Smart Filters on text in Photoshop CS3. Smart Objects and Filters in Photoshop CS3 are some of my favorite features. Veerle does a great job explaining how to make the most of them. (Via Veerle’s blog.)
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I was just reading through this post on creativebits about version strategies:
I know the Adobe package contains Version Cue, but I never really managed to grasp how it works. Every time I try to learn about it, all I find is marketing mumbo-jumbo instead of a simple tutorial on how to use it, and I get discouraged. If you know a place to learn about it, please share!
Just as I thought, a lot of creative professionals either don’t even know that Version Cue exists or if they do, can’t wrap their head around how it works. It’s sad because being a software developer myself, no one wants to think that all their efforts into building out a feature are lost to the general audience of that product. What makes Ivan post even more tragic is the fact that his suggested versioning scheme is very similar to what Version Cue does for you behind the scenes.
I’ve known about Version Cue for quite some time (GoLive Server anyone?) and had the opportunity to start using it last year when my team went from one (lonely ol’ me) to now about five people who need to access our graphical assets, designs, and page comps. I quickly realized when the team started to grow that we needed to arrive at a solution that would allow us all to share assets from a central repository and not trip ourselves up from saving over each other’s files. We were able to set up the server just fine and with any software, it took us a little bit of time to get comfortable using it but nowadays it works great for us.
I would like to know what all of you think about Version Cue and if a deeper dive into how to use Version Cue and what it’s doing would be helpful to anybody. Would it?
Sphere: Related ContentAdobe’s Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere. This sounds like big news. Let’s hope that it is. (Via TechCrunch.)
Adobe discontinues GoLive “Adobe has discontinued sales and development of its Web design software GoLive in favor of Dreamweaver, which it acquired as part of its Macromedia purchase.
(Via MacCentral.)
As I’ve said before, don’t count any application in or out in Adobe’s eyes if they have a competing product offering. But back in March 2006, Adobe did say they plan to continue to support GoLive and FreeHand. Continuing to support and continuing development are two very different things.
I’ll miss the web development application that I cut my teeth on. I remember GoLive when it was GoLive CyberStudio. I just threw out all those manuals last year. Sure, Dreamweaver had a lot more features when it came to coding but GoLive definitely had a more accessible interface and visual design tools. R.I.P. GoLive. You helped me a lot back in the day.
Sphere: Related ContentFirst Look: Adobe Media Player. Yet another media player to rule them all. I think this could be a contender if it subsumes Flash Player and Adobe Reader.
(Via MacCentral.)
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Veerle’s offers up another incredibly helpful tutorial on another one of Illustrator’s often overlooked features: the Pucker and Bloat effects.
I think Adobe should just hire Veerle to do all their tutorials since oftentimes the new tutorials that come with a new release only cover new releases and not the oldie but goodies.
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Why Apple Won’t Buy Adobe
Why Apple Won’t Buy Adobe As usual, a great editorial from John Gruber about the likelihood of Apple buying Adobe. (Via Daring Fireball.)