Monthly Archives: June 2015

25 Jun

Learn More About Adobe Stock

Adobe,Creative Cloud,Photography
Tags: 3D, Acquisition, Adobe, Apps, Creative Cloud, Desktop Apps, Digital Imaging, Fotolia, Images, Integration, Mobile, month-to-month, Photo Manipulation, Photography, Plans, South Africa, Standalone, Stock Images, Stock Service, updates
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Adobe recently unveiled Adobe Stock – a stock imagery service with deep integration into Creative Cloud. This marks the company’s first foray into the stock content business and the new product is the result of Adobe’s acquisition of the Fotolia stock content marketplace, fewer than six months ago.

Adobe Stock currently features about 40 million images (it shares its catalog with Fotolia, which will also remain online for the foreseeable future). For the time being, Stock will only feature images, but Adobe is looking to expand this service to video and other formats in the near future. Support for Adobe Stock is integrated into the 2015 release of Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC. The service is also available in 13 languages and 36 countries – including South Africa.

18 Jun

The 2015 Release of Creative Cloud

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Tags: 2015, Adobe, Africa, Android, Applications, CC, Creative Cloud, Design, Desktop, Images, iOS, iPad, Library, Lightroom, Photography, Photoshop, Photoshop CC, South Africa, Stock, Subscription, updates
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This release is for the artist who captures the colors of the sunset on the way home from his studio. For the designer who starts an ad layout on her iPad during her commute and finishes it on her desktop when she gets to work. For the photographer who wants to expand the reach of his work to a global community of buyers. And for the Creative Director who wants a secure way for her team to design, collaborate and access their creative assets. Creative Cloud customers are as diverse as the work they produce, but their desire to work without constraint, whenever and wherever an idea strikes them, is universally shared.

Adobe has been working really hard to make it easy for its users to move from device to device. The latest iteration of this is CreativeSync, that allows you to synchronize any of your files and assets across devices. It is paired with an integration of Creative Cloud Libraries into Adobe’s major design applications, so that users can make use of their brushes and other assets easily from any of their Creative Suite programs.

10 Jun

Top 5 productivity tips for Adobe Captivate

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Tags: Adobe, Apps, Authoring, Captivate, Colour, Community, Create, Ease of use, eLearning, iOS, Mobile, Photoshop, Presentation, Productivity, Share, shortcuts, Tips, Virtual classroom, Virtual Platform
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Adobe Captivate is a powerful eLearning tool which allows users to create several types of engaging and interactive eLearning courses.

To make the most of Captivate here are 5 productivity tips:

1. Always begin with Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a great photo-editing tool. Start creating your course layout in Photoshop using the exact eLearning course dimensions and then start importing and editing generic stock images within it. With Adobe’s recent partnership with Fotolia.com, stock images are easier to come by if you have a full Creative Cloud subscription. And even if you don’t, using Fotolia as a stand alone stock imaging platform and on a “pay-as-you-go” plan can bring your course to life.

04 Jun

Adobe Acquires Mixamo – Unlocking the Power of 3D

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Tags: 3D, 3D Modeling, 3D printing, Acquisition, Adobe, Animation, Characters, Design, Digital Imaging, Gaming, Mixamo, Packaging, Photo-realism, Photoshop CC, Technology, Tools
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Mixamo is a San Francisco based company that enables designers to create and customise a broad range of high quality 3D characters and animations, which provide significant benefits for the design community. These benefirs include:

Increasing productivity by reusing assets that can now be easily customised in 3D
Gain flexibility in making changes to lighting, environment, perspective and materials
Generate more realistic scenes in projects with life-like lighting, reflections and shadows
Produce greater output options in both still and motion
Create realistic packaging, product concepts and prototypes before manufacturing

02 Jun

Adobe Connect 9.4 – Your eLearning, Webinar and Meeting Solution

Collaboration,eLearning
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Connect, Collaboration, Devices, education, eLearning, Hosting, Meetings, Mobile, Online, Virtual Platform, Webinars
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Adobe Connect 9.4 introduces new offerings for elearning and webinars that allow customers to adopt complete solutions tailored for education, demonstration and meetings.

This updated version of Connect delivers enhancements and capabilities to address challenges faced by many orgaisations when conducting virtual meetings, webinars and online training.