Adobe Creative Cloud TV

Most of the tools in Photoshop CS2 have settings that make the tool work a certain way. If you find yourself constantly adjusting tool settings to get the tool to work the way you want it to, then you should be taking advantage of Tool Presets. In this episode I'll show you just how easy it is to set up as many Tool Presets as you need.

Most websites start out as mockups in Photoshop or Illustrator. In this episode I'll show you how to take a multi-layered Photoshop file and slice it up in Photoshop. Then we'll take that Photoshop file into Adobe GoLive CS2 and assign links to the slices from Photoshop.

With Illustrator CS2 you have Filters and Live Effects. In this episode I will show you the advantages of using Effects vs. Filters. You'll also see the best practices for setting your Raster Effects Settings. Also if you need to make changes to your effects in the future you'll see how to do so with the Appearance palette.

When Adobe acquired Macromedia we got a great technology called Breeze. Breeze has been rebranded Acrobat Connect and Acrobat Connect Professional. Acrobat Connect allows you to host online meetings with up to 15 people at a time 24 hours a day. The beauty of Acrobat Connect is that it's based on Flash technology which means that you can be assured that 98% of your meeting participants will be able to participate in your meetings without having to download anything first. Although it's called Acrobat Connect you can use this technology to share your screen/desktop and show any kind of application including PowerPoint presentations. Acrobat Connect is a hosted service and therefore there is a monthly fee. You can signup for a free trial account to try it out.

If your camera can shoot in Camera RAW you should take advantage of Camera RAW inside the Adobe Bridge. The Bridge offers Camera RAW processing in batch so that you don't have to make your adjustments one-by-one. In this episode we'll take an introductory look at how Camera RAW works.

One issue that former QuarkXPress users run into all the time is taking the extra step to group their objects together first before resizing them. In InDesign CS2 not only is this not necessary, but it may also cause frustration with the way text sizes are represented after the objects are scaled. In this episode I'll show you the best practices for resizing and I will also show you how to correct the text issues caused by grouping first.

With Smart Objects in Photoshop you can be confident that you can resize your images down without throwing away any data. This way you can change your mind at a later date and resize your images back up to retain the original quality. You can also group multiple layers into Smart Objects to control various design aspects of your project.

In our last GoLive episode we took a look at how to export HTML from an InDesign document by first packaging it for GoLive. In this episode we'll take a look at going further into this feature by taking a package from InDesign and building a page from scratch using the elements from the package. These elements are Smart Objects that update the HTML page with the InDesign document is updated.

Every good illustrator knows the advantage of using a Wacom tablet with Adobe Illustrator. In this episode we'll take a look at the power of using pressure sensitivity. When you plug in a Wacom tablet it doesn't automatically set your tools to be pressure sensitive. I'll show you how to set your brushes to really take advantage of your new tablet.

Preflighting PDFs in Acrobat Professionals keeps getting better with each version. In previous versions of Acrobat you could run PDFs against the Preflight tool and it would either pass or fail. If it failed you would then have to manually resolve the problems in the PDF or by generating a new PDF. In Acrobat 8 Professional you can now apply "Fix-ups" to correct the most common problems encountered in working with PDFs for print.