Just one year after the launch of the Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe announced that it will move to a subscription-only approach. Adobe will no longer sell boxed versions of its software and the well-known Creative Suite. All of Adobe’s programs will now be available as part of
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Last May, Adobe introduced the Adobe Creative Cloud…but what is it? In the most simplest explanation, it is a new way to purchase Adobe software. But it is really much more than that. We are familiar with “Buying Option #1” (below), where we purchase a perpetual license
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Are you a graphic designer who has tried to learn how to code, and thought to yourself “This isn’t what I signed up for!” Design and web coding are two different types of skill sets, using two different parts of the brain. While both require creativity, graphic
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Building iPad Apps With InDesign Back in September of 2012, Adobe released Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition. If you were a Creative Cloud subscriber, this meant you could create unlimited single-issue iPad apps. But what does this mean exactly and how is the single edition different than
Read more →Coloring Artwork in Illustrator Using Live Paint The introduction of Live Paint in Adobe Illustrator CS2 revolutionized the way we color and even draw our artwork. How you ask? In every version of Illustrator prior to CS2, it was extremely difficult (or impossible) to add color to
Read more →Dreamweaver is the web’s number one development software for websites and our chosen platform for Adobe Creative Suite Training. Over the years it has progressed from being a static web development tool, to being one that can integrate with dynamic, database driven software like WordPress. So, it
Read more →Live Trace was introduced to Adobe Illustrator users in CS2. I remember the release of CS2 and how revolutionary Live Trace was—you mean to tell me I can take any pixel-based image and “Trace” it into vector art? This worked great for scanned sketches but didn’t always
Read more →Content aware was added in Adobe Photoshop CS5—users described it as magical. With the release of CS6, Photoshop added a content aware option to the patch tool. It is very quick and easy to use and yes, magical. If you have used Photoshop’s cloning, patch or healing
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The release of the Adobe Muse application in the Creative Cloud subscription has many wondering what is the difference between Muse and Dreamweaver. Let’s break these two programs down! Adobe Muse Adobe Muse was created primarily for graphic designers—an application to design and publish html websites without
Read more →One of the most exciting updates (in my opinion of course) to InDesign CS6 is the ability to create interactive PDF forms. You could not create the fields in InDesign before CS6—you used Form Wizard in Adobe Acrobat. Now you create the fields using the new Buttons
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