Jay Robinson

Tag: adobe

  • Needed in Photoshop: proportional leading/line height as in CSS

    Needed in Photoshop: proportional leading/line height as in CSSIt’s always bothered me that I cannot effortlessly create proportional line height in Photoshop. The leading widget in the Character panel should use a multiplier of the font size—as in InDesign or CSS. For example, I could set my text to 24px and the leading to a…

  • CSS3 Ads Versus Flash Ads Arne Bech replicated three Flash banner ads using CSS3 animations. Have a look at the demo page and see if you can tell which is which. Via Sencha

  • Smokescreen: a Flash player written in Javascript

    Smokescreen: a Flash player written in JavascriptMarco Arment: Via Jim Ray: The Strongbad demo will make you a believer. This thing reads the actual SWF binary and creates native, browser based executions. Explanation from Simon Willison: Chris Smoak’s Smokescreen, “a Flash player written in JavaScript”, is an incredible piece of work. It runs entirely in…

  • Jacob Bijani: I had no idea this existed in Photoshop. It takes a list of files or folders and places each one on it’s own layer in a new document. I’ve been looking for something like this.

  • I ♥ John Nack

    I ♥ John NackPhotoshop may have its problems, but it’s an incredibly powerful and useful application that many people use to produce tons of content (and produce dollars in their bank accounts). John Nack, part of the Adobe Photoshop team, is always level-headed and insightful.

  • Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash

    Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

  • H.264 hardware decoding in Mac OS X

    H.264 hardware decoding in Mac OS X ArsTechnica recently asked Adobe if we would use the recently added video acceleration API in Mac OS X 10.6.3. The answer was yes and today we are making it available as a beta version…

  • Photoshop Secret Shortcuts

    Photoshop Secret ShortcutsUse these tips if you want to be like David Kaneda, who works Photoshop with no palettes.

  • Selecting hair with Refine Edge in Adobe Photoshop CS5 is pretty amazing.

  • Apple vs. Adobe – It’s about the framework…

    Apple vs. Adobe – It’s about the framework… What Apple does care about is their ability to control their own development cycles. iPhoneOS runs on extremely tight schedules, with a very high degree of secrecy, and at a pace completely controlled by Apple. … Imagine if 10% of the apps on iPhone came from Flash.…

  • Hmmm. So giving Apple control over the iPhone is bad, but giving Adobe control over rich content on the web is fine. Hmmm. Tom Standage

  • 9-Bits: The Flash Pan

    9-Bits: The Flash Pan Apple is not being evil. This is one company controlling its platform for the sake of its own product. Microsoft does the same thing for XBox, Sony does the same for PlayStation, and Nintendo does the same for Wii. … Mr. 9-Bits himself, David Kaneda, gives his take on the whole…

  • Paul Straw, everyone. In reference to this: http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703

  • I didn’t like the Adobe Device Central CS3 app’s icon. So I made my own. Not that I’d ever even use that piece of tin. I just really don’t like Adobe’s icons.