Photographers will often tell you that "It's all about the lighting", and this sneak experiments with playing with lighting after the fact. Tweak image lighting based on selected samples, and turn your home movies into blockbuster hits (or at least make them look the part) by adjusting lighting modeled on any movie you choose. It is early prototype technology that we are working on in our development labs. This is not part of Photoshop CC or After Effects CC, but is an example of capabilities that we could include in future years.

SHIFT student participant of the 2013 AYV Film Camp at SHIFT. SHIFT in partnership with Spy Hop Productions hosted a 3-week AYV film camp that culminated in a big-screen exhibition at the Tumbleweeds Film Festival, March 16. We selected 24 students from the ages of 13-19 from an applicant base of over 50. These teens produced six short films, typically in teams of three in three categories: music video, traditional animation and documentary.

Take a quick look at Julieanne's favorite 6 features in Photoshop CS6 including improved processing in Adobe Camera Raw, the intuitive new Blur Gallery, time-saving type styles, re-engineered Shape layers, powerful video editing tools, and the redesigned Crop tool, and auto-select interpolation.

Download Photoshop CS6 Beta from Adobe Labs to try it out.

Watch Keith demonstrate how to use the new Flash Builder plugin for SAP Netweaver Gateway to associate data within two datagrids, binding data from an SAP service, then retrieving details of a selected item in the first datagrid and displaying it in a second datagrid.

Learn how to use the Draw Behind and Draw Inside drawing modes to efficiently achieve various layer effects in Illustrator CS5.

The Blob Brush and Eraser tools perform pathfinder operations behind the scenes as you draw. Draw over existing brush strokes with the Blob Brush to merge the strokes. Select objects before drawing with the Eraser tool to erase only selected areas.

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.

Use the Selection tool to grab objects or even objects within objects, such as text in a text frame or images within an image frame. Learn how to click through a grouped object to an object behind.