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Adobe Muse 2.0
Entry posted on Aug 22 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: Adobe Muse 2.0
Entry:

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.0

Align Palette:

  • We've added a new Align Palette, available from the Window menu, or by clicking on the new 'Align' control in the control strip.
  • You can use the new Align features to align or distribute selected objects relative to each other, or to the page content area (which is the area from the bottom of the header to the top of the footer).
Asset Upload:
  • You can now link to any external file (i.e. PDF, .zip file, .dmg or .exe) and add a hyperlink to it to enable users to download the file from your web site.
  • All linked assets will be uploaded / exported along with the rest of the Adobe Muse site, in a new 'assets' folder.
Code Generation Improvements:
  • We've improved the HTML code generation for Adobe Muse in several areas. Shadows, Glows, and Gradients now use CSS instead of generating additional images.
  • We've eliminated many cases where we generated duplicated HTML nodes. We've also changed our JavaScript framework for our widgets from Spry to a smaller, faster framework called WebPro.
  • These changes make the export process faster, and Adobe Muse now generates less images and smaller HTML files.
  • Shadows and outer glows are represented using CSS box-shadows instead of rasterizing.
  • Fixed the naming of images exported by Adobe Muse which have been either resampled or cropped before exporting.
  • Background images that have been set to "Scale to Fit" or "Scale to Fill" are now exported with the 'contain' or 'cover' background-size CSS property, respectively.
  • Browsers display a warning when you serve a page that mixes HTTP and HTTPS content, which can be triggered if loading content from a content delivery network (CDN) such as Amazon's CloudFront. To avoid these warnings, Adobe Muse uses some JavaScript to not use CDN URLs with HTTPS in favor of falling back to a local version of the content.
Forms:
  • We've added a new Form widget to the widget library.
  • You can easily configure the form to send the form submissions to multiple email addresses, and optionally redirect users to another page after submitting the form.
  • You can add and remove fields, and style the form as you would other Adobe Muse elements. You can independently style the various states of the form, and form fields to provide a compelling user experience, with visual cues for error states, empty states, and more.
  • Because Form processing requires server-side support, Adobe Muse forms are configured to work when published to Adobe Business Catalyst. If you make changes to your form and publish again, Adobe Muse will make the appropriate changes to your Adobe Business Catalyst forms.
  • Adobe Muse will safeguard data when redesigning your Adobe Business Catalyst forms
    • If a field with no data submitted is removed, it will be deleted from the database.
    • If a field that has submitted data is removed, it will be preserved in the database, but can be deleted from the Adobe Business Catalyst admin console if desired.
Font Improvements:
  • The font UI includes font previews in the form of sample text rendered in the corresponding font/weight/style.
  • Submenus for the various font types (web, web-safe and system) have been eliminated in favor of a single sectioned list, with shortcuts to scroll to each section.
  • Web fonts and system fonts are grouped by font family; individual weights and styles (e.g. Bold, Italic, Bold Italic etc.) of multi-face font families appear in sub-menus.
  • The font UI displays an automatically generated list of recently used fonts. The number of recently used fonts to display can be configured and list can be cleared.
  • The font list can be filtered by font family (e.g. “Myriad Pro”), weight or style (e.g. “Bold Italic”), a combination of these (e.g., “Myriad Pro Bold Italic”), including partial names in any order (e.g., “It Bold Myr Pro”).
  • Adobe Muse now uses platform-independent references to fonts, so Adobe Muse documents can be exchanged between Mac and Windows without failure to resolve font references.
  • Adobe Muse displays localized font names (if available) based on the application locale, rather than system locale. Adobe Muse documents can be exchanged between across application locales without failure to resolve font references.
FTP Upload:
  • Adobe Muse now includes the ability to FTP to the host of your choice by selecting File > Upload to FTP Host in the Adobe Muse menu.
  • Adobe Muse's FTP upload dialog allows you to specify the host, subdirectory, and login information.
Adobe Edge Integration:
  • If you publish an .oam file from Adobe Edge, you can place it into Adobe Muse. All required images, CSS and JavaScript content will be uploaded at Publish or Export time.
  • As with other placed content any changes made in the source Adobe Edge file and re-saved in .oam format will be detected within Adobe Muse, and you can use the Assets Palette to update the content in Adobe Muse.
Language Support:
  • Japanese and Italian localizations have been added.
  • Specific Japanese features include the addition of Japanese web safe fonts on the font menu as well as support for Japanese IME, including text input and double-byte text.
Ruler Guides:
  • Adobe Muse now includes the ability to drag guides onto a page from the Horizontal or Vertical ruler.
  • Page items snap to guides when moving, but guides are not exported.
  • Adobe Muse supports selecting multiple guides on a page.
Sitemap.xml:
  • Adobe Muse now creates a sitemap.xml file for better search engine optimization when the site is hosted somewhere other than Adobe Business Catalyst. You can exclude a page from the sitemap.xml file (if you don't want search engines to find it) by setting an option in the Page Properties dialog.
Browser Fill Improvements:
  • You can now set a gradient on the Browser Fill. (Note: Opacity, Focal point and Size are not available due to cross-browser compatibility and usability standards)
  • In addition, you can now set your browser background image to fit or to fill.
Control Strip Improvements:
  • The Adobe Muse control strip now has collapsible control sets (similar to Illustrator). As you expand the width of the Adobe Muse application window more controls appear.
  • Additional controls have been added to the Control strip – States, Transform, and Align. Text controls are now available when text frames are selected, not just when you're using the text tool.
Drag and drop styles/swatches/colors:
  • You can now drag and drop a Paragraph style or Character style onto a text frame to apply the style to the text.
  • You can also drag a Graphic style into a page item, or the page to apply it.
  • You can drag a Swatch onto a page item, page, or browser area of a page to apply background fill.
  • You can drag a Color (via dragging the color preview area just above the RGB edit boxes) onto a page item, page, or browser area of a page to apply background fill. You can also drag a color to the Swatches palette to create a swatch of it.
Hyperlinks:
  • The Hyperlink control can now be resized so that users can see entire URL. We've changed the label of the hyperlink option “Title” to “Tooltip” to help clarify where user enters the hyperlink destination information.
New Selection Visuals:
  • Hint labels now show when you hover over elements on the page. There is a new preference to turn this display off.
  • Groups and widgets are now indicated with dotted line containment rectangles.
  • When a page item cannot be resized in a specific direction we now show an “X” instead of a missing handle.
Widget Improvements:
  • Slideshow and Composition widgets now include a numeric stepper for controlling the Auto Play speed in seconds rather than Off, Slow, Medium, Fast.
  • We've added Shuffle as an option to the Slideshow and Composition widgets so the slideshow or composition contents play in random order.
  • Changing a Menu widget from horizontal to vertical, or vice versa, now does a much better job of preserving size and spacing.
  • Changing the state of one part of a widget at design time now changes appropriate sibling parts to the same state to more closely mimic browser behavior.
  • Based upon customer feedback, we renamed the following:
    • "Fit Width" and "Fit Height" to "Uniform Spacing"
    • "Uniform Width" and "Uniform Height" to "Uniform Size"
Other assorted improvements:
  • Shift + Return/Enter will create a soft return instead of a carriage return.
  • Control/Ctrl + Tab activates next tab.
  • Control/Ctrl + Shift + Tab activates previous tab.
  • Option/Alt + click a page tab will close all open page tabs.
  • Option/Alt + click a site tab will close all open sites.
  • Holding the Shift key down while resizing an image allows you to perform a non-proportional resize.
  • The X, Y, W, H, and Angle edit boxes support duplicating and transforming the selection if you hold down the Option/Alt key when you hit Return/Enter or Tab.
  • If you enter a value in an edit box you can do a Shift + Enter to apply the value AND keep focus in the edit box.
  • Select Same feature added which selects other objects on the page that are the same type as the object currently selected and can be used through Alt Control Shift A and the Context and Edit menus.
  • Added feedback to rotation tracker so you see the angle next to the cursor as you rotate.
  • Changed rotation display values to be between -180 and 180 to match other Adobe apps. Previously it was 0 to 360.
  • Publish dialog has a new FAQ link to help users understand the implications of publishing.
  • Upload to FTP and Export to HTML workflows now have a ‘Domain Name’ input field. This is used for generation of Sitemap.xml and for enabling Typekit web fonts.
  • The display of 100% width items on iOS devices is now enabled.
  • Adobe Muse now produces functional submenus on iOS devices.

If you know InDesign you can use Muse
Entry posted on May 31 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: If you know InDesign you can use Muse
Entry:

If you know how to use Adobe InDesign you will be albe to use Adobe Muse without extra study or tutorials.

They have so may similarities that you will surprise your self when you will create your first Web site without coding.

Four easy steps and your site will be ready!

  1. Plan your site  
  2. Design with freedom
  3. Add rich interactivity   
  4. Preview and publish  


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Keywords: muse html web coding code site indesign

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
Entry posted on Mar 06 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
Entry:

#mce_temp_url#Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software provides a comprehensive set of digital photography tools, from powerfully simple one-click adjustments to cutting-edge advanced controls. Create images that inspire, inform, and delight.


More:

Create incredible images, share them easily, and efficiently manage your entire photo library. Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software provides a comprehensive range of features for your digital photography tasks, from powerful yet simple automatic controls to state-of-the-art advanced tools.

 

Features

 

  • Creativity and flexibility
  • Tone and color
  • Detail and correction
  • Saving time and working efficiently
  • Organizing and managing
  • Finding, searching, and sorting images
  • Importing and exporting
  • Sharing and printing

Keywords: lightroom adobe photoshop new 4 four

NEW EXCHANGE PLUG-IN FOR CINEMA 4D AND ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS
Entry posted on Oct 31 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: NEW EXCHANGE PLUG-IN FOR CINEMA 4D AND ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS
Entry:

The new plug-in for Adobe® After Effects® CS5 and CS5.5 allows motion graphics artists to export projects directly into CINEMA 4D R13.

The CINEMA 4D export appears directly in the After Effects export menu and generates a .c4d file containing 3D layers, cameras, lights, solids, nulls and footage. Even nested compositions are supported. All major layer attributes including animations (rotation, position, parameter, anchor points, POI, etc.), expressions, layer parenting, layer locking and layer visibility are retained. Render and document settings in CINEMA 4D are adapted accordingly to the After Effects’ project settings.

free download


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Keywords: After effects Cinema 4D C4D export workflow

Muse Muse Muse (codename) 1
Entry posted on Aug 18 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: Muse Muse Muse (codename)
Entry:

Muse (codename) enables designers to create websites as easily as creating a layout for print. Design and publish original HTML pages using the latest web standards, and without writing code.

Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional-looking websites.

Key Features of Muse

  • Plan your project — Easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and a host of flexible, site-wide tools make it fast and intuitive to get your site planned out and ready for design.
  • Design your pages — Combine imagery, graphics and text with complete control, flexibility and power (almost as if you were using Adobe InDesign).
  • Add interactivity — Drag and drop fully customizable widgets like navigation menus and slide shows, embed HTML code snippets to include things like Google Maps, enable tool tips, rollovers and much more.
  • Publish your site — Preview your site with Muse to see how it looks and test how it works. Then convert to a live website using Adobe for hosting, or export the HTML for hosting with a provider of your choice.

Download Muse


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Keywords: muse, html, code, adobe, web

Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta on Labs
Entry posted on Jul 15 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta on Labs
Entry:

New features for browser-based, expressive content

Adobe® Flash® Player 11 desktop beta drives innovation for rich, engaging digital experiences with new features for cross-platform browser-based viewing of expressive rich internet applications, content, and videos across devices. Some of the features from the Flash Player Incubator, such as Stage 3D and 64-bit support, have been moved into this beta release.

Performance and 3D

Stage3D APIs ("Molehill") for Flash Player

A new set of low-level, GPU-accelerated 3D APIs that enable advanced 3D experiences and improved 2D performance across devices through the Adobe Flash Platform runtimes.

Cubic Bezier Curves

Using the cubicCurveTo drawing API, developers can easily create cubic Beziers without requiring custom ActionScript code.

64-bit Support

Native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.

Linux Vector Printing

Currently supported on Windows and MAC you can now print rich and crisp images on Linux.

Media/Real Time Communications

G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony

Support interoperability with legacy phone system (through Flash Media Gateway, FMG) and other third-party clients (through open RTMP protocol) without the need of transcoding.

H.264/AVC SW Encoding for Camera

Stream beautiful video from your computer’s camera with higher compression efficiency and industry-wide support, enabling both high quality real-time communications (e.g., video chat and video conferencing) and live video broadcasts from within Flash Player.

Language/VM

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

Enables ActionScript programmers to take advantage of fast parsing and generation of JSON-formatted text to represent their data. Take existing code written for the JSON interface provided by ECMAScript 5th edition and drop the code, with minimal or no modification, into an Actionscript project.

Garbage Collection Advice

Provides a simple facility with which AS3 code can advise the GC on when to schedule the disruptive end-of-GC pause.

Socket Progress Events

Provide a means by which content can determine how many bytes remain in the AS Socket's write buffer. Provide an event which will inform content whenever data is removed from the AS Socket's write buffer so that it may easily monitor the status of the write buffer without having to set up a timer and manually poll the size remaining in the AS Socket's write buffer.

Security

Secure Random Number Generator

Generate secure random numbers that are cryptographically as strong as the underlying operating system. Utilizing native OS APIs this feature will be used by Flash Player on the desktop and mobile platforms (Android) by Flash Platform Services.

 


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Keywords: flash player 11 64bit H.264 Stage3D 64-bit

What's new about Flash Player 10.3.180.42
Entry posted on Mar 08 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: What's new about Flash Player 10.3.180.42
Entry:

Adobe Flash Player 10 is a lightweight browser plug-in and rich Internet application (RIA) runtime that delivers consistent and engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video playback, and pervasive reach. Flash Player 10 introduces new expressive features, visual performance improvements, and extensibility to unleash the creative potential of designers and developers so they can build richer and more immersive web experiences.

Version 10.3:

  • Media Measurement — Measuring video just got easier. With Flash Player 10.3 and Adobe SiteCatalyst®, developers can implement video analytics with as little as two lines of code. Analytics solutions can use a new set of open APIs to easily implement consistent video analytics irrespective of implementation or delivery protocol. Media Measurement for Flash allows companies to get real-time, aggregated reporting of how their video content is distributed, what the audience reach is, and how much video is played.
  • Acoustic Echo Cancellation — Flash Player 10.3 enables developers to create real-time online collaboration experiences with high-quality audio, such as telephony, in-game voice chat, and group conferencing applications. Developers can take advantage of acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, voice activity detection, and automatic compensation for various microphone input levels. End users will be able to experience higher quality audio facilitating smoother conversation flow, without using a headset.
  • Integration with browser privacy controls for managing local storage — Users now have a simpler way to clear local storage from the browser settings interface – similar to how users clear their browser cookies today. Flash Player 10.3 integrates control of local storage with the browser’s privacy settings in Mozilla Firefox 4, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and higher, and future releases of Apple Safari and Google Chrome.
  • Native Control Panel — Flash Player 10.3 provides users with streamlined controls for managing their Flash Player privacy, security and storage settings. Windows, Mac, and Linux users can access the Flash Player Settings Manager directly from the Control Panels or System Preferences on their computers.
  • Auto-Update Notification for Mac OS — Flash Player 10.3 supports automatic notification of software updates on Mac OS, making it easier for Mac users to stay current with new capabilities in the latest version of Flash Player.

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VueScan 9 for Mac-Win-Linux 2
Entry posted on Jan 13 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: VueScan 9 for Mac-Win-Linux
Entry:
VueScan 9 is a powerful, easy-to-use program that:
scans documents, photos and film
creates PDF, JPEG, TIFF and TXT files
supports 'File | Import' from Photoshop
supports more than 1600 scanners
has 32-bit and 64-bit versions
has been downloaded over 8 million times
you can try with your scanner for free
VueScan lets people scan from within Photoshop with more than 1600 different scanners, with any version of Photoshop, 32-bit or 64-bit.
My Personal Review: 
I own a scanner (Acer 340U) since 1996.
This scanner was impossible to use it with any version of MacOSX operation system or the news versions of Windows. There is no available drivers by the company or third-party so the scanner was dying alone.
Until Ed Hamrick produce VueScan in 2004.
Today i am able to fully function my scanner with incretible image quality. You can see below an origianl painting that i scanned using VueScan and Photoshop CS5 64bit.
Also i in a happy place to announce that we will offer a free license for one of my members that will answer me first in the folowing question:
Q: Which is the latest version of VueScan (13/01/2011).
More info: http://www.hamrick.com/

VueScan 9 is a powerful, easy-to-use program that:

  1. scans documents, photos and film
  2. creates PDF, JPEG, TIFF and TXT files
  3. supports 'File | Import' from Photoshop
  4. supports more than 1600 scanners
  5. has 32-bit and 64-bit versions
  6. has been downloaded over 8 million times
  7. you can try with your scanner for free


VueScan lets people scan from within Photoshop with more than 1600 different scanners, with any version of Photoshop, 32-bit or 64-bit.


My Personal Review: 

I own a scanner (Acer 340U) since 1996.This scanner was impossible to use it with any version of MacOSX operation system or the news versions of Windows. There is no available drivers by the company or third-party so the scanner was dying alone.Until Ed Hamrick produce VueScan in 2004.Today i am able to fully function my scanner with incretible image quality. You can see below an origianl painting that i scanned using VueScan and Photoshop CS5 64bit.


Also i am in the happy place to announce that we will offer a free license for one of my members that will answer first in the folowing question here with a post below:

Which is the latest version of VueScan (13/01/2011).


More info: http://www.hamrick.com/


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Keywords: vuescan photoshop cs5 64bit 32bit scanner scan

After Effects CS4 + Pixel Blender = Love 1
Entry posted on Mar 15 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: After Effects CS4 + Pixel Blender = Love
Entry:

With the combination of After Effects and Pixel Blender you can create powerful filters and effects. Make in Pixel Blender the filter you want or even download from Adobe Exchange Community and place the .pbk file in the Effects folder of After Effects CS4, open AE and apply the filter in the movie or image you want from the Menu: Effect-->Pixel Blender.

I recommend first create one composition with the size of the video or image and apply the filter there. Later place the composition into one new comp with the size you want (HDV, DV, etc).

Also I recommend to download and use the Escher's Droste Effect, it's amazing powerful.

Adobe Pixel Bender Exchange

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=26&loc=en_us


#1 Plugs-in for After Effects
Entry posted on Dec 28 by Sotirios Papathanasiou

Title: #1 Plugs-in for After Effects
Entry:

Which is our favorites plugs-in for Adobe After Effects?

Lets start with mine:

  1. Maxon Cinema4DAE
  2. Droste (with Pixel Blender)
  3. Digieffects FreeForm
  4. KeylightPro
  5. Video Copilot Optical Flares
  6. Trapcode Particular
  7. Trapcode Shine
  8. pt_AEtoC4D (script)
  9. pt_Panorama (script)
  10. stereocopic (script)

Yours?


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Keywords: c4d after effects plug in

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