This past weekend, CollegeCandy had the opportunity to fly out to the Adobe Headquarters to learn all about the new Creative Suite 6. There are a lot of super cool features that are new to CS6, including a Creative Cloud option where you pay a monthly student-friendly rate and have access to all the entire suite of programs online. Pretty neat — and affordable — right? Yup, we thought so too.
So this got us thinking. What are some ways all students, not just design students, can benefit from CS6? Facebook, the great unifier, duh! Check out these tips on how to make your profile picture and albums instantly cooler by using CS6 and a little extra creative thinking! Read More »
On April 23, Adobe announced some new products that are great for college students. The first is Photoshop CS6, the newest version of the internet’s favorite photo editing program. CS6 has all kind of exciting new features. It allows you to work on any device, including an iPad or other tablet, and integrate multimedia into your designs.
Adobe also introduced Creative Cloud, their new membership service that provides users with extras and exclusives. Creative Cloud allows you to integrate and sync projects between devices, download exclusive mobile apps and access two new HTML5 products.
Adobe’s new products are great tools for college students, allowing you to create unique, interesting designs and a rich portfolio. These are definitely worth a look for anyone who is interested in web or graphic design as a career or hobby. For more information, head over to the Adobe website.
Yesterday, Adobe released an updated version of the favorite product of the internet age – Photoshop. They’ve unveiled the beta version of Photoshop CS6, which includes all the new features that will be available when Photoshop CS6 has its full release within the next few months. It’s full of new enhancements that will increase performance and help you create polished images that pop.
Photoshop is a great program for college students, whether you’re using it for class, to jazz up your resume or for making hilarious photos to put on the internet. Because let’s be honest, we all spend more time on the internet than we spend on homework. The best part of this news is that you can download the beta version of CS6 now! Adobe is looking for feedback on their new product, so download it here and tell them what you think on their forum.
For those of you who watched the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show last night, have you guilted yourself into skipping your usual morning Peppermint Mocha? Watching beautiful women prance around with perfect bodies in barely-there underwear can definitely have that effect on your diet. While it may seem easy to compare your pale, non-summer body and flat hair to the tanned and toned physiques of the Angels, consider cutting yourself a little slack.
It’s already been revealed how completely ridiculous the VS models’ eating and exercising regimen is in the weeks up to the big event. (No consuming anything, even water, 24 hours prior to the show…say what!?) Regular people don’t live their lives like that. Aside from being excruciatingly difficult, it’s plain ol’ unhealthy.
Click the photo above to see more winning pieces from the Adobe challenge.
As loyal readers of CollegeCandy know, we’re really big into Adobe’s Student Imagination Challenge. We’re up for anything that involves offering students money (we’re talking $10,000) just for being creative. So that’s why we’re celebrating the winners of round one and two by showcasing their work right here!
Jealous you didn’t get a chance to enter? Don’t be. The next round is starting today, September 18th. Get all the details right here.
Two weeks ago we told you that we were on the search to find a new, cool logo to use on all our many social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr). And Adobe was so excited to hear about our Photoshop-inspired contest that they decided to chip in to give the winner her very own copy of CS5.5.
We got a whole slew of entries and it was hard to pick the very best one. I mean, you’re looking at judges who’s Photoshop skills are still on the Microsoft Paint level. So it’s fair to say that we were pretty, pretty impressed with the entries that came in.
But life is about making the hard decisions and that’s why we had to pick just one. So with no further ado, see the new face of CC social media (give or take a few tweaks).
Oh, and if this contest got you all hot and bothered about Adobe, then get excited. Because on August 21st, they’re launching a contest that you gotta see to believe! It’s the Imagination Challenge and you could win up to $10,000. That’s a lot of $1 slices of pizza. Or like one really nice iPad, a new fall wardrobe and still a lot of $1 slices of pizza.
P.S: While we’re on the Photoshop topic train, don’t forget to watch our awesome tutorial on turning your summer memories into a piece of artwork.
Photoshop. We know it as every celebrity’s best friend (“Wow, did you lose ten pounds over night!?”) and worst enemy (“Yikes, did you see her leaked nude photos?”). But did you know that the creative lengths to which you can go with Adobe Photoshop stretch way beyond slimming down thighs and blending one head onto another body?
For instance you can pimp out an endless number of class projects, add a little dazzle to your resume, kick-start a campus club with snazzy flyers or deck the halls of your sorority house. Recognizing that every student should have this essential program, Adobe and CollegeCandy want to give you the opportunity to win a copy of Photoshop CS5.5!
Halloweekend 2010 is finally here, and after a week of warming up between all-nighter study sessions for midterms and all-nighter sexy time, the costumed craziness continues through to Monday morning’s walk of shame.
But in case you haven’t thrown together a simple outfit yet, or if you simply don’t feel like spending all of next week detagging and/or Photoshopping drunken photos, here are a few CC-approved options to still keep your weekend productive:
Brush up on your 2010 World Series speak. It’s the perfect conversation topic post-Halloweekend (and we don’t just mean with frat boys).
(Try to) plan your perfect class schedule. Just like every other semester, it’s worth a try.
Do something for yourself to cheer you up amidst midterm mania (and these tips are still as effective post-grad!)
Stir up enough courage and finally submit that Morning After story. Whether centered around your big boobs or the smaller body parts of others, we’ll take it – anonymously, of course!
Win a free beer pong table! With a steady hand and your incognito camera-phone abilities, it’ll be easy to turn a few annoying costumed college kids in October into your next drinking game in November.
Halloweekend 2010 is finally here, and after 
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