Adobe Creative Cloud TV

The Adobe Bridge allows you to easily move images between the various CS2 apps. However, it also allows you to manage several aspects of the documents you're viewing. So it's probably a good idea to get a handle on how to be most efficient managing the various views in the Bridge and also to take advantage of Workspaces.

Adobe InDesign has some amazing layout tools. However, one of the graphic features it borrows from Adobe Illustrator is Compound Paths. In this episode I will show you how to take advantage of Compound Paths to create an effect of looking through window panes into an image. This tip comes from my team member Colin Fleming.

This tutorial comes from Justin Seeley. Justin is the host of the Photoshop Quicktips podcast. Justin was the star at Photoshop World Midnight Madness this past September with his winning tip of turning a photo into a sketch. His tip won the contest and his prize was a new iPod with video. I asked Justin if I could share his tip with you and he said absolutely. So here it is.

I get asked the question all the time, "How do I export HTML from InDesign." The answer is "you don't", at least not directly. You Package up your InDesign document for GoLive and let GoLive do the Export for you. In this episode we'll take a multi-page InDesign document and export one of the pages to HTML. I show you the ins and outs of how this feature works.

Adobe Illustrator is one of the most sophisticated drawing tools on the planet and sometimes we spend so much time on the whiz bang features that we forget that it is a "drawing tool". So in this episode we'll take a look at drawing with custom brushes.

Adobe Acrobat 8 Introduces a brand new forms workflow that automatically detects form fields in your PDFs automatically. You can also send your PDFs to users of the free Adobe Reader and they will be able to not only fill out your form, but also submit the data back to you so that you can compile it in a spreadsheet or database. In this episode I will show you just how easy it is.

InDesign is the undisputed champ when it comes to Typography control in a page layout application. Special Guest Mike McHugh. Mike has his own "Creative Sweet" podcast which he'll tell you about at the end of this episode. Mike will concentrate on ways to make your type fit perfectly in just about any given situation.

Photoshop can do many things, most never think to use it to "draw" with. Well, may Bert Monroy thinks about that everyday. However, for the rest of us it's not something that comes to mind usually. Special Guest Chita Hunter takes us through an easy method to get perfect dashed lines.

In this episode Special Guest Lynn Grillo from Adobe will show us how to create and use GoLive page templates. Templates in GoLive allow you to define the page design and placement of your objects. By using Templates if you ever decide to update/change the design of your site, all you have to do is modify the Template page that your site pages are based on. Bam, your site is now updated! Lynn is the GoLive Goddess of the World!

In this BONUS Episode we will take a look at the NEW Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional! Adobe also released a corresponding update to the Adobe Creative Suite Premium 2.3. This new version of Acrobat allows more collaboration and document sharing. This also includes the debut of Acrobat Connect!