My last post talked about how you can create a Photoshop-like soft blur effect with built-in filters. As I started reading more about how you would actually create that soft blur effect in Photoshop though, I realized that often you don’t want the soft blur to apply to people’s faces. … Continue reading
CSS Filters can be added to any element on your Web page to create some very nice effects. You can even add multiple filters to a given element to create some interesting combined effects. Related Posts: Photoshop Layer Mask Implemented with CSS Custom FiltersAdvanced Gradient Map UsageFun with SVG … Continue reading
I recently gave a few talks at Adobe MAX 2013 in Los Angeles. Here are the links to the recordings for those sessions… Related Posts: Speaking @ Adobe MAXAdobe TechLive is Live!Offline Viewing of YouTube Videos
Yesterday, Adobe, in cooperation with Google, announced that the Adobe CFF rasterizer has been contributed FreeType. If you’re a font geek, this is fantastic news. If not, you might be thinking to yourself, “CFF is what again? Why is this important?”. In a nutshell, modern outline fonts use two formats, TrueType and CFF. A … Continue reading
I was recently talking to Adam Lehman, product manager for Brackets, about ways I could potentially help contribute to the product, perhaps by writing an extension or two. I wanted to learn how to write a Brackets extension, but I also wanted my efforts to go into something people would find useful, … Continue reading
I’m going to be speaking again at Adobe MAX this year. The conference is being held in Los Angeles from May 4-8. It should be a total hoot. The Black Keys are even playing at the big bash! And, in case you haven’t heard, all attendees get a free year … Continue reading
I’ve talked about Test the Web Forward before and why everyone should get involved. The next Test the Web Forward event is going to be at the Google office in Tokyo. So come on out and meet members of the Japanese Web community and experts from all over the world … Continue reading
Lately I’ve been building all of my presentations with Reveal.js. It’s great to be able to talk about all the latest HTML5 technologies all the while using HTML5 to drive very compelling presentations. Where possible, I can demonstrate new technology right in the presentation itself. The one thing I hadn’t been … Continue reading
The Web is constantly evolving, new W3C specs are being hashed out all the time. Partial and full implementations of these new specs are showing up in different browsers all the time. But, if we as a Web community want the Web to evolve, and want people to really trust … Continue reading
Lately we’ve been starting to create an Adobe TechLive YouTube channel so people can view the recordings for the various TechLive sessions. You can find that channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/AdobeTechLive. Sometimes though, you want to watch a YouTube video offline, perhaps while you’re sitting on a train with spotty Wifi coverage. … Continue reading