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November 21st, 2009
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| | | | Nobelprize.org Standardizes on Adobe Video Solutions
Nobelprize.org Chooses Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe Flash Technology for a Complete, End-to-End Workflo
At the 2009 IBC tradeshow, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Nobelprize.org, the official Web site of the Nobel Foundation with more than 38 million visits each year, has standardized on Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software for video production and the Adobe Flash® Platform to deliver online video content.
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| | | | MAXON CINEMA 4D's Advanced 3D Animation Capabilities to Take Center Stage at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference
Medical Illustration Professionals Leverage Highly Acclaimed 3D Software Application to Quickly and Easily Render 3D Visual Representations of Complex Medical and Biological Information
MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today announced details of its involvement for the 64th Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) Annual Meeting – the leading conference for medical illustration and allied visual communication professionals – taking place July 29 – August 1, 2009 at the Omni Richmond Hotel, in Richmond, Va.
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| | | | Class on Demand Collects 2 Tellys and a Communicator Award for Video-Based Training
Adobe and Avid Training Products garner coveted assortment of accolades
Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, today announced they have won two 2009 Telly awards for their Class on Demand training titles: "Complete Training for Avid® Media Composer®" and "Basic Training for Adobe® CS4 Production Premium;" and one 2009 Communicator Award for their title: "Designer's Guide to Illustrator®."
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| | | | Loyalkaspar Creates Organically For MTV and A&E
Design/Production Studio Hits The ‘’Tattoo Highway’’ With A&E Network Image Spot; And Soaks Up The Sun For MTV’s Spring Break ‘09 Package
Two recent projects for A&E Network and MTV effectively highlight both the diverse creative skills and love of blending organic and digital art found at Loyalkaspar, the creative design/production company led by directors David Herbruck and Beat Baudenbacher, part of the transmedia branding and design group LORI PATE+.
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| | | | Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX Now Available
15 New Filters, New 3D Objects, Exchange Keyframe Animation with Adobe After Effects
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX (BCC 6 AVX) for Avid editing and finishing systems is now available. BCC 6 AVX is based on Avid’s AVX 2 plug-in architecture with support for Avid Media Composer, Avid NewsCutter and Avid Symphony. A special AVX 1 version of BCC 6 AVX for Avid DS will be released in the near future.
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| | | | DAZ 3D Announces Update to DAZ Studio and Unveils New Prosumer Version
DAZ Studio 3 Advanced Provides Easy-to-use, Professional Tools for Serious 3D Artists; Free Standard Version Ideal for Beginners and Hobbyists
Providing artists with greater opportunity for advanced 3D content creation, DAZ 3D today announced a new free version of its celebrated 3D art and animation package, DAZ Studio 3, as well as the debut of its enhanced, professional-quality toolset, DAZ Studio 3 Advanced, ideal for 3D animators, designers and illustrators.
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| | | | Stan Lim Joins Troika Design Group as Art Director
Brings Wealth of Experience as a Creative Lead on Film Titles, Commercials, Environmental Designs and Network Branding Packages
Troika Design Group announced that Stan Lim has joined the strategic branding and design agency as art director, where he'll play an important role guiding creative on projects within Troika's collaborative environment.
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| | | | Electric Rain Releases Swift 3D v6 For Win & Mac
Flagship 3D animation software for Adobe Flash adds powerful modeling and texturing tools, improved lighting and scene development capabilities and huge performance increases
Today Electric Rain presented Adobe® Flash® designers with a new version of its popular Swift 3D® software. Swift 3D version 6.0 adds exciting capabilities to enhance its already robust feature set, enabling 3D designers of all levels to introduce 3D to their projects with minimal effort and no limitations.
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| | | | Boris FX Announces New Boris Continuum Unit: 3D Objects
Extruded Text, Type-on Text, Extruded EPS, Extruded Spline, and Layer Deformer for $399
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that a new Boris Continuum Unit, 3D Objects, is now available.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Illustrator
Radial Patterns with Adobe Illustrator
 In this video tutorial Creative COW leader Vince Rosati presents a simple technique to use an obscure function in the rotate tool to quickly create radial patterns in Adobe Illustrator. Use this technique with gradients or more complex shapes to create incredible radial patterns.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Vincent Rosati on 10/03/2008 | | | | |
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Adobe Illustrator for Video and Film
 In this Adobe Illustrator review from The Creative COW Magazine, Tim Wilson looks at the ways that Adobe's Illustrator CS3 is designed with video and film artists in mind.
Review by Tim Wilson on 06/10/2007 | | | | |
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Creating a Cartoon from Video
 In this 3-part tutorial, Creative cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz explains the process of converting video to cartoon by using only After Effects and Adobe Illustrator CS2. While the tutorial spans 50 minutes and covers a wide range of topics (some in depth and some in general), after you have gone through the process once, you will find that it's easy to adapt the Cartoonification technique to your own needs.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz on 03/13/2006 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Illustrator
Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - Live Paint
 In this video tutorial, Creative COW Leader Franklin McMahon demonstrates the new Live Paint feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 which makes coloring vector images a snap.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Franklin McMahon on 04/27/2005 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Illustrator
Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - New Features
 In this video tutorial, Creative COW Leader Franklin McMahon examines some of the new features in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 including the control palette, underline links, custom work spaces and exports such as SWF, SVG and PDF.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Franklin McMahon on 04/26/2005 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Illustrator
Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - LIVE TRACE
 In this video tutorial, Creative COW Leader Franklin McMahon goes over the new Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2.0 that helps create bitmap images to vector illustrations.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Franklin McMahon on 04/25/2005 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Illustrator
Creating Customizable Dashed Lines with Adobe Illustrator
 This mini-tutorial is for those who've often worked in Illustrator and have needed to turn a dashed line into individually selectable shapes. This may also be useful for pasting dotted path shapes into After Effects or other applications.
Tutorial by Seth Taylor on 02/14/2005 | | | | |
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| | | | THREADS: | | | | |
| | | |  | "Adobe Photoshop CS4 has stopped working"
by Joshua Weiss in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
My Photoshop will not open. It gets to initializing menus and then an error pops up saying, "Adobe Photoshop CS4 has stopped working." I know others have dealt with this but I have not been able to overcome it. Here is what I have done: I have reinstalled the software...
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| | | | | Re: Illustrator scaling when saving as PDF
by les nemeth in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
There are 2 kinds of cropmarks. One is just an effect, which you will find in the Effect menu. That will add 4 little marks to the document, but that is only for visibility reasons. Your document will not be actually cropped to those marks. The use the "real" crop...
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| | | |  | Re: Ticket Numbers
by John Mensinger in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Photoshop doesn't have any such functionality. You'll have to bring your ticket into a page layout app or word processor and overlay the auto-numbering there. John M: All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor....
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| | | |  | Re: twain aquire
by Richard Harrington in the Adobe Photoshop basics Forum
Discontinued tech. You need to run scanner software from outside Photoshop. many will send to Photoshop when done. Richard M. Harrington, PMP Author: Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork...
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| | | | | Re: Re-Colour an image
by les nemeth in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
This is an extremely simple illustration. It's a simple call out box shape (or whatever you want to call it) and extruded using the 3D Effect in AI. So as a third option to what Vince has mentioned (all of those suggestions would work), you could draw this shape, or...
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| | | |  | Ticket Numbers
by Than Baardson in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Hey everyone, I'm creating tickets for a banquet coming up and need them numbered #001-#450. Is there a way I can create a number generator or something and not type them in one at a time? Thanks, -Than...
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| | | |  | Re: Re-Colour an image
by Vincent Rosati in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
I'm using CS2 and got a 'new version' warning when opening the file.. Anyway, this illustration looks to be complex. Select View/Outlines, to see what's going on. There are a bunch of grouped objects, and clipping masks. To ungroup, with the object selected, choose Object/Ungroup. To remove a clipping path,...
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In Part 3 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati shows you how to perform flat shading on the helix created in the previous tutorials.
In Part 2 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati uses the pen tool to draw the helix structure.
In Part 1 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati explains how to use the free transform tool to take the first step in creating a helix with AI.
