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.

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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

Its so annoying when you see an InDesign document that has been put together with tabs and spaces all over the place. Common everyone lets get the tabs right and then put them into paragraph styles as well. Its not that hard when you see how to use the tab ruler. We do Right indent tabs, leaders and indent to here as well. What an awesome episode. Creative Sweet TV really is the home of well thought out tabs, and documents that allow for easy editing don’t forget you can follow Mike on twitter @cs_tv. Have a great Christmas break and thanks everyone for watching creative Sweet TV see you in 2011.

InDesign CS5 has a whole bunch of new interactive features. We take a close look at how to use the multi-state objects to create a simple image gallery. We use Adobe Bridge to drage and drop or place images, we also use the new corner effects. But more importantly than that we use the ugliest arrow heads ever and copy and paste them from Illustrator cs5 to create buttons that trigger out gallery!

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Adobe Illustrator has some fantastic vector drawing tools, great for creating repeated patterns for use on fabrics clothing and any design work. However if you you make the repeat too large the files can become quite cumbersome and the file sizes are massive. Learn how to create the most efficient, flexible Illustrator artwork . Use pattern swatches, symbols and a transform effect that will blow you tiny little minds! Don’t forget you can follow Mike on twitter @cs_tv

Get a glimpse behind the scenes of Creative Sweet TV. Using Premier Pro to do a really quick and really effective green screen key. Using native AVCHD footage and very basic fold out screen. Also use a garbage matt to trim the edges and its all good to go. The entire episode created with Premier Pro CS5.

This is a whole host of techniques used for portrait retouching. Get smooth flawless skin, remove wrinkles and brighten eyes. Whilst the tutorial is very fast moving many of the techniques can be used inn more detail to get some fantastic results. Its all non destructive and uses many layers. Thats why Mike is the best Photoshop User ever! Even he he does say so himself.

Dont you just hate it when you get a word or line of text left all by itself? Learn how to fix Widows and Orphans within InDesign Paragraph composer. Don’t switch it off man, it works really well if you know what to do. Use non breaking spaces and keep options to get it all sorted. Don’t forget you can follow Mike on Twitter @CS_TV

Learn how to use the InDesign CS5 Table of Contents feature. Its based on using Paragraph Styles to format your document. Once created the table of contents will be interactive when you create a PDF Ebook or even a .swf output. Learn how to style them and all about the options available when creating it. Don’t Forget you can now follow @CS_TV on twitter.

If you’re just starting out with Photoshop and need to get a grip on what resolution you need then this is the episode of Creative Sweet TV for you. We take a good close look at what the required resolutions are for print and onscreen. What is the best way to reduce the size of an image, and how to get the best results when doing any type of image resizing. If you work with someone who doesn’t seem to understand that you can just take a really low resolution image and blow it up to a billboard, then force them to watch this show from start to finish. It may just save YOU a lot of frustration.

Learn how to create live captions in InDesign CS5 that use the data entered into the meta data of an image. Adobe Bridge can allow you to eneter a description into the IPTC core data and then InDesign CS5 can access that and auto format it using Paragraphs styles. Simple? Fun ? You betcha. Follow Mike on twitter @CS_TV

This is the most Magical episode of Creative Sweet TV ever. Mike has secretly always wanted to be a magician and shows off his skills by bending a spoon with his mind. Turns out that Photoshop does a much better job and the new Puppet Warp feature in Photoshop CS5 comes to the rescue. We then explore all the options available when warping objects. All the spoons are broken, and in a strange sequence of events Mike magically bends a fork instead. Don’t forget you can follow @CS_TV on twitter to get all mikes latest updates.

This time its right, this time its better, this time it WORKS awesomely. The new tools to create complex selections in Photoshop CS5 allow both professional long time users to get a great result faster and new users to to get a professional result without tearing their hair out. There are plenty of options for user interaction and can result in new layers, new layers with layer masks even output to a new document with a layer mask. The 1st CS5 episode of Creative Sweet TV is a belter!