Design Center editor community blogs

My co-editor, Luanne Seymour, and I recently created blogs in order to highlight some of the great tutorials we find around the web, and to hear from the community. When we come across tutorials on Adobe’s products that are interesting and useful, we will discuss those tutorials on our blog. Likewise with inspirational or interesting artwork – we’ll blog to let you know about the things that interest us the most.

We also created these blogs so we can hear from you in the comments! We’d love to hear what tutorials you find useful, what kinds of content you’re looking for, what kind of techniques you can’t find, or the kind of tutorial or topic want to see more of. And if you know of a tutorial we should be talking about (even your own), leave a comment about it.

Luanne and I each run a blog on our respective products to highlight great work from the Adobe community. Let’s take a look at them.

Design. Illustration. Photography

Luanne started an excellent blog that covers the world of design, illustration, and photography. If you use Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign or Acrobat, you’ll definitely want to visit her blog regularly.

Figure 1. Want to find useful tutorials on design and photography? Visit Luanne’s blog to keep up to date on the latest trends and techniques.

Web and Video

If you’re into the digital video and audio products, and/or the web products, you’ll want to check out my blog. I highlight some of the great tutorials coming from the community on Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, After Effects, Premiere, Soundbooth, Encore, and Device Central. If you’re writing tutorials on these products, I want to hear from you (your likes, dislikes, hopes, dreams, aspirations…).

Figure 2. If you can’t drag yourself away from web design and digital video and need to keep learning more, then you’ll want to check out my blog.

And naturally – our design and layout is subject to change! If our blog doesn’t match the figures above, don’t fret. We just got tired of staring at the same layout.

Let us know about your work

Do you have links to great tutorials and articles on web and video topics that use Adobe’s products? Do you have some great photography, motion design, illustration, animations, web site designs, or video work created using Adobe’s products that you’d like to share with the community and us? Let Luanne and I know on our blogs! We might bookmark your work on our adobe del.icio.us account, talk about it on our blogs, or even consider your work for our gallery or tutorial sections on the Design Center.

For now, please send us links to your work on our blogs. We will check out all of your links and comments, and we will let you know if we think your work is a good fit for the Design Center.

If you want to send us a link about Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, or Lightroom, visit Luanne’s blog. If you want to send a link about Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Device Central, After Effects, Premiere, Soundbooth, or Encore, visit my Web and Video blog.

Note: We don’t always send personal responses to every message, but we do read each and every one of them and appreciate your feedback, participation, and links.

Subscribe to our feeds

Keep up to date with our blogs! If you have an RSS or news feed reader installed, you can subscribe to our blog feeds, and aggregate all of our new posts on your computer. For example, you can subscribe to the following URLs in your RSS feed reader:

• Luanne’s Design Illustration Photography blog: http://luanneseymour.wordpress.com/feed/
• Jen’s Web and Video blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WebAndVideo

You can also subscribe to individual category feeds on either of our blogs. To do so, click a category on either blog, and add /feed/ to the end of the URL. For example, for the Flash category on my blog (http://www.webvideoblogger.com/category/flash/) you can subscribe to the feed for just that category using this URL: http://www.webvideoblogger.com/category/flash/feed/.

Note: Find out how to configure Adobe Bridge as an RSS News Reader. See http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/rss.html.

RSS readers for Windows and Mac OS

There are numerous free or inexpensive RSS readers available for Windows and Mac OS. These tools, either web applications or software you install, make it easy to read your RSS news feeds. The following list includes only a few of the options available.

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