Adobe Creative Cloud TV

Whether you're using a scanner or a digital camera chances are you've had images that required color corrections. In this episode you see how to color correct an image like a pro. We'll use Curves, Match Color and Adjustment Layers to make our adjustments.

We've talked about Smart Objects in GoLive in the past. However, in this episode well see how to create a Photoshop Smart Object that has text layers that can be altered directly in GoLive. This way you can change the text on your graphics without having to return to Photoshop.

Often times people think that Photoshop is the only tool to create reflections in photos and product shots. However, can pretty easily take advantage of the features in Illustrator CS2 to create very realistic reflections.

You can select images in the Bridge and send them to Photoshop to make a presentation slideshow. In this episode you'll see how to add some polish to those presentations as well as taking advantage of Acrobat specific transitions and settings. You'll also see how to tweak the settings to do automatic or manual slideshows.

In this episode we'll take an in-depth look at how to take advantage of Adobe Stock Photos. You'll also see how to search for a Photographer in your area. Well search for stock photography, download comp images and then place those comps into InDesign. You'll see how to do a Pre-flight in InDesign to show you which images are comps and still need to be purchased.

This isn't your grandfather's type on a path. InDesign has some hidden special effects that will make your type on a path much more compelling. Granted Type on a Path is not a new concept and has been around in Illustrator for years. However, no other application out there can handle Type on a Path as well as InDesign CS2. Don't beleive me? Watch this episode then.

This episode takes a look at how to create layers in Photoshop CS2 that build up to your signature. Then we'll pop over to Adobe ImageReady to put the finishing touches on animating that signature so that it can be used on the web or in your email application.

Every now and then you may need to use HTML tags outside of your HTML editor. Posting things for sale on eBay is a perfect example. In this episode you'll see how you can use GoLive CS2 to generate all the HTML to make your descriptions pop. After all a good description may be just enough to push someone to bid on your item over the other guy's.

Using a technique from my colleague Colin Smith at Adobe we'll see how to create one business card on the page and then using the Transform Effects we'll replicate the card multiple times up. This is a really slick way to make something once and have it repeated on the page as often as you like. The beauty of it is that you can still make changes to the original and have those changes replicate throughout the page. You can even save it as a Graphic Style to be used over and over again.

The introduction of transparency has been quite controversial in print production over the past few years. The fact is that for most transparency in Adobe files works just fine. However, those of us out there with older RIPs may have issues printing transparency. In this episode you'll see how to flatten transparency in your PDF files before you ever hit the Print command.