August 10, 2007
Kuler API Now Available
Kuler, the Flex-based Adobe web app for exploring color space, has become quite the thriving nexus for colorists across the ether, allowing one to experiment quickly with color themes and share them with equal ease amongst the design community. Well, good news for mashup artists worldwide- you can now access a simple RESTful API to get Kuler color themes into your own application/mashup. Here's an example to get the wheels turning. Ready? You can get all the details over at Adobe Labs. Mash away!
Update: I was recently informed that the Kuler interface was actually built in Flash- not Flex. Apologies for the mixup!
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January 09, 2006
Lightroom
You'd have to be sleeping under a rock to not catch the release of the Adobe Lightroom Public Beta on Adobe Labs (formerly Macromedia Labs) today- it certainly made the rounds today, both on the MacWorld conference homepage as well as a wanton Slashdotting this afternoon. Although I'm a bit remiss in not posting sooner, it's been fun to watch all the discussions around Lightroom pop up today across the etner.
I'm personally excited to see Lightroom get out to the world, as not only is it an application I've been using with much excitement for a few weeks now in my own photographic excursions, but two old MetaCreations colleagues (George Jardine and Phil Clevenger) are part of my newly-extended Adobe family, on the Lightroom product team. If you were familiar with the otherwordly MetaCreations product interfaces, Phil performed much of the heavy lifting involved with visual front-ends such as Bryce, Soap and Kai's Power Tools. George Jardine (now the pro photography evangelist at Adobe) worked for a short period with the MetaCreations Painter team back in '99 as well, so for me the post-acquisition period is like being beamed back to my old mothership, honestly. ;-)
So, if you've got a digital camera- particularly a RAW-savvy digital SLR, get cracking on the Lightroom Beta download and let us know what you think! There are online forums specifically for your Lightroom feedback, and we're looking forward to seeing what you can do with this new 'gem in the not-so-rough'.
Enjoy!
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May 25, 2005
Alan Musselman hits the blogosphere
Our resident Fireworks guru Alan Musselman just got his official weblog up and running- definitely one to watch if you're a Studio developer (although he may not be in the aggregators just yet). Alan's a veritable wellspring of tips/tricks/hints/techniques for Fireworks- so if you're a hardcore FW user this is definitely one to add to your blogroll, and if FW mostly sits dormant on your hard drive- well... bookmark his 'blog anyway, as he'll provide plenty 'o reasons to put those idle bits to use. ;)
Welcome , Alan!
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May 09, 2005
Fontographer News
A bit of breaking news for old-school Fontographer users: Fontlab, LTD is now the exclusive distributor of Macromedia Fontographer. You can read more details on this directly from Fontlab at the link below, including a statement on their plans for future Fontographer development on XP/OSX platforms (yes, you heard right!!):
Fontlab, LTD- http://www.fontlab.com/
Typography and font freaks, you may commence rejoicing now. :)
Posted by sfegette at 04:06 PM | Comments (3)
March 07, 2005
Giant Steps - Flash Style
Jazz fan? Flash fan? Both? Then check out "Giant Steps" by Michal Levy, a very, very sweet Flash 3D short film set to the classic John Coltrane tune of the same name. Nice.
Posted by sfegette at 12:36 PM | Comments (3)
January 28, 2005
Audi USA and Flash Video
While on the subject of cool Flash Video sites, have you visited auto manufacturer Audi's official US site lately? Great example of integrated Flash video in action... check it out.
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