Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 HTML5 Pack

Wow, who said Adobe isn't committed to HTML5? If you're an Illustrator buff, this is for you. Press release after the break.


Announcing Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 HTML5 Pack: Easily design device and web content

This This pack provides initial support for HTML5 and CSS3 and extends SVG capability in Adobe Illustrator CS5, and helps you easily design web and device content. In combination with the Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 HTML5 Pack, these new tools allow web designers to take advantage of the latest advancements in HTML5.



While HTML5 and CSS3 will not be finalized for some time, and SVG support in browsers will continue to evolve, the extension provides support for a set of currently implemented features.



Benefits of the Illustrator CS5 HTML5 Pack extension

• Efficiently design for web and devices by exporting Illustrator Artboards for unique screen sizes using SVG and CSS3 media queries.

• Create web widgets with Illustrator by generating dynamic vector art for data driven web work-flows.

• Take advantage of the latest enhancements to SVG and Canvas to generate interactive web content.

• Map artwork appearance attributes from designer to developer tools– export from the Illustrator Appearance Panel to CSS3 for streamlined styling of web pages.

Lens Correction in ACR 6.1 and Lightroom 3

Hey, I have to say I'm a happy man!!! Did I win a million bucks? Nah. But ACR 6.1 and Lightroom 3 will have Lens Correction. How cool is that! One of the most requested features is finally going to be a reality. Now, if only we had Soft proofing and Book creations ;-) .

In the meantime, here's Tom Hogarty with the new features!

InDesign CS5 and the iPad

So everybody knows that CS5 got announced, and I have to tell you, It's the best release ever! Especially InDesign. More than a Print Layout application, it's a Document Layout application. What do I mean?

Reading Michael Ninness thoughts about what constitutes a document is very interesting (Ninness was senior product manager on Adobe InDesign CS5, now is Vice President of Lynda.com). Basically a document in today's terms is not for print only, but for various outlets. Including the iPad.

Enter ePub
One of the bif features of the iPad is its ability to display books usig the open standard ePub format. And, what do you know, InDesign has native support for exporting to ePub (well, it had it since InDesign CS3, but believe me, It's waaaaay better in CS5). Imagine: you can create a document for Print, Web, Interactive Flash or PDFs and ePubs. How cool is that!

Sooooo, is it that easy?
Well, yes and no. Creating an ePub format book has some nuances one must bare before exporting it. One thing to note about ePubs: Although great for novels and the like, it's not so good with more graphically designed layout publications. That's where PDFs (especially Interactive PDFs comes in to play).

ePub + iPad = Cool books!
So, how do you create your ePub books using InDesign CS5? Most certainly, Adobe has published some notes on this here (Note: Information is based on CS4, hopefully they'll update it soon).

But Terry White, of Adobe and Tech Industry fame, just created a video tutorial on creating an ePub book for the iPad in InDesign CS5! Check out the video and also, visit the link here to download the free book! And read more about the creation of the book here!

It's Here: CS5!

Yes, it's finally here: Adobe Creative Suite 5! And I have to say. it's the best release EVER! If you missed the launch event, you can see it here.

And for my latin IDUG users (spanish will be spoken now):

Ya fueron testigos de la mejor versión jamás visto de Adobe, el Creative Suite 5. Pero si eres desean ver en persona esta nueva versión (y vives en Puerto Rico) le invito a que me acompañes a nuestra próxima reunión del InDesign User Group el 1 de mayo de 2010. Puedes ver mas aquí.

Adobe to launch CS5!!

Adobe just announced that they are going to announce the Creative Suite 5! (Weird, I know) Anyhoo, on April 12, 2010 we'll get the whole scoop on what's new in the Creative Suite of applications like InDesign and Photoshop. Something tells me this will be the best release ever!

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Lightroom 3 beta 2 Now Available!

Yup, it's here!

New things include:

• Improved performance throughout the application for faster importing and loading of images

• Native tethered shooting support for select Nikon and Canon DSLR cameras

• Luminance noise reduction has been added to the previous color noise reduction improvements available in the first public beta for outstanding overall high ISO quality

• Support for importing and managing video files from DSLR cameras for better overall photographic workflow control

• Improvements to the import experience in the first beta to reflect public feedback

• Improved watermarking functionality from the first beta to reflect public feedback

(Via Lightroom 3 beta 2 Now Available - Lightroom Journal.)

Flash and Mobile

For a blog about photography, I do write a lot about Adobe ;-) . Anyway, found this interesting interview made by Mashable.



Also, check the Nexus One running Flash!