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Send large attachments in Outlook 2007 with Acrobat.com

Nerd — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Have a really large attachment that you have to send to someone? Chances are, if it’s over 10-20MB, it’s not going to make it.

Adobe’s Acrobat.com now provides a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook 2007 for easy, secure document sharing from your desktop email client by making it as easy as adding an attachment.

Features include:

Seamlessly sending links to files in your Acrobat.com account from Outlook
Reducing exchange server traffic and storage needs
Share files already in your Acrobat.com account
No need to manually add everyone from a mailing list to shared files
Easily invite people to your personal meeting room URL

Acrobat.com has some really nice features, this being one of them. Try it out yourself, it’s easy, and you will wish you had it a long time ago!

Download the Acrobat.com Plugin from here.

Adobe Releases “Photoshop Express” for free

Nerd — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:46:42 +0000

Source: [The Road to Know Where]

Photoshop Express is not an application on your computer so you can use it anywhere. If you want a copy of a photo on your computer, run your mouse over the photo to reveal the options menu at the bottom right. Open the menu and select Download, once you’re done editing.

Photoshop Express works with JPEG photos; other formats such as raw, TIFF and PSD produce files that are too large to comfortably upload, and GIF images are inherently low quality when used for photos. Photos larger than 10M and 4000 pixels in height and width cannot be
uploaded. Photos larger than 2880x 2880 pixes will be shrunk after editing.

You can edit photos already on sites like Facebook, Photobucket or Picasa (but at present, there is no direct path available between Photoshop Express and MySpace.)

Editing Features:

Crop and Rotate — Turn it, straighten it, crop out the background.
Auto Correct — Automatic, one-click, optimal lighting and contrast adjustment.
Exposure — Change the brightness of the photo.
Red-Eye Removal — Removes red eyes caused by some camera flashes.
Touchup — Remove scratches and other imperfections.
Saturation — Ramp up the colors to blinding brightness, dampen them down to black and white, or anywhere in between.
White Balance — Ever notice how people look different inside an office with the ugly fluorescent tubes, as opposed to outside on a bright sunny day? Adjust the white balance and you change the type of lighting in the photo.
Highlight — The brightest parts of a photo are the highlights. This control lets you brighten or darken just the brightest part of the photo, without affecting the darker parts (we call those the shadows).
Fill Light — If you take a shot facing into the sun, your subject can end up too dark due to the camera’s automatic exposure adjustment. Fill Light brightens the dark area without overbrightening the background.
Sharpen — It’s like putting in your contacts. Suddenly everything comes more into focus.
Soft Focus — It’s like taking your contacts out. Soft Focus creates a subtle blur for artistic effect.
Hue — This one changes all the colors in a photo at once.
Black and White — Control how the colors are converted when you change a photo to black and white.
Tint — Imagine instead of black and white, you want red and white, or pale brown and white for that old Western look.
Sketch — Makes any photo look like you drew it yourself.
Distort — Stretch, twist, bulge specific areas of your photos.

Photoshop Express Here

Microsoft HD Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop

Nerd — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:23:00 +0000

Microsoft has released out of beta the HD Photo Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop.

The HD Photo plug-in supports a wide range of pixel formats (including high dynamic range, wide gamut formats) and numerous advanced HD Photo features.

This plug-in is designed for use with the CS2 or CS3 versions of Adobe® Photoshop® software running under Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista. Any other use is not supported.

Download

Alternatively, if you are a Paint.NET user, you can get the HD plug-in for it here

Flash Player 9 Update

Nerd — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:58:00 +0000

Adobe has released a Flash Player 9 update that is now supporting HD quality web video and audio playback! Download it Here. Official Press release Here.

BTW… Hulu.com has some HD content already, and it looks GOOD!!!!

Acrobat Supports Office 2007 Now

Nerd — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:45:00 +0000

Adobe has released an update for Acrobat to 8.1. It adds a lot of features related to Office 2007, including:

Preview Handler for Windows Explorer in Vista and Office 2007
PDF printer driver for Vista
PDFMaker Office 2007 PDF Creation
Quick and simple PDFs from Word 2007
PDFMaker add-in for Office 2007

The last one is great, with icons on the Office 2007 Ribbon: