The January 2019 update of Adobe XD features Auto-Animate in the browser. And voice interfaces now have support for all voice languages and accents.

I have been working closely with Beaverton School District in Oregon for a couple of years now, collaborating on infusing classroom creativity via Adobe Spark. It's been amazing to watch the progress as described in this blog post.

Elaine Chao reflects on Adobe XD in 2018, reviewing successes to date, and pondering what comes next.

At MAX 2018 in Los Angeles, Adobe's Chief Product Officer and EVP Scott Belsky introduced the world to our next generation drawing and painting application: Project Gemini, which is coming first to the Apple iPad in 2019. Rene di Cherri has posted a summary of what we've shared to date with links and more.

Book Creator is hugely popular with educators the world over who love the creativity it helps unleash. It allows students to create interactive stories, compile digital portfolios, and publish research journals, poetry books, science reports, and so much more. And as many passionate app-smashing educators have discovered, the content that kids add ...

The Dreamweaver team has posted some thoughts pertaining to what they plan for 2019. Looking forward to the enhancements to Live View and CSS.

We showed Project Aero during the opening keynote at MAX in Los Angeles. The team just posted a summary of the MAX announcements and updates since then. If you are a designer and are interested in taking part in Project Aero's private beta, you can apply using this form.

Kids (and their teachers) love Adobe Spark. It's fun, easy, highly encouraging, and it's free, too! And, yep, as already noted, it's easy to use, so easy that kids just get it. But, if your students need a helping hand, these short videos may be of use:Logging In Creating a Spark Page Creating a Spark Video Creating a Spark Post

One of the highlight of my Adobe life is directing Adobe MAX Sneaks, a privilege I have been responsible for for many years now (I have also previously hosted Sneaks and presented demos, too). This year's MAX Sneaks were some of the best yet, and if you missed the show, my colleague Lauren Friedman has posted a summary and videos for your viewing ...

During today's Adobe MAX open General Session we announced Project Gemini, a new app focused specifically on drawing and painting. If you missed the details, check out this post.

The Adobe XD team has posted a important thoughts on Best Practices for Designing with Responsive Resize in Adobe XD.

The Adobe XD team just announced the availability of the September 2018 release. New features include responsive resize, times transitions, and spell check.

Adobe Spark is a favorite in schools and classrooms worldwide. Google Classroom is used in lots of those classrooms, so we just updated the web (and Chromebook) version of Spark to support single click share to Google Classroom (this on top of existing support for Google login, Google Photos, and Google Drive).

Adobe VP Mala Sharma spent her Adobe sabbatical in India volunteering with the nonprofit Teach for India, teaching technology and creativity to seventh- and eighth-graders. Her trip report (linked in the post) is well worth the read.

Just in time for Back-to-School, here are some important enhancements and updates pertaining to using Adobe Spark in the Classroom.

My latest book is now out. Learning Regular Expressions is Regular Expressions for the rest of us. Regular expression experts have long been armed with an incredibly powerful tool, one that can be used to perform all sorts of powerful text processing and manipulation in just about every language and on every platform. That's the good news. The bad ...

Last call! There is only one day left to get Adobe MAX 2018 Early Bird pricing, that's $300 off the registration fee.

Earlier this year we released Adobe XD integration with popular tools for Mac users. As part of our July release of Adobe XD, we're doing the same for Windows tools, starting with Zeplin, Avocode, and ProtoPie.

I mentioned Adobe Spark's support for custom fonts when we announced it earlier this month. To help you get started with this feature, our own Amy Copperman has posted How to Add Your Own Fonts for Branded Content That Is Just Your Type.

It's here! The public beta of Adobe Spark Post on Android is now available. Details in this blog post.

We just updated Adobe Spark to support custom fonts, now when creating and managing your brand and branded themes, you can upload your own fonts to the brand. Custom font support is a Premium Feature, so it's available as part of any paid plan (Creative Cloud or Spark). It is also available for free to education users as part of Spark for Education...

Adobe Spark Post's Magic Layout sets you up for success quickly by employing a content-aware layout system to suggest intelligent cropping and layout positions based on the content you choose for your design. It makes educated guesses for you to get you almost all the way to a finished product. For instance, if you choose one tall photo and one wid...

Adobe MAX 2018 registration is open. Register by July 31st and you'll qualify for the early bird registration price of $1,295, that's a $300 savings off the full conference price, and I'll see you in Los Angeles in October.

Last month we announced Adobe Spark for Education, free for all students, both in K-12 and higher education. Today we announced new Creative Cloud pricing for K-12, $5 per license per year (starting at $2,500 per school per year). These are huge savings, and are part of our commitment to ensuring that all students have access to the right creativit...

Roanoke County Public Schools (RCPS) in Virginia gave Spark for Education a try this past school year, and the results were beyond what I could have imagined. Their journey started with teachers from the district coming across Spark and trying it themselves. Within minutes of using Spark, teachers at RCPS were thinking of what this could do for the...

Today we announced the availability of Adobe Spark for Education, the same Adobe Spark that you know and love (and like Adobe Spark, just as free), but adapted to better suit the needs of our younger users.What is different about Adobe Spark for Education is how it gets deployed and installed. An Adobe Spark for Education deployment adds functional...

Adobe Dimension is used by graphic designers to create photorealistic renderings using both 2D and 3D assets. Product Manager Zorana Gee has announced the release of Dimension 1.1, and highlighted the new features in this blog post.

Adobe MAX is heading back to Los Angeles! MAX will be October 15–17, 2018, at the L.A. Convention Center. Sign up now for $500 savings on the full conference pass price of $1,595. Offer ends April 30, 2018.

One of the most exciting Sneaks at MAX 2017 was Project Puppetron. Well, we've come a long way in a few months. And now the Character Animator team (the same folks who let you bring a Photoshop or Illustrator file to life through performance-based and live animation) invite you to be a part of their latest experiment, joining the Project Puppetron ...

This idea is perfect for younger students, and works particularly well when using Adobe Spark on the iPad. The idea is to encourage students to create their own storybook with not just their own story, but also their own pictures and their own voice telling the tale.First help the students talk through their story idea. Keep it short and simple at ...

Lots of teachers encourage students to keep a daily journal, something short, focused, a few minutes of personal expression and communication to start each day. Student journals are usually written, but they need not be, and video journals are cool and lots of fun for kids to create. Here's how it works:Obviously, students need access to Adobe Spar...

One of the most popular features in Adobe Spark is the ability to search the internet for free Creative Commons images for use in videos, pages, and post. Spark is used extensively by children, and so we utilize safe-search to ensure that only appropriate images are returned. But, no public image search is ever 100% safe, that's an unfortunate real...

Last week at BETT in London we announced that Adobe Spark, including Premium Features, would be made available for free to students and teachers. The release is planned for April, so not a lot of details were provided with the announcement. But, there's been huge interest in the upcoming offering, and lots of you have been wanting more information....

Students (and their teachers) love Adobe Spark. But, Spark isn't quite perfect, yet. The two most common concerns are expressed by teachers are the lack of support for minor (under 13) logins, and the lack of integration with existing school logins. Well, both are about to be resolved.At BETT in London we announced that in time for Back-To-School ...

Creative problem solving is the process of redefining problems and opportunities, coming up with new, innovative responses and solutions, and then taking action. Global research shows that tomorrow's jobs will demand creative problem solving skills. Adobe asked 1,600 higher and secondary educators, and 400 policymakers and influencers around the wo...

My Sams Teach Yourself Oracle PL/SQL In 10 Minutes has just been released in Chinese (making this my 8th book transalted into Chinese).

Dr. Younus Y. Mirza, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Allegheny College, has shared how he uses Adobe Spark Video and Adobe Spark Page to advertise his classes in an informative and very personal way.

The Adobe XD December update is out, complete with underlined text support, improved Lightroom and Adobe Stock integration, and lots more goodies.

Flat Design? Material Design? Skeumorphism? Minimalism? I missed this one last month, but better late than never ... Over on the Adobe Creative Cloud blog, Marc Schenker has shared useful insight into emerging design trends.

The Adobe XD team is on a roll. The most recent update includes the addition of Design Specs to improve collaboration and obtaining feedback, a new Layout Grid, JPEG export, improvements to text display, and a whole lot more. See this blog post for details.

At MAX last month there was a lot of talk about AI and its roll in the creative process. We also hosted a MAX session entitled "AI and Your Business" Some of the Q&A from that session is now online.

I know that Adobe MAX 2017 just wrapped, but it's never too early to start planning for MAX 2018 in Los Angeles. Registration isn't open yet, but you can sign up to lock in your $500 savings on the full conference pass price. There is no financial obligation at this time, just an opportunity to lock in this low price before it's gone, and we'll not...

One of my favorite Adobe responsibilities is directing Adobe MAX Sneaks. In case you missed the show, or if you just want to relive all the jaw-dropping goodness, we just posted videos of all 11 Sneaks for your viewing pleasure.

We're just days away from Adobe MAX 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. If you are attending (you should!), be sure to visit the Community Pavilion for all sorts of interaction, fun, games, tech, an creativity.

If you can't make it to Las Vegas for Adobe MAX 2017, despair not, you can watch the two keynotes live online.

Check out these profiles of Adobe MAX 2017 speakers!

The Adobe ColdFusion team is about to open the pre-release for their next major edition codenamed Aether. The team has published a survey which you can fill in to gain access to the pre-release.

For our fourth Make It Impactful tutorial and contest, we're inviting you to follow a simple tutorial that highlights some features of Adobe XD, an all-in-one tool for designing and prototyping websites and mobile apps. We asked designers Leah Buley and Marcelo Silva to demonstrate Adobe XD by building a simple landing page or home page, on the the...