvolution sharpening? I had and it seemed liked science fiction to me, which lead me to play several practical jokes on unsuspecting audiences across Australia and New Zealand using a technique of slowly enlarging a smart object layer with the image size panel.
But all that silliness aside how many times have you been asked as a Photoshop Professional to enhance an image more than is possible? I think it comes from TV and movie clips as shown on ” Lets Enhance” Lets vector in on the clip below and look at section A6.
Thats awesome. But just recently at Adobe Max in LA A new technology was sneaked out called de-blurring. Presented by Jue Wang.
Again I was blown away, I think this time I learnt my lesson. Nothing is impossible with Photoshop and the future is very bright indeed with Photoshop. I look forward to more magic in the future.
If you ever have to do any repetitive tasks for images then you should create an action for it. In this episode we create an action that will build out, various sizes of application icons for use in Air Apps IOS Apps and even Android applications. We then save the Action out as a droplet. all you need to do then is drop your original artwork on it and magic, there are all of your icons. Thanks to the power of Photoshop.
The apps shown will be available on the app store early in May 2011. Join Mike McHugh as he demonstrates one of Adobes iPad apps Eazel. . Learn how to draw with the exciting new interface design. Then Transfer your drawings over to Photoshop CS5 to creating a great new drawing. Don’t Forget you can follow mike on Twitter @CS_TV. For information regarding developing using Adobe Touch Software developer Kit Please visit.
Today, we’re officially announcing our first steps toward uniting the fun of touch with the precision and power of Photoshop on the desktop. With a free Adobe Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK), we’re essentially opening the doors to two way communication between mobile and tablet devices and Photoshop CS5, which allows developers to now offer a wide range of interactive apps. What does this two way communication mean for you?
Read More here http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2011/04/when-vision-turns-into-reality-–-photoshop-cs5-interaction-with-tablet-devices….html
In this space aged episode of Creative Sweet TV, we use a series of images and stitch them together in a fantastic time lapse using Photoshop CS5 Extended. Thanks to the images from my Brother James from www.deepspaceplace.com. Unfortunately he set the white balance on Auto and it needed to be fixed. Not as easy as you would think! We use the color Blend mode and the blend if sliders to fix it up. But we also keep the subtle color of the planets.
Not for the faint of heart. This advanced interactive lesson in InDesign CS5 covers many of the interactive features of CS5. The Buttons panel, Animation, Timing, and Mult-istate Objects. We get them all working together to make a roll down menu that triggers a multi-state object. This could be very useful for many different projects with a little imagination and creativity. Don’t Forget you can follow mike on Twitter @CS_TV. Download example files from Roll down Menu_Start.indd.
A very special guest Brian Chau from Adobe, shows us exactly how to use Flash CS5 to publish directly to an Android 2.2 device. We use Brian’s very own HTC Desire. We show you where to get the needed extensions http://labs.adobe.com/ and then into Flash CS5 and look at some special AS3 for gestures on touch screen devices. We also look at the publish settings for Android and publish and Air application and deploy directly to the device. http://brianchau.wordpress.com/ Brian Chau’s sample file.
Sometimes when you get a PDF, you need to extensively edit the content. Or even import it back into InDesign for layout! You can save the PDF file as a Word Document or even Excel Document for immediate and swift importation . Its a very useful new feature of Adobe Acrobat X. This is the first look CSTV has had at Acrobat X and we explore a few of the other new things, but by no means all of them. Don’t forget you can follow mike on twitter if you are that way inclined on @cs_tv
