Arguably the biggest announcement to come out of the annual Adobe MAX Conference last month was the unveiling of the Adobe Creative Cloud…

It was the major focus of the first day’s keynote address, and then different components of it were covered in greater detail in a number of the later educational sessions.

What Is the Creative Cloud?

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch describes it as an optional membership-based program formed of three pillars: Creative Services, Creative Community, and Creative Applications.

The first is Creative Services, which are hosted services that you can use in your production work, in the delivery of your content. This includes a font service like Typekit, which Adobe recently acquired, which enables the use and delivery of a broad foundry of cloud fonts across all of your work. A second area is Digital Publishing, which enables publishing rich media to tablets via the cloud. And the third category is Business Catalyst, which supports designing and operating websites for small businesses, with pre-built services for things like handling e-commerce, doing customer relationship management, and integrating with social networks. More services will be added over time.

The second pillar is Creative Community, which is all of you creatives around the world and enabling you to connect more easily with other creatives – it’s a place to share, to communi­cate, and to inspire each other with your work and really collaborate as you’re working. The community is a critical part of our whole ecosystem, and it’s a critical part of the cloud. At the center of this is the web presence of the Creative Cloud, which is creative.adobe.com. And one of the great things there is it will understand all the formats you’re using in your creative work – so PSD files, InDesign files, Illustrator files. Where other cloud services might show you an icon describing the file type, this will show you the actual content, and you can interact with it in a context-sensitive way. It’s a much deeper understanding of creative content.

And lastly the third pillar is Creative Applications – and these are enabling you to create not only on personal computers, but also wherever you are with mobile devices, all connected through the Creative Cloud. This includes a whole new collection of Adobe touch apps to run on tablets and other mobile devices, including Proto, Kuler, Debut, Collage, Carousel, Ideas, and Photoshop Touch. In addition, membership also includes access to all Adobe creative desktop products you know and love, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver and Premiere and InDesign, possibly Lightroom, more. You can download and install any of these applica­tions you choose as part of your membership, and these are all connected to Creative Cloud via desktop sync. They also interact with the touch apps, and you can move files between desktop and touch as you’re working.

[UPDATE (January 25th) — Adobe now says that Lightroom, Edge, DPS Single Edition, and Social capabilities will not be included initially, but are "planned for a future release."]

Why Is It Important?

So why should you care, if you’re quite happy with your current set of permanent desktop Adobe products, and less interested in services or tablet apps?

Well, because this looks to be a key direction Adobe is going in, a new (additional) model for offering their software and how it is used. The company started off with a toe in the water with CS5.5 software subscriptions, but is expanding that option substantially here. Creative Cloud membership is essentially a broader subscription-based program – in other words, renting the software that’s used, which works so long as the monthly payments are made. To quote a press release yesterday, “Adobe’s Digital Media growth strategy revolves around its recently announced Creative Cloud and will enable the company to rapidly deliver new product capabilities and services, penetrate untapped market segments, and increase overall engagement with customers.”

As implied, this model of software is going to be a significant change because it means Adobe’s engineering teams can improve the applica­tions more frequently, and as they come up with new ideas, they can put them in the app and you can get them, not just once a year.

Overall with Creative Cloud, they’re changing how they provide software from the traditional desktop model now to devices and also to the cloud. Twenty-one years ago they started with point products like Photoshop or Dreamweaver you could get individually, and then they did the Creative Suite bundling, and that was a great breakthrough for creative software and how you can acquire it, and this now is the most popular creative software in the world. Now their next step is moving to Creative Cloud, and it’s going to be a whole new way people can interact with the software.

And fortunately, this will be additive to what they already offer – in other words, you’re going to continue to be able to buy standalone the permanent point products and the suites as you’re used to with perpetual licensing, as well – however the current Creative Suite Upgrade Policy will be changing significantly.

So as Adobe says, “this is a great new adventure for us, and there’s a ton of innovation ahead for us, so it’s going to be a very exciting time.”

Availability and Pricing

The touch applications are going to be available on the Android market in November, along with a beta of Creative Cloud so testers can immediately start using the storage and the synchronization with those applications. Then full Creative Cloud membership is going to be available next year – perhaps in conjunction with the release of CS6. Adobe says the Creative Cloud is going to be attractively priced, and they’ll be announcing pricing in November as well, so we’ll learn more about that soon. In the meantime, you can read more in the Creative Cloud FAQ – or express your view: what do you think about this optional new model?

See the best from Adobe MAX 2011 – including both keynote presentations plus over 160 hours of on-demand free tutorials & training sessions from the experts, on a wide range of topics covering all major Adobe applications, plus more on the Creative Cloud.

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Last week Adobe revealed 11 sneak peek videos of technology they are working on but haven’t released yet, and while Photoshop Image Deblurring and InDesign Liquid Layout got much of the attention, there were still some amazing developments in the video realm as well – and all three of those are covered below.

Naturally, Adobe says there are never any guarantees for what may or may not appear in a production release, or when… (maybe CS6?) But nevertheless, major new product features very often appear in these previews before they make the real tools (case in point, Content-Aware Fill).

3D Video Meshes

The first sneak was about turning ordinary 2D video into 3D – in fact, dynamically editable 3D video! A very cool demo by Sylvain Paris, allowing direct manipulation of the objects and characters within the moving scene, and the ability to change camera parameters post-facto like focus and depth of field. Adobe says, “a potential feature for editing videos” – a future advancement falling somewhere in between Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Auto-Align New Dialogue Track

The next demo was at the intersection of video editing with audio processing. Commonly the original audio track for a video piece is thrown out and replaced by a new one recorded in the studio. This often introduces vocal alignment issues and challenges in getting everything synchronized naturally. A new Premiere Pro function called “RubbaDub” is shown here by Brian King which will automatically replace the dialog of a video clip with separately recorded audio to near perfection – even if the two halves are coming from different people.

Auto-Sync of Crowd-Sourced Video

This last one continues in the same line of making the video editor’s job simpler by automati­cally resolving complex tasks. In this presentation, Nicholas Bryan shows you a sneak peek of a possible new Premiere Pro feature that synchronizes multiple video clips taken with different cameras and different vantage points into a single merged, immersive video.

See more from the show – including the keynote presentations plus over 160 hours of free tutorials and training sessions from the experts, on a wide range of topics covering all major Adobe products.

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Here is the latest news on Photoshop Image Deblurring:  In response to some of your questions here at ProDesignTools, we contacted Adobe and requested they help “bring into focus” the new Deblur feature that could be in a future Photoshop. We got in touch with Dr. Jue Wang, Adobe senior research scientist, and as a direct result his team has provided more examples of the technology using notable photographs. Most of these are well-known from history or come from independent sources, and thus began with natural camera blur.

For those just joining us on the story, here’s a quick review: Earlier this month we ran a feature article on this “sneak peek” of an amazing new capability revealed at Adobe MAX. Several blurry photographs were processed through a new Photoshop plug-in to give before-and-after results that wowed the crowd, even more than the other popular sneak demos at the show. [See the full video in HD]

Why did controversy later arise? For the last brief image of his demonstration, intending to be entertaining and relevant to the audience, Dr. Wang used a photo of Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch that had been synthetically blurred. Creation of synthetic inputs is common practice across the research in this field, but out of simplicity, Dr. Wang did not go into those origins at the time.

The original sharp version was found online, and even though the other images came from real-world blur due to camera shake, this opened the door for some to raise questions about the efficacy of the developing technology. After we contacted them, Adobe added an update to their Photoshop.com blog post explaining why synthetic blurring was used for that example, but some skepticism remained.

So we got in touch with Dr. Wang again and have been working with him over the weekend. In response, his team put together a group of independent photographs that began with natural camera blur and included the results from Photoshop’s Image Deblurring algorithm. Here is what he wrote to us yesterday:

This is still early-stage research and as it develops we will definitely be reaching out to the community for testing examples. But at the moment our researchers are still refining the technologies. In the meantime, we have put some real-world examples on our fun Deblur Famous Photos webpage, and there will be more. On the page you can also find a way to contribute to our research.

We hope you find these as helpful and interesting as we do. Just roll over each photo with your mouse (or tap) for the before and after results. And if you have an image of your own or a good-case historical photo, please see the invitation on how to propose it for deblurring at the end of this article.

Robert Capa’s D-Day Photo

This is perhaps the most famous blurry photograph in American history. It was taken by Robert Capa on June 6, 1944, during World War II. The picture captured an American soldier landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day in Normandy, France. As you can see, the technical quality of the original is challenging – there is an enormous degree of blur, noise, and artifacts. It’s an extreme test of the Photoshop deblurring algorithm, but check out the noteworthy result – particularly in the foreground, and the new detail revealed in the G.I.’s face.

Microsoft’s Sculpture Test

Here is an authentic photograph Microsoft used as a test for their own picture deblurring solution, which involved having hardware gyro sensors built into a special camera and then using the sensor data recorded at the time of image capture to automatically deblur each photo taken on it. As a challenge, the Adobe team fed the same original Microsoft image blurred from camera shake into the Photoshop prototype, which of course did not have the benefit of the recorded data to work backwards from. Yet the Photoshop output compares favorably with Microsoft’s result that had required the special apparatus.

Korean Pagoda

One last example we’ll cover is from the Hwanho Sunrise Park in Pohang, Korea. This photo­graph was an inspiration to the Korean team that originally created the Photoshop unblur technology, in that the image convolution was so bad that it seemed impossible to save. But the researchers didn’t give up working on their algorithms – and then finally late one night, it worked. Notice in particular the water, the trees, and the bench at the lower right.

More

Of course, the developing algorithm does not always work so well (which the researchers freely admit) – and you can see an example of that, plus more details and estimated blur kernels for all images at the Deblur Famous/Interesting Photos page, where visitor submissions of additional photos are also invited.

Read more about this sneak peek, or watch the original Photoshop Deblur demo in its entirety, now in full-screen High Definition video…  Also catch the cool sneaks for other Adobe products:

• InDesign Liquid Layout
• Three for Premiere Pro & After Effects
• All 11 sneak peeks presented at the show

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This very cool InDesign “sneak” comes fresh from the big Adobe MAX conference earlier this month…  What’s a sneak?

We’ve gone through the company and found the 11 coolest demos of technology that are at work within Adobe. These are things that are on the cutting edge of the technology. They may show up in a product, they may not. The demo may work, it may not. But this is your chance to get closer and really understand where we’re going and what we’re doing.

OK fair enough.  Here’s the set up:

“I want to show you some things we’re thinking about on the InDesign Team. As you know, it’s actually been about a year since we launched Digital Publishing Suite, and we’ve had fantastic traction in terms of getting great-looking content on tablet devices. So I have an iPad here and as you see I can turn it over and tilt it, let the accelerometer do its trick. We’re actually seeing two different layouts here – two different layouts – which creates two different files. So designers actually have to create two separate InDesign files for this one device.

Another thing that’s happening is you’ve got another device like the Motorola Xoom – and on the Xoom you’ve got an totally different size, shape, aspect ratio. And the best we can do right now is if you notice the black bands here – this is all white space – you have to scale down the layout to fit on this size screen. It drives designers crazy – God abhors white space – and this just drives us insane. But it’s the best that we can do right now.

So, how are we going to make things a bit easier for the designer?”

The InDesign Sneak

For the rest, words can’t accurately capture what happens in the demo, so the video is the only way:

Thanks to Adobe presenter Kiyomassa Toma.  Notice the new Adobe Edge even makes a guest appearance of sorts, with the embedding of the HTML5 animation in the document displayed across multiple platforms.

So, could this whizzy new capability be coming in InDesign CS6?  Well, Creative Suite 6 could be about six months away or so – and the smooth and polished nature of the demonstration suggests to us that (hopefully) this kind of thing could be ready to go by then. That contrasts with the “prototype” feel to the (nonetheless impressive) Photoshop Image Deblurring sneak that was shown by Adobe at the same session.

Certainly, this type of liquid layout feature – to be able to automatically adapt layouts across devices and screen orientations – is hugely needed as the number of smartphone and tablet models continues to skyrocket, all with different profiles. It also becomes an even bigger deal with the announcement of the new Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition at MAX, for smaller publishers.

See more from the show – including the keynote presentations plus over 160 hours of free tutorials and training sessions from the experts, on a wide range of topics covering all major Adobe products.  And we’ll have more MAX sneaks here for other Adobe products in the coming weeks… For instance, the aforementioned, much-buzzed-about Photoshop sneak.

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Can you imagine a new feature in Photoshop that could automatically deblur photographs to restore the originally-intended subject material to clarity and focus?  Adobe can…

This demonstration comes from last week’s Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, where the last major session showcases “sneaks” of what Adobe is working on but hasn’t revealed yet. There are no guarantees for what may or may not appear in a production release, or when. But, could this appear in a future version like Photoshop CS6?  Well, watch this video and make up your own mind:

Adobe Photo Deblur: How Does It Work?

From the video you see the key element in the unblurring feature is the program’s intensive computation of a “blur kernel” (or point spread function), a unique signature which describes the motion trajectory of the camera while the shutter was open during the creation of the flawed image… Then, once this path is determined, further computation applies it to the blurry picture to reverse and work back to what the photograph should have looked like originally – in other words, to remove the blur and restore a sharp image.

For the clearest example, check this high-resolution before-and-after still photo comparison. Or see brand new amazing photos of this capability that have been released since the show.

Watching it in action is pretty amazing – unreal even – as heard in the gasps and incredulity of the audience, which at this venue is a pretty sophisticated crowd. The show’s emcee calls it, “mind-blowing, cool Photoshop magic.”  And though this plug-in can’t correct a picture that’s just plain out of focus, with the rise of cellphone cameras everywhere and the iPhone now being the #1 camera on Flickr, the ability to fix camera shake and repair blurry or smeared images could be a very big deal.

So, back to the previous question – could this new feature be coming in Photoshop CS6?  Well, Creative Suite 6 (or whatever CS “Next” is called) could be about six months away or so – and picking up some of the cues from Adobe presenter Jue Wang, it’s unclear…  He says in various spots, “we have been working on this problem for a while and have built a prototype to solve it,” and, “you can see there are a lot of controls here because it’s still an early prototype,” so it’s hard to say how close something like this might actually be.

What do you think?

Let us know in the comments below.

See the best from Adobe MAX 2011 – including the keynote presentations plus over 160 hours of free tutorials and training sessions from the experts, on a wide range of topics covering all major Adobe products.  And we’ll have more MAX sneaks here for other Adobe products in the coming weeks… For instance, here are new sneaks for InDesign Liquid Layout and Premiere Pro Syncing.

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Just back from Adobe MAX 2011 and it was sensational… The keynote presentations were larger than life and filled with news and demos of new Adobe software and initiatives. The hundreds of diverse product sessions were incredibly educational. The show floor was a buzzing activity of experts, partners, and vendors… And the renowned “MAX Bash” party did not disappoint.

But perhaps the best part for those who weren’t there is the majority of the sessions were captured on video and are now offered online for free… In other words, pick your favorite Adobe product(s) and you can learn the latest tips, tricks, and techniques from the top instructors in the field from the comfort of your desktop. There are three major tracks below (Design, Develop, and Envision) with scores of different topics; most sessions are about an hour long and the collection runs to over 160 hours of video in total.

As for the two conference keynotes, those are also available for online viewing as well, and broken up into segments according to theme… The first day highlights included the unveiling of Creative Cloud, a membership-based collection of creative applications and services, the announcement of the Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition for smaller publishers, and the introduction of Adobe Touch Apps, including Photoshop Touch.

Day two covered the company’s latest HTML5 and CSS3 developments including the new Adobe Edge product, as well as Flash Player 11 with 3D, AIR 3, and Adobe’s acquisition of PhoneGap.

But without further ado, here are the best training and tutorial sessions direct from MAX, now free to watch…  160 hours – that’s 20 eight-hour days worth of content! Dig in…

MAX 2011 Design

Dive into the art and science of designing across media, including web, interactive, video, mobile, and print. Join us to expand your skills and be inspired.

• Acrobat for the Web Designer
• Adobe Illustrator: Secrets to working faster, smarter and more creatively
• Advanced Audio Restoration and Editing
• Advanced Integration Techniques for Muse (codename)
• Advanced Interactivity and Real-World Integration with Adobe Edge
• An Introduction to Creative Photographic Imaging on Tablet Devices
• Beautiful Typography: A Crash Course
• BrowserLab: An Online Service for Cross-Browser
• Building Adaptive, Multiscreen Websites with Business Catalyst v3
• Building Tablet Applications Using InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite
• Building Workspaces of the Future – Today
• CEM and the Studio: How your Digital Agency Fits into the Puzzle
• CSS Takes Over the World
• CSS for Web and Mobile Design
• Case Study: Buck Creative Agency
• Case Study: Give Your Web Design Agency a Boost with Business Catalyst
• Creating Accessible Documents More Efficiently with InDesign CS5.5
• Creating Dynamic Ads, Banners, and Rich Apps
• Creating eBooks for Distribution on Digital Devices with InDesign CS5.5
• Creative Sweet: Little-Known Features Found in Creative Suite
• Deploying Content to Mobile Devices with the WEM Content Sync Framework
• Deploying Flash Professional Content across Screens
• Design Better Experiences with Fireworks by Understanding How People Think
• Design websites without writing code with Muse (code name)
• Designing Game Interfaces
• Designing More, Stressing Less with Creative Suite
• Developing Accessible PDF Content for LiveCycle with Designer
• Dynamic, Cloud-Based Localization for Adobe’s Mobile Applications
• Easy 3D Content Creation and Workflow for Flash & Stage3D
• Editing Video from HDSLR Cameras in CS5.5 Production Premium
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Adobe Edge
• Expressive Painting and Illustration in Photoshop CS5 with Jack Davis
• For Creative Professionals: Adobe Mobile Apps and Why You Should Use Them
• For Creative Professionals: Create Anywhere. Customer Panel Discussion
• For Creative Professionals: Working with Adobe Mobile Apps + Your Desktop
• For Web and UI Designers: Work in New Ways with Mobile Apps
• From Web to Mobile to App in 60 Seconds with Dreamweaver CS5.5
• Get Your App Discovered: Android Market and Beyond
• HD Video and Audio: Best Practices Encoding for the Web and Tablets
• Hidden Gems and Technologies in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended
• How to Act Like an Agency within a Company
• How to Work Creatively and Quickly with 3D in Photoshop CS5 Extended
• I Didn’t Know Fireworks Could Do That!
• InDesign CS5.5 Power Shortcuts
• Introduction to Lightroom: The Develop Module
• Introduction to Lightroom: The Output Module
• Lightroom + Photoshop: Seamless Integration
• Lightroom 3 Crash Course
• Mastering Mobile Design in Minutes with Fireworks
• Mini-Fantasia in Miami: An Imaginative Melding of Music and Animation
• Photoshop CS5 Instant Effects: One-Click Techniques for Designers
• Photoshop SDK: An Overview
• Pixel Perfect: Photoshop Power Shortcuts
• Publishing to Digital Devices with InDesign CS5.5
• Shooting and Editing Interviews
• Sneak Peek: Build Powerful Online Businesses with Business Catalyst v3
• Taking Your Sites to the Next Level with Business Catalyst and jQuery
• The Art of Sesame Street
• The Best Practices for Application and UX Design for Large Data Sets
• Using Adobe’s Web Tools to Rethink Digital Branding
• Web and Interactive Design with Illustrator
• What’s New in Flash Professional CS5.5
• What’s New in InDesign CS5.5
• Which Flavor of Digital Publishing Suite Suits You?
• Workflow for Motion Designers

MAX 2011 Develop

Explore technical challenges faced in architecting solutions, building applications, integrating with enterprise back-end systems and services as well as basic and advanced development techniques.

• Accelerate Business Results with Adobe Document Exchange Services
• Adobe AIR App Demo Showcase for Sony Tablet Devices
• Adobe Video Solutions Roadmap
• Aspect-Oriented Programming with Flex
• Automating Acrobat: Best Practices for using Actions and Scripting
• Best Practices for Building Flex Tablet Applications
• BlackBerry Webworks SDK for Tablet OS
• Building CRX Powered Flex Applications
• Building Collaborative Applications for Adobe Connect
• Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Building Enterprise Mobile Applications
• Building Interactive Content Using HTML5 Canvas
• Building the Best Gameplay
• Building the Next Killer Flash App for Facebook
• Case Study: City of Boston Situation Awareness Application on iPad
• Case Study: WebFilings, A Cloud-powered, Innovative Enterprise Application
• Creating Accessible Content on the Flash Platform
• Creating Amazing Video Experiences on the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet
• Creating Apps in 2D or 3D for the LG Cinema 3D and Smart TV Platform
• Creating Components for Web Experience Management (WEM) Solutions
• Creating and Optimizing 2D Flash Technology-Based Games for Mass Market TVs
• Deep Dive into Molehill (Stage 3D)
• Design to Release: Building a multi screen mobile application
• Developer and Designer Multiscreen Mashup with Flash Professional
• Developing 2D Games on Top of Stage 3D (Molehill) in Flash Player
• Developing Flex Mobile Applications
• Developing Next-Generation Games with Stage3D (Molehill) Part 1
• Developing Next-Generation Games with Stage3D (Molehill) Part 2
• Developing the Samsung Smart TV Application with Adobe AIR for TV
• Development Best Practices for Authoring Across Devices
• Discover What’s New in Document Services – Designer
• Discover What’s new in LiveCycle Data Services
• Discover the Unknown Flex 4.5
• Elegant Design Powered by the Flex SDK
• Encoding for Performance on Multiple Devices
• Enterprise Java and Flex
• Enterprise Live Video Strategies with Multicast and P2P
• Extending Flex and Adobe AIR to the Enterprise with Data Service Connectors
• Extending the Web Experience Management Solution with Custom Components
• Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst Sitting in a Tree…
• Flash Gets Physical: Connecting with Game Controllers, Arduino, and Sensors
• Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services with CloudFront CDN
• Flash Platform Roadmap: Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Player, AIR
• Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3: Changing the Game
• Flash and 3D, Start Your Engines!
• Flex and Flash in an HTML5 and Native App World
• From Desktop to Mobile: Application Functionality for Small Screens
• HTML5 Semantic Web
• HTML5: The 2012 of the Web
• High-Performance JavaScript
• How to Develop Amazing Enterprise AIR Apps for Tablets and Smartphones
• How to Develop and Monetize Your Creative Suite Extensions
• How to Extend Your Desktop AIR Applications Using Native Extensions
• How to Extend Your Mobile AIR Applications Using Native Extensions
• How to Rapidly Build HTML5 Web Apps with Sencha Technologies
• Keeping Current with ColdFusion
• Maven and Jenkins for Enterprise Flex Applications
• Mobile Apps That Wow
• Multiscreen Project Best Practices
• Node.js and You
• Optimizing your Adobe AIR app for Sony Android tablets
• Performance-Tuning Mobile Flex Applications
• Practical Mobile Development with Flex and Adobe AIR
• Programming a 3D First-Person Shooter Game in Flash
• Pushing Pixels: Blitting for Gaming on Web, Desktop, and Mobile
• Pushing the Envelope with Interactive PDF from InDesign
• Putting the Multi in Multiscreen
• Stepping from Android Java to the Flash Platform to…Everywhere
• Streaming Video to HTML5, Apple, and Flash Enabled Devices
• TV: The Final Frontier for App Monetization
• The App Opportunity with Barnes & Noble
• The Flash Platform and Alternativa3D: Amazing New Possibilities
• The Incubator: Test the Bleeding-Edge Capabilities of the Flash Platform
• Tips and Tricks for Building Desktop Applications with Adobe AIR
• Vanished: Learning Science through ARG Gameplay
• What’s New in Adobe AIR – and What’s Next
• What’s New in Flash Catalyst CS5.5
• What’s New in the Flex SDK
• What’s Next in ColdFusion
• Working with AIR Native Extensions

MAX 2011 Envision

Discover and explore strategies for building engaging experiences across multiple screens.

• 10 Whirlwind Demos with Adobe Web Experience Management
• Accelerate Business Results with Adobe Document Exchange Services
• Acrobat for the Web Designer
• Adobe AIR App Demo Showcase for Sony Tablet Devices
• Adobe@Adobe
• An Introduction to Creative Photographic Imaging on Tablet Devices
• Animating in Flash Professional CS5.5 with Chris Georgenes
• Building Adaptive, Multiscreen Websites with Business Catalyst v3
• CEM and the Studio: How your Digital Agency Fits into the Puzzle
• CSS Takes Over the World
• Case Study: City of Boston Situation Awareness Application on iPad
• Case Study: Give Your Web Design Agency a Boost with Business Catalyst
• Case Study: WebFilings, A Cloud-powered, Innovative Enterprise Application
• Creating Apps in 2D or 3D for the LG Cinema 3D and Smart TV Platform
• Creating Dynamic Ads, Banners, and Rich Apps
• Deploying Content to Mobile Devices with the WEM Content Sync Framework
• Deploying Flash Professional Content across Screens
• Designing Game Interfaces
• Designing the Digital Enterprise
• Developing Accessible PDF Content for LiveCycle with Designer
• Digital Publishing: Looking Back and Forward
• Digital Publishing: Reinventing the Brand Advertising Paradigm
• Digital Publishing: Riding the Next Wave of Corporate Publishing
• Dynamic, Cloud-Based Localization for Adobe’s Mobile Applications
• Easy 3D Content Creation and Workflow for Flash & Stage3D
• Extending the Web Experience Management Solution with Custom Components
• Flash Platform Roadmap: Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Player, AIR
• Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3: Changing the Game
• Flash Professional Sneak Peek: A Glimpse at the Future
• For Creative Professionals: Adobe Mobile Apps and Why You Should Use Them
• For Creative Professionals: Create Anywhere. Customer Panel Discussion
• For Creative Professionals: Working with Adobe Mobile Apps + Your Desktop
• For Web and UI Designers: Work in New Ways with Mobile Apps
• Get Your App Discovered: Android Market and Beyond
• MTV Networks: Behind the Scenes on World-Class Broadcast Events
• Maximizing Audience Engagement
• Panel Discussion: Positioning Flex and Flash in a World with HTML5
• Pushing the Boundaries of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite in Academia
• Putting the Multi in Multiscreen
• R/GA’s Strategies for Successful Multiscreen Implementations
• Sneak Peek: Build Powerful Online Businesses with Business Catalyst v3
• Social Studies: Connecting Content and Community in the Cloud
• Taking Your Sites to the Next Level with Business Catalyst and jQuery
• The App Opportunity with Barnes & Noble
• The Best Practices for Application and UX Design for Large Data Sets
• The Experience Architecture
• The Flash Platform and Alternativa3D: Amazing New Possibilities
• The Future Enterprise Developer
• Tips & Tricks for Tablet Development: The Making of Adobe Ideas
• What’s New in Flash Professional CS5.5
• Yahoo!: Scalable and Consistent Video Delivery to All Devices

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Adobe MAX 2011 – the worldwide user conference – runs this week and if you aren’t in Los Angeles, the two major keynotes will be broadcast free, with both live and on-demand streaming… The company is promising lots of big news and announcements, so if you can’t join us there in person, you can see it all unfold online.

What’s more, over 160 free hours of the best training and tutorial sessions from this year’s show will also be available.

Adobe Dreamweaver tweets, “To hear BIG Adobe MAX announcements, register now to listen LIVE to the keynote presentations Monday & Tuesday morning…”

Adobe Creative Suite posts, “The countdown has officially begun for Adobe MAX! Even if you can’t make it to the live event, you can still join in on the fun! To hear the BIG announcements we have planned, register now to listen LIVE to the MAX keynotes Monday & Tuesday morning.”

The MAX team writes, “Adobe MAX keynote sessions are the highlight of the event. You can sign up to watch the event yourself and get all the technology news, celebrity appearances, and product announcements delivered to your desktop or mobile device.”

We think one of the major announcements will be “a broad new set of Adobe tablet apps,” for starters…

Here’s the official invitation:

Watch Adobe MAX 2011 keynotes live
While there’s nothing that compares to being there in person, you can still experience some of the excitement of MAX 2011. Join Adobe executives, product experts, and special guests as we focus on present and future technologies, time-saving techniques, and inspiring work created by the best in the industry. See the keynotes live as they’re happening in the Nokia Theater.

1. Creativity unleashed
Monday, October 3, 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PDT (convert time zone)
Join Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch and guests to learn how Adobe is transforming the creative process across mobile devices, personal computers, and the cloud.

2. Creating the very best user experiences
Tuesday, October 4, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PDT (convert time zone)
Join us as we explore the best solutions for delivering highly expressive and usable experiences, both in the browser and as apps. We’ll look at a variety of technologies and products, highlighting current opportunities, and peering into the not-so-distant future.

Watch on demand
If you can’t watch the keynotes live, you can view them immediately on demand. Bookmark this page and check back for updates.

The video coverage will be available for both desktop computers as well as mobile devices – including Flash-enabled devices as well as Apple iOS devices.

“The MAX keynotes are always inspiring, exciting, and entertaining. And if you think the last few years were cool, wait until you see what we have planned this year. The stage is 180’ wide and hosts an absolutely gigantic screen, the venue boasts 11,000 amps of power and 548,500 watts of lighting; the side screens themselves are almost 500 square feet each! You won’t believe what all that is capable of, and so we are going to … oops, sorry, I got carried away there. Look, I’ve been part of the keynote team for 13 consecutive years now, so you can trust me when I say that you won’t want to arrive late for the opening keynote. Really.” — Ben Forta

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[UPDATE – Also see our new Lightroom 4 Giveaway!]

MAX 2011 – the big yearly conference for all-things-Adobe – is coming up in just two months in Los Angeles, California… And continuing our long tradition of free Adobe giveaways, we’ve got one free and full conference pass (worth $1,495) to give away, plus one $400-off ticket discount, both courtesy of our friends at Adobe Systems.

Adobe MAX 2011 will be chock full of expert keynotes and presentations, technical ses­sions and talks, surprise announcements and sneak-peeks, evening events and get-togethers, and possibly some freebies.

In fact, most of the over 200 training and tutorial sessions from MAX 2010 were recorded and are still available on-demand for free viewing, covering all Adobe tools.

Anyway, back to the ticket giveaway: We’re awarding one full and free conference pass as a grand prize, and one $400 ticket discount to the runner-up. Any travel and lodging arrange­ments are the responsibility of the winners. The contest is open to residents of North America, U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and all you need to do for a chance to win is one (or both) of the following:

1.  Leave a brief comment below telling us why you’d like to go or how it will help your work – and make sure to include your current email address – and/or,
2.  Enter your email for our free exclusive Adobe Special Offers e-Newsletter in the sidebar to the right (once in a while, never spam, and unsubscribe any time).

That’s it!  Each of these actions counts as a single entry into the drawing – so if you do both, you’ll receive a two chances to win the prizes. Please, one entry per reader for each method, but be sure to share and tell your friends and colleagues who’d like a chance as well.

Submissions are open until 11:59pm EDT on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011. The winners will be drawn at random from all valid entries, and contacted via email – and we’ll announce the lucky recipients (first names only) right here the next day. The prizes are in the form of two special, unique vouchers that will give one completely free conference attendance, and one discounted registration.

Good luck and spread the word! And even if you don’t win either prize, find out how you can save $400 on Adobe MAX 2011 yourself!

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“Adobe MAX is an experience unlike any other — an opportunity to learn from the experts and connect with thousands of the most influential designers, developers, and decision-makers in our industry.”

If you’d like to go to Adobe MAX this year in L.A. (October 1-5) and save $400 in the process, just purchase (full or upgrade) any one of the products listed below from the Adobe online store and you’ll receive a special promo code that will discount your regular full confer­ence pass price by US$400…

But since the upgrade price for many of these products is less than $400, basically you’re getting the software for more than free!

Just enter the promotion code found in your purchase confirmation at the start of the MAX 2011 online registration process to receive your savings. The deal is valid in North America with one coupon per person and not combinable with any other offer or discount.

To receive the $400 price reduction, just purchase one of the following eligible products between May 16, 2011 and September 30, 2011:

Check the full details and offer terms, and see you in L.A.!

For our customers using Adobe technologies, MAX is often one of the most exciting times of the year since Adobe often launches new products and sneaks never seen before technology. MAX represents an excellent opportunity for our customers to learn about the latest development in Adobe technology, network with peers in the industry and connect with members of our development team. For development teams at Adobe, it is also a thrilling event as months and often years of hard work can be finally presented to our enthusiastic customers.

                                              — Rob Christensen, Senior Product Manager, Adobe

[UPDATE (August 2nd) – Win a free ticket to Adobe MAX 2011, a full conference pass! ($1500)]

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[UPDATE (June 6th) – MAX registration is now open!  Save $200 with an early-bird discount - or an even better promotion, save $400 with coupon code from Adobe product purchased.]

MAX is the big annual conference for all-things-Adobe. One of the best aspects of MAX last year was the key presentations and announcements were webcast live, and most of the rest of the talks and lectures were offered later on-demand. These sessions are still available for viewing and are a fantastic free resource (see the list) for learning about Adobe software. There are more than 200 recorded videos on topics ranging from Photoshop Tips, Techniques & Power Shortcuts to “Deep Dives” for Dreamweaver and Flash.

This year, MAX will happen from October 1-5 at the Los Angeles, CA Convention Center. It’s a great time to tune in online or to attend in person for the news, excitement, training, gather­ings, and giveaways (last year all attendees received free Motorola Droid 2 smartphones and Google TVs) – plus the chance to meet the experts and ask your own questions.

(…not to mention, enjoy all the hilarious fake commercials for Adobe products!)

If this year is like last, over the course of the coming months Adobe will slip out some coupons and discounts for MAX 2011 registrations. Stay tuned and like we did last year, we’ll be sure to post these here as they become available.

Learn more about Adobe MAX 2011 or join the MAX mailing list.

Adobe MAX 2011
October 1-5
Los Angeles, California

Mark your calendars now to attend Adobe MAX 2011. Last year’s attendees told us we exceeded their expectations when it came to exposing them to new products and industry trends and helping them stay at the forefront of the device revolution.

Be among the leading innovators of the Adobe community as we set the course for the next generation of digital experiences.

Connect.
Share ideas with leading designers and developers, industry experts, business decision-makers, and Adobe product teams.

Discover.
Learn from industry leaders and Adobe experts and see the hottest Adobe products in action.

Inspire.
Join the electrifying conversations and exchanges that unfold when thousands of the most creative minds gather in one place.

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Why attend Adobe MAX?

• Learn and get inspired from renowned speakers from around the world.
• See the future of digital media and new ways to create amazing digital experi­ences across multiple screens.
• Connect with thousands of forward-thinking designers, developers, and business leaders.

See for yourself

• Hear what industry leaders like Evan Spiridellis and Ken Martin say about MAX.  [see video below]
• Watch the Adobe MAX 2010 keynotes and sessions – including those led by industry experts Ben Stucki, Ray Camden, Daniel Dura, and Lee Brimelow – for free on MAX Online.
• Check out the great videos from last year’s attendees on the AdobeMAXEvent YouTube channel.

 

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Some of these were truly hilarious and we’ve put together a reel of the best ones below. Perhaps the funniest of the 10-minute collection is the first one about new Adobe Acrobat X, but we’ll let you decide… Here’s the playlist:

Which one was your favorite? Share your vote and thoughts below…

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Adobe MAX 2010 – the worldwide user conference – runs this week and if you aren’t in Los Angeles, the two major keynotes will be broadcast live plus all of the conference sessions will be available on demand for free… A full attendance pass with these informative technical sessions normally goes for $1,500, so this is a great deal (see a full listing of the hundreds of programs offered below).

Adobe InDesign tweets, “don’t be the last to know… if you can’t be at Adobe MAX, you can still watch the keynotes LIVE for some exciting announcements!”

One of these announcements is sure to be the arrival of the long-awaited preview release of the new Digital Publishing Suite on Adobe Labs, just out… Read all about it in the press release here.

Per Adobe:

Stay tuned to watch Adobe MAX 2010 keynotes live
While there’s nothing that compares to being there in person, you can still experience some of the excitement of MAX 2010. Join Adobe executives, Adobe product experts, and special guests to be immersed in technologies, techniques, and inspiring work – watch the keynotes live.

1. Welcome to the Revolution
Monday, October 25, 9:30 am-11:30 am PDT (convert time zone)
We are in the midst of a revolution across a variety of screens, new input methods, new formats, and new distribution models. Join Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch as he shares insights, future perspectives, and plenty of demos.

Join us 10 minutes early to get a glimpse of the behind the scenes action.

2. User Experience: The Next Generation
Tuesday, October 26, 10:00 am-12:00 pm PDT (convert time zone)
User expectations and experiences are evolving rapidly, and Adobe has long taken the lead in creating the tools and services to design for the future. Join us to be inspired (and, yes, entertained) as we show you the future of building interactive and engaging experiences in ways you’ve yet to imagine.

Watch keynotes and sessions on demand
If you can’t watch the keynotes live, you can view them immediately on demand. You will also be able to view the top session from each track at the end of each day on demand – with the balance of the sessions being posted shortly after the conference has ended. Bookmark this page and check back often for updates.

The number of sessions at MAX is vast and covers virtually every Adobe product out there… Here’s a complete list of all 196 sessions available, with something for everyone – for free:

• Adobe Acrobat for the Web Designer
• Adobe TV: The Business and Technology Behind a Global Enterprise Video Platform
• Adobe’s New CMS for Business: Real-World Case Studies in Business Catalyst
• Advanced ActionScript with Apparat
• Advanced Audio Restoration and Editing
• Advanced Data-Centric Application Development with Flash Builder
• After Effects + Flash = Killer Rich Media
• Animation with Chris Georgenes
• As the Logo Turns: Introducing CSS3 Transitions and Animations
• Authoring Rich Experiences for Every Room in the Home
• Best Practices of the Modern ColdFusion Developer
• Book Design: Pushing the Frontiers in Digital Reading
• Building “Plants vs. Zombies” in Flash
• Building a PHP Remote End Point with Flash Builder and Zend
• Building Android Data-Driven Applications with Flex
• Building Enterprise Adobe AIR Applications for Android
• Building Flex Applications with Advanced Real Time Messaging
• Building Language Learning Tools w/ Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder, and Flash Media Server
• Building Mobile Learning with Your Existing eLearning Toolkit
• Building P2P Multiplayer Games
• Building Rich Multi-User Applications with LiveCycle Collaboration Service
• Camera, GPS, and Accelerometer: Tapping into Device Features with Adobe AIR
• ColdFusion Skunkworks
• ColdFusion Undocumented
• Configuring and Maintaining Healthy ColdFusion Servers
• Create Interactive Content without Writing Code with Creative Suite 5
• Creating Accessible Content with Flash Professional
• Creating Compelling Mobile User Experiences: What You Need to Know
• Creating Engaging, Viral Apps by Adding Social Interaction
• Creating Industry-Standard eBooks for Distribution on Sony Reader, Amazon Kindle, and Apple iPad
• Creating Interactive Rich Media Advertising Campaigns with Video
• Creating Open@Adobe: Source Made Simple through SourceForge and Adobe
• Creating Secure ActionScript Applications
• Creating Testable Flex Applications
• Creating Video Solutions for the Enterprise
• Creating Web Apps for Google TV
• Data-Driven Design: Measuring Impact and Consumption of Video for Flash
• Debugging, Profiling, and Testing Applications in Flash Builder
• Deconstructing the HTML5 Mobile Development Workflow
• Deep Dive into Flash Player Rendering
• Deep Dive into Mobile Development with the Flex SDK
• Deep Dive into the Spark DataGrid Component and Item Renderers
• Delivering Repeatable Solutions with Deloitte Consulting and Adobe Enterprise Solutions
• Delivery of Interactive PDF or Interactive SWF?
• Designer-Developer Workflow Panel
• Designing and Developing for Touch-Based Devices
• Designing Documents for Tablet Devices using InDesign CS5
• Designing PDF Portfolio Layouts with Flash Builder 4
• Designing with CSS3 Effectively and Efficiently
• Developer Tips for Building Great Games using AIR for Android
• Developing Adobe AIR apps for the BlackBerry® Tablet OS
• Developing Well-Behaved Mobile Applications For Adobe AIR
• Developing World-Ready Applications
• Development of Mission-Critical Rich Internet Applications in Support of Government Operations
• Distributing Apps via the Intel AppUp? Developer Program
• Dreamweaver and HTML5 & Javascript Based Widgets
• Dreamweaver CS5 Deep Dive: Next-Generation Workflows
• DROID and Adobe AIR: Creating Stunning Applications for DROID Devices
• Dynamic, Targeted, Relevant: Super-Charge Your Ads and Your Sites
• Editing video with HDSLR cameras in CS5 Production Premium
• Enterprise Live Video with Multicast and P2P
• Essential Eclipse Plug-ins and Tools for Flash Builder Developers
• Flash Builder Advanced Tips and Techniques
• Flash Catalyst CS5 Up Close with Rain, a Digital Agency
• Flash Catalyst: What’s Next with “Panini”
• Flash Platform for TV: A New Ecosystem
• Flash Player 3D Future
• Flash Player in Acrobat: Building Interactive PDF Documents
• Flash Sneak Peek: A Glimpse at the Future
• Flash, Flex, HTML5: Ouch, My Head Hurts!
• Flex and LiveCycle Data Services Best Practices from the Trenches
• Flex and PHP: Beyond the Basics
• Flex Component Development
• Flex Roadmap
• Flex/ActionScript 3.0 Architecture and Dependency Injection Frameworks Overview
• Flex: The New Standard for VMware Management Consoles
• FlexPMD: Your Canary in a Coal Mine
• Free the Television: The New Opportunity in TV Applications
• From Design to CSS and HTML with Fireworks and Dreamweaver
• Fusing Art and Technology with Flash Professional CS5
• Future of Mobile Content: Content Owners Talk about HTML5, Flash, and Apps
• FutuRIA: The Convergence of Rich Internet and Enterprise Applications
• Game Theory and Design for the Flash Platform
• Get hands on Adobe BrowserLab to check your websites for cross-browser compatibility
• Getting Paid: Leveraging Payments to Monetize Your Content
• Getting Started with Flare3D: The New Generation of Flash 3D
• Getting Started with jQuery Mobile
• Google + Flash Platform = Awesome
• H.264 Encoding Strategies for All Screens
• Having Fun with Layouts in Flex 4
• HD Streaming with HTTP Dynamic Streaming
• HD Video Production for the Web
• Hidden Gems and Technologies in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended
• Hidden Gems for the LiveCycle Community
• Hot Tips and Cool Tools in Illustrator CS5
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (with Threadless)
• How the com.bigspaceship ActionScript Package Brings Designers and Developers Closer
• How to Build Adobe AIR Apps for the iPhone and Android
• How to Develop AIR for TV Applications
• How to Monetize Your Apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook
• How to Work Creatively and Quickly with 3D in Photoshop CS5 Extended
• HP and Adobe Innovation: Reinventing How Creative Pros Work with Creative Suite 5
• HTML Accessibility with Dreamweaver
• HTML5: Half-baked, Baked, or Ready for the Table?
• Illustrator CS5: Creating Killer Graphics
• Improving the User Experience: Contract Servicing Improvements at Northwestern Mutual
• Innovation and Inspiration: Top Creative Shops Share Their Passion and Vision
• Internationalization Techniques for the Flash Platform
• Introduction to Adobe AIR for Mobile
• Introduction to BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services
• Introduction to Perspective Drawing in Illustrator CS5
• JibJab Case Study: Using Adobe Tools to Create and Monetize Online Content
• jQuery: A Web Designer’s Secret Sauce
• Learn about the Samsung SDK to Distribute Your AIR Apps to Samsung Smart TVs
• Learning Integration Tips among Tools in CS5 Master Collection
• Magazine Design in the Brave New World of Digital Devices
• Make Your Flex Application Collaborative with Adobe Connect
• Making Money with Your AIR Applications
• Making Video Pay with Advertising and Analytics
• Making Your Flash Application Extendable by Others
• Mastering Flash Catalyst
• MAX UnAwards widget uncovered: developing personalized video apps on the web
• Measuring and Optimizing the User Experience for Flash Apps with Solutions Powered by Omniture
• Mobile Devices as Application Controllers
• Move It! Shake It! All in Sync: It’s the 2010 Rich Media Ad Shootout
• Multiple Screens, One Server
• Multiscreen Development Techniques with Flex and Adobe AIR
• Multitouch and Immersive Experience
• New 3D Features for Flash
• New Experiences in Digital Magazines
• New LiveCycle Data Services Support for HTML5/JavaScript, Android, Apple iOS, Java, and .NET
• Open Screen Project: Today and Beyond
• Open Source Game Development with Flash and PushButton Engine
• Optimizing Flash Player Compatible Content for Mobile Devices
• Optimizing for GPU-accelerated Flash Player 10.1 on Android
• Painting in Photoshop CS5 with the Master Painter
• Panel Discussion: Reach Millions, Make Money
• Performance Tips and Tricks for Flex and Flash Development
• Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3: The Ultimate Photography Workflow
• Photoshop CS5 Extended 3D tools and the iPad: Digital Publishing for Real-World Work
• Photoshop CS5 Instant Effects: One-Click Techniques for Designers and Photographers
• Pixel Bender: Now with 50% More “D”
• Pixel-Perfect: Photoshop CS5 Power Shortcuts for Web and Interactive Designers
• Planning and Tracking Successful Projects with WorkflowLab
• Plugging Creative Suite into the Cloud using ActionScript
• PointRoll in Your Pocket: The How and Why of Mobile Advertising with Flash Player 10.1
• Practical ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Professional
• Principles of Interaction Design for Graphic Designers
• Print Your Digital Design Without Losing Your Mind
• Programming HTML5 Canvas
• Progressing beyond the Desktop at Universities with Adobe AIR
• Quick as a Flash
• Rapid Development using LiveCycle in the Cloud
• Rapidly Building Flex RIAs with Spring BlazeDS Integration and Spring Roo
• Realizing Great Customer Experiences with LiveCycle ES Next
• RIA Design and Development Workflow Examined
• Roadmap: Flash Platform Runtimes
• Roadmap: Flash Platform Servers and Services
• Roadmap: Flash Platform Services and App Monetization
• Roadmap: Flash Platform Tooling and Framework
• Sandboxing Adobe Reader: Protected Mode
• Screens of Possibility: Pushing Multiscreen Experiences with Spark and Flex
• Secure Enterprise Video Streaming with Flash Media Server and P2P
• Securing ColdFusion Applications
• See. Say. Do. How Africa Changed Everything
• Shooting and Editing Interviews with CS5 Production Premium
• Shooting Movies with a RED One Camera Through a Microscope
• Simplifying Cross-Browser Testing with BrowserLab
• Streamlining Development Processes with Powerful Tools from the Flex Ecosystem
• Strengthening Adobe’s Enterprise Platform with Day Software and Open Development
• Tablets: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
• Technical Tips and Best Practices for Getting Content on the Akamai HD Network
• The Convergence of Flash and PDF: Interactive Statements
• The Future of Acrobat
• The Future of Advertising
• The Mobile Enterprise
• The Power of BlackBerry WebWorks
• Thinking in ActionScript
• Tips & Techniques for Creating Jaw-Dropping Effects with Photoshop CS5 Extended
• Top Secret Technology Preview for Graphic Designers
• Transforming the Value of IT for Government through Modernization at South African Revenue Service
• Transitioning from Print to Web Design
• Turning the tokidoki Vision into a Global Brand
• Using Flash Catalyst CS5 to Design Rich User Experiences
• Using FlexUnit 4 in Flash Professional CS5
• Using Web Fonts Now
• Using What You Know: Transitioning from Print to Web
• Video Delivery Roadmap for the Flash Platform
• Video on Flash Player 10.1 Mobile Devices
• What’s Coming in Adobe AIR
• What’s New in Flash Builder “Burrito”?
• What’s New in Flash Professional CS5
• What’s New in InDesign CS5
• What’s New in Photoshop CS5 & Photoshop CS5 Extended
• Why Teach Flash? Education’s Role in Teaching Flash and RIAs
• Writing Apps for Netbooks and Reaching Consumers through the Intel AppUp Center

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We’ve previously written about how you can save $400 on Adobe MAX 2010, the big annual conference for all things Adobe, that’s happening this year from October 23-27 in Los Angeles, California… Now, there’s a short time left to save $200 with another promotion code EBX100:

Just a few days left to save US$200

Don’t delay! Your chance to save US$200 off the regular price of a full conference pass ends soon.

This is your once-a-year opportunity to attend the premier event for developers, designers, and business leaders. Connect with industry leaders, learn directly from the experts, preview new software, and hear success stories and best practices for creating rich experiences across multiple screens.

MAX 2010 offers more than 300 sessions and labs, but sessions are filling fast. So register now before your favorite session is full. Here’s a sampling of some of the sessions being offered this year:

• Discover Flash Catalyst CS5
• Dreamweaver CS5 Deep Dive: Next-Generation Workflows
• Hands-on After Effects to Flash Workflows
• Hot Tips and Cool Tools in Illustrator CS5
• Simplifying Cross-Browser Testing with BrowserLab
• Using Adobe CS Review to Speed up Creative Reviews
• Video Production for the Web using CS5 Production Premium
• What’s New in Flash Professional CS5
• What’s New in InDesign CS5
• What’s New in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended

View the full Session Catalog

Need help convincing your boss?

Not just you, but your entire organization will benefit from the knowledge, skills, and inspiration you bring back after attending MAX 2010. If you need help making the case to your boss, we’ve supplied all the reasons why MAX is a worthwhile investment in an easy-to-use Convince Your Boss Letter.

Join us

MAX is the perfect time to connect with thousands of designers, developers, and business leaders as we shape the future of digital media together.

Discover new opportunities presented by the growth of rich experiences across screens. Explore strategies for monetizing content in the new digital economy. Learn how the latest innovations enable powerful synergies between designers and developers.

So register by September 17th to receive $200 off the regular price of a full conference pass. Enter the promotion code EBX100 to receive your discount, some terms and conditions apply.

But in any event, the other offer to save $400 runs until October 18, 2010.

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Adobe MAX 2010
October 23–27, 2010
Los Angeles Convention Center and
Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE
Los Angeles, California

At Adobe MAX 2010, you’ll discover the next wave of opportunities fueled by the explosion of rich content and applications across multiple screens (from smart phones to tablets to PCs to TVs), the merging of digital content and commerce, and workflows that bring design and development together. MAX is an experience unlike any other – for five unforgettable days, MAX 2010 will bring together thousands of designers, developers, and decision-makers to set the course for the next generation of digital experiences.

Join the leading innovators of the greater Adobe community with more than 100 hands-on labs and 200 sessions and explore the latest trends, techniques, and technologies in the Adobe Flash® Platform and get extensive training on Creative Suite® 5, Flash Professional CS5, Flex®, Acrobat®, ColdFusion®, AIR®, and LiveCycle®.

MAX 2010 will be hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center and Nokia Theatre, part of L.A. LIVE, an exciting entertainment campus offering world-class restaurants and venues.

Should be amazing with all the new products rolling out this year… Learn more and register now or get on the mailing list.

[UPDATE (July 1st) – Save $400 off a full conference pass with the new promotion here. Or if you are a full-time college student aged 18 years or older, you can save even more and get it for the greatly-discounted price of $199. See details at the MAX site.]

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Suite Deal: Save $100 when you upgrade from an earlier version of Adobe Creative Suite, Production Studio, or Macromedia Studio to CS4. (Ends August 31, 2009.)

Free Flex Builder 3: Buy a full or upgrade version of Design Premium or Web Premium and use the coupon code ‘freeflex‘ to receive a FREE full version of Flex Builder Standard. (Valid for the Adobe North America Store only.)

Adobe MAX 2009 Offer: Save $400 off the regular price of an Adobe MAX 2009 full conference pass when you purchase a qualifying product at the Adobe.com North America Store. (Runs until October 2, 2009.)

For example, it’s normally $599 to upgrade to CS4 Design Premium. If you take advantage of all three offers you get $100 + $400 + $249 = $749 of value, meaning the product is more than free!

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