Join MAX Master Jason Levine as he teaches the essential skills required for producing quality audio for your video productions. Our focus will be on Adobe Audition, along with a discussion of integration with Adobe Premiere Pro.In this session, you’ll learn how to:• Remove background noise to save your recording• Work with multitrack sequences for total control over audio mixing• Retime audio and automatically sync your sound in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition

See how you can transform your images and designs using painting technologies, tools, and techniques in Adobe Photoshop. Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, will share essential techniques ranging from the slight and subtle to the bold and extreme. In this session, Davis will cover:• The world of painting possibilities in Photoshop• The features and technologies available in the latest version of Photoshop• Killer tips, tricks, and techniques for quickly and easily creating stunning images both from a blank canvas and from an image • New painting ideas that are sure to add to your Photoshop skills• Step-by-step methods for creating amazing images and designs

This animation/narrative explores a form of racism that the migrant community suffer from, yet not all of them are aware of. It identifies media as one of the tools used so stereotypical and degrading images are spread, and thus emphasizing that making media by our own hands is essential to counter it.

File management is an important part of video post-production. Many times you will be using several media files of various formats that are essential to the finished piece. You want to be able to retrieve those files with minimal fuss, so it is important to have a consistent method of file organization. Follow the guidelines in this tutorial to help you with your workflow.

Find out what makes Adobe After Effects Next an essential upgrade for animators, compositors and designers. Jason Levine of Adobe and Mathias Omotola of Maxon show the new Live 3D Pipeline between Cinema 4D and After Effects. Other exciting features are the new Refine Edge that makes rotoscoping easier and the more flexible Warp Stabilizer VFX.

In this movie, Ian Robinson introduces the After Effects interface, identifying the most essential panels—the Project panel, the Timeline, and the Composition panel. He also introduces workspace presets, which instantly reconfigure the After Effects workspace for specific tasks.

This movie introduces the robust audio tools in Premiere Pro. Abba Shapiro shows how to preview and trim audio in the Source Monitor. Whether it’s an audio-only file or the audio channel of a video clip, Abba shows how to enable sub-frame audio scrubbing and trimming. He also shows how to interpret clips to combine or separate stereo channels. At the same time, he introduces fundamental audio tools that are essential to working with audio in Premiere Pro.

There is a lot of information about clips and sequences to be found in the Timeline with a few clicks. This movie demonstrates how to show and hide essential information that will help with the decision-making process during editing. This includes audio waveforms and keyframe controls right in the Timeline. It also covers different options for thumbnail previews of the clips in the Timeline and methods for enlarging and shrinking certain areas of the Timeline for greater control.

Adobe Creative Cloud lets you download essential CS6 design tools. Work faster thanks to performance boosts in Photoshop and Illustrator, easily repurpose layouts in InDesign, and speed up repetitive print production tasks with dozens of enhancements. Creative Cloud members automatically get access to new features as soon as they’re released – like the new package files and unembed images features in Illustrator. You can do it all and WW Design Evangelist Rufus Deuchler will demo all of the highlights for you.

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Message to Impact, team members explore ways in which to help youth search within themselves to create media with an impactful message in their own voices. The team members are: · Elaine Socorro Cavalheiro (Brazil) · Shan-Lee Liu (United States) · Susan Dyer (United States) · Joan Sweeney (Canada) · Niranjan Meegammana (Sri Lanka)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Amplified Voice, team members use realpeople and the phrase “I am a global citizen” to emphasize an educator’s responsibility to listen and provide the tools to amplify youth voice. The team members are: · Martha Estrella (United States) · Chris Lockwood (Mexico) · George Lee (United States) · Ariel Taylor (United States)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Team Jeff, the protagonist presents some video production best practices to share with youth to ensure high quality work. The team members are: · Daniel Richards (United Kingdom) · Jeff Schmidt (United States) · Courtney Gould (United States) · Corey Stallings (United States)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Blueprint for Creativity, team membersexplain the importance of pre-production and present ways on how to engage youth in the pre-production process. The team members are: · Peter Moi (United States) · Rachel Rosen (Canada) · James Bell (Jamaica) · Wendy-Frazier Snyder (United States)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Own It, team members offer their insights on how to get youth to be fully invested in the AYV Program, be motivated to create authentic work, and to take ownership of their projects. The team members are: · Regina Temple (United States) · Symon Chibaka (Malawi) · Oneisha Freeman (United States) · Daniel Gutierrez (Uruguay) · Hassan Shehawy (Egypt)

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)

Even with the fantastic new Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6, the Lens Blur filter is an essential tool when a high degree of control is needed to selectively (and realistically) blur an image. In this video tutorial, Julieanne uses the Lens Blur filter with a depth map to to create a series of images that appear as if they were captured with a tilt-shift lens. Julieanne also demonstrates how to quickly apply this filter to multiple images using actions and batch processing.

Rebecca Cordeiro shares her take-aways and insights from Adobe Technical Communication Enterprise Summit 2011, involving SCORM and the convergence of essential tools

In Adobe Youth Voices Essentials members can create a collection of their favorite resources, curricula, and tutorials by using the Favoriting tool and this tutorial shows you how.

In Adobe Youth Voices Essentials, educators can friend one another as a way to stay connected. This tutorial shows users how to find members in the Member Directory and adding them to your Friends List.

Educators can collaborate and connect with one another in the Adobe Youth Voices Essentials Forum. This tutorial shows you how to post and comment in the forums.

This movie by Chris Orwig introduces viewers to the Photoshop Lightroom interface and a few useful shortcuts. Chris discusses the menu bar, modules, work area, left and right panels, toolbar, and Filmstrip . The essential shortcuts covered are: accessing the flags, stars, and labels; hiding or showing the toolbar and panels; minimizing specific areas of the interface; expanding or dimming Lightroom to full screen; and accessing the modules.

There are several advantages to the newly redesigned Crop tool in Photoshop CS6. In this video tutorial, Julieanne demonstrates the refined interface, new features, customizable presets, enhanced tools and essential shortcuts that will make cropping easier than ever.

AYV Classrooms in India

Educators can upload youth work in progress and final projects to receive feedback and ideas for improvement.

Essentials Educators can upload a profile image and share information about themselves by updating their profile.

Learn how to get started and register for Adobe Youth Voices Essentials.

Designers share their first memories of using Illustrator and why, after 25 years, it's still the essential design tool.

The Toolbar in Flash Professional gives you quick access to the essential tools in the application. This lesson will provide an overview of what these are and what they do.

The Pen and Pencil tools are very useful but require a little practice to get comfortable with. In this video you'll get a chance to play around with these tools, using the Pen tool to create clouds and the Pencil tool to create hills.

In this episode, hear from Jason Levine, Adobe Worldwide Video Evangelist, about the Creative Cloud and all the new features in Adobe Production Premium CS6, the complete solution at the heart of any production workflow for video professionals. Packed with major updates to help bring high-quality productions to any screen, you’ll learn about new updates to familiar tools including powerful new versions of Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, Audition®, Adobe Story Plus, Media Encoder and Photoshop Extended, along with two new tools, SpeedGrade CS6 for professional color grading, and Prelude CS6, the world’s most elegant solution for the processes of ingest, logging and transcoding – essential tasks in a modern file-based workflow.

Learn how Adobe Ideas, the essential digital sketchpad tool, lets you design anywhere using vectors, layers, and color themes to create finished design work ready for production.

This video shows that people who have lots of power tend to abuse it. Also it shows that greed can change a person’s perspective of others.

Watch Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall of Famer, as he demonstrates essential techniques for using Adobe 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.

Build essential Adobe Photoshop CS5 skills to produce images that look great, load fast on the web, and work well in Adobe Flash Professional. We'll reveal optimization techniques for making images look their best, debunk web resolution myths, show quick and easy ways to correct composition, tone, and color, and demonstrate how to recover image detail using Camera Raw on JPEG files. You'll learn how to automate many common tasks without creating complex Photoshop Actions, plus discover many other Photoshop shortcuts. By adopting these workflow tips, you’ll save time on everyday tasks and have more fun.

Learn essential techniques for imitating natural painting effects like impasto oils, translucent watercolors, and textured pastels with the new Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5. Jack Davis, award-winning artist, author, and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, will use real-world projects to show how quickly and easily you can enhance and interpret your images and designs — from subtle tweaks to complete expressive transformations. You'll walk away with new painting solutions that are sure to change what you thought was possible in Photoshop and in your own work.

Explore some of the lesser known yet powerful features of Adobe Fireworks, an essential design tool that operates with both vectors and bitmaps and can span the design process from wireframe to comp. If you are already comfortable with Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, and Flash Catalyst, see how Fireworks can become an integral part of your design/develop workflow.

This video explores two questions: How do adults see teenagers, and how do we as teenagers see ourselves?

Demonstrating the power of technology to engage middle- and high school-age youth, Adobe Youth Voices provides breakthrough learning experiences using video, multimedia, digital art, web, animation, and audio tools that enable youth to explore and comment on their world.

Take full control of After Effects parenting system using regular and alternative parenting to build 3D cubical world. Learn how to jump the child layer to the parent’s position and discover essential keyboard shortcuts to improve your work. You can download the project from: http://www.sternfx.com/down

In this episode, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to streamline Lightroom 3’s Develop module by taking advantage of her top 10 favorite shortcuts & time-saving features in order to eliminate many of the repetitive image adjustment tasks when editing large volumes of images. Check out Julianne's blog for more shortcuts and tips! http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost

Understand what interaction design is and how the five essential principals of interaction design could help you make better interaction design decisions. This quick introduction will help you get started thinking about how to design your interfaces in the most effective way with the behavior of the user in mind.

Now that you understand the five principals of Interaction Design, it’s time to learn how to apply those concepts to craft effective navigational systems for digital interfaces. At the end, follow along a quick tutorial in Adobe Flash Catalyst to see some ways dropdown navigation bar elements can be presented.

See how the five essential principals of interaction design apply to the presentation and the delivery of text, and understand how people tend to view and consume text on a digital device. Then follow a quick exercise in Adobe Flash Catalyst to take a look at an example of creating a liquid layout.

In this episode, David explores how interaction design is applied to the delivery of images and media through the use of patterns, timing, size and more. Then he switches over to Adobe Flash Catalyst to show an example where some of this is applied to a light box project.

In this final lesson, David wraps things up by teaching you how to effectively design interactions for forms and dialogs including ways to smoothly guide users through a good user experience using the same essential principals discussed in this series.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne reveals essential shortcuts and little known features that will make navigating the grid view in Lightroom far more efficient.

Photoshop is the most powerful image editing software in around so it stands to reason that it would be very useful in creating titles and graphics for a video production. Watch this inaugural episode of Premiere Pro Basics in Adobe Beginner Classes to get some of the essential skills necessary to become a productive editor.

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.

This week Mike is in a particularly aggressive mood. But its because wants everyone to be awesome using InDesign Shortcuts. This week Creative Sweet TV showcases the top ten essential shortcuts required to set type in InDesign. The shortcuts include, Soft returns, point size, leading, baseline shift, Indent to here, right indent tabs and the list goes on…

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.

Explore essential plug-ins and tools that every developer should add to their Adobe Flash Builder installation. In addition to covering configuration of the plug-ins, we'll explore how to use them as part of a workflow for rapid development of Flex and ActionScript applications. By attending this session, you'll learn how to save development time and increase your productivity.

Learn how to shoot better quality video by recording better audio in the field. Discover which microphones, tools, and techniques are best for shooting events or interview footage with your DSLR camera. Find out how to synch your audio and video in Adobe Premiere Pro as well as edit or remove background noise.

Learn the essential settings for lighting and exposure when shooting with DSLR cameras. Find out which lighting tools are available and the benefits of three-point lighting, filters and reflectors. You’ll also discover how to fix lighting problems in DSLR footage using Adobe Premiere Pro.

If you want to be a pro at using Adobe Illustrator you need to know these essential tips. These are my absolute favorite and most used tips and shortcuts. Pay close attention because there a quite a few. Drawing tips duplicating tips pen tool tips and coloring shortcuts.

Learn how best to single source FrameMaker documentation in RoboHelp using the unique functionality in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2.5.

Find out how to use FrameMaker to create PDF files, enabling a team to review and comment via the Acrobat.com Cloud, using free Adobe Reader® software, and then import comments back into FrameMaker.

Learn how Templates work in FrameMaker and how to build books based on multiple files, that were authored from the same template.

This short video answers the question “What is Lightroom?” for new users of the tool. Lightroom unites your digital photography essentials in one fast and intuitive package and gets you there with the tools you need to create great images, manage all your photographs, and showcase them with style and impact.

Walk through essential adjustments to color, exposure, and detail that you’ll apply to many RAW images.

Wealth is not defined by material things.

A glimpse of what it would be like to be homeless through this collection of photos. Youth artist: Liam Spero, Modeling: Brandi Langille, Editing: Barbara Alexander. Site: Rideau High School Ottawa, Canada

A young student grieves over the premature loss of her mother as she looks through belongings she left behind. Youth artist: Nicole Wong. Site: Independence High School San Francisco.

A diverse group of students share their personality and musical talents.

With a video camera in their hands, young people can realize the power of their own voice and recognize the clarity of their own vision. Video lets them tell their own stories, express their own views and opinions, and interpret the world.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, talks about how the pervasiveness and extensive use of Flash on the web made Flash support in Android and Chrome essential.

Online, your portfolio is all you've got to mediate your talent. Get essential ingredients, quick steps, check list, do's and dont's to help self-promote efficiently and kick your butt into gear to build a strong presence that brings in the money.

Learn essential skills for using Photoshop CS4 to produce images that look great and load fast for the web and for use with Flash Professional. We'll reveal hidden optimization tools and quick techniques for making images look their best, and more.

Learn the must-have skills for working with Photoshop and digital images, including color correction, masking, image restoration, and retouching. Terry White will answer the most frequently asked questions on working with digital images and more.

Looking for something dynamic and new for your After Effects work? In this second of a four part series, Dennis shows the essential techniques to have elements come together in smokey bits again with no third party effects.

View a preview of the innovative new Learn by Video series, a complete training program that includes up to 19 hours of high-quality video instruction and is the official training curriculum for the Adobe Certified Associate exam.

Learn essential Flash file types, including FLA, SWF, FLV, F4V, and MP4. Discover other file types, such as ActionScript and XFL.

Customize the interface by using preset workspaces or creating your own. Learn about different workspace options, such as Essentials and Designer.

Animate properties in After Effects CS4. Use the stopwatch, move the current-time indicator, and set values. Create, edit, and delete keyframes.

Join Christophe Jolif in this session by ILOG Elixir R&D, Christophe offers coding tips and tricks, how-tos, and hands-on information on ILOG Elixir, a powerful and essential companion to any serious RIA, Adobe AIR, or Flex developer's toolkit.

Join Kelly McCathran as she shows us how easy it is to build a rich interactive PDF file. Start with bookmarks, hyperlinks, and other essential navigation elements.

Join Michael Ninness as he shows us how to get the inside scoop on using Photoshop CS4 to deliver images that look great and load fast for the web and interactive experiences built with Flash CS4 Professional.

Join Bryan O'Neil Hughes as he demonstrates new features in Photoshop CS4 that every user should know.

Join David Macy, Illustrator product manager and get it straight from the source. In this session, Davidwill be your guide to what's new and cool in Illustrator CS4, the vector software long considered to be the essential tool for cross-media design.

Join George Neill and Jerome Doran of the the Adobe Consulting User Experience team as show us that when engaging with applications, users essentially want to complete their tasks with a minimum of difficulty and friction.

This movie covers how to use the Panel container in Flex 3 to lay out objects using vertical, horizontal, and absolute layout styles.

This movie covers the basics of the Label and Text controls within the Flex 3 framework. These controls are great for data entry or display.

Convert existing Flash content to an Adobe AIR application in Flash CS3 Professional. Using the Flash video gallery and ActionScript 3 makes this publication process simple.

Adobe AIR and Flex Builder 3 offer the ability to publish rich internet applications to the desktop. This tutorial shows how to create a simple desktop application.

Creating custom shapes with the Pen tool can be intimidating. This movie teaches how to plot anchor points and draw lines, closed paths, curves, control handles, and more.

Julieanne Kost covers Lightroom's interface including modules, panels, the filmstrip, and tool bar as well as essential keyboard shortcuts to navigate Lightroom more rapidly.

The Puppet tool in After Effects easily brings still images to life. This tutorial introduces the Puppet tool and shows how it can be used for realistic animation effects.

Using fundamental features in InDesign, build a print-ready page. Instructor David Blatner demonstrates frames, adding and formatting text, and importing art.