Shake Reduction in Adobe Photoshop CC
If you haven’t heard about the new Camera Shake Reduction feature coming to Adobe Creative Cloud members this June in Photoshop CC, it is a new filter that will analyze your photos to detect and correct blurring due to a shaky camera. Yes you read that correctly, it can make a shaky/blurry photo LESS shaky/blurry. It’s [...]
PhoneGap & Android Studio
Yesterday at GoogleIO, Google announced Android Studio, a new development environment for authoring Android applications. This is a great looking new IDE for Android, based off of IntelliJ IDEA, with some new Android-specific tools and features. You can read more about Android Studio on the Google Android Developers blog. One of my first tasks upon [...]
Video Introduction to Adobe Creative Cloud
Here’s a great video introduction to Adobe Creative Cloud. I strongly recommend taking a moment to watch it if you have any questions about Creative Cloud, even if you’re already are a member. It’s only two and a half minutes, so it won’t take much of your time. Enjoy!
Getting Started With Adobe Edge Web Fonts
Amongst the big announcements last week, you may not have noticed that the Adobe Edge Web Fonts got a huge upgrade too! It’s now easier than ever to browse web fonts and include them into your own HTML experiences. All for free, with no Creative Cloud membership required! Check out the video below to see [...]
Adobe’s Exploration in Cloud-Enabled Hardware
Another exciting announcement from the Adobe MAX first day keynote was Adobe’s explorations into cloud enabled hardware for creative processes. Adobe announced two exciting new pieces of creative hardware: Project Mighty and Project Napoleon. Project Mighty is a pressure sensitive pen that enables expressive drawing. However, it’s not *just* a pressure sensitive stylus/pen. Project Mighty knows who [...]
Adobe MAX Videos Now Available
The keynotes and many of the session videos form Adobe MAX are now available online at tv.adobe.com/show/max-2013/, and are free for everyone to view. Keep in mind, not all videos are up yet, but will be added soon. Thanks to Ray for sharing on twitter! The first-day keynote focuses on Adobe’s evolution of Creative Cloud [...]
Adobe’s MAX Announcements – A Major Update To Creative Cloud
Yesterday kicked off Adobe MAX, Adobe’s annual conference for designers and developers to converge and learn about the latest and greatest from Adobe and our community. In yesterday’s keynote, there were lots of big announcements. If you weren’t able to catch the keynote live, it will soon be available for viewing online. In the meantime, [...]
Live Editing Server Files with Edge Code/Brackets
If you haven’t already heard of Adobe Edge Code or Brackets, it is a new HTML/CSS/JS code editor that enables a rapid development cycle by connecting directly to your browser for automatic real-time updates to the HTML content running inside the browser. This promotes rapid development, and allows you to focus on writing your code [...]
Enabling Gestures in Edge Animate Compositions
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been working a lot lately with Adobe Edge Animate, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe DPS. Here’s another post on that same subject. Another request that I have gotten from some of our DPS customers is that they’d like to be able to implement gestures inside of the Edge [...]
Adding Dimensionality To An Edge Animate Composition
Lately I’ve been spending a lot more time working with Adobe Edge Animate, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe DPS. If you aren’t familiar with these tools, Adobe Edge Animate is a tool that enables the creation of animated or interactive HTML content, Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing design tool, and Adobe DPS is Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite, [...]
PhoneGap Legends – A Sample Game App
Next week I’ll be representing Adobe at GDC 2013, and demonstrating how Adobe Creative Cloud, PhoneGap, and PhoneGap Build can be great tools for building casual gaming experiences. In preparation, I’ve been working on a gaming sample application that shows off the potential of HTML games packaged with PhoneGap. …and now I’d like to introduce you to PhoneGap [...]
On-Device Debugging With PhoneGap & iOS 6
Want to debug your PhoneGap apps, complete with breakpoints, DOM & CSS inspection, profiling, and more? This is all possible with the PhoneGap Emulator, which allows you to leverage Chrome’s Developer Tools inside of the desktop Chrome browser (covered in detail here). However, did you also know that you can have a rich debugging/development experience in an [...]
More On Creative Cloud Workflow
I put this post together to follow up a few points from my last post about Adobe Ideas & Adobe Creative Cloud. I promise, I’ll get back to some technical & development topics in my next post. I’m just having too much fun with this right now… Here’s another composition that I put together using [...]
Video: Adobe Edge Inspect
Here’s a quick video introduction I put together for Adobe Edge Inspect, a *free* tool that enables synchronized browsing and debugging of HTML content between desktop and mobile devices. It’s definitely worth checking out, if you aren’t using it already. Adobe Edge Inspect enables synchronized browsing across desktop and mobile devices. By pairing your devices [...]
Adobe Ideas & Creative Cloud Workflow
In this post I’m changing things up a bit… Rather than focusing just on developer-centric topics, I’ve decided to show a little more creative workflow using Adobe Ideas. Adobe Ideas is an awesome sketching app for the iPad. You can sketch whatever you want, whenever you want. It is all saved as vector content that [...]
Performance & UX Considerations For Successful PhoneGap Apps
I think some of the most common questions people ask when developing PhoneGap apps are about performance. How do I make my app faster? How do I make it feel native? Any tips of making an app feel at-home on a particular platform? How do you match native OS “look and feel”? In this post, [...]
Video: Intro To PhoneGap from MobileDev@TU
Thanks to everyone who came out the the MobileDev@TU meetup last night at Towson University. I’ve posted the video online for those that want to review it, or weren’t able to attend. You can check it out below. Unfortuantely I lost the last 15 minutes of video because I wasn’t patient enough to let [...]
Featured PhoneGap Apps!
It’s always exciting to see what people in the PhoneGap community area up to. Seeing featured apps in both iTunes and Google Play that are built with PhoneGap is fantastic. Keep up the great work everyone! BitTimer is being featured for iOS Health apps: HealthTap is being featured in Google Play Both are made with PhoneGap. [...]
Video: Introduction to PhoneGap
Yesterday I gave an Introduction To Mobile Development With PhoneGap presentation at the DevNexus developer conference in Atlanta. Thanks to everyone who attended, DevNexus is a great event. Unfortunately, not everyone around the world was able to attend… maybe next year. Luckily for you, I recorded the presentation! You can check it out in it’s [...]
Video: Data Visualization With Web Standards
Last week I had the opportunity to present “Data Visualization With Web Standards” to the Data Visualization New York Meetup group. There was a great turnout, and thanks to everyone who attended. I’d like to especially thank Christian Lilley and Paul Trowbridge for organizing the event. My presentation focused on the fundamental techniques of visualizing [...]
Adobe Showing Some Love for HTML
It’s Valentine’s day, and here at Adobe we’re showing our love for creating great HTML experiences – Just check out what we released today! All of these are available immediately via Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions. Adobe Edge Reflow (Preview) Adobe Edge Reflow is a new responsive design tool that helps designers create and communicate responsive intent in [...]
