Entries tagged with “adobe” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

What do you do when your primary creative tool stops working? It's an increasingly common problem as our tools become digital. I've lost great programs from companies that tanked, but when a program from a company that's still in business refuses to launch, it really chaps my hide.

Good friend of O'Reilly and Adobe Photoshop PM Bryan O'Neil Hughes has written a guest post today on John Nack's blog, featuring all the things that are new and interesting for Photographers in Photoshop CS4

The new shortcuts in Photoshop CS4 will bring relief to some and pain to others. John Nack explains the changes and some of the reasons behind them.

I'm sitting here with the official Reviewer's Guide for Photoshop CS4, and application that has been my constant companion for the last three months. As I'm flipping through the guide, I'm thinking, "Oh, yeah, that's nice. And yes, I like that too." But it doesn't get to the heart of this application. And this version has heart. It's not often...

Want to know what's in store for the next version of Photoshop (or your other Creative Suite favorites)? Without a having a public beta this go around, we've been having to glean clues about what might be in store for Photoshop "Next" from a variety of sources. Next week on Tuesday (September 23), we'll be able to see Creative Suite...

DekePod is back with an insane vengeance. Here's a behind the scenes look.

Adobe AIR applications turned out to be a lot more interesting that I originally thought they would be. So far, I'm finding and using AIR apps in the way I thought I would use Dashboard Widgets when Tiger came out. Dashboard never really captured my attention after trying out a few widgets. AIR apps have become part of my daily use toolkit. Read on to see why...

The feedback starts flying, from Orlando, Tasmania, and virtual points in between, as Adobe invites users to download the public beta of Lightroom 2.0.

I was pleased to actually find out I could get image previews of the contents of my iDisk folder via Adobe Bridge.

After three years of tweaking, I finally dropped off the files for my new book, The Moon Princess, at the printer today. One of the last design challenges was creating a drop cap for the opening word, Long. The white space at the L's right edge broke the flow. Googling around for ideas, I found this vintage screencast by O’Reilly...

Adobe Bridge's Flatten View feature allows you to see all the contents of your subfolders in one window. Working with a large project becomes easier when you can visually scan your entire project. Here's where to find that handy, if obscure, button in the Filter panel.

For most of the 1990s, the design market was shared by three programs: page-layout software QuarkXPress, image editor Adobe Photoshop, and drawing application Macromedia FreeHand. (Some shops preferred Illustrator, but FreeHand tended to be the more popular choice of page designers.) This benefited users by inspiring fierce competition between the suitors, with each doing its dead-level best to remain on...

As we get set to do the final push on Mikkel's Photoshop CS3 RAW book, this news via Adobe's John Nack is certainly timely. Although the ubiquitous Lightroom vs. Aperture debate rages on (and sometimes clouds our perception), turns out most professional photographers polled by Infotrends still use the classic Adobe Camera Raw/Bridge/Photoshop combo for their RAW workflow. No surprise...

I met with Mark Dahm, Adobe Senior Product Manager for Photoshop Elements 6, last week at Adobe HQ in San Jose, CA. If you've been following the product cycle, Elements 6 for Windows was recently released, with the Mac version coming early next year. I had a lot of questions for Mark. Down one path, it appears to me that...

The second leg of our on AIR Bus tour is a week in and we've had some great events. We took a weekend detour on Saturday to visit a user group in Raleigh, NC which turned out really well. It was more intimate than our other events but it had a great vibe. On the east coast our legs have...

In a world that is saturated with color, there is something about the elegant simplicity of black-and-white imagery that gets right to the heart of things. The removal of color allows our eyes and minds to focus on subtleties of shadow and shape in a way that's different from our everyday visual experience. Creating a beautiful black-and-white image can be...

I'm sitting at the event in Denver today which is the last stop on our West Coast leg. The events have all been really fantastic and there are some great developers out there looking to build on Adobe AIR. But it's also been fun for us as a team to do this trip. We've all gotten to know each other...

Our Los Angeles event went really, really well. We had great turnout and the entire thing lasted over 12 hours with a lot of people sticking around for the whole thing. After the event, which ended at around 9:45, we all took a cab back to the hotel to pack and shower. Then around 1:00 we headed out for the...

We spent our first night on the bus last night. We got into Portland in the afternoon with not much time to spare. We had a lot of traffic between Seattle and Portland and also got into the wrong line at customs which delayed us a bit. The Portland event went really well with a great, enthusiastic crowd that was...

We're off and running on the bus tour. We changed the front page of the site so you can track exactly where the bus is at any given time. We got off to a later start that we had planned but we had to do some promotional filming and get everyone's stuff on the bus. We also had to clear...