My friends at CreativePro Magazine asked me to summarize the major Adobe Creative Cloud upgrades announced at the Adobe MAX conference in October 2023. You’ll find my annual analysis in the article What’s New in Creative Cloud 2024/Magic in the Machine, published in the November 2023 issue.
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You might already be using Apple iPad apps for creative and production work—but maybe that’s as far as you go. When you turn to your computer to use desktop applications, your iPad becomes a silent black rectangle on your desk. It doesn’t have to! You can put it to work as a valuable studio sidekick, from being a control surface for desktop apps to automating lights and cameras for live video. I’ll show you how in my article in the September 2023 issue of CreativePro Magazine. For links and details, read on…
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My friends at CreativePro Magazine (formerly InDesign Magazine) asked me to comment on the major Adobe Creative Cloud announcements and software upgrades at the Adobe MAX conference in October 2021. I wrote up my thoughts in the article Adobe MAX 2021: Larger Forces at Work for the December 2021 issue. Some new features can seem puzzling…why is it a priority to create a web browser version of Photoshop, over other potential new features? After summarizing upgrades to individual applications, I talk about some of the higher-level goals at Adobe that make it easier to understand those changes across the entire Creative Cloud suite.
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The cover story for the September 2020 issue of InDesign Magazine is my article InDesign MVPs: Most Valuable Plug-Ins. InDesign Magazine asked me to highlight the winners of a survey where they asked InDesign experts about their favorite plug-ins, scripts, and other third-party tools for Adobe InDesign. How do these add-ons extend what’s possible with InDesign?
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InDesign Magazine has published my article Introducing Share for Review, for the July 2020 issue. I talk about the new Share for Review collaborative commenting feature, the latest in a long line of InDesign review workflows. What’s new or different about it?
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