Three Adobe Air applications for simple image editing

Posted in Adobe Air on 30 March 2009 | Comments [3]

These days, simple image editing does not need a copy of Photoshop on your PC/Mac because there are more and more free image editing applications that run on the Adobe Air cross-platform runtime. Of course, for heavy duty image work, you may still need Fireworks or Photoshop but for simple tasks a free image editing application may be just what you [or your clients] need. Here are three that I discovered recently.

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Learning Adobe Air

Posted in Adobe Air JavaScript on 3 September 2008 | Comments [2]

I am planning to learn more about [play with] Adobe Air in my spare time over the next few months.

The Adobe AIR runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.

I figure it’s likely to be less of a learning curve than another coding language because you can build an application with HTML, CSS and JavaScript [Ajax] and subsequently use Air to deploy it to the desktop. Adobe Air will ‘package’ everything and create the installation file. Well, there’s a bit more to it than that but you get the idea. The first job is to work out what I need…

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