Posts Tagged ‘photoshop’

Manage Projects with GridIron Flow for Adobe Creative Suite

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

[Editor’s note: Their screencast is impressive. Background app that tracks file time usage for billing and how your files are related to each other (what’s placed where) and can search inside documents for layer names, etc). Sounds like a version of Adobe Bridge that’s actually useful!]

Republished from the company’s website.

Be totally organized without organizing anything.

Flow is the world’s first Visual Workflow Manager, built from the ground up to keep creative professionals streamlined and informed. Flow gives you a total understanding of your project, visually and intuitively. In one simple interface, you’ll see all your project files, how they’re related to each other, and where they’re located – on a local drive, on a network volume, even on a DVD you burned a few months ago.

This new birds-eye-view of your project gives you instant access to any file you need—and any version of that file, even if you’ve overwritten it while making changes. Flow even alerts you if you try to modify or delete a file that you shouldn’t. Bottom line: no more lost files, no more accidents, and no more all-nighters. You’ll find yourself delivering everything right the first time—without doing anything different.

John Nack, Principal Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, calls Flow “one of the slickest, most potentially transformative applications I’ve seen in years.” Could it transform the way you work? Check out Flow’s features to find out.

Watch their video or get the demo . . .

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Geographic Imager 2.5 expands format support (MacNN)

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

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[Editor’s note: Avenza’s Photoshop raster mapping solution 2.5 update will allow ECW, MrSID and DEMs to be directly importable into Photoshop. Also new, crop before import to reduce file size and reproject on import to match an existing dataset.]

Republished from MacNN. View Avenza press release.

Avenza has announced an update to Geographic Imager, a Photoshop extension which handles geospatial content from sources such as satellites. Images can be imported, edited and exported using Photoshop, with special options for tasks like automatically tiling images, or geo-referencing them with ground control points. Version 2.5 adds support for DEM formats including USGS/CDED ASCII, and a collection of other standards including ECW, JPEG 2000 and military elevation data.

New features include the ability to crop on import, and thus trim down raster images which are otherwise too unwieldy. Automatic coordinate system transformation can now be performed during mosaic creation; this adjusts images with different coordinate systems and pixel sizes, conforming them to the intended output.

The update should be available in the third quarter of the year, either as a free release for those with maintenance subscriptions, or a $319 upgrade for those without. New licenses start at $699. The extension requires Photoshop CS3 or CS4, as well as 300MB of hard drive space.

PatchPanel: Flash Panels for Multiple CS Applications (Adobe)

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

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Republished from Adobe Developer Connection.

By Dr. Woohoo @ blog.drwoohoo.com.

Follow along with this tutorial to expand on what we created in the previous tutorial, PatchPanel: Integrating your ExtendScript, with the objective of using a framework that embraces running our Flash plug-in in multiple Creative Suite applications (Photoshop and Illustrator). When we are done, our Flash plug-in will work in all three CS applications using code that is appropriate for each host application― keeping in mind that this is necessary due to the differences in the DOMs of each application.

Our Flash plug-in will get the RGB values of the foreground color of the host CS4 application. You will integrate a separate ActionScript file for each host application within the Flash plug-in that you develop within a Flex Builder MXML project using the PatchPanel SWC library as the mechanism for communicating between your SWF and the host application, which will dynamically be defined in this example.

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:

  • Add the Adobe PatchPanel SWC library, cs4.swc, to your Flex Builder Project
  • Import the host CS applications ExtendScript DOM
  • Copy your ExtendScript code from ExtendScript Toolkit to Flex Builder
  • Know what the appropriate color object structure is within the DOM of the three possible host applications
  • Install the SWF and accompanying JSX/JS file so that it is accessible from within Photoshop and Illustrator

Continue reading at Adobe Developer Connection . . .