AIR and the Creative Suite – The Tech Edge

By RC Concepcion in Layers Blog
Friday June 20, 2008

Happy Friday everyone. Wanted to leave you guys with some extensible goodness. Yesterday, I sat down for a beverage with Photoshop Senior Product Manager John Nack, and we got to talking about all of the cool things that are happening with Photoshop – not in the future, but right now.

For example – take Dr. Woohoo. Here’s a guy that’s using Adobe AIR to create paintings using Adobe Illustrator and 3D symbols. More on this by clicking on this link. Really amazing stuff.

Now, if the programming side gets your fancy – check out Switchboard at the Adobe Labs site. Switchboard lets you leverage Flex Builder to create AIR applications to have 2 way communications with Adobe apps. Think about it! You can create a desktop app that can drive specific things in Photoshop. This is really envelope-pushing stuff, and I encourage you guys to check out John Nack and Dr. Woohoo’s page and see what they are cooking up.

Layers TV Contest Winner
Congratulations to Mark Roberg for winning (and his funny answer) to the difference between Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended. If you are interested in what the two versions of Photoshop CS3 hold, go to the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Comparison site and you can get up to speed on the differences.

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Author: RC Concepcion Rafael Concepcion (RC) is an education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and the co-host of Layers TV - The How To Podcast For Everything Adobe. An Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, RC has over 10 years in the I.T. and ecommerce industries and spends his days developing content for all applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. RC has held training seminars in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and recently combined his photographic and web experience to teach with famed wildlife photographer Moose Peterson at the "You Can Do It Too" workshops in Mammoth, CA and at the Voices That Matter Web Conference in San Francisco, CA. RC also writes columns for Layers and Photoshop User magazines.