InDesign CS5 & Flash

Adobe CS5 was officially announced/launched today! I've been working on InDesign CS5 for the past 18 months or so and wanted to show some cool animations that can be created in InDesign and then exported to Flash.

I took individual images of the family with their iPods (or borrowed iPods...from me). Dropped them into Photoshop and created the iPod ad-like image. Placed both images into InDesign then did a fade-out animation on the top image on mouse-over. This was exported to Flash and embedded here.

And this proves that Flash can work with iPods! (...okay maybe that is stretching things a little). Just mouse over the image below or open in a new window with this link.

Jack & Woody

Earlier this week Jack was in San Francisco for a training session at the SF Adobe office and was able to hook up with his second cousin – Steve ‘Woody’ LaBounty. Due to the wonders of the internet Woody was able to connect with Jack a couple years ago. Then we were really fortunate last year when Woody and his wife Nancy and daughter Miranda stopped in for a short visit to our house where we met face to face.

Woody runs a really intriguing non-profit in San Francisco called the Western Neighborhoods Project. This is a group dedicated to preserving, yup; you guessed it…the history of the western neighborhoods of San Francisco. This included earning the prestigious Governor’s Award for preserving a number of 1906 Earthquake Refugee shacks. Jack even had the privilege of attending the group’s Monday night Meet-up at the famous Cliff House restaurant. Woody is providing a great service to that community - it is exciting to see history and culture preserved so that anyone in the world can access it.