Adobe updated the components of the Digital Publishing Suite in May 2012. This video provides an overview of new features found in Viewer Builder inlcuding: building Viewers for iPhone, universal iOS Viewers, adding artwork for HD apps, and some sharing controls.

With the Pattern feature, you can create swatches based on shapes you create, then apply them to selected artwork and edit them any way you want.

In this movie, learn about Adobe Illustrator, the software used by artists and graphic designers to create scalable vector artwork for use in projects for both print and web.

With Illustrator CS6, textures and patterns have never been easier to create. In this tutorial, learn how add a repeating pattern to the background of your artwork.

Use a vastly simplified user interface to intuitively create and animate 3D artwork. Use in-context and on-canvas controls to manipulate cages for 3D extrusions, change the orientation of scenes and objects, edit lights, and more.

Join Illustrator product manager Brenda Sutherland, as she shows how the new gradients on strokes feature in Illustrator CS6 lets you create artwork that looks complex but is easy to edit.

This tutorial shows how to organize content within Flash Catalyst projects using the Library panel. Learn how the Library panel provides access to relevant components and artwork as needed.

Learn how you can simplify the creation of immersive experiences that are presented consistently across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions with Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5. Target the latest mobile platforms including Android, BlackBerry, and iOS. Efficiently create content that targets multiple devices, copy and paste layers, and easily adapt artwork for various sizes. Plus use more than 20 new code snippets, including ones optimized for mobile and application development.

Discover the building blocks that you use to create buttons, sliders, data lists, and so on in Flash Catalyst. This video shows you how to use prefabricated components, or create your own by converting existing artwork.

Learn how to use the Adobe Creative Suite tools to design the RIA UI artwork for importing into Flash Catalyst CS5.5.

Make round-trip edits to RIA artwork in Adobe Illustrator, while maintaining the work you've done in Flash Catalyst CS5.5.

Make round-trip edits to RIA artwork in Adobe Photoshop, while maintaining the work you've done in Flash Catalyst CS5.5.

Fast Track your Cut & Paste artwork by using the Appearance Panel to rapidly apply fills, strokes and effects to any shape you create in Illustrator.

Jacob Surber discusses the workflows available for importing graphics from Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks into a Flash Catalyst project, and suggests ways to make this process easier for developers and designers.

See how you can create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer with the Adobe Repoussé technology in Photoshop CS5 Extended. And see how to rotate, extrude, bevel, and shadow and light your text.

Adobe InDesign CS5 is the perfect tool to use when authoring books and this demonstration will introduce you to a simple technique that ensures the cover of your ePub will look exactly like the original artwork including rich typesetting, drawn objects and images. By placing and InDesign document into an existing InDesign document, you bypass the inherent restrictions of the ePub format and your book cover looks fantastic no matter what device you use. Special thanks for Colin Fleming for creating this fantastic technique.

Use the drawing tools in Adobe® Captivate® to create artwork for your projects. Drawing tools help you create basic shapes within Adobe® Captivate® so that you don’t have to create and import them from other applications.

Adobe Illustrator has some fantastic vector drawing tools, great for creating repeated patterns for use on fabrics clothing and any design work. However if you you make the repeat too large the files can become quite cumbersome and the file sizes are massive. Learn how to create the most efficient, flexible Illustrator artwork.

Learn how to turn Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5. Find out how you can add attention-grabbing interactivity, animation, video, and sound to your digital documents and presentations, all in Adobe InDesign CS5. And see how you can export InDesign documents for Adobe Digital Editions, a desktop reading application for devices such as the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader, and the Barnes & Noble nook.

Discover how to make your vector art stand out. In this session, you'll learn about the variety of output options within Adobe Illustrator that can be used to create dynamic designs and illustrations. Artist Greg Geisler, one of the creators of the Illustrator how-to guides on Adobe.com (http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/howto/), will walk you through his process for creating visually rich artwork. He'll show techniques using various tools in Illustrator, discuss integration between Illustrator and Flash Professional, and explore going beyond Illustrator with additional techniques such as laser cutting. Join this session and get more out of Illustrator.

Design changes are inevitable, and it’s all too easy to destroy layers by resizing them up and down. Smart Objects, including live Illustrator artwork, will allow you to keep making changes while retaining the original layers in pristine form.

Modify artwork for the photo gallery RIA in Flash Catalyst and then import the updated FXG file into Flash Builder, using the compare feature to compare and update the code that has changed.

Make round-trip edits to RIA artwork in Adobe Photoshop, while maintaining the work you've done in Flash Catalyst

Make round-trip edits to RIA artwork in Adobe Illustrator, while maintaining the work you've done in Flash Catalyst.

Learn how to use the Adobe Creative Suite tools to design the RIA UI artwork for importing into Flash Catalyst

Learn about Illustrator CS5, a versatile, out-of-the-box solution for creating vector graphics. Illustrator supports cross-media design and multiple graphics formats, and provides endless options to create lifelike designs and artwork.

Discover ways to map flat artwork into perspective in Illustrator CS5. Transform artwork by allowing automatic plane positioning and perpendicular movement of objects.

Create new artwork in perspective in Illustrator CS5 by using the Perspective Grid tool. Create shapes and panes mapped to perspective.

Place one symbol inside another by using a technique in Flash called nesting. Learn to create nested symbols, drag instances from the library, edit artwork in Symbol Editing mode, and use the breadcrumb trail to navigate back to the main Timeline.

Manage project components and imported artwork in the Library panel. The Library panel facilitates easy sharing of artwork both within the same project file as well as across different project files.

Learn how to organize your custom Illustrator artwork in preparation for creating a repeating list in Flash Catalyst. Build the components of a basic data list, including the scrollbar and repeated elements, all without writing any code.

Learn to easily and efficiently edit the appearance of custom artwork and objects across multiple states of a project. Edit once, and use the states commands to share the edit.

Once you’ve brought artwork into Flash Catalyst, you’re ready to start defining the components that will add interactivity to a project. In this movie, learn how to create button components from Illustrator art and edit a button’s appearance.

Establishing an intent for artwork, considering the audience and destination, before beginning a project makes it easier to repurpose artwork later. Use New Document Profile settings to define size, artboards, bleed, and color mode for the document.

Navigate the stacking order in an Illustrator document by using the Selection tool. Select and isolate grouped objects and go into Outline Mode to view them more clearly. Learn how to select objects beneath the selected layer.

Explore different techniques in Dreamweaver CS5 for adding images and artwork to your website. Use the Insert menu or the Common category of the Insert panel to select and insert an image, or drag and drop images from the Files or Assets panels.

Create a button symbol from text, a bitmap image, or a vector shape. Define keyframes for the up, over, down, and hit states of the button, and swap out the artwork for the different states.

Create artwork of a specific size that is aligned, scaled, and positioned properly by using rulers and guides. Toggle the rulers on and off, change the units of measurement, add and lock guides, and use the x and y coordinates to navigate a document.

Convert any piece of artwork into a movie clip symbol. Learn the differences between movie clips and other types of symbols. Understand the relationship between a movie clip and the main Timeline.

Learn how to create and prepare artwork in Illustrator for use in After Effects. Learn how to maximize the quality and flexibility of vector graphics in After Effects.

Flash Catalyst CS5 offers a number of complex components.  In this tutorial, Doug demonstrates how to use wireframe drawing tools to build and customize the data list component.

With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with new Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then easily apply rich materials like chrome, glass, and cork to explore different looks. And take your designs even further by leveraging the Adobe 3D Forge engine for advanced editing of your 3D models.

With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with new Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then easily apply rich materials like chrome, glass, and cork to explore different looks. And take your designs even further by leveraging the Adobe 3D Forge engine for advanced editing of your 3D models.

The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.

Create, edit, and fill shapes intuitively, directly on your artwork, using the new Shape Builder Tool in Illustrator CS5.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software, designers will be able to express ideas faster and more naturally, and will discover new possibilities to deliver ideas in digital media without writing code. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5 and intuitive object object-selection features in Adobe InDesign CS5. Turn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.

Adobe Photoshop software is the tool of choice for designers and web professionals. Now with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush. Create superior composites for print or web layouts with new technology that makes it easy to select even the trickiest image elements, like hair. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels. Easily create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask using new Adobe Repoussé technology. Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photo realistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. And import animated GIFs. Plus so much more.

Web and interactive designers count on Adobe Photoshop software to help them create just the right look for their clients. Now with Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can keep exploring new creative possibilities in web and interactive design. For example, take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to quickly make your pages and designs pop with 3D artwork for logos, buttons, and more. Plus, you get enhanced 3D animation effects with the ability to take your 3D model and easily add an animated depth of field.

Creating artwork for print has come along way with InDesign. You need to check for many things before printing, like missing fonts, resolution even specific spot colors. Lets look at the Live Preflight in InDesign CS4.

Deliver engaging work onscreen to connect with more people in more ways. See how you can use new Flash Catalyst to transform Photoshop or Illustrator artwork into functional designs for user interfaces, info-graphics and rich internet applications.

Achieve beautiful paint effects using lifelike brush strokes in Photoshop Extended and expressive Vector-Painting Brushes in Illustrator, or use 3D Extrusion Tools in Photoshop Extended to create artwork that will stand out in print and digital media.

Photoshop CS4 can help you save lives, or at least improve the lives of many people if you follow the tutorial and prepare your artwork well. We have a look at how to proof color, not only for CMYK, but also test our images to see if people with color blindness can read them well.

Let Rufus Deuchler, Design Evangelist be your guide as he shows you how to manage edits across multiple files in a single project with the new multiple artboards feature in Illustrator CS4.

Effective Designer and Developer teams rely on communicating concepts and details to their collaborators and stakeholders. Sometimes a picture is a thousand words, but often, you need to combine artwork and annotations to communicate a better experience.

Turn your code demos into artwork with the help of Adobe's platform evangelists. Even the developer evangelists at Adobe use Creative Suite 4 to help with their demos, and in this session, you'll get a look behind their design process.

Learn how to use Photoshop Elements 8 to turn an image into an impressionist work of art in part one of this tutorial showcasing the student project in the Impressionist Artwork lesson plan, available at www.adobe.com/go/crosscurricular.

Find inspiration, tips, tricks, and tutorials on Photoshop.com. Find artwork for embellishing your photos and photo projects. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Learn how to use Photoshop Elements 8 to create an impressionist artwork PDF slideshow in part two of this tutorial showcasing the student project in the Impressionist Artwork lesson plan, available at www.adobe.com/go/crosscurricular.

Learn about some exciting new features in CS4: document windows, multiple artboards, gradients, appearances, and the Recolor Artwork dialog box.

Learn Flash workflow basics: using the workspace, creating and importing artwork, using symbols and Timeline, and publishing SWF files.

Learn Flash workflow basics: using the workspace, creating and importing artwork, using symbols and Timeline, and publishing SWF files.

Lynn Grillo takes us through the steps to trace scanned artwork using Live Trace, paint it using Live Paint and then finally changing the colors using Live Color.

See how Laura Belsey draws you into the lives of young survivors of Hurricane Katrina by bringing their artwork to life in her film Katrina's Children.

This Zoom In Online episode of Designing Minds showcases five young talents who utilize a variety of mediums in order to produce innovative artwork.