Produced by students from American India Foundation during 2010-2011 Adobe Youth Voices program.

Produced by students from American India Foundation during 2010-2011 Adobe Youth Voices program.

In 2010, San Francisco was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts’ Mayors Institute of City Design grant for The ARTery Project, a proposal to jumpstart Mid-Market revitalization between UN Plaza and 6th Street, through short term expanded arts programming and long term investment in the arts organizations that make Mid-Market their home. As the signature initiative of The ARTery Project, Lights on Market Street marks the gateways to Mid-Market with three large-scale public lighting installations. The interactive nature of the site-specific light installations encourages passersby to see the neighborhood in a new light. Along with The ARTery Project’s yearlong calendar of arts and cultural public events, visitors are inspired to return again and again to the district.

A young man reflects on the meaning of a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. "I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits." and what it means to him in his life today.

This video is about the danger of owning a gun. In December 2010 we wrote a script about a situation in which someone got hurt by a gun. Then we came up with some question and interviewed people in the community about the effects of gun violence. In February we make a video and edited it. Our message to young people is that GUNS are not safe and they do not protect us.

Learn how to use Acrobat X Std. or Pro. to send PDF attachments and convert email to PDF directly from within Outlook 2003, 2007, and the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010. You can easily convert selected email messages or complete folders, and can archive your email as a PDF Portfolio.

You thought the Super Bowl was the place to view the best commercials of the year. Wait until you see the Adobe MAX keynote commercials. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be amazed.

Ben Forta hosts, "Technology Street" and talks to puppets HTML and Flash about how they are getting along.

Adobe MAX 2010 attendees share their first impressions about Adobe Acrobat X.

Hear from Chuck Freedman (@chuckstar | www.chuckstar.com/blog), Adobe Flash Platform expert and chief channel evangelist at litl, as he discusses how Flash Player compatible content plays on many cool, in-home devices from Sony, Nintendo, litl, and more. He'll explore why creators should take special note of different form factors, simplified user experiences, and the new distribution channels that make this an exciting opportunity. We'll consider the full range of experiences, from open, multiplayer games and HD video in the living room to interactive cooking in the kitchen to DIY guides in the garage, and even story time.

Learn how to get PDF files to behave the way you and your readers want on the web. We'll share best practices for helping to ensure that PDF files are easy to read, navigate, and access, as well as for making PDF files as streamlined as possible without losing quality.

Ben Forta, Adobe's Director of Evangelism interviews Paul Gubbay, VP Design and Web Engineering at Adobe and John Resig, father and lead developer of the JQuery JavaScript library as they discuss Adobe and its relationship to HTML5, and Adobe's work supporting JQuery.

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.

A crack team including an experience researcher (Duane Nickull), a designer (Paul Trani), and a developer (Ming-En Cho) work to improve both desktop and mobile applications for Adobe’s Customer Service representatives. Lee Brimelow is the host.

Brett Error, VP of Omniture's Business Unit, presents a lightning round about optimizing mobile applications.

Four contestants compete to create the best shopping application, using the mystery ingredient: Flex. One team (Deepa Subramaniam & Narciso Jaramillo) builds a mobile application and the other team (Doug Winnie & Adam Cath) builds a browser-based application. Serge Jespers is the host.

Come see the best rich media campaigns of 2010. Learn how they made that game ad tilt your HTML page or drive a car from an animated banner into a video ad. This session will feature companies that pioneer innovative uses of Adobe Flash and its interface with the HTML page to deliver outstanding campaign performance for their clients. Speakers from Doubleclick, EyeWonder, Greystripe, MediaMind, Medialets, PointRoll, and Sprout are scheduled to present.

Special guests Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, and Rishi Chandra, Google TV Sr. Product Manager, discuss Google TV and support for Flash.

Two shopping network hosts (Desiree Motamedi & Heidi Williams) invite Danielle Deibler to promote a new applications store for developers called Adobe InMarket.

Watch Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, as he demonstrates essential techniques for using Photoshop CS5 to create great-looking images for the web and print. Learn techniques for making images look their best, fast, including everything from instant optimizing and enhancing of images to making Smart Filter recipes, custom actions, and tool presets. Davis's motto: If you do it once, figure out how to never have to do it again! Come learn powerful one-click solutions for on-time, on-budget design and photography.

Learn essential Photoshop CS5 skills to produce images that look great, load fast on the web, and work well in Flash Professional. We'll reveal optimization tools and techniques for making images look their best, while debunking web resolution myths. Discover easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail. Learn how to enhance JPEG files using Camera Raw and how to control optimization settings for embedded bitmaps in Flash Professional. And, get tips for optimizing your workstation for fast performance. This session is a must for anyone who works with images for web and interactive design.

Discover new techniques for adding motion to content. Since the early days of the web, we've relied on Flash technology, and more recently, JavaScript. But now, with WebKit and Mozilla leading the way, transformations and transitions can be achieved with pure CSS. And for those in need of even more movement, CSS3 provides keyframe-based animations. In this session, we'll take a look at all of the possibilities and explore what works and where — from the simplest hover effects to creative usability enhancements and the sure-to-be-popular spinning corporate logo. It's all about the movement, baby!

Learn from the experts at SimpleFlame about building fully customized, beautiful websites hosted on the new Adobe Business Catalyst platform. Business Catalyst is a hosted application that works tightly with Adobe Dreamweaver and replaces five-plus tools with one central platform for web designers. Using this unified platform with no back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores. Representatives from SimpleFlame will share their experience in building more than 200 custom websites with Business Catalyst, revealing tips and tricks they've learned along the way.

Join Photoshop Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes for a deep dive into the hidden gems of Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, including tips, tricks, and technologies that are sure to help you speed up your productivity. Discover how to go places creatively that were impossible in Photoshop before CS5. He'll reveal many new techniques and enhancements so your skills can be as sharp as possible.

Learn how to leverage After Effects to create engaging and rich online advertising campaigns. See how PointRoll combines the power of After Effects and the back end of Adobe Flash Professional to create compelling and highly interactive rich media, all within being "in spec" to allow flight across publisher standards. Learn how to optimize your video for web deployment, use best practices, embed metadata/cue points markers for integration with Flash, and even use tracking data from Mocha for After Effects v2 (included with After Effects CS5) to enable dynamic video. To follow along with John, download the assets by clicking on the "Download sample files" button.

Live from Adobe MAX 2010 and the Acrobat X Test Drive Lab...

Learn the best techniques to edit, restore, and master audio for importing into Adobe products such as Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Premiere Pro. Whether you're a web pro, a video pro, or just want to expand your skills, you'll learn how to get professional-quality audio while minimizing the time spent engineering audio files.

See what's new with 3D in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. Learn techniques for using features such as new Adobe Repoussé technology, enhanced 3D realism, rich library of materials, painting in 3D, and so much more. You'll leave this session with a great understanding of the new 3D features in Photoshop CS5 Extended. After this session, newcomers to 3D in Photoshop will be well on their way to being able to quickly and easily add 3D to their repertoire, and experts will pick up must-have techniques for speeding up their workflow and making amazing designs.

Find out how Samsung is freeing the TV with its Samsung Apps line of televisions and Blu-ray players, which can download, install, and run apps. Samsung Apps support is built into all Samsung 2010 Blu-ray players, Blu-ray home theater systems, and most TVs 40 inches and larger. Distributing content to the $150 billion TV market is now as easy as creating an app! Plus, Samsung is offering $500,000 in cash and prizes for the most innovative, most functional, and best-looking apps. Learn more about this app contest, the new market for TV applications, and what makes a great TV app.

Discover the many design possibilities with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended by exploring the latest design trends from movies, TV, and magazines. This session will cover masks, selections, and creating stunning effects, including working with 3D and video, plus so much more. You'll walk away with killer tips and techniques that take advantage of the magic of Photoshop.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, discusses the video revolution across screens, including phones, tablets and TVs. Kevin describes browsing with Flash on TV, AIR applications on TV, and multiscreen video production. Guest is Marc Goldberg CTO of Epix.

We are in the midst of a revolution across a variety of screens, new input methods, new formats, new distribution models and you are at the forefront of this.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, discusses how multiscreen is transforming the experience for enterprise customer-facing applications as well as internal applications. Guest appearances by David Nuescheler, Day CTO and Mike Lazaridis, RIM CEO.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, talks about what multiscreen means for tooling at Adobe. He demonstrates Photoshop Express’ Content Aware Fill and a color mixing palette on tablets.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, discusses how Adobe tools work with HTML to help make websites work well across all form factors.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, talks about the major transformation occurring in the publishing industry as they move their brands to a digital experience. Guests include Martha Stewart from Martha Stewart Living and Joe Simon from Conde Nast.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, talks about the migration of games to multiscreen and how Adobe is helping to enable this innovation within Flash Player.

Learn essential techniques from one of the original pioneers in digital painting and a master at painting in Photoshop CS5. Watch as John Derry shows how to quickly and easily enhance your images with the new realistic painting tools in Photoshop CS5. See how you can transform your images and designs subtly or to the extreme to get amazing results. You'll walk away knowing killer tips and tricks along with new painting ideas that are sure to add to your Photoshop skills.

Discover the innovations behind the new book on 3D techniques for Photoshop CS5 Extended and the associated iPad app (an interactive version of the book's first chapter). The app explains 3D concepts in a fun, interactive way. Join Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee as she walks through the process of creating the app and its contents and explains how to use Photoshop CS5 Extended to create rich interactive content, including 360-degree spherical panoramas, 3D camera/object rotations, 3D objects and effects, and more, plus offers firsthand tips on building an iPad digital publication app.

Join Julieanne Kost, Adobe digital imaging evangelist and one of Fast Company's Top 100 Most Creative People in Business of 2009, in this exciting session as she demonstrates Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. Take a tour through Lightroom to see how it can help you manage volumes of images and enhance and stylize them to communicate your message. Also learn how to move seamlessly between Photoshop and Lightroom. She'll provide critical tips and techniques used by leading photographers for perfecting images. Both designers and photographers, from novices to experts in digital imaging, have something to gain from this session.

Get an inside look at the process of designing and developing a global enterprise-class video portal. This session includes both business and tech discussions, including a high-level overview of the framework and content management system, Adobe SiteCatalyst integration, ad server integration, extending Open Source Media Framework, rapid deployment with Adobe ColdFusion, when and why to use jQuery, and the platform as a marketing and business tool.

Discover the many design, motion, and digital imaging possibilities in Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended with Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Explore the latest hot features in this hands-on session that will cover Content-Aware Fill, improved selection tools, Puppet Warp, painting tools, 3D capabilities, and so much more. You'll learn how to create mind-blowing effects — the same ones used by leading professionals today — and get your work done fast.

This video explains how to use SharePoint with Acrobat X Std or Pro.

Steven Webster is interviewed at the Adobe Partner Community Day 2010 in New York.

Matthias Zeller is interviewed at the Adobe Partner Community Day 2010 in New York.

Kevin Atkinson is interviewed at the Adobe Partner Community Day 2010 in New York.

This video explains how to create PDF files from Microsoft Office products including Office 2010 in Acrobat X Std. or Pro.

John Knightly is interviewed at the Adobe Partner Community Day 2010 in New York.

Joe Sanfilippo is interviewed at the Adobe Partner Community Day 2010 in New York.

Christian Saylor is interviewed at the Adobe Partner Community Day 2010 in New York.

Bertil Snell is interviewed at the Adobe Partner Community Day 2010 in New York.

Ben Watson is interviewed at the Adobe Partner Community Day 2010 in New York.

The first event about UX Experience for Enterprise Application in New York.

In this episode, Terry White presents at the 2010 Adobe Keynote in Las Vegas. Terry demonstrates how to integrate photos and video in Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS5 and how to create "digital storytelling" using Premiere Pro CS5.

“Humans” is a documentary that takes a comprehensive look at the past, present and future of mankind. Through narration and interviews, the film covers the evolution of the human species, examines today's social behaviors and explores their future. With an unspoiled view of the world and fresh eyes to filmmaking, Humans allows us to take a look at ourselves through the lens of its teenaged filmmakers.

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.

GAIA is a short animation that shows a heroine named Gaia that saves a city from a very bad villain from polluting the beautiful city of Adobia. Gaia fights off the evil villain Stinkman, because he is polluting the city with his trash powers. Gaia flies and cleans up the city from the trash of Stinkman. Gaia enlists the help from the kids to help keep clean the city of Adobia.

The idea for Food Wars developed from our young animators’ desire to examine the negative impact of gang violence in their community. Because the group wanted to examine the issue beyond the boundaries of their own community, they chose to use fruits and vegetables to represent two opposing communities. The animators used audio and video as well as real world props to create a short film that discusses their perceptions of gang violence and to offer a thought on the resolution of the violence.

When the Junker cars of the world turn against the humans they release a viral disease in the clouds of smog they leave behind. The virus causes humans to turn into mindless plant eaters. Who can save the world from the Pootlutting Zombies?

Educators react to the launch of the new Adobe Education Exchange at ISTE 2010 in Denver, CO.

On June 16 we hosted the 3rd Adobe Partner LiveCycle Solution Showcase.

Coverage of the Adobe Partner Community Day in Amsterdam.

Join us for an overview on how you can create rich compelling media experiences through direct integration with advertising, tracking and reporting services with Adobe's Open Source Media Framework You'll learn how OSMF can help you simplify development of media players by allowing developers to assemble components, creating high quality, full-featured playback experiences.  This open framework enables collaborative development of the future of online video monetization, with lower costs and faster turnaround.  OSMF is free and available for download on www.osmf.org.

Get an overview of how USC—one of the leading US film schools—is teaching students best practices for animation and production using Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other Adobe tools.

Learn how to leverage video for Flash within your enterprise, including how to create an encoding portal and publish with Flash Media Server, as well as implementing access controls to protect your content with LDAP and Active Directory. This session will introduce how the Adobe created Adobe TV using our own products to help increase view times and employee attention while reducing costs. Go through the steps of deploying, configuring, and monitoring Flash Media Server within your network, and learn how to implement a publishing system for live and recorded media.

Learn about this new feature in Flash Player 10.1 that gives content creators, developers, and publishers more choice in high quality media delivery while maintaining the reach of the Flash Platform.  HTTP Dynamic Streaming enables leveraging existing caching infrastructures (CDN’s, ISP’s, office caching, home networking) and provides tools to integrate adaptive streaming into encoding workflows.  Come here how you can use this new feature for both live and video on demand plus options for content protection using Flash Access.

Breakthrough performance: See how the new Mercury Playback Engine and native tapeless support (including for R3D, DSLR footage, XDCAM, P2 and more) in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 can take your post-production workflows into a whole new realm of productivity.

Learn how to put the new features in After Effects CS5 into action: see how the new Roto Brush, Mocha and and the Mocha Shape plug-in, color LUT support, and more can work in tandem with other CS5 Production Premium tools to transform your podt-production workflows.

See how Bournemouth University—a leading film school in the UK—has partnered with the BBC to develop advanced curriculum based on Adobe Premiere Pro. Used by the BBC, this integrated course teaches a modern post-production workflow, all based on Adobe's video products.

Learn how Adobe's new script- and screenplay-writing tool, Adobe Story, can become the cornerstone of a workflow that saves valuable on-set and post-production time, while ensuring that the assets you create are rich in metadata and therefore easy to discover online.

Join us for an overview of Adobe's solutions for content protection on the Adobe Flash Platform. Discover the best practices for monetizing premium content, understanding the content distribution ecosystem, developing more secure content workflows and moving media more securely around the internet. You will also learn how to integrate content protection directly within your interactive media player using Open Source Media Framework.

Learn how to use the Adobe Flash Media Server Family of tools and technologies to create high-definition media experiences. Master the workflow from live encoding to creating a media player using Open Source Media Framework, leveraging Flash Media Server and Dynamic Streaming to create the highest possible quality for the end user and Flash Access for content protection. This session will also introduce you to the experiences of some key customers driving high quality experiences online today that draw audiences from around the world.

This expert-driven deep dive will demonstrate how to get the best quality from your H.264 encoding and publishing online with the Adobe Flash Platform. Topics will include encoding parameters, analysis, resolutions, dynamic streaming, filtering and benefits of hardware acceleration. Wrap all this up into an encoding strategy that will bring you closer to HD video on the web.

Rich Harrington highlights some of the new features in Photoshop CS5, and explains how video professionals can use them in their work.

See how CS5 Production Premium makes it easier than ever for you to use the right tool for the job. With easy project exchange between Final Cut Pro or Avid editing tools and Adobe Premiere Pro, you can easily integrate CS5 Production Premium into your current workflow.

Learn how DirecTV and Limelight Networks are leveraging HTTP Dynamic Streaming to reach more viewers around the globe.

See firsthand the advantages of Adobe's native tapeless workflow. Jacob Rosenberg of Bandito Brothers will showcase the use of DSLR cameras and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 in the making of a feature film about the Navy Seals.

Join Adobe to learn how the Flash Platform enables content creators to create and deliver content across various screens. From the web, to desktop, to mobile and to consumer electronics devices, Adobe's Flash Platform allows content creators to leverage their investments across screens, enhancing time to market and increasing ROI. Learn how Adobe is extending this platform in to the Digital Home and Mobile spaces in 2010.

Jim Geduldick, After Effects artist at Offhollywood and leader of the popular AENY user group, shows how the new features in After Effects CS5—as well as new 64-bit plug-ins from The Foundry—are being used in production.

Find out how P2P technology (RTMFP) and the Adobe Flash Platform can help create new business opportunities and drive viewership and interactivity to your online application. You'll learn the building blocks of development with RTMFP and how you can leverage it in your applications to add real-time video, voice, and data flow with minimal cost. Get inspired by seeing how customers are using P2P today in their applications, and learn how you can employ them in your online experience.

At the Missouri School of Journalism, students participate in a competition which centers around Adobe Flash Catalyst and discuss the ever increasing role of technology in the field of journalism.

Lori is joined by Joel Geraci and Ali Hanyaloglu as they discuss their Acrobat Enablement plans for 2010.

Adobe kicks off Photoshop World East in Orlando with demos of Lightroom 3 and sneak peeks of up coming Photoshop Technologies. Russell Brown does an encore performance of his Photoshop 20th Anniversary Presentation.

Join John Loiacono, Scott Kelby, Julieanne Kost, Russell Brown, Terry White and a host of others as they come together in San Francisco for a celebration of 20 years of Adobe Photoshop magic. It's the next best thing to being there.

Ford, Team Detroit and Firstborn created an inspiring and exciting multimedia rich site to show off every detail of the Ford Mustang, highlighting the next stage of the car's evolution. The site was created using Adobe Flex 3, Flash CS4 Professional, and Photoshop CS4.

Join Russell Brown in a unique and entertaining performance at the Photoshop 20th Anniversary Party in San Francisco. Graphics by Dan Marcolia.

Cameron Church demos the Brightcove Mobile Experience and explains how Flash Player 10.1 expands Brightcove's reach to smart phone users.

Ismael Nafría of La Vanguardia was thrilled to hear that the Spanish daily newspaper would soon be able to provide video content to smartphone users with Flash Player 10.1.