This week, we get more help with Spry, Fireworks Jam Sessions, a Dreamweaver tutorial for the cottage industry set, Adobe certification for students, eSeminars from Adobe, and the return (and rev) of an old friend. If you're a tech writer, that is.

Wait! Wait! I'm not being rude! Really! PUXing is another way to rate your images after a shoot.

Whether you come back with 300 images from a landscape shoot or 3,000 from a wedding you still have the inevitable task ahead of you of going through the images and deciding what stays and what goes.

The Flashforward2007 Boston winners from last night are as follows:

Mike Potter at RIA pedia has posted an entry on his blog about an ActionScript multitouch table which will be shown at Adobe MAX in Chicago at the end of this month.

This week, a Fireworks article for a lot of us, a Fireworks article for a few of us, a product shootout between Adobe and... Adobe? And, at last: Some insight on SEO.

Alrighty.

I meant to post during the conference, but when NAPP chose Las Vegas as the fall destination, I should have known I wouldn’t be getting any sleep, much less reporting done. For those that couldn’t attend here’s the recap:

Pre-Conference
For the pre-con, I checked out Ben Willmore’s “Advanced Photoshop” session. I enjoy Ben’s teaching style, as he delivers information effectively to all skill levels. Look for some of his tips in upcoming posts.

This week: the Adobe CS3 Video Workshop, Spry accordions, flow, and Google-fu. Have a great weekend!

I meant to have a detailed report, plus pictures, but just now realized it's about 1AM (that's 3AM for everyone in Big D). Instead, here's a quick summary of today's events:

1. Opening Keynote included preview of Photoshop Express, the online browser-based tool for quick edits.
2. NAPP has grown to 70,000+ members.
3. NAPP has launched H.E.L.P. (How To Educational Library for Photoshop®), quick video tutorials covering all things Photoshop.
4. Scott Kelby introduced Kelby Training, education for creative professionals.

More info to come, and I'll be coordinating my Flickr account with Gene to get some pics up from Vegas.

Ok, so the most important piece to the Flex puzzle is an authoring tool.  There are actually multiple ways to build a Flex project, but I highly recommend using Flex Builder by Adobe.  It is based on the Eclipse framework and a trial version can be downloaded for free from Adobe Labs.  So, go download the trial and be sure to read all of the installation "what if's" and "how to's" on the download page before you install it.

Perhaps the biggest complaint I hear when photographers first venture from the comfortable world of JPEG shooting into the unknown territory of RAW is "my pictures just aren't as sharp as when I shot in JPEG! I thought RAW was suppossed to be better?" Better is a moving target. What is better depends greatly upon the circumstances surrounding your shoot. But, if you really want to capture the maximum information your camera can give you and YOU want to make the processing decisions about that information then RAW is the ONLY way to shoot.