I Am Your Humble Adobe Employee

AJ Wood now works for Adobe Systems

Good afternoon dear readers. If you follow me on Twitter or watch my Facebook page then you probably saw my announcement yesterday that I’ve joined Adobe as a full-time employee. As an employee I will be relinquishing my role as an Adobe Community Professional. It’s been an honor to serve as your community resource. I’m [...]

Adobe Announces Creative Suite 6 & Top Five Facts About Creative Cloud

Adobe CS6 Launch Event

The CS6 web-page went live at midnight. Later today Adobe will formerly introduce the Creative Suite 6 & the Creative Cloud service. If you have Internet access you can watch the CS6 launch event at 12PM CDT. One of the leading topics leading up to this announcement has been the addition of subscription model pricing [...]

Adobe’s Lightroom 4 Hot Issues List

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Last week I made a quick post regarding a bug in Lightroom 4 that effects point curves in Develop module. A blog post with a list of current LR4 issues was released yesterday on Adobe’s Lightroom Journal. In addition to listing known bugs, the Adobe team also provides links where you can give feedback, and stay [...]

Critical Bug Updating Lightroom 3 Catalogs to Lightroom 4

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

Adobe released Lightroom 4 this week to the cheers of many photographers. I wanted to bring to your attention a VERY CRITICAL bug that will impact your Lightroom 3 Catalogs. Thank you to David Swinney for bringing this to my attention via my Facebook page. It appears that if you update a Lightroom 3 catalog [...]

Upcoming Adobe Webinars – Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Photoshop 3x5 Webinar

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know about some great Adobe webinars coming up in the spring. Imagine having not one but FIVE Adobe professionals on hand to answer your questions. Learn some cool tips & tricks you can use right away in Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign. I’ve been invited by Pariah Burke to [...]

Interview on NBC Action News, Kansas City for D2WC

Today kicks off the pre-con workshops for D2WC, and I joined Kevin Stohlmeyer for a quick interview with the local Kansas City NBC affiliate. Dallas/Fort Worth are you listening? Let’s get our creative community fired up!!! As much as I enjoy being on the road, it will be great to get home to the family [...]

Top Five Reasons to Attend D2W 2011

Good morning everyone! The conference season is upon us. Less than ten days away is the D2W Conference in Kansas City, MO scheduled July 14-16. This annual event has quickly become a sought after source of designer & developer workflow goodness. That being said, here are the Top Five Reasons to attend D2W: InDesign to [...]

REVIEW: Cyberlink PhotoDirector 2011 vs Adobe Lightroom 3

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Last month over 75,000 people participated in the beta program for Cyberlink’s new photo editing tool PhotoDirector 2011. I had the opportunity to take a look at the program, and compare it to existing programs, i.e., Adobe Lightroom 3 & Apple Aperture 3. Many initial reviews have compared PhotoDirector to Lightroom, and you cannot deny [...]