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Share your screen easily, and for free, with Adobe Creative Suite 4
by Sebastian Anthony Oct 26th 2009 at 4:00PM
I noticed this function a while ago when I upgraded to Photoshop CS4 -- I never dared use it, but I did notice it!
Now there's a handy little video from Adobe that shows you exactly how to enable the free screen sharing available to you in their latest suite of tools.
You're probably thinking: Neat! But what can I actually do with it? The first thing that comes to my mind is for businesses that are using an external graphic designer -- want to see their current progress on some work? Want to make sure they're sticking to the draft? Use the screen sharing!
You could also use it for collaboration -- there is chat and video conferencing functionality included. You could suggest changes and watch them occur in real time. I can just see it now... 'No, no, move it a bit to the left. That's it! Up a bit! How about if you make it luminous pink? And the font slightly more interesting... how about Comic Sans?'
Now there's a handy little video from Adobe that shows you exactly how to enable the free screen sharing available to you in their latest suite of tools.
You're probably thinking: Neat! But what can I actually do with it? The first thing that comes to my mind is for businesses that are using an external graphic designer -- want to see their current progress on some work? Want to make sure they're sticking to the draft? Use the screen sharing!
You could also use it for collaboration -- there is chat and video conferencing functionality included. You could suggest changes and watch them occur in real time. I can just see it now... 'No, no, move it a bit to the left. That's it! Up a bit! How about if you make it luminous pink? And the font slightly more interesting... how about Comic Sans?'
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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libeco said 5:24PM on 10-26-2009
I've never used it before and I doubt I'll ever will. You're spot on with your 'how about Comic Sans?' :-)
It reminded me of http://makemylogobiggercream.com/
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Sebastian Anthony said 5:31PM on 10-26-2009
My personal favourite is being told that the colours are 'all wrong', after the draft has been approved.
Or the classic anything-less-than-white-and-black-is-not-visible-enough (generally from older clients with failing eyes...) -- though that's probably a valid request.
Rob said 10:19PM on 10-26-2009
Ahhh Comic Sans,.. the bain of all (legitimate) graphic designers out there. Here's a great comic strip that all my fellow graphic designers will appreciate.
http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/091011.html
Scruffy Bob said 5:37PM on 10-26-2009
!!! CS4 is free? I'll take a few! ;)
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Sebastian Anthony said 5:53PM on 10-26-2009
Well... not quite the purpose of this entry... but...!
nick said 6:28PM on 10-26-2009
skype is free and screen shares too! :O
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Sebastian Anthony said 8:21PM on 10-26-2009
Sure, but you can't edit photos with Skype...
Oh wait, I think I missed the point...
hazard said 10:49PM on 10-26-2009
Interesting. Anyone else getting AIR errors on the 1 minute video? Pretty amusing that Adobe can't even keep it's Flex content up to date :p
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Sebastian Anthony said 10:51PM on 10-26-2009
Hah. It is only 1:18 long though... are you reaching the end?
No errors here, and I think AIR updated itself a few days ago.