Need a killer color theme for your web site, art project, or magazine pages? Head to Adobe Kuler, an interactive web-based app that whips up snazzy themes in a matter of seconds.

Kuler (not sure if it rhymes with “color” or “cooler”) lets you browse other users’ themes or create your own using a drag-and-drop color wheel and/or numerical settings (RGB, CMYK, etc.). You can title, tag, save and publish your themes, and download them as Adobe Swatch Exchange files for use in Creative Suite 2 applications (like Photoshop).

Adobe Air/Web-Based: Available as both an Adobe Air app and a web app, Project Rome is a simple but powerful content editing tool. Create everything from brochures and presentations to web sites and animations.

Project Rome is a new offering from Adobe, intended to make creating content easy for users without extensive experience using traditional editors. The menus are laid out intuitively and are quite easy to navigate, you can work offline on your computer using the Adobe Air app or online using the web-based app. It’s easy to save your work to your Adobe.com account or locally to your machine. Project Rome supports direct publishing from within the design flow for easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and the greater web.

Check out the above video for a brief and flashy overview of Project Rome or visit the link below to try out the web-based app for free. Both the web app and the Adobe Air version are currently free with future pricing to be announces.

Jill will show us how to create an amazing digital painting design using Photoshop and Corel Painter.

I have been lucky enough to have my work showcased in various places such as Camden’s Proud Galleries, MTV, Computer Arts & Digit Magazine and at Brighton’s Hip Hop Festival. As well as being published in a book that showcased global illustration, I’ve also been nominated for some awards and was a finalist last year for Britvic’s Drench Art Award (ooh get me!).

Most of my work is mixed media, I use Corel Painter, Photoshop as well as lots of different paints, scans and textures – mostly just playing until I have something I feel happy with.

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In this beginners level tutorial, you will learn how to create a vibrant 3D leaf compilation from a single 2D photograph. You will be able to manipulate the object however you prefer. Let’s have fun with this display of greenery.!

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“Adobe Student Editions give higher education students in the United States and Canada huge savings on full versions of Adobe software when they purchase through Adobe.com. Now students can buy Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 and Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Extended software at amazingy low prices.”

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