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I just registered for Adobe Max 2009 as a student. Time to take advantage of my student status. =) This will be my 2nd Adobe Max and if its anything like the last one it should be awesome! Now I just have to decide which sessions I’ll attend. Most of the lab ones were pretty boring I thought last time. You just sit and follow some guidelines so I’ll probably skip those or maybe just pop in and pick up the handout and do the instructions at my own pace at home.

I’m kinda itching to go to SIGGRAPH in New Orleans as well. There student discount is much better, but the first early registration discount expires Friday. Not sure about the housing and stuff, but I’m sure the prices will add up. I’ll have to see if I can afford it. I definitely want to go to SIGGRAPH though.

My first Adobe Max was awesome! I learned tons of stuff and had a great time. I’m glad it was only 3 days cause my brain was fried by the end of the third day. Luckily they’ll have all the sessions online later so I can watch the sessions that I missed. I found myself going to most of the flex sessions and the 360|flex unconference sessions. The sneak peaks of whats in the works in their labs was awesome! Just to name a few: Alchemy (Using C/C++ in Flash), Cocomo (Real Time Social Capabilities), RTMFP, Meer Meer (comparing sites in different browsers side by side and overlapping in DreamWeaver), Photoshop plugin (forgot what they called it, but it extracts an object from a layer by creating a selection around it and then it blends with the background seamlessly), Exporing images (somewhat like google street view and photosynth from microsoft except you can explore more seamlessly by zooming, panning, etc), and many others that I can’t remember at the moment. Can’t wait for the next Adobe Max.

I just checked and the Adobe Product trials are finally available for download. Just in time for Adobe Max too, although, I wish they were available earlier….I suppose if they were available earlier, my trial may have run out by then. Now I can try out After Effects after watching a few tutorial videos at VideoCoPilot.net.

I can’t help, but get excited when Ted Patrick has been counting down the days to Adobe Max with the number of attendees increasing steadily on his blog. I wonder if it’ll reach 5000. This will be my first Adobe Max and I am really looking forward to it. I’m going to have to check on my schedule again because there are so many sessions that I’d like to go to and other things going on that it’s hard to choose. Luckily, I found a video of a session from 360|Flex on Ted Patrick’s blog that I was going to attend at Adobe Max. Now I can choose another session to go to. I wonder if they’ll be recording the flex sessions at Adobe Max and posting them later.