Adobe Captivate 5.5 publish direct to YouTube

The upgrade to Adobe Captivate 5.5 is quite discreet but one of the features we find popular on Captivate courses is the ability to publish direct to YouTube. 

For example take a look at the toolbar at the top of the Adobe Captivate window to find the Publish to YouTube button

OR

Go to the File menu where you will see a Publish to YouTube menu

Don’t forget we deliver Adobe Captivate courses across the Midlands, including Birmingham, Leicester, Rugby, Nottingham, Derby & also travel North West and North East

Photoshop HDR Shots

In a recent Photoshop Course we were specifically requested to spend time working with HDR (High Dynamic Range).  The Photoshop HDR technique produced some wonderful imagery which the company kept for practical use.

Some examples of Photoshop HDR shots can be seen here at HDRSpotting .  We cover HDR techniques on our Photoshop courses as one of our mix and match options; it just needs to be requested as part of the day.

Illustrator Artwork

Was just ambling round the net, as you do, looking at Illustrator artwork and came across this stuff.  First thing you’re going to say when you look at it is "Wow that looks cool but I couldn’t do that".  People say that all the time, in actual fact you’d be very surprised.

Illustrator Art Examples

Its not as difficult as it looks and once you learn Illustrator tools such as Pen and Auto-Trace you’ll be surprised at how professional your own digital artwork will look.  

By taking a simple line art drawing and applying a number of brushes, pen effects and colour you really would be surprised at how effective the digital artwork will look.

Take a look at the Illustrator Introduction Course and / or the Illustrator Advanced Course any elements can be mixed and matched for your own digital objectives.

Defining ePublishing  – ePublishing training?

ePublishing could be broken into three basic seperate areas. ePub is one and comes tucked away inside Adobe InDesign.  It is in actual fact is a very simple format that displays documents (ebooks being a great example) on electronic devices such as Kindles, android phones, iPads etc.  The text flows continually and you can format it by typeface, colour etc but page breaks for example are controlled by the ebook reader which defines the epub file display and orientation.  Images, of course appear in the flowing text and iBooks for example allow video.  Links and Table of Contents are also used but the design of epubs is a simple one.

Another ePublishing option is Adobe .PDF which is well established and known to all universal applications and .PDF readers.  .PDF’s allow you the freedom to insert movies, audio and animation files into .PDF ePublishing documents but .PDF is a relatively linear approach.

The third option is rich media and the one that most people picture when the word ePublishing crops up.  Rich media documents are those with the fancy swipes and scrolling effects…………..stunning on ebooks and emagazines.  These tend to consist of a series of HTML elements or documents (InDesign) and then brought together as one document. 

We provide ePublishing training in all the formats mentioned above and are happy to mix and match different elements and to discuss exactly what your needs are and what is the best ePublishing training approach to take.

Illustrator – Join 2 EndPoints Shortcut Key

Often joining 2 endpoints on an Illustrator path can be a painful process to say the least.  This Illustrator shortcut should help.

In Illustrator select 2 endpoints of a path using Illustrators white arrow then simply press the Command + J or Control + J to join the paths together.

This is particularly useful when doing more complex intricate paths such as custom logo or typography.