Neatly Sliced

An Event Apart 2008, Day 1, 6:15pm – 7:15pm

Read the previous talk in this series, Underpants Over My Trousers by Andy Clarke, or view An Event Apart’s Table of Contents

Special Adobe Session: Web Workflow with the Adobe Creative Suite

Adam Pratt Sponsored by Adobe

• CS4 walkthrough
• This project includes >1700 Person Years of development time to “give
  birth to the baby”
• Photoshop
• GPU acceleration
• Real-time canvas rotation! Really, really cool(tm)
• 442MP camera capture. Lightning speed zooming on this massive file. 56.3% zoom and everything still looks great, from new anti-aliasing engine.
• You can clearly see signs that are 1.5miles and 2 miles away. Cool deal.
• New bird’s eye view to zoom in and out quickly. Shortcut key for it.
• Once you zoom over 500%, you can see the pixel display. Yes, each color for each pixel. Cool.
• Content aware scaling – rather than squashing 4 people when you want to squish a 4×6 to a 4×3, it would make people super skinny. But content aware scaling will keep the people normal but you can scale and crop it over… really snazzy.
• Illustrator
• Improved gradients.
• InDesign
• XFL – FLA format provided in XML. So you can take your inDesign document and bring it over to flash. Neato.
• Good for taking your print publications and taking them online. There’s a convert to web catalog type thing option (real name please?) – like “view my ad online” where you turn the pages and look through the catalog with flash. Some people have been doing this already, but either huge jpgs or junk looking text. Soooo this is awesome because then people’s print catalogs that you create can go straight to the web without any work at all.
• Flash
• The bowing tool – create separate but attached elements and the can interact, like sections to a crane’s hinges, and then move the pieces around and they are all attached.
• Motion Tween – with a couple clicks, can create a tween. Easy enough, but then you change your mind, and that’s never fun.
• Implementing tabbed browsing across the suite
• Fireworks
• color pallette is working right in the apps, running flash within their own apps
• Better PSD support
• Export to MXML directly to flex!
• Acrobat
• PDF export – use password to open doc OR if don’t know password, maybe they can see it but no printing, etc.
• a PDF created in CS4, someone can use comment tools in the FREE reader. ONLY because you created it in CS4, though, can they use the comment tools. Usually they would need the pro version.
• Dreamweaver
• Visual notification that files are too large. Allows to recompress the original – recompress the web saved graphic to a lower sized file. That’s pretty cool. You can clean up the slop without having to go back to a designer.
• Live Code/Preview
• Tab support still – new for Dreamweaver
• links under the tabs to the files that it references. Don’t need to hunt and peck like we used to.
• Running webkit inside of Dreamweaver - Safari – on both mac and windows
• Live Code option – the code changes live in the split source view. Annnnd, you can freeze JavaScript, so you can see the change in your code based on the JavaScript. Awesome for troubleshooting.
• Emulation of the Firebug style inheritance display (code and style navigator)
• Multi-touch support for Photoshop – the pinch and rotate. Was this included in CS3? Cool regardless.

View the next talk in this series: Live Code Workshop with Eric Meyer, or skip to An Event Apart’s Table of Contents

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