We chose the topic of teen to parent relationships to focus on because we wanted to show how important teens and parents’ relationships really are. We wanted to show that parents’ roles in teens’ lives are necessary in order for teens to graduate from high school and become successful individuals. According to the statistics that we researched, teens without parents are twice as likely to drop out of school, become drug addicts or engage in sexual activity at an early age. Children who die from abuse or neglect or poverty are usually parentless. We want our peers to know that it is important to have a good relationship with their parents. We used statistics and individual interviews of teens that have distinguished relationships with their parents. The interviewees weren’t afraid to show their true emotions, which helped get the message across. Although the students were sensitive towards the topic, they were still willing to be openly honest and show true emotion because they know the importance of the issue as we do. We want others to see that the relationship between a parent and a teen is important because it influences us on whether we will be come strong individuals in the future and be successful or not. We want others to make an effort on improving their relationship between either their parents, or their own kids. We learned that every student responded differently, yet they still felt it was a strong topic. We also learned some interesting stories about our peers.

Marc Lewis, pioneer of London’s new school dedicated to the art of advertising, will be joined by students in a look at the school’s innovative approach to learning. Students are mentored by award winners, a three year course is squeezed into one, and the focus is on ideas and creativity over execution.

Dan Moore, Rob Coke and Ian Hambleton, the three directors of Studio Output, a creative agency serving clients across the UK and beyond, talk through their roster of projects – showcasing work with the BBC, Ministry of Sound and Sony PlayStation, and their focus on youth audiences.

We talk to Chris Thompson, Head of Business Development at Ravensbourne the specialist school of Design and Communication. We’ll also talk to students and educators about Ravensbourne’s unique approach to design education, with the focus on technology and management.

One of the most daunting video editing tasks is looking through hours of shaky, out-of-focus, or poorly lit video just to find the good stuff. Use Adobe Premiere Elements 11 content analysis tools to help you quickly and automatically find your best clips.

In this movie, author Jan Kabili explains how to use albums in Photoshop Elements 11 to organize your photos. Jan focuses on how to create albums, how to add photos to an album, and how to organize photos within an album.

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together lead educators from around the world representing the coreleadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams to create short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Generating Ideas, team members discuss the challenges educators face when getting youth to select a specific idea with a focused message and a defined audience. The team members are: · Allan Kakinda (Uganda) · Todd Strother (United States) · Dennis Martinus (Bonaire) · Cristina Bosio Ferrer (Argentina)

Working on social media campaigns across a global company can be complicated. Adobe Social helps social media marketers create a worldwide structure with a local focus.

Adobe updated the Digital Publishing Suite on August 7, there are a number of new features focused on sharing. This video introduces the new features including iPhone sharing, renditions for sharing, and fulfillment limit controls.

FrameMaker 11 has significantly improved workspaces. Defaults are much more logical. As you move into structured XML editing, a host of unrelated menus just vanish. No need for customization anymore; this FrameMaker is just the way you like it "out-of-the-box"

In this movie Chris Orwig focuses on how to email photographs directly from Lightroom and share your work with others. He discusses how to setup and send emails from various clients, and how to test your email setup to make sure it’s working correctly. This movie will also show you how to change the size of your photos before sending them, and how to use the Lightroom Address Book.

Moderated by our SVP of Global Marketing, Ann Lewnes, fellow panelists Jon Vein, Linus Karlsson, and Jim Stengel shared their thoughts on how we need to strike a healthy balance between focus on data and our own gut and intuition.

Powered by the new Mercury Graphics Engine, the Blur Gallery allows you to apply and combine three kinds of blur. Use it to create depth-of-field effects in post. This highly versatile filter also allows you to customize specific points of blur and focus.

Long-time Dreamweaver users will love the new enhancements to FTP capabilities in Dreamweaver CS6. Learn about multi-channel support, asynchronous upload and download, improved file transfer queues, and non-blocking server activities. These new capabilities allow you to dramatically speed up your file management tasks and allow you to keep your focus on creating great content.

Workspaces allow you to quickly and easily shift focus from one task to another in Dreamweaver. In this movie, you'll discover how to take control of the interface. See how to take advantage of the default workspaces in Dreamweaver, or create and manage your own custom workspaces.

The main menu bar in Flash Professional is full of options and commands that can help you work effectively. This lesson takes a look at the main menu, focusing on commonly used functionality.

Adobe hosted the first day of Social Media Week 2012 with the focus on data, analytics and ROI. See what some attendees had to say about the day.

Save time as you design and build for website by learning about the latest productivity enhancements in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

See more of your video and less clutter thanks to a highly intuitive, customizable interface. New monitor panels include a customizable button bar; the new Project panel focuses squarely on assets and allows clips to be skimmed, scrubbed, and marked up for editing. A new audio track design, improved meters, and a revamped Mixer panel make working with sound easier than ever.

Photographer Oleg Dou is celebrated internationally for his staggeringly unique vision. His focus on artistry and craft is transformative.

A high-level introduction to the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform architecture specifically focusing on the Document Services stack. Presented by Jayan Kandathil.

Photographers often use a narrow depth of field in order to emphasize a subject, and in this lesson you'll see how to use a Guided Edit effect to achieve narrow depth of field for an image that has a wide range of focus.

Interactive design is not just a passive experience, but must be one that draws in and engages your audience - repurposing complex information and ideas into intuitive layouts and mechanisms that excites audiences. Incorporating best practices and techniques in immersive graphic design, motion design, navigation, and user experience, this master class focuses on helping you build magnetic experiences audiences tell their friends about, and go viral.

Photographers often use a narrow depth of field in order to emphasize a subject, find how to use a Guided Edit effect to achieve narrow depth of field for an image that has a wide range of focus.

Put more emphasis on the subject of your photo using the Depth of Field Guided Edit in Photoshop Elements 10.

Join a panel of leading automated testing tool providers, including SmartBear, TestPlant, Gorilla Logic, and Micro Focus, as they discuss the latest advances in automated testing solutions for Flex applications. Discover how these technologies used together with Adobe Flash Builder enable shorter development cycles at lower costs.

This is the second in a series of discussions about innovation, this time with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Shantanu has been with Adobe for 12 years, and prior to joining Adobe was co-founder of a startup focused on digital photo sharing; developed desktop and collaboration products at Silicon Graphics; and held various senior management positions at Apple.

The Adobe Foundation hosted in 2009 the first Adobe Youth Voices Summit, a three-day digital media immersion event for 100 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) and educators, held at Stanford University. The summit, took place July 30 - Aug. 1, 2009, and brought together youth from undeserved communities around the world for creative workshops focused on all aspects of digital media, including film making, photography, animation and design. The first-of-its-kind summit was designed to empower youth to create media for social change and foster a deeper sense of social and civic engagement.

Join Jim Guerard, vice president and general manager of Professional Video, as he discusses the massive shifts happening in the industry today, how Adobe is responding through rapid innovation, and the company's pillars of focus moving forward.

The Flash Builder, SAP NetWeaver Gateway Integration Project is focused on helping developers more easily consume data and services from SAP R3 implementations within Flex applications. In this video, see how to build a simple Flex tablet application using SAP data accessed through the SAP Netweaver Gateway.

Stereotypes 2011 focuses on a hot topic of embellished generalizations about various groups of people.

This film looks at the way bullying can effect the confidence and sense of security students have while at school. It focuses on the relationship between those who bully and the individuals they target. The film goes on to show the important roles other students can take on in order to stop bullying from occurring at their school.

This film looks at gun violence within the United States and the thousands of deaths that occur each year, largely due to accidental firings within the home. Anti Guns goes on to focus on the shocking links between guns and teenage boys, including the fact that more teenage boys are dying from gunfire then car accidents in today’s society.

This presentation describes configuration details for the Acrobat ten family of products, including enhanced security, scripting controls, and other security related features. \u0000 Show Page: http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfitmatters/ax_appsec

As an extension of Adobe's recent focus on metadata and being able to track information throughout a production, After Effects CS5.5 now has the ability to access the Media Start and End times as well as "tape" names for assets that include them.

An oft-overlooked issue in stereoscopic production is how the point of convergence relates to the viewing plane. Chris Meyer demonstrates adding 3D depth of field blur to the equation to create more realistic, easier-to-view scenes.

Apply realistic blurs to perfectly shot footage to create elegant attributes of a soft focus image with the Camera Lens Blur effect in After Effects CS5.5.

In full force at SXSW, Adobe demos future technology. See audience reaction to Dreamweaver sneak peeks, with a huge focus on jQuery Mobile development.

This project focuses on how education has become less of a priority. It is meant for mainly teenagers and young adults. It is a documentary that's message is to push towards success to give yourself a chance.

This project is a unique narrative presented in stop motion using still photos. It is about a student named Angel who chronicles his high school experience going from a student who gets into trouble into a student who strives to work towards graduation. His experience with teachers is the focus. Its audience is high school students who might be in similar situations or know someone who might be. Its carries a strong message of students being able to change.

This story is a mixed media piece that presents the topic of youth profiling by police. It is meant for a teen to adult audience and the message it will focus on is that there is more to a person than the way they look.

Doug shows the ActionScript coding needed to bring the dice-rolling application from the last few videos alive.  He focuses on the importance of communication among multiple classes in object-oriented programming.

Jody Rodgers creates a CS5 deployment package for mass deployment with the IT-focused tool Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition, AAMEE.

There are lots of cameras available today and each one offers different features and benefits. In this video tutorial series, you'll learn to select the appropriate camera, become familiar with the basic operations, and explore popular shooting techniques.

Every time you head out to shoot video, many challenges can come up. Whether you're creating a documentary, narrative, or personal story, to get the most out of your shoot, you should strive to be very organized before, during and after the filming. This video explores best practices for youth video shoots and provides many guidelines that will help yield smooth productions.

There are lots of cameras available today and each one offers different features and benefits. In this video tutorial series, you'll learn to select the appropriate camera, become familiar with the basic operations, and explore popular shooting techniques.

There are lots of cameras available today and each one offers different features and benefits. In this video tutorial series, you'll learn to select the appropriate camera, become familiar with the basic operations, and explore popular shooting techniques.

See how the designers and developers at Rain, a company that delivers comprehensive solutions for advanced web application development and interactive media, incorporate Adobe Flash Catalyst into their prototyping process for building large applications and websites. Learn how they use Flash Catalyst as the bridge between their designers and developers, letting each group focus on what they do best, and to help visually sell their applications to their clients' senior management.

Join Juan Sanchez, RJ Owen and Leonard Souza from EffectiveUI as they walk through methods used to design and architect multiscreen experiences with Spark and Flex 4. They will demonstrate an application built for the desktop, the web, and handheld devices and show off the techniques used to build them. They'll focus on Spark skinning, effects and layout, interaction with the file system using Adobe AIR, and coordinating data using LiveCycle Data Services. Never has there been a more exciting time for building user experiences — or a more powerful toolset to build them with.

Learn key design, distribution, and business decisions that impact whether you should deliver your content as interactive PDF or SWF (using Adobe InDesign CS5). You'll also be armed with greater knowledge on which interactive features in InDesign are supported on export to PDF or SWF and learn how to optimize your interactivity for both PDF and SWF export or focus your efforts on the more advanced animation and interactivity capabilities of the SWF format. Don’t miss this informative session that compares delivery of interactive documents in PDF and SWF file formats.

Learn how to build engaging applications for the TV screen that run on Adobe AIR. Special focus will be made on design considerations and optimizations for building applications for the television.

Explore the role of prototyping in designing and developing compelling mobile applications. We'll examine the forms that prototypes can take (from paper prototypes to rich, interactive simulations), their advantages and costs, and how Adobe tools can be used to create them. Then we'll walk through creating a user interface for a mobile application using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder. This presentation also covers best practices for UX, as well as developer-focused tips and tricks.

Learn how to build Adobe AIR applications for Android. After reviewing the basics of AIR for Android, we'll focus on building data-driven applications for Android devices. You'll learn how to work with the local database on your phone, how to synchronize data, how to retrieve and push data to your Android device, and much more. Don't miss this opportunity to catch the next wave in application development.

Join Joa Ebert for a tour of the features of his Apparat framework. You'll learn how to optimize ActionScript using Apparat features like inline expansion. The session will also focus on code coverage and how Apparat can help you write better ActionScript.

The cooks are still in the kitchen, but the enticing smells of HTML5 are filling the room. Learn about the tasty semantic progression from XHTML to HTML5 that's sure to have markup connoisseurs salivating. In this session, we'll serve up a filling buffet of savory structural elements, flavorful form markup, and succulent ways of presenting audio and video with a focus on satisfying your cravings for tomorrow's technologies through practical implementations today. Bon appétit!

Learn to use Digieffects Depth and create a realistic rack focus.

Six members of Adobe Youth Voices were given the task of creating a song and music video that addresses one of the main issues or concerns that they see within their own communities. After discussing and brainstorming several topics, the group decided to focus on stereotypes and created a song that sends the message: “Even though we are different, we experience many of the same struggles.” Their collaborative effort, along with their creativity and commitment to the project, produced an extremely well-put together video with a powerful message.

Precisely adjust depth of field to make your subject stand out.

This video features a technology preview of Adobe Audition on the Mac, focusing on the interface, file handing capabilities, and the incredible speed and precision of the editor.

The Customer Interaction Imperative from SRN provides insights into the financial services industry trends, with a focus on transforming customer relationships. Hear why the industry needs to transform customer relationships to survive.

This documentary focused on cell phones, and the problems with their use at Ridgemont High School.

This film on immigration focuses on interview with several recent arrivals in the USA, and offers advice on adjustment to life in a new country.

Learn how Phil Ice examines qualitative and quantitative approaches used to assess the effectiveness of select Acrobat.com and Connect implementations. He focuses on the methodological basis of the studies and how they can be applied to future work involving Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and other applications and assesses how the techniques used can be leveraged for future research.

Focus on specific content regions and make precise edits to a web page with Dreamweaver's Live view and CSS Inspect. Make changes to your style sheets and preview the results without leaving the application.

Duane travels to SAP TechEd in Vienna, Austria and interviews Craig Cmehil. Tutorial section focuses in on how to set up an instance of LiveCycle ES2 on the cloud and develop a simple client application in Eclipse (on Mac OSX)

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost shows us how to get great results with the Lens Blur Filter in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Giant projects can be scary if you don’t have a good process. Get an inside look at creating the Konductor AIR application with a focus on team development. Konductor combines an advanced CMS platform with an AIR based content editor that leverages the webkit engine to directly manipulate HTML. This session will be technically framed – a start to end examination of topics such as scope definition, developer and designer workflow, agile principles, iterative experience design, build processes, development framework, and quality assurance.

Find out how some of the most well known interactive shops have become as well known as they are. (Hint, it's not just about the work!) This session will focus on the various techniques we can all use (from studio to freelancer) to market our work, promote our skills, and attract the kinds of clients we want. We will also discuss the role that awards and contests play in the art of promotion, as well as some ways to make yourself a guru in the eyes of your clients.

Colin Smith will show you how to take multiple photographs with a shallow depth of field and blend them all together into a single image that is sharp and in focus. This is a great technique especially for product and macro photographers.

Join John Schuman as he explores the potential of developing a customized, security-focused, RSS-driven delivery solution.

Joshua Hirsch discusses important aspects of the team's approach and process. The focus on collaboration between disciplines, the importance of culture and work environment, and making time to explore alternative techniques and new technologies.

Join Adam Flater & Scott Sheridan as they share info about the Learning Flex from Scratch series on Inside RIA (http://www.insideria.com/adam_flater_and_scott_sheridan/) focused on a non-programmers journey into the world of Flex.

Explore innovative projects such as external devices communication, PDF generation on-the-fly, arcade game emulation, and augmented reality. We will unveil the technical details behind these projects and focus on business needs solved.

Discover how interactive live streaming experiences change the way we think about live video online. High-definition video is used for broadcast, social media, and the enterprise. This session will focus on the live publishing workflow,

You've been told to think outside the box, but where can you go to find the most interesting and focused ideas? Go beyond the edges and learn how to be a better creative where there is no box.

Join Grant Skinner as he shares critical knowledge on a variety of aspects of ActionScript development, drawing from over a decade of experience working with Flash. This session will focus on techniques, workflows, philosophies, and more.

Learn about new trends in enterprise application development, with a focus on user-centric computing, and how the next generation of Adobe technology will allow you to build leading-edge applications that meet those trends.

Join fellow developers and information architects interested in going beyond the standard Flex Charting to focus on creating innovative and compelling data visualizations used to solve a wide range of data visualization challenges.

Explore the potential of developing a customized, security-focused, RSS-driven delivery solution. This session shows how you can use Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server, Flash Media Server 3, and Adobe Media Player

Join us for an examination of Adobe's Flash Platform, focusing on how the tools (Creative Suite, Flash Builder, and Flash Catalyst) can create better cross-discipline and team integration when developing projects based on Flex 4.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase continues his exploration of the new Pixel Bender-based effects in Flex 4, this time focusing on Shaders.

Join host Dennis Radeke as he shows you how creative gradient wipe effects can be. Learn how to use them, but focus on how to create your own gradient wipes for use in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Eran Stern demonstrates how you can create the illusion of time bending with a special focus on the correct way of using the CC Time Blend FX.

Work with all documents that are related or attached to the current document without losing the current document’s focus.

Google Chrome aims to enable the next generation of Web applications. This keynote gives a high-level overview of Google Chrome's current architecture with a focus on Web development.

If you’ve seen an episode of the original Star Trek, you know that whenever Captain Kirk came in sight of a love interest, she appeared to him in diffused focus. Deke shows you how to achieve "Kirk Vision".

Matt walks you through the focus adjustments inside of Photoshop.com.

Eddie Tapp shows how to add a great soft look to a portrait with the MZ Soft Focus technique and easily keep areas sharp like eyes, lips and hair.

Jim DiVitale shows how to use the Photoshop Lens Blur filter. A photograph is changed to a selective focus image with exact control of what is sharp and what falls out of focus.

This movie covers techniques for fine-tuning masks in Photoshop, and explores the Overlay mode. Instructor Deke McClelland takes a soft-focus indoor shot and masks it perfectly.