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Don't Forget to Sign Up for Tuesday's CS4 Preview from Adobe

Submitted by colleen on 19 September 2008 - 1:06pm.

Before you start your weekend... (Ah, I remember weekends, before I started working on the CS4 One-on-One offerings) don't forget to sign up here to join Adobe for the unveiling of CS4 on Tuesday. They promise brilliance, don'tcha know. (I've been watching Deke videos for days, don'tcha know. Next thing, I'll using phrases like "As it turns out" or "in order to undo that modification.") We're very excited around here to soon be able to debate the new features of our favorite Creative Suite applications with you, the revered citizens of dekeTopia.

When you get to the registration page, you can choose your time for viewing the launch event. You a die-hard, have-to-know-it-first kinda person? I'm thinking go for the "Europe 11AM" slot, and get the scoop before all your North American friends even wake up. Here in California, for me that means something like 3AM depending on Adobe's actual definition of "Europe." OK, in fairness, it says Central European Time, so that's 9 hours ahead for me, which puts me at the much more civilized hour of 2AM. But what is sleep compared to knowledge you can lord over your friends for at least 8 hours, during some of which they may not even still be asleep? (Ah, I remember sleep, of course, that was before I started working on the CS4 One-on-One offerings...) See you at virtual Adobe, my die-hard comrades! Read more » 

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Photoshop World Vegas Keynote Video Available

Submitted by colleen on 11 September 2008 - 11:40pm.

Hey all, just back from forever on the road (Deke didn't even mention the dekePod recording session we had in SF; I think he wants you to think that these works of brilliance pop fully formed out of his Zeus-like head and land on iTunes). As you know, Photoshop World happened. As you also know, you can get a sneak peek at the CS4 launch by registering here. But I also wanted to point you to a video of the key sections of the PSWorld keynote posted by Adobian Terry White over at the Creative Suite Podcast. When you watch it, you'll see there was a bunch of stuff about Lightroom 2 that neither Deke nor I mentioned ('cause you know, we're so of the moment we can't be bothered with a 2-week-old application, we have to talk about the ones that aren't even here yet!). It also includes John Loiacono and our Friend of dekeWorld John Nack demo-ing juicy bits of Photoshop "Next" live.

One little instructional thing about Terry's link... Read more » 

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Illustrator Transparency + Photoshop Resolve, Part 1

Submitted by deke on 29 June 2008 - 1:50am.

In this two-part article, we’ll take a low-quality digital photo of my youngest son, Sammy, banging on a hopelessly busted piano:

And transform it into a work of otherworldly vector-based weirdness (below bottom). The primary instrument of this transformation will be Adobe Illustrator’s Transparency palette. But while Illustrator can belt out a medley, can it carry a tune? The answer is, yes, so long as Photoshop oversees the final production.

Here's the idea: Illustrator allows you to assign varying levels of transparency to vector-based objects. That’s great because, as we’ll see, it makes for a remarkably versatile drawing environment. The problem is, Adobe's original vector-based technology, PostScript, doesn’t accommodate transparency. And given that PostScript has long been and continues to be the professional-level commercial reproduction standard, this conflict seems to raise a red flag: How can Illustrator make art that PostScript can't print? Read more » 

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