NAPP's Photoshop User CS5 Learning Center
The NAPP Photoshop CS5 Learning Center features …
– 16 Videos on New Features
– Video Interview with Photoshop Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes
– Video Interview with Adobe Camera Raw Product Manager Tom Hogarty
– Feature List Outlining the more than 100+ new Photoshop CS5 Features
– CS5 FAQ
– Video “What the Pros are Saying” About CS5
– Pricing Information (including upgrade paths)
– Video CS5 Tips for Wacom Tablets
– What You Missed in CS4
– Video “10 Little-Known CS5 Tips” (NAPP Members Only)
There will also be free webinars and a free CS5 upgrade giveaway everyday.
Kelby Training will release 14 new CS5 online classes starting today.
Adobe Announces / Demos CS5 Online
Adobe announces CS5 today with live online previews featuring Julianne Kost, Terry White, Greg Rewis, and Jason Levine.
Register for the event now.
Tune in at 8 am PDT.
CS5 has been described as Adobe’s “most significant upgrade ever.” That’s a real challenge to live up to – PS5 introduced color management – but it might just be true. Whatever the case, there’s no question that CS5 is a must upgrade.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Sneak Peek – Puppet Warp
Russell Brown offers a sneak peak of Photoshop CS5’s new Puppet Warp feature. Initially, you might think you’re not interested in using a tool that can create such dramatic distortions. But give that a second thought. What would you do with a tool that can also create very subtle distortions that aren’t obvious but nonetheless compelling – straighten a bowed horizon, make one object lean towards another, reshape a face, etc.
Tune in tomorrow April 12 at 8am PDT for Adobe’s CS5 online announcement. Register now.
Photoshop CS5 Sneak Peek – Improved Brush Engine
Russell Brown demos CS5’s new improved brush engine.
Wow!
Tune in tomorrow April 12 at 8am PDT for Adobe’s CS5 online announcement. Register now.
Photoshop CS5 Sneak Peek – Better Edge Detection and Masking
Bryan O’Neil Hughes demos CS5’s new improved edge detection and masking.
This will give you better results and save you hours.
Tune in tomorrow April 12 at 8am PDT for Adobe’s CS5 online announcement. Register now.
Photoshop CS5 Sneak Peek – Content Aware Fill
Bryan O’Neil Hughes demos CS5’s new Content Aware Fill feature.
One of the game-changing new features in CS5 is Content Aware Fill. It works like the Patch tool, only it’s easier to use. You simply select an area, click Delete, and choose Content Aware Fill. It’s fantastic for removing unwanted elements in images, even in challenging image areas like smooth gradients in skies. This feature will save you hours and hours. It might even change the way you think about making photographs.
Tune in tomorrow April 12 at 8am PDT for Adobe’s CS5 online announcement. Register now.
iPhone OS 4
Yesterday, Apple announced the new OS 4 for iPhone (summer) and iPad (fall).
There are over 100 new features.
The big news is multi-tasking.
The top 7 of 100 iPhone OS 4 items include …
– Background Audio
– Voice Over IP
– Background Location
– Push Notifications
– Local Notifications
– Task Completion
Here are some interesting figures that put this all in a larger perspective.
– Apple is the largest mobile devices company in the world.
– 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies use the iPhone.
– 50 million iPhones sold to date. Add in the iTouch and it’s 85 million iPhones and iPod touches.
– iPhone is 64% of mobile browser usage. Everything else added together is half of the iPhone.
– 450K iPads sold to date.
– 185 K Apps in the Apple App Store now.
– 3500 iPad Apps now available.
– 1,000,000 Apps downloaded on first day of iPad.
– Over 600K downloads of iBooks.
– iAd is in the iPhone OS itself. 60% of revenue goes to the developer.
Learn more at Apple.
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Review the live coverage of the announcement at AppleInsider.
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Check out my latest article on The Huffington Post.
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SCAMPER
SCAMPER
Having trouble coming up with new ideas? Get thousands of ideas with one word. Try SCAMPER. In 1939 advertising executive Alex Osborn, “the father of brainstorming”, first proposed a set of nine strategies for creative thinking, seven of which were later rearranged by Bob Eberle into the mnemonic SCAMPER.
S Substitute
C Combine
A Adapt
M Modify
P Put to Other Uses
E Eliminate
R Rearrange
What are the other two missing words?
Minify, which I like to think of as expand and contract or put another way reduce and enlarge.
Reverse, which I think is the most powerful tool of all. It’s typified by the 180 degree rule. Do the opposite.
The underlying assumption with SCAMPER is that new ideas are based on old ones. This may not always be the case, but often it is. To use SCAMPER, you have to start with something.
You can use SCAMPER as a list of questions that can be used to generate new ideas. Simply ask, “Can I ____ something?” inserting the words SCAMPER represents one at a time. Next, you might try using two words at a time. Later try three. Classically, the best solutions are the simplest, but not always.
Find over 20 creativity tips here.
Learn more in my workshops.
Use PDFs to Make Blurb Books
Want to design your Blurb book with something other than BookSmart.
Want to use InDesign or Quark?
Make a PDF with them.
Then make a Blurb book from the PDF.
This way, you’ll have all the refined control of professional design software and still get print-on-demand books from Blurb.
Learn more about Blurb PDF workflow here.
Watch 3 helpful videos here.
Check out these great design books I recommend.
Find my Blurb book Antarctica here.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.