http://www.mmug-ireland.org Multimedia Users Group of Ireland Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:05:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We now have a new website hosted by Adobe: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/8375272868/summary In order to join this group you'll need to get an Adobe Id and login. It's free and easy to get an ID juyst follow the link below. When you login at Adobe you can access a wide array of resources not ... http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2009/02/10/new-adobe-groups-website/ This looks huge if you ask me. Adobe's new product called Alchemy (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/) allows developer to easily (if not automatically) convert C and C++ code into working Action Script 3 code. From the demo's I have seen so far this looks very promising. To think most windows applications are built ... http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/12/02/adobe-alchemy-converts-c-and-c-code-for-flash/ Straight from Adobe MAX in Milan 2008. Adobe Thermo is not called Adobe Catalyst and you can find out more here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/ It looks amazing. It allows designers to take their artwork from Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and more and add interactivity, animation and connectivity to them. For skinning a new Flex ... http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/12/02/adobe-thermo-is-now-adobe-catalyst/ I am writing this post from Adobe MAX in Milan. So far I am very impressed. I have been able to experience the new multi-touch display system which I really really want but will have to wait until I win the lotto I guess. I will probably be adding some information ... http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/12/01/adobe-max-2008-in-milan-fireworks-session/ We had retro tutorials and now we have grunge tutorials for all you Photoshop fans. I know I will be using some of these in the near future. If you find any interesting news or links please send them on to me and I will share them. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/28/40-beautiful-grunge-photoshop-tutorials/ http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/10/29/40-beautiful-grunge-photoshop-tutorials/ If you have not been to the Adobe Acrobat site in a while I strongly suggest you go back now and take a look. Adobe has really beefed up the Acrobat site and are even giving away free accounts to your very own Acrobat Connect. All you need to do ... http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/10/15/adobe-acrobat-connect/ We all love Photoshop. It's an Adobe staple. It was the first Adobe product I learned and is probably the one most people use. Well... until they bought Macromedia but either way, we love Photoshop. Here is a nice round-up of some Retro and Vintage tutorials that will put your ... http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/10/15/30-beautiful-retro-vintage-photoshop-tutorials/ Well so what is new in CS4? I could write all day and still not be able to cover it all so let's let the experts to this: http://www.lynda.com/CS4U/ You need to login to Lynda.com to see all the video but you can see the important ones without logging in. This is a link ... http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/10/15/whats-new-in-cs4/ Our last meeting was on Monday October 13th. We went over all the new features of Adobe CS4. Including Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver and a few others. We also set up and tried out our new Acrobat Connect Pro account which will allow us to broadcast and record our meetings to ... http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/10/15/meeting-notes/ I just stumbled across this today and thought i'd share. It's a wonderful list of resources for anyone who uses or wants to us Flex from Shawn the Flex guy. Find the link below: http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/2008/05/24/36-new-cool-flex-and-as3-tools-libraries-and-components/ http://www.mmug-ireland.org/2008/05/27/list-of-31-flex-apis-libraries-components-and-tools/