Adobe Creative Cloud TV

I've already shown you in previous episodes how to take advantage of Keywords and other metadata to quickly find your images. In this episode we'll take a look at how to create your search criteria once and use it over and over again with dynamic Collections. The Bridge is about to get a whole lot smarter in helping you find exactly what you're looking for.

Although Adobe InDesign CS2 is an outstanding print application, it can also do a great job of creating interactive content for PDF or the web. The key to creating an interactive document lies your ability to create Hyperlinks. In this episode well see how to create Hyperlinks and URLs from scratch. Then we'll export the InDesign document to PDF to take it for a spin.

You took a great shot with your digital camera. However, how do you make it look like it was taken by a pro? It's all about the "presentation." in this episode you'll see how to create a "Gallery Print." We'll even record the steps as an action so that you can instantly transform any of your shots into Gallery Prints.

OK, this one is for the Mac users out there with a dotMac account or those windows users out there that are creating websites for clients who plan to host them on Apple's .Mac service. In this episode you'll see how to setup Adobe GoLive CS2 to be able to publish directly to a .Mac account using WebDAV.

Placing images inside text is nothing new. However, the old way involved converting the text to outlines first and thereby making the text uneditable. In this episode you'll learn how to fill your text with an image while maintaining complete edit-ability of the text. Illustrator CS2 is the answer.

OCR is usually a bad word to most computer users. However, in Acrobat it's the next best thing to sliced bread. Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional not only employs Optical Character Recognition for your text, but it does Page Recognition to preserve the geometry of your pages. Everything stays in place and your paper documents become searchable, reusable text!

In this episode we will take a look at how to process digital camera images through the bridge (or over the bridge). We will see how the Bridge workflow works. Going from the camera's Camera RAW format to .DNG format and then into the Bridge where we add metadata, keywords and ratings. We can then use the search capabilities to narrow down the images to just the right shot.

InDesign's Eye Dropper Tool offers more than meets the eye. Sampling colors is child's play. With InDesign CS2 you can sample just about anything thing and reapply it over and over again. In this episode we'll learn how to sample colors from images and apply those colors to text. We'll also see a neat trick that allows you to sample frame attributes and apply them to other frames.

If you have Adobe Photoshop CS2 (or any version since 5.5) you have Adobe ImageReady. It automatically installs with Photoshop. Many Photoshop users have no idea it's there or let alone what it's used for. In this episode we will take a look at how to create web rollovers from a Photoshop file. ImageReady is a web optimization tool as well as a good tool for creating animations from your layered Photoshop files.

Formatting text can be tedious. In the print world we use Paragraph and Character styles. In the web world we use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In this episode we'll take the wraps off GoLive's new CSS interface and learn how to transform those standard H1, H2, etc. tags into something a lot more customized to your taste.