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Lightroom 3 Beta Help Now Available

By Gene McCullagh
November 18, 2009

Adobe today launched the help system for Lightroom 3 Beta! You can access it by pressing F1 while in Lightroom 3 Beta or by pointing your browser at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/index.html . Commenting will be enabled shortly so get ready! for more...

AIR 2.0 and FP 10.1 now Available on Adobe Labs

By Andrew Trice
November 17, 2009

The Adobe AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 betas are now available on Adobe Labs. You can download AIR 2.0 directly from: ttp://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/ You can download Flash Player 10.1 directly from: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Why the Adobe/RIM announcement is important

By RJ Owen
November 9, 2009

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was at RIM's annual BlackBerry developer convention today with some exciting news about the ways that Adobe and RIM are working together to bring great experiences to the BlackBerry. In this entry we'll discuss what the announcement contained and why it's important to you.

Lightroom 3 Beta's Publish Services - Part 2

By Gene McCullagh
October 26, 2009

In Part 1 we examined how to use Publish Services to control target folders on the hard drive using the Hard Drive Publish Connection. There's another Publish Service that comes with Lightroom 3 Beta. The Flickr Publish Service allows us to connect Lightroom to a Flickr account (or multiple Flickr accounts) and manage our photostream from within Lightroom. However, there are some pitfalls to watch out for. Remember, this is beta software, so as you come across issues or areas that can be improved please join the conversation over at the Adobe Forums and tell the Lightroom team about it. You can help make this a great release!

Lightroom 3 Beta's Publish Services - Part 1

By Gene McCullagh
October 26, 2009

Prior to the release of Lightroom 3 Beta we had the ability to upload our images to various online sites via the Export dialog. Jeffrey Friedl provided several excellent plugins for the Export dialog making it easy to export to these online services. He is hard at work turning those into Publish Services. By the time the final release of Lightroom 3 is ready I'm sure we will have a lot to choose from! For now, let's take a deeper look into how this new features works! You can find Publish Services in the left side panel of the Library module. When you first start install Lightroom there are two basic services provided: Hard Drive and Flickr. Hard Drive allows you to create folders to receive images via Publish Services. This can be very useful for adding to a folder that is synched to your iPod/iPhone. Perhaps your screensaver is based on a folder of images. Make this a target and you can easily add and manage that. Or perhaps you are compiling images for a client to view and you first want to collect them in a folder from which you can FTP up to your client viewing portal. Interested? Let's take a look.

RIA Radio Episode 1 - Mike Downey

By Garth Braithwaite
October 23, 2009

Mike Downey joins us to discuss the competition between Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash. Prior to working for Microsoft as a Silverlight Evangelist he worked for Adobe for 9 years with the Flash Platform. Joining us on the panel...

Adobe WorkflowLab for Planning RIA Projects

By Andrew Trice
October 23, 2009

I just happened to browse over to Adobe Labs, and stumbled across WorflowLab, a workflow planning and sharing tool for building applications. I found it interesting, and decided to share it here. Read on for more detail.

Lightroom 3 Beta Is Here!

By Gene McCullagh
October 22, 2009

Yes! It's here! Head on over to Adobe Labs and download the Lightroom 3 Beta! Adobe continues its laudable practice of releasing Lightroom as a public beta to get important feedback from its users! Thanks Adobe! First, a word of CAUTION. This is a true beta. DO NOT use this in production! Make copies of any images you intend to work on inside the beta. There are still known, and perhaps unknown, issues to be ironed out before Lightroom 3 is ready for production work. Whew! Now that we have the warnings out of the way let's dig in and see what's new!

Could Adobe potentially harm the iPhone AppStore

By Scott Barnes
October 15, 2009

Adobe have spent a lot of cycles / years nudging Apple that Flash should be on the iPhone. Apple have firmly just said no, and despite the answer, Adobe keep expecting them to cave due to public demand. The problem with this logic is that Apple wont' give in.

Multi-touch and the Flash Platform

By Andrew Trice
October 14, 2009

One of the big announcements at MAX this year was Flash on devices. As the capabilities of devices change, so do the capabilities of the platforms we use to build our applications. One of the latest trends is Multi-touch. In this post, I'll try to shed some light on the upcoming multitouch capabilities in AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1.

Summer of Flash Episode 11 - Ed Sullivan

By Garth Braithwaite
September 25, 2009

Ed Sullivan from Adobe joins us on this episode to announce the Adobe Cookbooks website upgrade. We also talk about Adobe's recent acquisition announcements (Omniture and Business Catalyst). Panel of Experts: Leif Wells and Zach Stepek. Download this week's...

Adobe Cookbook 2.0

By Rich Tretola
September 25, 2009

Adobe has announced that the brand new Adobe Cookbooks application is now live! This new Adobe Cookbook application replaces the existing individual cookbook applications that existed for Flex, AIR and Mobile. The new application still supports those technologies, and adds an additional dozen or so technologies, within a new single application.

Adobe Announces "Flash Platform Services"

By Andrew Trice
September 22, 2009

Today, Adobe made the announcement of "Flash Platform Services", a suite a services that enable developers to easily create, scale, and monetize their applications. This includes 3 components: Distribution, Collaboration, and Social.

Summer of Flash Episode 6 - Ryan Stewart

By Garth Braithwaite
August 19, 2009

Ryan Stewart joins us to talk about MAX, Flash Camp Singapore, how he got started in RIAs, neat stuff he has found in his vast travels, and how RIAs are defined. On the panel of experts were Zach Stepek,...

Get Help Easily Inside The IDE With "Blueprint"

By Andrew Trice
August 7, 2009

I browsed over to Adobe Labs recently to see if there were any new Adobe projects that I may have missed, and stumbled across "Blueprint", a very helpful in-editor tool for searching Flex and AIR documentation and code examples online, which was released back in June. Read on to see more details, and a screen capture of it in action.

Adobe launches Wave

By RJ Owen
July 22, 2009

Adobe Wave is an all-purpose aggregator designed to let you keep up to date on a variety of different media streams. The application is a simple AIR app that connects to a variety of different services and displays a small alert when new content is available. In this entry we'll walk through how Wave works, some of it's uses, how it differs from other similar services (Twitter), and what it needs to do to survive.

Lightroom Resources from the Source

By Gene McCullagh
July 18, 2009

There are many resources on the web for learning about Lightroom. Sometimes it's good to go back to the source. Adobe has a few great resources for Lightroom users that you should add to your list of favorites. Here are a few.

Flex 4 Overview Slides Posted

By RJ Owen
July 17, 2009

A few weeks ago I gave a talk with Andy McIntosh at Adobe Camp Denver on some of the new features in Flex 4. The conference was fantastic. I've embedded the slides and links to our examples in this entry. Enjoy!

Adobe Releases ColdFusion 9 on Labs

By Andrew Trice
July 17, 2009

In case you missed it earlier this week, Adobe has recently released ColdFusion 9 beta on Adobe Labs and ColdFusion Builder on Adobe Labs. I was lucky enough to catch a presentation of the new features at last night's DC Flex User Group by Adam Lehman (CF Product Manager), and I have to say, it certainly looks intriguing and very promising.

Photoshop or Elements

By Gene McCullagh
July 13, 2009

In a previous article (I Have Lightroom. Do I Need Photoshop?) I discussed whether or not a Lightroom user needs the extra power that Photoshop affords. A few readers asked if Photoshop Elements was enough or is Photoshop the way to go. So, let's take a look at what the differences are and whether you need one or the other. Photoshop is the gold standard when discussing pixel based image editing software. It has a broad and deep set of tools that address the needs of a wide variety of users. Whether you are a designer, graphic artist, 3D modeler, filmmaker, photographer, or forensics expert there are tools for you. Of course all this power and functionality comes at a price. The current list price for Photoshop is $699.00. If you need the additional tools of Photoshop Extended then you are looking at $999.00!

LCDS 3.0 Available on Adobe Labs

By Andrew Trice
July 1, 2009

Kind of old news (only a week), but Adobe recently released a beta version of LCDS 3.0 on Adobe Labs. Read on to get more information about LCDS 3.0...

Building a Simple Chat App With Adobe Flash Collaboration Services

By Andrew Trice
June 26, 2009

In this post, we will focus on getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Services (formerly Cocomo). If you've heard of this, but aren't really sure what it is, AFCS is a hosted service provided by Adobe which enables real-time collaboration within your own Flex applications.

It's an active news day from Adobe!

By Andrew Trice
June 16, 2009

Two news items from Adobe today. Adobe released online spreadsheets with Acrobat Tables, and Adobe also releases the RTMP specification as part of the open screen project.

Adobe Opens-Up Acrobat.com Presentations

By Andrew Trice
May 27, 2009

In a move to have an online office suite, Adobe recently released Acrobat.com Presentations. This, paired together with Buzzword and the additional capabilites of acrobat.com provide Adobe with a compelling online suite of office productivity applications, powered by the Flash platform.

WebDU 2009: that geeky rock concert

By Justin J. Moses
May 23, 2009

It may surprise you to know that the Pacific region has its fair share of web talent. Having just been surrounded by most of them for the past couple of days, I can attest to the fact. This year was my first WebDU, and I'm still tingling.

Dear Adobe Digital Editions Team

By Keith Fahlgren
May 21, 2009

Adobe has made extensive contributions to the world of EPUB software, but needs to go a few steps further with their Digital Editions product.

Why I love the local User Group

By Amy Blankenship
May 17, 2009

I have to confess, I joined my local Adobe user group with the most altruistic of motives. My husband, an Adobe Community Expert, saw the need in our area for an Adobe User Group, and I wanted to support him in...

New York Times AIR reader released

By RJ Owen
May 11, 2009

The New York Times released a special reader application built in Adobe AIR this past weekend. It's a pretty slick application, and an example of AIR done right.

Smashing Magazine on Adobe AIR

By RJ Owen
April 7, 2009

Smashing Magazine has a pretty comprehensive collection of AIR resources and tutorials up on their site today. They feature all of the Adobe hosted stuff (official resources, support, free samples, etc.) as well as highlighting some of the better community resources including Scalenine.com, Aptana Studio, and the De MonsterDeBugger.

Adobe and Facebook Joint Effort

By Rich Tretola
March 31, 2009

Adobe and Facebook� just announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Flash and Facebook. A new officially AS3 library officially supported by Adobe and Facebook is a free and open source programming...

Four short links: 30 Mar 2009

By Nat Torkington
March 30, 2009

A great free book, dead newspaper dig, movie Torrent wakeup, and money from free: Digital Foundations with Adobe Illustrator -- CC-licensed book that gets you started using Adobe Illustrator. I'm loving it, and I have the artistic ability of a particularly philistine rock. See also their advice to authors on how to negotiate a Creative Commons license. (via bjepson's delicious...

It's Time for Spring Cleaning!

By Gene McCullagh
March 25, 2009

Spring is in the air and every photographer's thoughts turn to... cleaning out the accumulated gunk in your Lightroom Catalog! Seriously, though, now is a good time to go through your Lightroom Catalog(s) and see if you are carrying any excess baggage.

Silverlight Development for the Flex Developer

By Tom Lauck
March 25, 2009

The jets and sharks, Hatfields and McCoys, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants, Adobe and Microsoft. Now several years in the making, the Adobe - Microsoft rivalry is gearing up. Especially with the anticipated new release of Silverlight 3 and...

MIX09ers Head Home with Silverlight and Expression Betas in Hand and Design in Mind

By John Osborn
March 24, 2009

As they headed home from Las Vegas last Friday, the roughly 2000 designers and developers -- not to mention Microsoft employees -- returning from the three-day MIX09 web conference in Las Vegas had plenty to consider. For O'Reilly author and Silverlight MVP John Papa, the big news was the support for "out of browser" and line of business applications announced for Silverlight 3. For Vertigo developer Jon Galloway, the SketchFlow designer planned for Expression Blend 3 and demoed for the first time at MIX, promises to revolutionize the way designers prototype their user interactions. As for Scott Guthrie, VP of the Microsoft's Developer Division, reflecting on his keynote at an after hours reception, he was just pleased that MIX09 had come together without the "fire drill" of years past.

Is Dreamweaver being beaten by Drupal?

By Kurt Cagle
March 8, 2009

In 1997, I was at the Macromedia User's Conference to give a talk on creating "intelligent" agents within Macromedia Director. At this particular conference, Macromedia announced a new product called Dreamweaver, an HTML editing application that exercised a profound effect upon the web development community.

Moving Your Images From iPhoto to Lightroom

By Gene McCullagh
March 5, 2009

Earlier versions of Apple's iPhoto stored its library information in a regular folder structure. Around version 7 Apple changed that approach and iPhoto began hiding its folder structure inside a package file. While this makes the applications presence on the drive neater and theoretically more portable, it does hide the images in iPhoto's library from Lightroom. If you want to migrate your iPhoto library to Lightroom I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that it is relatively easy to import the files. The bad news? Your edits will not migrate easily. Unlike Lightroom, files that you edit in iPhoto are saved as a separate file. You can import these edited files but you will have both an original and the edit without any connection between them. Essentially, you wind up with two separate images. If you're still game here is how you do it.

BugQuash - help fix Flex

By RJ Owen
February 20, 2009

The first official Flex BugQuash will occur Saturday , March 28th, from 10am-8pm EST. What's a BugQuash you ask? A mighty gathering of coding heroes from great to small coming together to fix as many bugs to the Flex SDK as possible in one day. The event is sponsored by Adobe but driven by the open-source Flex SDK community.

Adobe Comments on Silverlight

By John Papa
February 13, 2009

Silverlight Fizzling? Flash Thriving? The truth lies somewhere in between.

The Art of System Tray and Dock Icons

By Damon Edwards
February 3, 2009

With the explosion of Adobe AIR apps hitting the streets these days, from corporate applications to small single developer applications, it's a wonder to me how a lot of these applications forget about some of the most important aspects of an application. One being, system tray or dock icons. Lets explore the importance of these icons, and how to implement them in your own application.

My first (introductory) post for InsideRIA

By Dale Rankine
January 21, 2009

Thought I should write a bit of an introduction to myself and say hi to everyone. As you can see, my name is Dale and I'm grateful to Rich and InsideRIA for inviting me to be a guest blogger here.

Creative (Suite) Self-Destruction

By David Battino
December 23, 2008

What do you do when your primary creative tool stops working? It's an increasingly common problem as our tools become digital. I've lost great programs from companies that tanked, but when a program from a company that's still in business refuses to launch, it really chaps my hide.

Flex or Flash?

By Shashank Tiwari
December 16, 2008

The recent re-emphasis by Adobe on the "Flash" brand is scary! The world of web development involves two types of people -- developers and designers. Each of these sets is distinct from the other. Very rarely are there people who...

Herff Jones launches eDesign online yearbook editor

By RJ Owen
December 10, 2008

Today Herff Jones announced the launch of a robust new RIA for creating and editing yearbooks online. The application is called eDesign, and it lets teachers and students collaborate in real time through a fully functional and very powerful layout and content creation tool. I took eDesign for a test drive recently and was really impressed by the sheer number of usable features the team was able to implement - imagine Adobe InDesign done specifically for yearbooks. In this entry I'll take you through the wide range of features eDesign has to offer.

Rombla: powerful, online, WYSIWYG Flash-site builder

By RJ Owen
December 8, 2008

In case you missed all the adjectives in the title, Rombla is a powerful online WYSIWYG flash-site building RIA. Created and hosted by the folks at Piria, the app is geared towards bridging the gap between web designers and their clients. In this entry, I'll talk about how Rombla works, some of it's cooler features, and give screen shots and links to a site I made with it.

Flex presentations at Adobe MAX

By RJ Owen
November 12, 2008

In this entry, I give you a list of my favorite Flex related presentations being given at the Adobe MAX conference this year, and a short description of why I think you should attend each and every one of them. :) Not attending MAX? Don't worry - they'll be available online sometime shortly after the conference is over.

Attention MAX attendees: get a 33% discount on Adobe product certification

By RJ Owen
November 7, 2008

Certification for developers and Adobe product users of all kinds will be available at the Adobe MAX conference at a 33% discount. Certification will be going on all three days of the MAX conference Info can be found on this part of the MAX homepage if you scroll down to the 2nd item from the bottom. If you're interested in taking an exam, feel free to brush up on your skills with a free study guide from Adobe. A full list of the available exams and links to the study guide pdfs can be found here.

Photoshop CS4 from the Photographer's Perspective

By Colleen Wheeler
November 3, 2008

Good friend of O'Reilly and Adobe Photoshop PM Bryan O'Neil Hughes has written a guest post today on John Nack's blog, featuring all the things that are new and interesting for Photographers in Photoshop CS4

LCDS Capacity Planning White Paper

By Andrew Trice
October 23, 2008

Adobe has released a white paper on LCDS capacity planning, based on benchmarks by Adobe engineering. If you have to estimate server load or data throughput for LCDS-based real-time messaging systems, you'll find this extremely helpful in planning your architecture.

Scalenine "Skin to Win" contest winners announced

By RJ Owen
October 17, 2008

The Skin to Win challenge is over and the winners have been posted on the Scalenine.com blog. Each of the winning entries receives mention in the post, and clicking on the screen shots leads to an interactive sample of each implemented skin. All of the winning entries look really good - browse on over and have a look. Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge!