If you want to be a pro at using Adobe Illustrator you need to know these essential tips. These are my absolute favourite and most used tips and shortcuts. Pay close attention because there a quite a few. Drawing tips duplicating tips pen tool tips and coloring shortcuts. Both mac and PC shortcuts are mentioned. Dont forget to Follow Creative Sweet TV on Twitter @CS_TV and visit www.creativesweettv.com

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.

Everyone wants to create 3D content nowadays and Photoshop CS5 Extended has got some great additions to its 3D capabilities. Learn how to extrude some text and get it to integrate into a photograph by casting a shadow over the background. Combined with content aware fill and also with complex selections we can make a pretty cool looking image. Every man and his dog will get into this one.

Andrew Spaulding and I are trying to raise awareness of the Adobe Online Creative Festival. Please follow our Progress on twitter @CS_TV and @spaulds . Sure its gonna be tough, but I can master pages in InDesign then 860 odd KMs should be a breeze right?
Join us on July 27th at the Adobe Online Creative Festival (OCF) to see Adobe Creative Suite 5 used in fresh new ways from world renowned creatives.
Chat live to our special guests, ask the hard questions, and get excited about doing more with your great ideas.

Can I use the Direct Export From InDesign to make press ready PDF files? Of course you can, its awesome. See what all the different settings mean to your PDF files. Not only that, in this episode of Creative Sweet TV we have a look the new Background Processes Panel in InDesign CS5. So if you want to have a good overview of exporting PDF files you’ve come to the right place.

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!

There is a new version of Photoshop on its way, so Creative Sweet TV has thrown its hat into the ring and created this fantastic infomercial all about the benefits of Content Aware Fill. Thank you content aware fill and thank you Photoshop. Dont forget to register for the CS5 launch event for APAC here http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ap/

Creating artwork for print has come along way with InDesign. You need to check for many things before printing, like missing fonts, resolution even specific spot colors. We take a good close look at the Live Preflight in InDesign CS4, it will do all of the heavy lifting for you if set up correctly.

If you would like some more info on the Adobe Content Server for DRM or even Digital Editions you should check out these pages. there is also a link to the content server on there, but you will have to have more than a man look. As well as all this there is also an excellent video on the topic from last Octobers Max conference in LA. It goes on for while but if you really need to make these things then this will help you do it.

Oh and if you have any questions you should ask the two masked banditos from the www.thequestionroom.com and follow them on twitter @thequestionroom Then of course there was that video of the digital version of wired magazine. Thats truely awesome. Its on Adobe TV.

One of the most important tools in Photoshop is the Clone tool and the Heal Brush Tools. Learn how to tackle them both and learn a few extra tips along the way. Mike shows you how to retouch an old Photograph and take aways spots and creases. In all its a fun happy episode with loads of fun and excitement. Remember you can follow mike on twitter @creativesweettv and and if you ever have any questions about anything Adobe Related follow @thequestionroom and they can help.

Just aligning your text using the Justify button is just not good enough. However you can just watch this video tutorial all about the secrets of getting justified text looking just right. None of that horrible hyphenation either. Just letter space, word space and a little bit of typographic cheating is in order.

Learn how to trace placed images into Illustrator CS4 with a number of different methods. Redraw a logo, and redraw a map as well. Also take a hand drawn image that contains line work and convert it to vectors with the Live Trace Feature. In all we look at 3 different methods and heaps of sweet tips… business as usual.

Learn how to create web galleries with Adobe Creative Suite 4. Use Adobe Bridge’s Output Module to create a Web Gallery very easily. Also Use InDesign and photoshop.com to create and Interactive Flash Gallery Too. There is loads to learn in this episode that shows 3 ways to create web Galleries with no coding.

Have a sneak look at Flash Catalyst beta 2. Take a Layered Photoshop File, open it in Flash Catalyst and add interactivity without using any code at all. Create a toggle button and a transition between 2 pages. Thanks to Cory West and the Flash Catalyst team.

After Visiting Adobe Max in LA, This week Mike takes a leaf out of Russell Browns Handbook of tips, and relays on the great learning. Take a Camera Raw image of a Samurai Warrior shot on a green screen background and cut him out using masks and Hue Saturation. You will be truely amazed by the stunning results. http://www.creativesweettv.com