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Photoshop 3D image export into Adobe Edge?

Jun 24, 2012 3:11 AM

Hi,

 

I am hoping to design an image / animation like the one shown below, in software (probably Photoshop), and then import this image into Adobe Edge for the user to interact with.

pitch test.png

I have a few questions that I hope people could help with:

 

1. Should Photoshop be used if I am considering importing into Edge (File Size issues?)

 

2. Is Adobe Edge suitable to animate this design? - Why? (Note: I am looking for the pitch to rotate and stop at certain frames when user will click on certain links.

 

3. This is planned to be hosted on a CMS Joomla, where users will have access to certain animaitons based on membership (tiered) - Is this possible? - Why?

 

4. Is it wishful thinking to link Photshop, Adobe Edge and Joomla in this way (compatibility issues)?

 

Many thanks for any help, an answer would be a god send and I am sure would help many developers and designers out there also.

 

JG

550 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: Jiggsygee78, Jun 30, 2012 1:22 AM
 
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  • Jiggsygee78
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    1. Jiggsygee78,
    Jun 29, 2012 3:05 PM   in reply to Jiggsygee78
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    Just thought I would refresh this.

     

    PLEASE if anybody could help with answers for these questions I would be extremely grateful; or even redirect me to the right place.. (as long as not the edge forum, as tried that!)

     

    Thanks again

     
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    Jun 29, 2012 3:13 PM   in reply to Jiggsygee78
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    Well, Jiggsygee78, the reality is that if you didn't get any replies at the Edge forum, you're even less likely to get them here. 

     

    At least over there, you'll find Edge users who have heard of Photoshop.  I've been using Adobe products since 1984, Photoshop for some ten years, and I'm embarrassed to say that I had to Google Adobe Edge, as I had never heard of it.  Same with Joomla.

     
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    3. Jiggsygee78,
    Jun 29, 2012 3:38 PM   in reply to station_two
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    Thanks Station-2

     

    Maybe I am going down the wrong path in thinking that adobe edge will be the next big thing replacing flash as a development tool for creative, interactive websites.

     

    Having spent a while developing a few files, I feel slightly worried that this could be wasted time.

     

    As an experienced adobe product user, do you have a suggestion for designing such 3d images (as shown above) animating and then allowing user interactions to stop and play etc.

     

    Any of your experience is fully appreciated.

     

    Thanks.

     
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    4. station_two,
    Jun 29, 2012 4:56 PM   in reply to Jiggsygee78
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    Don't let my ignorance influence you.  Maybe Adobe Edge is cutting edge indeed.  What do I know.

     

    I can't help you with your new question either.  I've used Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to create and prepare art, illustrations and typography for printing books, manuals and the like for decades.  Photoshop has been my digital darkroom for about a decade.

     

    I couldn't design my way out of a paper bag if my life depended on it, so I have no clue as to animation, video and web stuff.  Sorry.

     
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    5. Mylenium,
    Jun 29, 2012 11:36 PM   in reply to Jiggsygee78
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    Short and to the point: You are looking for the wrong answers. There is no "which button must I push" solution and I'm sorry to say so, but your questions to me indicate a quite different problem: You are pretty clueless about web techniques on a more general level (I know it sounds rude, but no harm intended!). The web doesn't run on Edge or Joomla, it still runs on HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Those programs and backend software are just a means of creating or delivering content, but all they will spit out is a bog standard web page with links, text and images, just perhaps with some fancies based on JavaScript or CSS right down to specific types of animation. You really need to get into this, even if you may not want to. In your case you would have to consider how to

     

    - have the user interact with the dots (JavaScript)

    - have those dots display correcty with regards to perspective (JavaScript)

    - play animations in sync with the scripts' calculations (JavaScript/ CSS3 animation behaviors)

    - return the info to your CMS to provide additional info

     

    None of that is impossible, but it's really going to be more than just slapping together a few standard animation and interaction behaviors in Edge and defining a few images as backgrounds. It would even be a decent coding job in Flash... So unless you know your way around all this under the hood stuff and would be able to do authoring in Dreamweaver and customize the Joomla themes in addition, you may be in over your head. Despite what everybody may tell you, this is going to require some manual programming.

     

    Mylenium

     
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    6. Jiggsygee78,
    Jun 30, 2012 1:22 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Thanks again Station_two..

     

    Mylenium, thank you for your feedback and you make some, no doubt, valid points based on years of experience. But your point (I know it sounds rude, but no harm intended!). stands out like a sore thumb. There are many of us who are trying to learn these skills and I amongst others am really trying my best to become an effective designer and/or developer.

     

    Short and to the point: I have created a site in Joomla with a backend database which I am hoping to get onto my remote host soon. This site contains information on users with ACL for specific members. Dependent on the subscription the users of the site have paid for, will determine what access they have to various features such as animations, the animations that I have requested some help and advice on creating. I have basic actionsript knowledge which I believe will be needed in whichever software I choose.

     

    I am looking for software that will allow me to create this image and animation and I'm guessing after scrolling through hundreds of pages that Photoshop may be the answer initally and then be able to animate in another program, adding interactivity within it.

     

    Now, I may be "pretty clueless about web techniques on a more general level", but I think I have done OK so far, and need some help from more expreienced and skilled users like yourself to get this project off the ground.

     

    I sincerely hope that I can get a more positive and helpful response.

     

    Thanks.

     
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