...Adobe Photoshop A leading paint program from Adobe Systems, Inc. For many years, Photoshop has been the model against which other paint programs are compared. Initially, it ran only on Macintosh systems, which was a strong selling point for Macs, especially among graphic artists. Today, Photoshop runs on both Macs and Windows PCs. Basic Components of Adobe Photoshop Menu Bar Option Bar Tool Bar Drawing Canvass Palettes Different Tools in Adobe Photoshop Move Tool The move tool allows you to move objects. You can select layers with it, so if each of your objects is on a separate layer, this tool will move those objects just by clicking on them and dragging. Measure Tool Lets you measure length, width, angle and location of areas in your image. If you scan something in a little crookedly, use this tool to measure the angle and then use "rotate canvas" to correct the rotation by the exact amount. To measure, choose the measure tool from the tool box. (It looks like a little ruler). Draw a line with it, and look at the info palette to see the angle, width, length and coordinates of your line. Magnetic Lasso For shapes that contrast with the background, this tool will snap to the edge when making a selection. Double click on the magnetic lasso icon to open the dialog box. You can set the strength of the "magnet" by entering values in the dialog box. Frequency is the rate at which the lasso will fasten points. Enter a rate between 0 and 100. Lasso width...
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...What is Flash? Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications" ("RIAs"). Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an object-oriented language called ActionScript and supports automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL). Flex Adobe Flex is a software development kit (SDK) released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. Flex applications can be written using Adobe Flash Builder or by using the freely available Flex compiler from Adobe. In February 2008, Adobe released the Flex 3 SDK under the open source Mozilla Public License and so Flex applications can be developed using any standard IDE, for example Eclipse. On November 17th, 2011, Adobe officially open-sourced Flex and donated it to the Apache Software Foundation. Flex SDK includes the Flex framework (also known as the Flex class library), Flex command-line compilers, the Flex debugger, the ASDoc utility, and the debugger version of Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe® AIR® runtimes...
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...as a de facto standard? How did Adobe make money from Postscript, despite its being an “open” standard? Through the voluntary spin off of two Xerox scientists, John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Adobe System Incorporated was founded and the Adobe’s first product was launched with an important revolution in the whole market. PostScript, in fact, became in a really short time the standard for printing in the graphic arts and publishing industries with a product extremely successful and diffused. Its success can surely be explained with the lack of competition for the novelty grade and the intrinsic characteristics of the product. In this way Adobe possessed a competitive edge due to its first mover strategy and had the possibility to change the game rules through his behavior. In order to establish PostScript as the standard of the market, Adobe decided to make the product open and freely available because it would have been impossible to avoid or to control the imitation of the product through the only use of patents or trademarks. Even if an open standard increases the competition and the imitation, the Adobe’s strategy was focused on the strict implementation of the product through its own competencies, the image of the brand and a sort of “tacit knowledge” about the product. PostScript, such as the other Adobe products, was based on “a product as a system”, that is a product who is the result of a strategic alliance of four firms: Adobe, Apple, Aldus and Linotype. In...
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...Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro Extended software Welcome to the Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended ReadMe, which contains essential information on the product. For Adobe Acrobat 9 product support information see http://www.adobe.com/go/acrobat_support For information about Adobe LiveCycle Designer, a forms authoring application installed with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, see the ReadMe file located in the Designer 8.2/Documentation/EN folder. Designer is installed in the Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat9.0/Designer 8.2 folder. System Requirements Acrobat 9 Pro Extended for Windows® requires the following: · 1.3 Gigahertz processor or higher · Microsoft® Windows® XP Microsoft® Windows® XP Home, Professional, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2 or 3 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Server® 2003 (with Service Pack 2 for 64-bit); or Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with or without Service Pack 1 (32-bit and 64-bit) · MS Hot Fix KB-930627: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930627 is required for Microsoft® Windows® XP Home, Professional, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2 (64-bit); Windows Server® 2003 (with Service Pack 2 for 64-bit); or Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise without Service Pack 1 (64-bit) · 512 MB of installed RAM · 2.4 GB of available hard disk (Note: The installer creates temporary files during installation so the actual...
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...Adobe Systems SYSM6332- summer 2015 Discussion Case 1 David Reboredo Daniel Torres Background: * Adobe Systems was founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. Initially the company was operating only in the graphics and publishing market. First they introduced PostScript as a desktop publishing application, followed by Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, all of which turned out to be exceptionally successful. The next step was introducing Acrobat and the PDF document format, which also quickly became an industry standard. * In the subsequent years Adobe added to its product mix successful products like PageMaker, After Effects and GoLive by acquisition. Despite all these achievements, the company experienced substantial difficulties during 1998. Important product delivery date was missed, sales declined and the stock price plummeted encouraging a takeover attempt by one of their direct competitors, Quark, Inc. * Bruce Chizen, who was appointed as a CEO later in 2000, managed to stabilize the situation. This was not an easy task, as most of Adobe's executive management left the company while he had to lead a drastic restructuring of the business. Adobe had to carry out a major reform in order to be more profitable. Case Overview: * This case describes the early success Adobe had establishing Postscript as the preferred software application for printing documents. The case describes the strategy Adobe set in motion to secure script position as the...
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...Technology Analysis Paper: Adobe Creative Cloud University of Denver IT Strategies HR Hegnauer November 9, 2015 Introduction As the industry standard for anything related to digital imaging, layout, or design, the software programs from Adobe Systems Incorporated have lead the way for over three decades. Now headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe employs roughly 12,500 people nation wide, had sales of $4.22 billion in 2014, and was ranked #74 by Forbes on their list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Forbes, 2015). Adobe is most famous for its program Photoshop, which helps it to drive industries in three major business segments: “Digital Media, Digital Marketing, and Print & Publishing” (Forbes, 2015). In the following paper, I will focus on the core Adobe programs for the print and publishing industry, which include Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. Photoshop. Business and investing author and scholar, Peter F. Drucker said, “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” (Shore, 2014). In 1987, Thomas Knoll was an engineering PhD student the University of Michigan and wanted to process his photographs on his newly purchased Apple Macintosh Plus to help him with his PhD work. Unfortunately, his Mac computer was unable to translate his images into a grey-scale display, and so, needing something new, Knoll went to work on making something new. As a software engineer, Knoll wrote a program he called Display to properly render...
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...Adobe Creative Suite Technical Paper I will choose to write my paper of Adobe Creative Suite. I don’t have time to talk about them all so I will talk about the following: Dreamweaver Photoshop Acrobat Illustrator Fireworks Application Name: Adobe Creative Suite Category: Series of software suites by Adobe Systems Purpose: “Adobe Creative Suite (CS) was a series of software suites of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made or acquired by Adobe Systems. The collections consisted of various groupings of Adobe's applications (e.g., Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects) based on various technologies (e.g., PostScript, PDF, Flash) and organized by industry. The last version, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6), was launched at a release event April 23, 2012, and released on May 7, 2012.[1] On May 6, 2013 Adobe announced that CS6 would be the last version of the Creative Suite,[2][3][4] and that future versions of their creative software would only be available via their Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service. Adobe also announced that it would continue to support CS6 for OS compatibility and would provide bug fixes and security updates as necessary.[5] The Creative Suite packages were pulled from Adobe's online store,[6] but still remain available via a section of their website.[7].”(Source 6) Opinion: I really enjoy using Dreamweaver, it helps speed up web development, and helps to keep sites organized....
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...Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended – Essentials Assessment Answer Key Chapter 01: The Big Picture 1. What are the three primaries used to create all of the possible color combinations? 2. What does a lossy file format accomplish? 3. How does an imageʼs pixels affect file size? Chapter 02: Setting Up Like a Pro 1. What tool can we use to precisely straighten an image along a horizontal or vertical edge? 2. How do you undock a tab group into separate panels? 3. What are keyboard shortcuts and how can you modify them? Chapter 03: Global Editing 1. How does an on-image adjustment tool work? 2. How do you constrain a crop to a specific proportion? 3. What is a histogram? Chapter 04: Making Selections 1. Name two methods for constraining a selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool to a square. 2. What modifier key do you press to temporarily set the Quick Selection tool to subtract mode? 3. In which panel do you store and retrieve saved selections? Chapter 05: Non-Destructive Editing 1. What benefits do adjustment layers offer? 2. What does painting with black on a layer mask accomplish? 3. What is a snapshot? Chapter 06: The Fixer-Upper 1. What advantage does the Healing Brush offer compared to the Clone Stamp tool? 2. What is image noise and what causes it? 3. What does activating the Aligned checkbox accomplish in the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools? Chapter 07: Type Design 1. How do you add a text box? 2. How does...
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...Home Sign Up! Browse Community Submit All Art Craft Food Games Green Home Kids Life Music Offbeat Outdoors Pets Photo Ride Science Tech DIY Infrared transmitter for iPhone, iPod by alberto_canvas on July 20, 2010 Table of Contents DIY Infrared transmitter for iPhone, iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intro: DIY Infrared transmitter for iPhone, iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step 1: Prepare the headphone jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step 2: Attach infrared LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step 3: Tape the wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Related Instructables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...User Manual - Pencil 0.4.3b by P. Naidon - July 21st 2007 (to be completed) Overview A Pencil document is organized in layers. There are currently four types of layers: bitmap image, vector image, sound and camera. The Time Line window at the bottom of the screen shows the existing layers. By default, a new document contains a bitmap layer and a vector layer on top of it, but you can add and delete layers as you wish (using either the or buttons next to “Layers”, or the menu Layer). The names of the layers can be changed to represent what you've put in each by double-clicking on the name of the layer in the timeline. A window will pop up, allowing you to edit the layer's name. Click OK when you have changed it to the name you want and the new name will appear in the timeline. Each layer has a track which enables you to change it as a function of time. This is done by inserting keys (the little gray rectangles) at certain frames in the track. Each key contains information about what the layer should show or produce at the frame where the key is located. To add or delete keys at a particular frame in a layer track, use the or buttons next to “Keys” (shortcut: type “return” to create a new frame). For image layers (ie bitmap and vector), each key corresponds to a different image. The sequence of these images creates an animation. The current frame is indicated by the red bar and can be changed by moving the red bar to scrub through your animation (or...
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...Max Altschuler ENVD 3115 Professor Marcel S. de Lange December 8, 2013 Earthship Design, Materials, and Sustainability Earthship design is a movement initiated by Michael Reynolds. Earthship Biotecture is a method of architecture and design that incorporates recycled materials, earthen materials, and renewable energy sources into a sustainable and self-sufficient home. The purpose of this according to Michael Reynolds it to achieve energy independence, sustainable housing, and relieve the burdens of stress on the environment from conventional building methods while keeping cost minimal. Utilizing waste and earthen materials, Michael was able to construct comfortable living, beautiful architectural design, and self-sufficiency with sustainable technologies. In achieving low cost construction methods, as little as $20 a square foot, a new way of living can be imagined in which utilities, mortgages, and sustenance cost are reduced. This reduction in expenses provide for the availability of greater opportunities due to decreased economic constraints, but furthermore provides a cost effective and sustainable method for supplying homes for those stricken with poverty. The purpose of this writing is to discus some of the materials and methods required and the various components that work together to create a dynamic self-sufficient home. The first concept discussed is the principle of thermal mass to maintain a constant temperature. Houses are built with south facing...
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...“UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO” HISTORIA DE LA ARQUITECTURA III PERIODO NEOLITICO BRIGITTE GUAJÁN ESTEFY ARIAS JAVIER CACHIGUANGO PERIODO NEOLITICO Introducción * Hace aproximadamente 10.000 años, comenzó la revolución neolítica. * La nueva-piedra (neo-lithos) o piedra pulimentada la obtenían frotando la roca. * Recordemos que la antigua-piedra (paleo-lithos) o piedra tallada la obtenían golpeando la roca. * El periodo neolítico aparece cuando los grupos humanos se establecen y dejan de ser nómadas. * Se da la invención de la “agricultura” y la “ganadería”. * De esta época son también las primeras cucharas, que no se usaban para comer sino para mezclar los alimentos en cocción. * Sedentarismo El pasaje del nomadismo al sedentarismo fue gradual. La época de las glaciaciones había concluido y la temperatura había aumentado, pero como consecuencia del intenso frío de la época anterior muchas especies de animales y vegetales se habían extinguido, y hubo que hallar nuevas formas de supervivencia. Agricultura y Ganadería Por el método de la observación, pudieron apreciar, que la circunstancial caída de una semilla en la tierra hacía brotar de ella una planta, a veces, por la costumbre de arrojar granos silvestres, como ofrendas a sus muertos. Así comenzaron a sembrar, siendo las primeras zonas, Asia y África, y los primeros cultivos, los cereales, sobre todo, el trigo, la cebada y el mijo. El centeno y la avena, fueron considerados...
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...heating and cooling May have high probability to cause straw bales damaged in moist areas Evalutions Adobe bricks Consists of types of mud bricks with addition of organic materials Low-cost material with high durability Meet the demand of maintaining stable structural in Zambia Concrete mixtures Adding silica fume and polypropylene shore fibers Improves the durability of shelters and reduces maintenance required Getting a lower opportunity to shrink or crack High cost of construction. Design Adobe Bricks Demonstration of the process to create the brick. Source: http://www.adobebuilding.com/Natural%20Building/Natural%20Building/cob.html Wooden Form Sample. Source: . Adobe Bricks dried and ready for use Common dimensions of each type of brick. Source: http://www.solidearth.co.nz/earth-building-products-adobe.php Source: http://www.rootsimple.com/2011/11/mud-for-the-people-building-an-adobe-garden-wall/ Design – Simple, Inexpensive and Comfortable 50 square meters 2 Bedrooms 1 Bathroom 1 Living room with Kitchen In total 2300 bricks Validation Plan Culture changes – workshop Low impact on environment Thermal mass Preventing shrinking Flexible material – cutting bricks Low cost - self build Fireproof Implementation Plan Stage Workshop Construction of Adobe Bricks Construction of a house made...
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...A. What is Adobe Connect * Adobe Connect is a collaboration tool that includes video conferencing, application sharing, live polling, chat, whiteboards, and power point presentations with small or large groups by only connecting to a website on your computer. * Using Adobe Connect, you and other meeting attendees can join a live, on-line meeting from anywhere in the world, as long as you have a browser, Flash Player plug-in, and an Internet connection. A meeting can have as few as two or as many as several hundred attendees. Benefits of using Adobe Connect * Save real money by reducing expensive travel and training costs at the same time as improving productivity and the learning experience. * Increase student enrollment rates * Being able to record lectures for on demand playback. Example would be watching a past lecture to help study for test. Companies that use Adobe Connect * Military, Colleges, Hospital even the president of the United states Reach out to colleagues around the world and across platforms Adobe® Connect™ software eliminates technical barriers between meeting participants. Not only is it designed to work on a variety of platforms, it also leverages the power of Adobe Flash® Player software. With Flash Player already installed on over 98% of Internet-connected PCs, users can instantly access online meetings, virtual classrooms, and presentations without cumbersome downloads and IT support. And since Adobe Connect is engineered...
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...ADOBE® READER® XI Help and tutorials Reader Help Print PDFs Print button missing? Common printing tasks Why can’t I print my document? Simulate overprinting of inks Print button missing? To the top If you can't see the Print and Cancel buttons, your monitor is set to a low screen resolution. Reader wasn't designed for low-resolution displays (the minimum recommended is 1024 x 576). However, you can work around this limitation. Do any of the following to print your document: Press Enter or Return. If a scroll bar appears on the right of the dialog box, drag the slider down to access the buttons. (Windows) On some monitors, the Windows taskbar covers the Print button. You can hide the taskbar so it appears only when you mouse to the very bottom of the screen. Right-click the taskbar and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog box, select Auto-hide the Taskbar, then click OK. Set the Taskbar properties to hide the taskbar so you can select the Print button Common printing tasks Print on both sides To the top You can print double-sided if your printer supports that feature. The printer driver controls the options, not Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Check your printer documentation to see what features your printer supports. (Double-sided printing is also called duplex, back to back, front and back, or two-sided printing.) In the Print dialog box, enable Print on both sides of paper, and choose an edge to Flip. Print in black and white ...
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