Adobe Design and Film School Connection
If you're excited and serious about enhancing your work in a higher education design or film program, you're in the right place. The Adobe Design and Film School Connection is a site where students and faculty members can find free resources for using Adobe software products in coursework, projects, and career preparation; use tips and tutorials; receive and give helpful advice; and read about new trends and upcoming design events. It's all here.
New Adobe Creative Suite 4
Awards
2009 Adobe Design Achievement Awards—Deadline for Entries is June 5
The deadline is fast approaching for the 2009 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Your students have until June 5, 2009, to submit their entries! These awards will honor student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers, and computer artists from top institutions of higher education. Students are invited to submit their entries through the ADAA website.
Events
Free Seminar for Educators at the NAB Show
Join the Adobe Education team, video experts, and recent USC Animation MFA recipient Jan Pfenniger for a free, in-depth seminar on April 21 that features Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and supporting curriculum resources.
Find out more. (PDF: 84K)
Upcoming events
Read about upcoming conventions, training opportunities, festivals, and other events that focus on film and design work.
Tips and tutorials
Adobe Design Center
Find out how to use specific Adobe products through guides, tutorials, and tips and tricks. The Adobe Design Center has all the resources you need for continuing to develop your knowledge and skills.
Adobe TV
If you've never checked out Adobe TV, you're in for a treat. This is your online source for expert insight into Adobe products delivered on video, on demand. You'll find a full range of programs, from entertainment through instruction. Watch when and where you want.
Adobe TV Highlights
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
Find out how SCAD prepares students for successful, cross-disciplinary design careers with Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection software.
xTrain Photoshop and Photography-Wildlife and Nature Photography
Interested in techniques for photographing in the great outdoors? Rick Sammon and Rob Sheppard show how to utilize light settings, shutter speed, and setting the background for the ultimate photo.
Learn Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 – Getting Started: 01 What is Premiere Pro CS4?
If you’re just starting with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, start with this first in a series of "Getting Started" videos. Produced by lynda.com, this tutorial will provide you with an overview on how to create video and output it to a variety of formats.
Launching your career
By fine-tuning your job-search strategy, you may be able to land a position that seems out of reach in this economy. Learn about job-search traps and how to avoid them.
Highlights
The Virtual Lecture Hall at Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is well known throughout the world for using leading-edge technology to further students' education, and the Virtual Lecture Hall is a prime example of SCAD's forward-thinking teaching approach and its use of technology to deliver learning tools to students. Read more in an article by Aaron Pompei, senior media designer for SCAD-eLearning.
Slamdance Festival Student Shorts Screened to Standing Room Only Crowd
This year's Slamdance Festival sponsored by Adobe drew some very talented students from around the world January 14-23 in Park City, Utah. Thirty-two students joined Real Ideas Studio and mentors from different colleges to produce eight documentaries. The screening of their work was the largest at the festival. Check out the Real Ideas Studio report, complete with links to the films.
Creative Suite 4 makes its debut — watch a replay of the launch broadcast
Your shortcut to brilliant is here. Catch a replay of the worldwide launch event for Adobe Creative Suite® 4 and see how these tightly integrated software editions and services improve productivity and allow you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile projects.
Launch event
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
New Adobe eLearning Suite
The new Adobe eLearning Suite software offers a content-authoring solution for educators that enables them to create rich learning experiences that can be delivered via the Web, desktop, mobile devices, and learning management systems.
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Adobe solutions for higher education
Overview
Adobe Creative Suite 4 curriculums
Help students take the shortcut to brilliant. Teach them career skills with free Creative Suite 4 curriculums that have already been awarded the ISTE Seal of Alignment. You'll find separate curriculums for design and print production, web design, and video design and production.
Flex in a Week training — for free
A great new resource is now available on Adobe.com. You can learn Flex in a week by going through a series of video training sessions at your own pace. Start with basics, and then move into more advanced techniques. Participate online or download and watch the sessions offline. If you have questions as you're viewing, ask a question on the Flex in a Week forum. To take advantage of this free training, just go to the Flex in a Week page and follow the easy instructions.
Rich Internet application (RIA) teaching resources
These resources provide a combination of online workshop modules for self-study, course projects to apply the skills learned, and book recommendations to put together a course on RIA design and development.
