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Photoshop + Adobe Media Encoder = Video Rendering Bliss
If you’re using Photoshop Extended to perform color and tone correction in video footage, you may be frustrated by tying Photoshop up for long periods of time rendering video. If so, try offloading the rendering chores to Adobe Media Encoder CS4 or CS5. Simply save your color-corrected video files as layered .PSDs and open them [...]
30 Days of CS5: Conclusion
This wraps up our 30 Days of CS5 series. Although we’ve covered lots of new ground, we’re still really only scratching the surface of how these features can be implemented into your workflow to help you work faster and expand your creative options. Those deeper posts will continue over weeks and months to come, particularly [...]
30 Days of CS5: Fireworks a Web production hub?
Most Web sites begin their life as either a Photoshop or Illustrator document before they’re sliced, diced and often recreated into their HTML or Flash-based brethren. Fireworks, the oft-forgotten member of the Web Production Premium Suite, allows you to rapidly prototype Web and interactive designs, then export them directly to Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash Catalyst or [...]
30 Days of CS5: Ensuring Web site Consistency
I admit it, I’m an Mac fan. All the computers (and music players, and tablets and cell phones) in our studio are of the Macintosh variety. Though Macs are great tools for our line of work in visual communications, using Macs can be limiting when preparing content for the World Wide Web when I know [...]
30 Days of CS5: Code Snippets
Flash Professional’s new Code Snippets is one of those features that makes me both love and hate Adobe. The love comes from a deep gratitude for taking a difficult task and making it much faster and easier. The hate comes from the fact that I’m not programattically inclined and I’ve spent a good chunk of [...]
30 Days of CS5: Flash Catalyst
In late 2007 Adobe began providing sneak peeks at a nascent technology from the Adobe test labs. Code name “Thermo,” this new technology promised to allow designers to rapidly create and prototype interactive Web sites and Web applications without the need for coding. Once the design of the site was completed, they could hand off [...]
30 Days of CS5: Captions
InDesign’s new captioning features allow you to, you guessed it, generate captions for your images, illustrations and multimedia. Less obvious uses of the features allow catalog publishers to add SKU numbers or product names to the photos automatically. With a little bit of creativity, virtually anyone who uses photos regularly in their design work can [...]
30 Days of CS5: Adobe Configurator 2.0
As a part of the redesign of Photoshop CS4, Adobe introduced flash panels. To most users, these changes appeared to be merely cosmetic, but to developers, flash panels allow for the creation of custom panels within Photoshop that look and behave similarly to the native panels created by Adobe. To make the creation of Flash [...]
30 Days of CS5: Auto Keyframing
For many people, myself included, switching from still to motion graphics requires us to rethink the way we prepare our files. Not only do we have the static components (composition, content, color, contrast, etc.) but we also now have a temporal component to consider and control. When I began playing with motion graphics, I found [...]
30 Days of CS5: 64-bit processing in After Effects and PP: Mercury Playback Engine
Like Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects CS5 are rewritten as native 64-bit applications. This allows you to use as much RAM as you have installed in your machine. 64-bit compatibility, combined with the new Mercury Playback Engine, allows Premiere Pro to render video files exceptionally fast. This allows you to work more responsively with [...]
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