Adobe Fun Fact
Did you know Adobe.com was the 42nd ever registered dot com? See the first 100 here.
Last Day on Digieffects MegaSuite Sale
Seriously boost your plug-in arsenal for a fraction of the regular cost. Customers who already own some of the Digieffects plug-ins…. you can now get in on the Digieffects MegaSuite Sale! Upgrade to the Digieffects MegaSuite for $199 when you upgrade from any Digieffects plug-in.
If you don’t already own a Digieffects product, you can get the whole Digieffects MegaSuite for just $399, which is half price! It’s regularly $799. This offer ends tonight at midnight.
I don’t like to put a lot of salesy stuff up at AE Freemart but this is such a great deal, it’s practically free. 
Artbeats Announces Free Video Podcast; New Free Clip
Check out the new Artbeats podcast on iTunes, hosted by none other than Steve Holmes, who has been doing training for Adobe and Total Training for quite a while.
Also, if you sign up for the Artbeats newsletter, each month a free clip is given away to subscribers. This month’s exclusive free download is UW208 HD from their Ultra Water 2 HD collection. See all Artbeats footage at Toolfarm, including their new RED Camera Footage. You can subscribe to the Artbeats newsletter by going to the Artbeats website. The signup is in the lower left corner.
Chris and Trish Meyer of Cybermotion, who you probably know from their fantastic books Creating Motion Graphics and After Effects Apprentice, have a column in the Artbeats newsletter too. This month they discuss Color Finesse, a fantastic color correction tool for After Effects and Final Cut Pro. Read the article here.
After Effects 9.0.1 Update Now Available
If Adobe Update Manager hasn’t taken care of this for you, you can do it manually by going under the Help Menu > Updates. Alternately, download the Mac update or Windows update from the Adobe site.
Adobe 9.0.1 Release Notes | Buy After Effects here.
There are many fixes in this update, including the Puppet Tool, the Illustratorlayers importer, the Exposure effect, and stability of 3D object layers from Photoshop. They’ve also added Red Camera support. Here’s a movie about that from Adobe TV.
The Great After Effects Mac/Windows Smackdown: CS4 Edition
Kevin Schmitt has an article about After Effects CS4 benchmarks at DigitalMediaNet. Leopard vs. Vista. If you’re a Mac user, you may not want to read it. "Cripes, the Mac OS X version of After Effects is absolutely smoked again, and the results are slightly worse than last time in places."
2009 Adobe Design Achievement Awards Call for Entries
The <a href=”http://www.adobe.com/education/adaa/”>2009 Adobe Design Achievement Awards Call for Entries</a> is now calling. Ringy dingy!
The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition – which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software – honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers, and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education.
Submission are now being accepted through June 5, 2009.
More on Adobe Configurator
Why Adobe ‘Configurator’ Will Revolutionize The Way You Use Photoshop.
If you missed the post, Adobe Labs posted a new item today, Configurator, which is a utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Adobe Photoshop CS4.
Tutorial: Bootleg #3 for After Effects on AdobeTV
On The Genesis Project blog Dennis Radeke says: "During this episode, I use a couple of presets along with a little Turbulent Displace and CC Vector Blur to make something cool."
Tutorial: Use Expressions to Speed up Text in AE
Harry Frank has a video up at Studio Daily about Using expressions to speed up lower third creation in After Effects. He explains how to create a document that links to the text document with corresponding scene numbers… a very cool way to speed up simple but tedious work. It’s not difficult, but this is definitely not something you’d figure out yourself, unless you’re a javascript programmer, or a whiz with expressions.
Also, Harry’s Complete training for Trapcode Particular from Class on Demand is half price this week. (DVD | Download), during our One Day Sale. Also, if you haven’t heard, Trapcode Suite is 50% off today only!
Adobe Configurator prerelease
Adobe Labs posted a new item today, Configurator, which is a utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Sounds useful.
