Ben Forta's Blog, page 19

Goodbye Flash, Hello Animate

For nearly two decades, Flash Professional has been the standard for producing rich animations on the web. Because of the emergence of HTML5 and demand for animations that leverage web standards, we completely rewrote the tool over the past few years to incorporate native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. To more accurately represent its position as the premier animation tool for the web and beyond, Flash Professional will be renamed Adobe Animate CC, starting with the next release in early 2016. More details over on the Flash Pro blog.

Creative Jam Online

I'm a huge fan of our Creative Jam events, if you've yet to attend one you really should make every effort to do so. They are fun, engaging, informative, and oh so inspiring. On December 1st we have sessions going on in London, New York, and Los Angeles. If you can't attend any of the events in person we'll be broadcasting them on Twitch. And for the first time, we are also hosting an online Creative Jam, we'll unveil the theme on December 1 and you'll have 24 hours to submit your artwork for prizes and serious bragging rights. Details are all posted online.

Adobe Voice For iPhone Now In Beta

Love Adobe Voice on your iPad? Longing to have all that storytelling goodness on your iPhone, too? Well, we're now testing Voice for iPhone, and if you'd like to give it a try, you can sign up here

Slate 1.2.2 Released

Minor Adobe Slate update today, this one is a collection of general improvements and bug fixes, including a fix for the problem which caused sync to fail on cellular connections.

ColdFusion 10 And 11 Updated

The ColdFusion team has released ColdFusion 11 Update 7 and ColdFusion 10 Update 18 for Windows and OSX. These updates include a Tomcat upgrade and also address a potential vulnerability (see security bulletin APSB15-29) and bug fixes related to connector, database, language, caching and more.

Black Friday Creative Cloud Special

Black Friday special. Between now and November 27th you can save 20% off Creative Cloud pricing.

HTML5 Canvas Explained

The Dreamweaver blog has been doing a great job of explaining and demystifying HTML5 technologies and concepts. Their latest post, by Lucas Bebber, is a great Introduction to Canvas.

Creating The Lego Effect In Photoshop

Legofy is a python program that takes a static image or gif and makes it so that it looks as if it was built out of LEGO. It's a pretty cool effect, and Tony Harmer has posted a short article on how to achieve the same look with images and video.

Photoshop Sketch Updated

Photoshop Sketch has been updated with support for iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, split view, and more. Grab the update from App Store now.

Adobe Slate Wins Tabby Award

The 2015 Tabby Awards have been announced, and Adobe Slate has won for best Marketing and Presentation tool on iPad. Adobe Comp also won an award for Document & Content Creation and editing in iPad.