This workshop, led by Dr. Woohoo, will explore multiple
ways of generating your artwork by leveraging existing features and f
unctions of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator -- whose features we will
combine with the capabilities of ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR application
s and Flash plug-ins. We will start with simple examples that require
little to no programming skills, then we will begin to record and repu
rpose code that automates Photoshop and continue on until we are creat
ing our own applications and plug-ins that can communicate with and co
ntrol Photoshop and Illustrator.
We will use the ScriptingL
istener plug-in to record and save our actions as scripts that can be
run from within Photoshop; we will write our own ExtendScripts that en
hance Illustrator and Photoshop's capabilities using Adobe's ExtendScr
ipt Toolkit; we will then integrate our ExtendScripts with our own AIR
application that we create in Flex Builder utilizing Adobe SwitchBoar
d (which handles the two-way communication between the AIR and Creativ
e Suite applications; and we will develop our own Flash plug-ins for P
hotoshop in Flex Builder utilizing Adobe PatchPanel.
Where
to go from there? Additional tutorials will be included as part of thi
s workshop that will help you develop increasingly advanced AIR applic
ations and Flash plug-ins for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. In
addition, there will be examples of how to integrate your AIR applicat
ions with WiiMotes, PaperVision 3d, Red5 and Maya.
• BYO-Laptop, with the following software
installed:
• Any operating system
• Adobe Photoshop CS3
or CS4
• Adobe Illustrator CS3 or CS4
• Adobe ExtendScri
pt (a free ExtendScript editor installed by default with Photoshop or
Illustrator)
• Adobe Flex Builder 3
(Trial Version)
• Adobe SwitchBoard
(a free SWC library for Flex - the installer and SDK are req
uired)
• Adobe PatchPanel (a free SWC libra
ry for Flex)
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