New Adobe TV Programming Comes Online

Designed to educate, inspire, and entertain the creative community, Adobe TV is immediately available online from the Adobe Web site at http://tv.adobe.com, or as a network with multiple shows in the new Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software, also announced today (see separate press release). Adobe Media Player offers a broad range of television programming and entertaining video content from major television broadcasters and leading content publishers, including CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondéNet, and Scripps Networks.
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Adobe Launches Beta of Photoshop Express

The free online service provides image correction, editing and storage capabilities.

When it comes to brands in the digital graphics domain, possibly the strongest and most trusted is Adobe Photoshop. When you encounter the word Photoshop, you naturally assume anything connected with it is at a professional level. At least, that was at one time the case. In one of the most audacious examples of brand extension in the realm of graphics and publishing, Adobe has spent the last few years resolutely moving the Photoshop brand into a range of market sectors, some professional, some not. Read More>

Win/Mac: Adobe Sweepstakes Awards Prizes Weekly

Registered owners of specified Adobe Creative Suite 3 products are eligible to win.

A promotion running until June 1, 2008, will award owners of Adobe software with hundreds of prizes each week, from a product prize pool that includes 500 Apple iPhones, 2,000 2 GB SD flash cards and 5,000 $40 Adobe Online Gift Certificates.

There is no charge to enter, with participation simply requiring registration. Each registered copy of Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3, InDesign CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS3 and Acrobat 8.0 provides another shot at winning.

More information and registration is available on the adobepromo.com site.

Project profile: Bringing Google Analytics to the desktop

Google Analytics is a web service to help businesses figure out where their visitors come from and how they interact with their sites. The Analytics Reporting Suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop (see Figure 1). In this article, I talk about my experiences porting the Google Analytics web version to an Adobe AIR application and tell you about our plans for the suite's future.

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Three reasons to try Flex 3

On the same day Flex 3 became available, Adobe released the first official version of Adobe AIR. Flex, Adobe AIR, and Adobe Flash Player are the foundation of the Adobe technology platform for RIAs. Before I jump into Flex 3, here's a brief explanation of the products that make up the platform:

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Get up to speed on Adobe AIR

Surely you've heard about Adobe AIR. Perhaps you've already played with this new runtime and discovered the cool things it enables you to do. If not, let me point you to some resources that will pique your curiosity and help you get started building and distributing AIR applications in no time. Even if you've already played with it, you may find the following resources helpful.

Introducing Adobe AIR

2008 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards

The 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the creative license to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry, over 60$K US in cash prizes will be awarded in New York City.

Submissions close May 2, 2008.

Ready to submit, click here.

Cut&Paste presents: The Adobe Photoshop "See What's Possible Challenge"

Do you have what it takes to show Adobe® what's possible with their own software? Rock out a 15-second or less animation or motion graphic video of the Photoshop brand logo that illustrates the theme of "See What's Possible." The winning work must incorporate and close with the Adobe Photoshop logo and will be used by Adobe as part of an upcoming Photoshop marketing campaigns.

Enter at swp.cutandpaste.com where your work will be shown off in front of fellow designers, fans, recruiters, and potential clients.

Grand Prize
$20,000 and Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection

Five Finalists
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection

People's Choice Prize (public online voting)
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection

Prizes announced at Photoshop World on April 4, 2008
Check the site for deadline details.

Disclosure

27 Undiscovered Letter finalists. 50 Future ADC Young Guns. One little known fact. Come kick off the launch of ADC Young Guns 6 and see the work of the Undiscovered Letter's 27 finalists.

Guests are invited to disclose a little known fact about themselves - facts will be exhibited anonymously throughout the gallery during the party, and the coolest fact will win a stupendous Adobe prize! Fax anything long or short to 212.643.4266.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
7:30-11pm
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

Tickets $20.00
ADC members $14.00

Sponsored by Adobe.

RSVP online by going here.

2008 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards

The 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the creative license to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry, over 60$K US in cash prizes will be awarded in New York City.

Submissions close May 2, 2008.

Ready to submit, click here.