Flavert Media Lab {The Blog}

Last few weeks i already reviewed about Adobe Acrobat 9, which is i receive the promotional copy of that. but now it’s here for the public release.

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA –June 26, 2008 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Acrobat® 9 software, a significant upgrade that transforms the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers major innovations that can enable organizations and individuals to communicate in an engaging, professional manner.

Acrobat 9 provides deep support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling users to include Adobe Flash Player compatible video and application files in PDF documents. For example, a marketing manager can use Acrobat 9 to convert web pages with multimedia to PDF documents. The PDF file can be shared for review and comment with others who are using free Adobe Reader® 9 software, which is expected to launch up to twice as fast as earlier versions.

Acrobat 9 also includes the ability to unify a wide range of content into a single document with the new concept of PDF Portfolios. PDF Portfolios enable users to assemble multiple media types into one, compressed PDF file that can be customized with several professional layouts and specific branding. A sales professional could create a single proposal document for a prospective client that includes charts, spreadsheets and images, as well as a branded, introductory video from the CEO discussing the company’s latest products.

The Acrobat 9 family consists of Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and the new Acrobat 9 Pro Extended software. The most comprehensive member of the family, Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, includes Adobe Presenter software for easily turning Microsoft® PowerPoint presentations into multimedia experiences that can be
published as PDF files.

More information on the Acrobat 9 family is available online at www.adobe.com/acrobat

//see my previous review about Acrobat 9 Pro Extended here

//thanks to Anne from PPM Technology Communications for the news.

Watch our friend’s motion graphics work, Zaphiro-FX, for Twingly Summer of Code 2008.

Zaphiro-FX’s works mainly on motion effects/graphic, advertising, video presentation and demoreel and so on. Among the very remarkable works is Motion graphic presentation for CIMB.

Assalamualaikum and peace be upon you dear readers and visitors

We would like to announce our recent portfolio updates. there are three works of the company being published recently. They are

1. Sakeenah-Faisal Interactive Wedding Card
2. Nurul-Zakianuar Interactive Wedding Card
3. M-Travelogue Shopping Mall: Suria KLCC Unofficial Guide

Oho in case you didn’t know, Faisal is our Chief Technical Officer. His wedding website surely a flashy one. take a look. both of the wedding card was built using Flash. it also using Flash Database to store greetings and wishes from friends, a Flash Emailer for you to confirmation your attendance to the wedding and also, Interactive Map that enables to to locate the house, and print it for your references.

And about M-Travelogue Shopping Mall: Suria KLCC Unofficial Guide, it’s a Flash Lite Application built for Flash-Enabled handphones.This is the time there’s so much shopping spree happen around in Malaysia. This application enables you to navigate and locate the business outlets in Suria KLCC. In addition, you can also call TGV Cinemas, Aquaria, Petrosains straight away from this application. So download, take a look, and distribute to everyone to enhance their shopping experience at Suria KLCC.

for more details about what this application can help you, watch the presentation here. ( simple only testing adobe presenter :p )

Download the application here.

( Flash Lite 1.1 )

Don’t be afraid, click the download button and install it onto your phone. and give it to your friends. it’s free. well who doesn’t want free things anyway?

so enjoy and give feedback for the portfolio updates yah. should you have any inquiries, be it anything, feel free to abuse our Contact form or the comments below

On Monday 26th May, i was invited by Anne from PPM Technology & Communications to the Photoshop CS3 2-hour workshop at Teras One Solution, Bangsar. I’m no photoshop experts. i just use what i know but I’m very happy to learn something absolutely new that i don’t try it before.

The instructor is Stephanie Wong, a Certified Expert and Instructor at Teras One Solution.  Among the invitees are Mixter from Mixter Studio and Brandon form IT-Sideways. the topics that she teach is Quick Selection, Smart Filters, Vanishing Point 2 and merging photos. I never knew there was a Vanishing Point 1 perhaps and that merging photos is not a typical merge. it’s very useful.

Quick Selection tool is a tool like the Magic Wand, just that it’s more clever, you just have to drag it. Well i think most of us know what is Magic Wand for. Quick Selection is for us to select the part of images. Oh another shortcut key that I’ve learnt, is the use of ‘ [ ‘ and ‘ ] ‘ to increase the brush size. Every pixel that you touch with Quick Selection tool, it will be selected.

Next is Smart Objects & Smart Filter. This is totally something new for me. If Stephanie didn’t teach this, im very sure im still using the old traditional method, do-see the results-not satisfied and do it again-thingy. So first is Smart Objects. It was introduced in Photoshop CS2. Smart Objects preserve an image’s source content with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform nondescontructive editing to the layer. Cut it short, it’s like the Movie Clip in Flash. here’s the tutorial for you at Photoshop Support.

As for smart filter, remember the days what we have to apply the filter, undo-it and then, re-apply the filter to suit our configurations? With Smart Filters, no need to go through complex process again. if it doesn’t suit your needs and you need some tweak, you just need to click at Smart Filter layer at Layer Panel. View the tutorial here at Photoshop Essentials.

Next is vanishing Point. All the time before this, I have to press ctrl or alt to control the ending points of the picture and to make it follow the perspective. vanishing points make it a lot easier. you define the 4 points of the plane/perspective area and then, tweak the point till it suits you. Again I was amazed. there was so many things i missing in using photoshop. I’m not an avid learner to seek for tutorials but I’ve just found this Vanishing Point tutorials for you to play with.

And lastly, Stephanie teach us how to merge photos. this is not a simple merge. This totally blown me away. With auto align layer, you just need to import your chosen picture, select the layers and then, click Edit>auto-align layers. After that, start masking it. Youtube demo here. In the same category, is a Photomerge tool. Now amateur photographers can say bye-bye to wide lenses. with your shaky hands, you still able to do great panoramic pictures of the places. here ’s the tutorial for your at Photoshop Support.

Well that’s the new stuff i found out and at least i’m very lucky before CS4 will be published. Please make use of things that i share here. Practice makes perfect

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullah and peace be upon you dear visitors. It’s been a month without updates. We’re still kicking, and this time, we kicking real hard.

We’ve been busy with projects. One of it is the website for Institut Perguruan Islam Selangor, Malaysia. Developed by Faisal Arbain using Code Igniter. We’re responsible for the whole website developement including Student/Staff Login System, Content Management System, Interface Design, AJAX/XHTML just to name a few. So visit and explore the website to know more about Institut Perguruan Islam Selangor, Malaysia.

Next is we’ve also commissioned to develop an Interactive Game Teaser for one company for one of their product. In the meantime, the works have been submitted but still not published over the net. Here’s just a picture to tease you :p

Once it become published by the client, we’ll let you know.

Next, our company website has been listed by Webdesign-is-Art and CSSVault inside their gallery. We do practice web standards and we keep up with technology and this is the proof of our commitment towards it. So again thanks to Webdesign-is-Art and CSS Vault for the acknowledgment.

Oh and dear possible clients who’re looking forward to have a website of your own company that use XHTML/CSS/AJAX or even full flash website, consider us to be your developers

On the end of this month, we’ll surprise you guys with one Flash Lite Application. So, keep on coming to this site ya Talk about Flash, just in case you didn’t know, Flash player 10 Public Beta has been released. It introduce a lot of new feature to explore by programmers and developers. Some are 3D effects, Custom Filters, Advanced Text Layout, Enhanced Drawing API, and also Visual Perfomances Improvement, which means the player will be more faster and require less CPU computing process. Details and Demos here.

Remember to check back our blog and our website frequently for more updates, Cheers