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Layers TV introduces downloadable tutorial materials and a Show Recommendation feature

layerstv 20071010 113743 Layers TV introduces downloadable tutorial materials and a Show Recommendation featureLayers TV has announced the availability of new interactive features on their site designed to enhance the viewing and learning experience of the podcast. The new features include downloadable “follow-along” materials for each Layers TV tutorial, and a Show Recommendation feature that allows the audience to suggest future podcast content.

The free, downloadable “follow-along” materials let viewers learn new tips and techniques through hands-on instruction as opposed to simply watching the podcast. To download the files, just pull down the tutorial materials you’re most interested in prior to watching the podcast. Then, as the Layers TV hosts begin their tutorials, open each file in the Adobe CS3 application being used and follow along. Additionally, you can use these follow-along materials to experiment with the techniques learned or share what you’ve learned with others.

Viewers can now have their say as to what training and content is featured on future episodes of Layers TV thanks to the new Show Recommendation feature. Layers TV hosts Corey and RC typically cover the most used applications in Adobe CS3, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop Extended, Flash, Acrobat, After Effects, and Dreamweaver. This feature lets viewers suggest tutorials on such Adobe applications as Premiere Pro, Photoshop Lightroom, Soundbooth, InCopy, Audition, Photoshop Elements, Encore, and Fireworks, as well as programs like Corel Painter X, e frontier Poser Pro, and more.

Layers TV is a weekly podcast, hosted by Layers magazine contributors Corey Barker and Rafael “RC” Concepcion, that features tutorials for the entire Adobe Creative Suite. Each episode also includes product reviews, news, contests, interviews with creative gurus and industry insiders, and much more. Layers TV can be watched via the Layers magazine website or subscribed to for free on iTunes.

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Adobe debuts Creative Suite 3 Web Premium

Adobe today announced Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium software, a set of tools for web and interactive design and development. Creative Suite 3 Web Premium offers a toolset enabling web designers and developers to easily prototype, design, develop and maintain websites, applications, games, presentations, and mobile content. The suite combines all of the Adobe applications that web designers and developers require–including new versions of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Contribute CS3–with major releases of design tools, including Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS3, and Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. Additionally, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard software for web designers and developers focusing on interactive design and development.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Web Standard are expected to ship in April 2007 to customers in the United States and Canada, and will be available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store. Estimated street pricing is USD$1599 for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and USD$999 for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard.
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Quark VS InDesign.com launches contest to design alternate Adobe CS3 icons

328399990 93a472f981 m Quark VS InDesign.com launches contest to design alternate Adobe CS3 iconsQuark VS InDesign.com has announced an open competition to redesign the icons for Adobe Creative Suite 3, CS3-version, and other Adobe software products. The contest is open to graphic designers, illustrators, interface designers, and skinners anywhere in the world. A cornucopia of software, books, and videos are offered to three winners in a prize chest valued at more than USD$7,000.

In late December 2006, Adobe revealed a portion of its branding scheme for the next generation of Adobe applications, including the upcoming Creative Suite 3 and all CS3-version point products like Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Acrobat. Except in a few instances, the branding scheme, which incorporates all the formerly Macromedia-published products, foregoes the symbols and iconography familiar to creative professionals from previous versions of the applications of the last 20 years in favor of color-coded, two-letter symbols for each application. The branding change has met with passionately polarized opinions–some creative professionals adore the new icons while others despise them.

Without taking sides or expressing its own opinion, Quark VS InDesign.com created the Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition to give users of Adobe products the opportunity to express their visions of the perfect Creative Suite 3 application icons. The competition is open to all “citizens of planet Earth . . . even Adobe employees”. Only the organizer’s employees, partners, and relatives are excluded from entering. Additionally, anyone wishing to contribute icons to the collection without competing in the contest may check a box on the entry form. Each entrant may submit up to three suites of icons for consideration in the competition, and the icons may be for any Adobe CS3 application and/or QuarkXPress.
Entries are being accepted from 29 January 2007 through 23 April 2007, with winners announced a week after the deadline.

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