I’m super-excited to get an early look the new Adobe Edge software, currently in public preview and is a complimenary download on Adobe Labs. Adobe Edge is a new motion and interactive design tool currently in production that renders content to HTM5, CSS3, and Java Script. With HTML5 as the newly approved web standard for your markup, Edge is a promising tool for us Flashers (NOTE: “Flashers” are Adobe flash users, not to be confused with other types of flashing).

Like Adobe Flash, designers will again be able to have an art-board and a timeline to produce stunning animation and dazzling effects to your website or interface. Thus, Edge will help provide the needed “bling” to add that needed element of professionalism and coolness that will separate you from your competition.  So go ahead, click the link below and check-it-out for yourself.  It will be interesting to see how this new tool evolves and will change the web.  HTML5, CSS3, and Java Script are a promising team and quickly emerging as the new industry standard.

“EDGE IS IDEAL FOR VISUAL, WEB AND INTERACTION DESIGNERS WHO WANT TO ENERGIZE THEIR CONTENT FOR THE WEB WITH MOVEMENT AND TRANSITIONS. EDGE PREVIEW ONE FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON ANIMATION AND MOTION, WITH UPCOMING PREVIEWS FEATURING ADDITIONAL CREATIVE CAPABILITIES AND FUNCTIONALITY.”

ACCORDING TO ADOBE THE SOFTWARE WILL DO THE FOLLOWING:

• Create new compositions with Edge’s drawing and text tools.
• Import popular web graphics such as SVG, PNG, JPG or GIF files.
• Easily choreograph animation with the timeline editor. Animate position, size, color, shape, rotation and more at the property level.
• Energize existing HTML files with motion, while preserving the integrity of CSS-based HTML layouts.
• Copy and paste transitions, invert them, and choose from over 25 built-in easing effects for added creativity.

Color is an experience. Color is a defining attribute in the world we live in. We live  in a world in which we come to know things via our senses; let’s call these perceptual experiences. As humans, we perceive color in truly amazing ways. In fact part of the beauty and awe of color is that the perceptional experience of color is just that, namely the way it appears to us. We perceive color just as we perceive taste.  For instance, can one really say what the color green is like or the taste of an apple? We attempt to communicate these experiences with others via propositional statements or comparisons and literary devices, but in reality, our perceptual experiences are unique to us. One would have to somehow be in our own mind to experience the very things we experience. Many significant memories are experiences that we had, such as that perfect shade of orange submerging the beautifully vast ocean water just before it disappears for the night, setting with a peculiar green flash that you’ll miss if you blink. Color is meaningful to us.

In the world of design, color is one of the significantly defining elements of a particular piece, thus rendering it meaning and life. Sam Levinson, an American Humorist said, “It’s a good thing that when God created the rainbow, He didn’t consult a decorator or He would still be picking colors,” thus underscoring the fact that when picking colors, one should not be cavalier. At Kalos Interactive, we sometimes spend hours upon hours, carefully scrutinizing differing color palettes hoping to communicate just the right message for a given project appropriate for their industry, and hopefully augmenting the subjects perceptual experience of the website, logomark, business card, advertisement, or various other works we create. Much time could be spent on color theory, the science behind light and color, aesthetics, and the way we observe the world, but I believe that color nonetheless is a very significant element that is often taken for granted.

One of my favorite website concepts and means to help the color picking process is Kuler by Adobe. This is a very sleek tool to share color, possibly a way to share your experiences and life with others via color palettes. It is a kind of social networking site dealing with color, where one can explore, create, and share color themes. One can also manipulate palettes based on a variety of different settings, create a palette from a photograph, and even download the theme into Adobe Creative Suite, thus having it right at your fingertips. This Flash/Flex based interface is filled with many great goodies. I sometimes spend hours on this site and it inspires me and my projects. I feel like in an indirect way, others from around the world are sharing their color recommendations and experiences and consulting on projects. Someone once said, “Color is your soul painted,” and I believe this may just be true and that Kalos Interactive Design is green.

visit site : : kuler.adobe.com