[FM Discuss] Effective Use of Adobe Software

[Julian Oliver]

..on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:08:21AM -0800, xtine wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> Thanks for writing good things about Digital Foundations. I wish we  
> wrote it ten years ago, too, ha.
>
> I'm just wondering, how would Adobe know if you created the work with  
> over 50% of the Adobe tools?

for any images, movies and PDF's they can look for water-marks and information
in the header of the files. with a website they can simply look at the HTML and
see that it's awful, bloated, buggy and doesn't pass the W3C standard ;)

cheers,

julian

>
> On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Alchemy wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I just wanted to firstly give a general *pat on the back* to the FM  
>> team.
>> Been following the goings on and everyone is doing really well lately.
>> The Digital Foundations book looks great, wish it was around 10 years 
>> ago...
>>
>>
>> Reminded me of this competition I saw Adobe running: http://adaaentry.com/prizes.php
>>
>> The fine print reads:
>> " you need to prepare digital files of work created primarily (over  
>> 50%) with Adobe tools "
>>
>> This is quite an amusing FAQ from the site:
>> 21. I used non-Adobe web design software for my entry in the Browser- 
>> Based Design category, but I used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator  
>> software for my images. Is this OK?
>> No. This is not an effective use of Adobe software for this contest.  
>> Your website should be created with Adobe Dreamweaver® or Adobe Flash 
>> with auxiliary use of Photoshop and Illustrator to qualify as an entry 
>> in this category.
>>
>> Looks like coding things by hand won't cut it!
>> Here's for more EFFECTIVE uses of Adobe tools!
>>
>>
>>
>> Keep up the good work.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>> -
>> Karl D.D. Willis
>>
>> Alchemy
>> An open drawing project
>> http://al.chemy.org
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>>
>>
>>
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