Taz Tally on Acrobat PDF’s
Check out this really cool tutorial from famed instructor Taz Tally on working with Adobe Acrobat PDF’s:

You can use PDF documents as small, flexible, Internet-safe files for managing documents in a collaborative project that requires input from several people. The commenting, response, and sharing features in Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional provide great flexibility and ease of use. And with PDF, you can view and comment on the exact layout, which isn’t possible in text-based applications.

1 CREATE A SMALL PDF DOCUMENT
Your first two tasks are: To create a small-size, Web-friendly PDF version of your document for review—typically, images with a resolution of 72-ppi with moderate compression will provide image quality good enough for review. (For more on re purposing PDFs, see “Optimizing PDFs,” Layers, Sept/Oct 2008, p. 72.) Then, establish a naming scheme for your PDF document versions, making sure everyone in your group is aware of it. For this example, we’ll use a simple, sequential, numeric naming system that adds “_#” at the end of each successive version—Gallery Promo_1, for example.

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New Layers TV Episode Up
The newest episode of Layers TV is up now, and this week Corey talks about how to paint with words in Adobe Illustrator. I walk you through two different ways to use the pro gallery options from Airtight Interactive in your Lightroom installation. Hey.. the way I see it, Airtight Interactive‘s just saved you from having to do a bunch of flash programming, and you don’t want to tip your hand to a client that it was easier than it was. So.. by paying for the pro license, you show your support of the code AND hide the fact that it was easy. It’s a win win! Also, have to say, I’m really pumped that the episodes of Layers TV are coming in HD now.. makes it so much easier to maximize the screen to follow along, but makes me more self conscious of how well I put makeup on..

Scott Kelby Review of the Topaz Plugin for Photoshop
Today, Scott had a pretty cool review of the Topaz Adjust plugin for Photoshop, and I thought it worth mentioning here. Topaz Adjust provides this high contrast effect that is sought after by (some) photographers. For a while, Lucis was the company to see for this kind of stuff, but with their product running 600 dollars there was bound to be some competition coming up.

Click here to see Scott’s review of Topaz Adjust for Photoshop