Adobe Releases New Storytelling App for iPad

Adobe recently released a new Storytelling App for iPad. Adobe Voice, a new animated video app for
iPad, that gives anyone the ability to create and share engaging video stories. Adobe Voice allows you to create these video stories using a combination of your own recorded voice, imagery, music and cinema-quality motion graphics and effects. This is a great app for education, allowing students to create an interactive and engaging school project. Animated videos can be quickly shared via social media, email, personal blogs and websites, by posting a single link, and can be viewed on virtually any device.


Adobe Voice is available as a free download in the App Store. The app requires iPad 2 or higher and iOS 7. To learn more about Adobe Voice, visit http://getvoice.adobe.com/

Here are more resources on it:

• Introducing Adobe Voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8ag5i9h0E

• Quick Tour of Adobe Voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6f0XMOHzoM

• Adobe Voice of an Educator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8ZWHIGq_I


For more information about Adobe Creative Cloud, visit: www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud.html.

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Adobe Education Exchange educator community announces new features

Adobe announces major updates to Creative Cloud, including 3D

Adobe PhotoShop Touch for iPad2 now available

Adobe Education Exchange educator community announces new features

Adobe Education Exchange is an online community of educators who share resources, ideas, tips, and more. It launched at ISTE 2010 and now has over 75,000 educators sharing over 4,000 resources.

They just re-launched it with some new features which you can read about here: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/02/announcing-the-all-new-adobe-education-exchange-education.html.

The new version includes simplified navigation, a new design, easier browsing of resources, increased social/community features, and API's so that it can integrate with other apps and platforms. 

It's a great, free resource.

Adobe Educator's Choice Awards - honoring innovative educators - apply now

Adobe Education Exchange is a great resource for educators, with resources, lesson ideas, lesson plans, and a place to collaborate with other educators.




The 2012 Educator's Choice Awards is an awards program for educators. Any educator can enter. You submit your innovative teaching and learning materials and you could win some really nice prizes. Submit  your projects, lesson plans, curricula, tutorials, and more. Educators will rate the work submitted. There are four categories: Primary and Secondary, Higher Education, and Creative Suite 6.

Prizes include laptop (Macbook Pro) Adobe software Digital Camera and iPads with prizes in each category.

The contest begins August 6, 2012 and the submission period ends on October 5, 2012. Complete rules are available on the contest site

You can even go to the site and check out other lessons for ideas for your submission, or just get ideas to use in your classroom. Check it out. You will share your great idea with other educators and have a chance to win a great prize.

You can also follow information about the contest using this hashtag on Twitter: #AdobeEduAwards 

Adobe Photoshop Touch Review - very nice app

Adobe recently released a host of Adobe TouchApps - Photoshop Touch, Ideas, Collage, Debut, Kuler, Proto, and Carousel. Design, edit, and elegantly present your work using six new Adobe® Touch Apps designed for your tablet. Whether you use a stylus or just your fingertip, intuitive touchscreen features provide easy, precise control for a variety of creative tasks. Transfer files through Adobe Creative Cloud for refinement in Adobe Creative Suite® software — or to view, access, and share from almost anywhere.

I have been using Adobe Photoshop Touch for the last couple of weeks on a loaned iPad and a friend has it on his Android tablet. The Photoshop Touch app lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook, and more. If you have used Photoshop, the Touch app will be a breeze for you. If you haven't used Photoshop, don't worry, the Touch app is easy to use, has interactive tutorials, and there are tons of help resources on Adobe's site and for educators on the Adobe Education Exchange, which is a resource site for educators who use Adobe products. Tips, instruction guides, videos, a community of users, lesson examples and much more are all available to help teachers and students using Adobe products.

Adobe's new Creative Cloud/Suite 6 for Students and Educators integrates the Photoshop Touch app so that you can work on your projects seamlessly from mobile to desktop. 

 

The Photoshop Touch app was very easy to learn and get started with. I did use some of the tutorials, and had read a few posts on the education exchange site, but it was very intuitive. Features include layers, effects, filters, tone and edge editing, text, search for images, share images, wireless printing, and much more. The tools are all, literally at your fingertips on the app. Because it's not the full version of Photoshop, it's easier to find the tools that you use the most. It is probably the best image editing app for tablets around and still has all the really important and useful features from the full version of Photoshop. It's easy to bring in an image, edit and manipulate it, and the save it. It's only $9.99, which is super cheap for Photoshop and the Education Volume app store has it for $4.99, which makes it very affordable for education.

I had some fun playing with different pictures I took with the iPad, although the quality of them wasn't great using the iPad's camera, so I also brought in some other pictures and graphics files to play with. It was very easy to clean up images and there is even a gallery of styles and effects that you can look at and then see a step-by-step tutorial on how to achieve those effects.

This is a great app for education. It's inexpensive, easy to use, full featured, and a tool that students should learn to use as it will help them in college and careers.

Here are some screenshots from Adobe's site:

Adobe Announces Creative Cloud/Suite 6 for Students and Educators
Link to Photoshop Touch page on Adobe's site: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-touch.html

Original Announcement of app: Adobe PhotoShop Touch for iPad2 now available
Photoshop Touch for iOS. $9.99 


Photoshop Touch for Android. $9.99 




DISCLAIMER: I received a free copy of the Adobe Photoshop Touch app to do this review. I have been using it, and the Adobe Education Exchange, as part of this review.

Adobe Announces Creative Cloud/Suite 6 for Students and Educators

Adobe Creative Cloud, Creative Suite 6 Deliver Professional Grade Features for Students and Educators

On Monday, April 23rd, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Cloud Student and Teacher Edition, and Creative Suite 6 Student and Teacher Edition for institutions, educators and students worldwide.


In addition to 14 new CS6 point products and four Creative Suites, Adobe is now delivering its first cloud offering for students and educators. Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub where students and educators can explore, share and deliver creative content using any of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 desktop applications, as well as new tools for HTML5 such as Adobe Muse™ and Adobe Edge Preview. By offering integration with Adobe Touch Apps, headlined by Photoshop® Touch, Adobe Creative Cloud enables new mobile workflows, from ideation to publishing, that bring the power of Adobe innovation to the classroom via iPad and Android tablets.



Prepare Students for Careers

With new capabilities designed to help students across all disciplines create stunning digital content that stands out, Adobe Creative Suite 6 gives students the ability to learn the skills needed in today’s competitive workforce:

Gain digital content creation skills across video, animations, 3D and photos with major updates to Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS6, Adobe After Effects ® CS6, and Adobe Audition® CS6. With the new Adobe Photoshop CS6, students can express themselves by leveraging the powerful new 3D and video editing tools for media they have captured across multiple devices.

Create on any device with Adobe Creative Cloud Connection which enables the syncing, sharing and storing of files from Adobe Touch Apps® for download and use with CS6 desktop products. For example, educators and students can work with a file in Photoshop Touch on iPad and use Adobe Creative Cloud Connect to sync and share that file on the desktop for refinement using Photoshop CS6.

Get noticed with multimedia-rich portfolios, websites and applications. InDesign CS6 extends its lead in digital publishing, streamlining the creation of multiple layouts from a single set of content, helping to deliver interactive campus publications for iPad, Kindle Fire and Android devices. Dreamweaver CS6 enables students to create high-impact school or personal websites.


Engage Students, Empower Faculty and Advance Teaching

The new Creative Suite 6 release gives faculty and students the tools to easily visualize, understand, and communicate information in creative ways across print, web, video, and mobile devices.

Create digital education content ranging from digital storytelling for history and languages, and gaming and animations for math, to data visualization in the sciences – all in a way that engages students and creates rich learning experiences. Adobe Creative Suite 6 provides the features and flexibility to produce interactive presentations and explore the boundaries of creativity and critical thinking.

Expand the delivery of education content with multi-screen publishing across multiple platforms and devices using HTML5 and the very latest standards for web, mobile, eBooks, and tablets.

Improve productivity and efficiency in the classroom with simplified workflows, speed and performance enhancements, and a new, more intuitive user interface across the CS6 product set.

Empower educators with ISTE-aligned curricula with the release of three newly-updated year-long, project based curriculums for graphic design and print production, web design and development, and video production. These curricula are available on the Adobe Education Exchange (http://edexchange.adobe.com), along with resources from the education community.

Certify industry-centric technical and communication skills with Adobe certifications. More than 300,000 students worldwide have been certified through the Adobe Certified Associate examination. With CS6, Adobe and CertiPort are offering new, updated curricula and certification for this major release. Educators and students can get certified for both entry-level skills as an Adobe Certified Associate (ACA), and professional-level skills as an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).



Pricing and Availability

Adobe Creative Suite 6 products and Adobe Creative Cloud are scheduled to be available within 30 days. The Student and Teacher Edition of Adobe Creative Cloud is available for US$29.99/month. Volume licensing for Creative Cloud “team-ready” is available via the Adobe Transactional Licensing Program. More information on Adobe licensing can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/volumelicensing/education/.

Adobe is also offering a new Adobe K-12 Enterprise Agreement designed for the needs of school districts in the United States and Canada. Customers can purchase Creative Suite 6 via Adobe.com and through select retail and online stores. More product information is available at: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite.html.

For more detailed information about educational upgrade policies and pricing, as well as the full portfolio of suites, please visit http://www.adobe.com/education.edu.html.




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Adobe Launches Creative Cloud - make, share, deliver creative work

Adobe Launches Creative Cloud

Creative Cloud is Adobe's way of bringing their software to the cloud. For a monthly fee, you get access to all of Adobe's products, get the most updated versions, and can access them from home or work. Your files are also available through the cloud.

The subscription fee for this service is cheaper than purchasing licenses for every computer and it will make updates easier on your IT department. The products have been updated with great new features and run faster, you can work on your files in a web browser, and you can work from any device, including an iPad.

The Student and Teacher Edition of Adobe Creative Cloud is available for US$29.99/month. Volume licensing for Creative Cloud “team-ready” is available via the Adobe Transactional Licensing Program. More information on Adobe licensing can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/volumelicensing/education/.

Adobe is also offering a new Adobe K-12 Enterprise Agreement designed for the needs of school districts in the United States and Canada. Customers can purchase Creative Suite 6 via Adobe.com and through select retail and online stores. More product information is available at: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite.html. 

One of the nice things with this is that districts will always be able to have the most up to date product, and teachers will be able to access the Creative Cloud from home and school. 

For more detailed informationabout educational upgrade policies and pricing, as well as the full portfolio of suites, please visit http://www.adobe.com/education.edu.html.



Adobe® Creative Cloud, a radical new way of providing tools and services that will change the game for creatives worldwide. A subscription-based offering, Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub for making, sharing, and delivering creative work and it is centered around a powerful release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software, packed with innovation across its industry-defining design, web, video and digital imaging tools.



Adobe Creative Cloud Highlights

Creative Cloud membership provides users with access to download and install every new Adobe CS6 application announced today and two new HTML5 products, Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge Preview.

Creative Cloud integrates Adobe’s creative tablet applications, such as Photoshop Touch, into everyday work - seamlessly synchronizing and storing files in the cloud, for sharing and access on any device.

Creative Cloud members will be able to easily deliver mobile apps to iOS and Android marketplaces and publish, manage and host web sites.

Adobe Creative Cloud members will have access to application upgrades, including new CS point-product features, before they are launched as part of major CS updates, as well as inventive new products and services as they emerge.


Creative Suite 6, Innovative HTML5 Tools Anchor Creative Cloud

CS6 includes landmark releases of industry icons such as Adobe Photoshop® CS6, Adobe InDesign CS6, Adobe Illustrator® CS6, Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, Adobe After Effects CS6, Adobe Flash Professional CS6 and more. With Creative Cloud membership creatives can download and install all of the 14 new Adobe Creative Suite 6 applications.

Creative Cloud membership also includes access to Adobe Muse® and Adobe Edge® Preview, new tools for HTML5 design and development that demonstrate Adobe’s commitment to the latest web standards.


Creative Cloud Links Adobe Touch Apps to CS6 Desktop Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud integrates Adobe’s line of creative touch tools with CS6 desktop applications.

Adobe Touch Apps bring professional-level creativity to tablet devices and address multiple areas of the creative process: image editing; ideation; sketching; mood board creation; website and mobile app prototyping; and the presentation of finished work.

Photoshop Touch and Adobe Ideas have already proved runaway hits on the iPad and Android tablets. Three additional tools, available on Android today, will be coming to iPad soon: Adobe Collage, Adobe Debut, and Adobe Proto.

A new desktop app, Adobe Creative Cloud Connection, enables the syncing, sharing and storing of files across mobile devices and desktop.

Creative Cloud membership includes up to 20GB of cloud storage, with additional storage purchase options coming soon.

Creative Cloud Publishing Services Streamline Website and App Creation

Creative Cloud publishing services will include the ability to easily publish apps, magazines and catalogues to iPad, iPhone and Android devices.

Members have immediate access to Adobe Typekit, the web-based font library that pioneered the use of real fonts on websites, delivering more than 700 typefaces from leading foundries.

New Web hosting capabilities, integrated as part of Adobe Creative Cloud membership, allow users to easily create and host high-impact web sites. The Integration between Adobe Muse, Typekit and the web hosting capabilities power a new simplified workflow for delivering high-impact web sites.


Members Receive Ongoing Delivery of New Applications, Services and Features

Creative Cloud members will receive ongoing updates to Creative Suite applications as well as other new products and services as they emerge. Coming soon to Adobe Creative Cloud are:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, the desktop software tool that enables photographic perfection from shoot to finish; the first complete release of Adobe Edge, a ground-breaking HTML5 development tool; and Digital Publishing Suite (Single Edition), the technology behind the delivery of digital magazines on iPad.

Creative Cloud will also include training, support and community features that drive meaningful connections between creatives worldwide.

Learn more about the Adobe Creative Cloud at www.adobe.com/go/creativecloud.

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