Do you know what Adobe is working at? Do you know what’s up for the future?
Watch this video, then. You won’t believe to your eyes!

A grainy video has just become available from the Adobe Max conference in Milan, Italy last month of a sneak peek at a new experiment called Infinite Images.

The Raw Truth

1. What is a digital Raw file?
2. Data capture from camera’s image sensor
3. Exposure and linear capture
4. Raw vs Jpeg
5. Raw limitations
6. Adobe Camera Raw - why we use it

Author Samuel Chia (founder of The Cacao Print Studio)

When Samuel Chia was 15, he became the youngest member ever to assume the role as the Instructor of the Photographic Society of Temasek Junior College. He has trained photographers in the College and other schools for 2 years, with a body of work spanning genres from performance arts to sports.

As a part of the process of his photography, Samuel prints his own images. The print is the “final performance” of his craft. He believes in the balance of aesthetic vision and technical knowledge; they go hand in hand to fulfill the artist’s intention. He has also set up a customized printing service, The Cacao Print Studio, to allow like-minded photographers and artists, the ability to enjoy the very best of high-end archival photographic printing.

Creative things you can do for your phone using Adobe technologies and some free apps. By Stefan Wessel.

Stefan Wessels is the co-founder of Breakdesign.com, established in 2003. Breakdesign.com is now a leader in creating innovative, edgy content and solutions for emerging media, and are working with Nokia, American Express, Johnny Walker, Sony Ericsson, MTV, Disney and other leading brands. Currently Breakdesign.com is creating games and applications for all ages and demographics of early adapoters as well as building mobile community platforms to enable these groups to communicate through emerging technology.

Stefan had also spoken in Adobe MAX 2006, Ogilvy Asia Creative Directors Meet 2007, and Spike Media Awards 2006.

Dear Crew,

Creative Crew’s December meeting is almost ready. Keep your Tueasday free on 9th December from 7.30 to 9.30 PM.

Date: The meeting will be held on December 9, from 7.30 to 9.30 PM.
Venue: 81a Maude Road (along Jalan Besar), Singapore 208355 (Closest MRT Lavender)

Download your invitation from this link

Dear Crew,
December meeting is going to be revolutionary!

Thanks to Motion Elements we have a new venue.
Date: The meeting will be held on December 9, from 7.30 to 9.30.
Venue: 81a Maude Road, Singapore 208355 (Closest MRT Lavender)
Map: Click here

Program:

7:30 > Registration

7:45 > Welcome to December meeting, by Carlsson Chee (Creative Crew co-manager)
Synopsis > Carlsson will give the warmest welcome to the new users. Followed by the best tips and tricks from Adobe CS4 official launch.

8:00 > Welcome to MotionElements, by Mark Sun (MotionElements Director)
Synopsis > Mark will give a brief introduction to MotionElements.com and
some of our activities promoting Artists in Asia.

8:10 > Adobe Creative for Mobile, by Stefan Wessels (co-founder of Breakdesign.com)
Synopsis > Stefan will give an overview of creative things you can do for your phone using Adobe technologies and some free apps!

8:30 > Break
Remember to bring your name cards

8:40 > RAW Overview, by Samuel Chia (founder of The Cacao Print Studio)

1. What is a digital Raw file?
2. Data capture from camera’s image sensor
3. Exposure and linear capture
4. Raw vs Jpeg
5. Raw limitations
6. Adobe Camera Raw - why we use it

9:00 > Demonstrations of Image Processing Workflow in Camera Raw, by Samuel Chia (founder of The Cacao Print Studio)

Coverage for basic control tabs
- basic
- tone curve
- detail
- HSL/grayscale

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=65223947456

To download a copy of the schedule, click here!

Dear Crew,
here’s Creative Crew Singapore’s official video.
Feel free to embed it in your blog and share.

Thanks to William, here’s Creative Crew’s new video tutorial. It’s a smart and flexible technique to coloring black and white images.

Ask your wuestions to WIlliam : waiaung @ hotmail.com

Go to William’s DeviantArt

On 14th November 2008, Adobe had it’s launch of the new Creative Suite 4. On the same day, Creative Crew had it’s first outing - To the launch of Creative Suite 4. I’d like to thank the members who came and join us for this very special event. For those who couldn’t make it, fret not, both me and Stefano will try to make the next outing either on a weeknight or on a weekend.

Going on to the event itself, I must say that it was way beyond expectations of what I had in mind of CS4. Our members who were there were awed by the ease of use of the new CS4 as well as the new features that were built into this version of this Creative Suite. Speakers included TIM COLE, KARL SOULE and PAUL BURNETT who kept the event lively with their prize “throwaways” as well as their impressive knowledge of the new CS4. Of course, not forgetting our ourselves, we have had lots of people signing up for Creative Crew. Let’s warmly welcome our new members!

We got some freebies in the goodie bag such as the cool CS4 water bottle as well as t-shirts from the sponsors when you drop your name card in the box. We took a photo with the remaining members who stayed around together with us as well as Marianne, Tim, and Karl.

Cool links about Digital Media Festival Singapore 2008:

Claudia.sg
Dee Kay Dot As Gee
Packets of Consciousness

Digital Media Festival 2008 is happening now at The Legends (Fort Canning).

I just finished my demo about the new speech-to-text Adobe Soundbooth capability. I showed a video took from YouTube, downloaded as MP4, opened in my Soundbooth and then converted the audio to text. Speech-recognition. The scenario that I show is a future where people will be able to search video just typing the text of the words that they are looking for.

Image via Wikipedia

Another, more scary scenario, is content related advertisement. Since Soundbooth recognize every single word as a specific spectrum, maybe in future will be able to recognize the sound of a car engine. If this will happen, it will be sound-recognition, or noise-recognition. And when the recognition will be more more accurate, maybe will be able to tell the difference between a Fiat Punto engine, and a Ferrari engine. This can trigger absolutely content related advertising.

Let’s imagine you are watching a video on your computer. The actor sneeze. A Kleenex commercial pops up. Scary, isn’t it

MAX 2008 North America

San Francisco, California — November 16 - 19, 2008

MAX 2008 Europe

Milan, Italy — December 1 - 4, 2008

MAX 2008 Japan

Tokyo, Japan — January 29 - 30, 2009

MAX is an experience unlike any other — an opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, partners, executives, and Adobe staff for education, inspiration, and community. MAX 2008/2009 will be held in San Francisco, Milan, and Tokyo. Be sure to mark your calendar for this important global event.