Green17 Creative

Yesterday Green 17 Creative attended the Adobe Creative Suite 5 launch orgainsed by EOS systems and held at W5 in the Odyssey Arena Belfast. The entertaining Jonathan Ferman talked at the Event. He discussed some of the new features available to us within the Adobe Creative Suite. So the aim of this post is to share my views on the new features for example what was good and what was not so good.

To be honest I thought when attending  this event that there wouldn’t be too many changes with the likes of Photoshop and InDesign and the event would be more focused on the new software like Flash Catalyst. So here is what I thought were excellent new features available to us and makes Green 17 really consider purchasing the new software.

1. Photoshop. Watch some videos

Photoshop was the one I was really please and impressed with. They have this new feature called content aware fill. Basically you can remove any image detail or object with Content-Aware Fill. It magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed. I was really impressed with this because before you had to spend hours cloning out the object which was very time consuming.

The puppet wrap tool was another tool that was pretty cool. This tool let you precisely warp or stretch graphics, text, or image elements to create unique new looks for your designs. The good thing about this is that it all can be done within seconds.

2. InDesign. Watch some videos

I was very impressed with Indesign. What adobe has done is they have intergrated flash a lot with Indesign when it comes to doing presentations. Instead of using Microsoft powerpoint you can now use InDesign to present slides with their new presentation mode feature. Also by importing your Photoshop files and Illustrator files you can now animate those directly within Indesign. You don’t have to use flash at all. That was something I was very impressed with.

Also Adobe have made it easy to do simple tasks that before were time consuming for example rounded corners and content layout can all be done within minutes.

Jonathan talked about some other software like Flash Catalyst that where very impressive but again it comes down to the old Adobe verus Apple debate that any web app you create using Flash Catalyst will not work on the iPhone and the iPad which are ini my opinion the future.

Overall I enjoyed my day out at the W5 and congrats to EOS systems for orgainsing a great event and hope there is more to come.

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