Just kicking off a little late. People can’t find parking on UR campus. Boy, that is a surprise.
- CS2 has been updated for publishing to mobile devices (not truly new, but one of the mentions)
- Adobe Bridge designed to be a complete image browser/manager but not editor.
- Something called Version Q, which is installed into the system preferences, keeps track of versions of your images. It will, actively, maintain copies of each version of the file as you edit over time. Only located in Adobe Bridge in CS2.
- Batch rename function allows you to rename image files. Start at a specific number and set the number of digits used for each (1 vs 01 vw 001 for example).
Humor: Presenter ran into issues. Explained she did not ask the blessings of the Demo-god. Promised to sacrifice a chicken during the break if things don’t get better. Must remember to ask Kevin if there is room in the budget for chickens as I get closer to the big workshop I am to present.
- Photoshop: Filter > Vanishing point - Allows you to devine planes in your image. From here, she made a selection of a window on one wal. The selection follows the plane. Copy and drag the selection along the plane. this also causes the selection to increase/decrease as it movos toward/from the horizon point. She then shifts the other plane, which is placed on another wall, and the selection reverses and follows the plane to resize appropriately and create a 2nd window.
- Another Vanishing Point demo - Image of stone bench, copies in some text to a different layer. Defines the plane herself rather than use the created plane. Resize the grids if you wish. Grid covers top of bench. She pulls on one side and the grid draws down along the side of the bench (kind of like water pouring over). Adds text layer adn draws onto bench top. Text fits to grid with closer letters slightly larger. Puls text off side and the image draws down along side of bench. Very nice.
- Someone asks about a curved surface. She mentions it is a different filter. Didn’t catch name.
- Another VP demo - Very complex image of a building with many faces. Creates a plane and drags along four different faces. Plane draws along. Copies windows from bottom of image and moves to the top. REsizes adn adds window to plane at top. Shows you can flip/flop (that is what the check boxes say). Doesn’t know difference. Adobe has humor?
- Red eye: Basic demo of red eye reduction tool. Very quick. Zoomed in, clicked on eye, all redeye removed. Tool should identify natural eye color and replace red with appropriate hue.
- Spot Healing Brush: Shows how easy it is to remove someone or something from an image. Does a great job of replacing the problem with an appropriate background. She removes a person from a grassy field, removes birds from a cloudy sky, removes a man from the steps in front of a cathedral and removes power lines from behind a sculpture. Very clean. Only the bird had any signs of removal with some lightly round white spots, but a little work would remove those as well.
- Illustrator/Photoshop - Copied a vector layer from Illustrator and pasted into PShop. Given options: smart object, pixels, path or shape layer. Brought in as pixels, but image doesn’t paste correctly. Gives option to scale before “applying” the paste. Scales back up, is pixelated. Repastes as a smart object and is able to scale freely with no pixelation. Smart object holds onto vector capability and doesn’t permanently resize layer to fit image resolution.
- Con’t: Smart object created in a new smart object layer. Click on the edit button in the layer icon. This reopens the image in AI, but as a new image, leaving the original AI file alone.
- Illustrator: Starts talking about Streamline. Explains Streamline’s function and it has been rolled into Illustrator. Open Bridge, locates file. Right clicks on image and tells to open in Illustrator. She has opened a raster drawing of a woman DJ. Zooms in, selects the line art. A button at the top, Light Trace, opens up. Clicks button and Illustrator turns the drawing into vector image.
- Con’t: The image comes up as B&W. She switches to more colors (16). Live Paint button comes alive. Click on that and each section of the image (seperated by the lines in the drawing) becomes a fillable region. Select the fill tool and color. Click to fill each.
- Con’t: Figure’s lips don’t completely close. So skin color overrides lips as well. Select Gap Options and check Gap Detection. Gap Options is located in a menu dropdown in the top bar in Illustrator (she can’t explain what it is called). Select Gap Option, run the setting and it will fill in the gap. Now lips are seperate area and can hold a different color.
Con’t: New document using shapes. Shapes are overlapping. She wants to colorize the intersection of the objects. Add circle, add square. Go back and color in circle. Tihs causes the overlap to become a seperate section. This is interactive Live Paint. Select both shapes and then click the Live Shape button in the tool bar, just to the right of the paint bucket. I’ll have to revisit this, not as easy for me.
- Bridge Center: Allows you to view the work you have been doing. Keeps track of the latest images/documents you have been working with. I don’t have the option on my computer, so I am uncertain how to proceed.
- Presentation note- She is zooming in and out on screen: Mac only option under system preferences under Universal Access.
- Back to Bridge Center: You can create settings constant across the programs by using the Suite Color Settings to synchronize. After you do this, go to program (she is using InDesign) and select Color Settings. The settings you seleted will now be used in the individual programs. If you change in program and go back to Bridge Center, at bottom of page, the center will say color settings are NOT synchronized.
- RSS feeds in Bridge Center: she isn’t speaking about it, but I just noticed there is a place for RSS feeds.
- Adobe Stock Photos in Adobe Bridge: Asked where people get images. Audience member said Istockphotos is the first stop. Adobe has created a way to pull from all of the top image server locations. Does a search for Richmond, Va. Pulls list of images related to Richmond. Sortable in many ways. Can also get Image Details through site before purchase.
- Photoshop: Layer Comps. Allows you to take snapshots of layers as you progress. What does Comp stand for? Not explained. Looks to be different views of the image with a variety of layers active/hidden. So, you can create multiple images in the same PSD file. This way, you can quickly scroll through the various comps to show possible designs without activating/deactivating individual layers or exporting various files.
- Con’t: Oh, this is a way of pulling previews from PShop docs into InDesign. you can mock up a design and pull various layers into InDesign on the fly. Very interesting.
- InDesign: Stroke type. You can create text which remains editable even though the font has a stroke and fill color (Not entirely certain I caught all of that).