If you're thinking about trying out TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge by making a 90 second video about your charitable work, uploading it to YouTube, and sending the link to us, you might find Adobe Story Free useful. Adobe Story Free is a free online service from Adobe.com that you can use to create your script and help with screenwriting. After you fill out your email address and choose a password, Adobe will send you a confirmation email. MORE

If you're going to work more effectively with images and don't already have an image-editing tool, you might consider Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 and Premiere Elements 12. TechSoup also offers professional-level image-editing software from Adobe: Photoshop Extended CS6. Over the past few years, Adobe's added a number of features to the Elements line that bring its capabilities even closer to the full version of Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer. MORE

When it comes to bringing your subjects to life, Adobe has all the tools to help you. But do you need Adobe Photoshop Elements, with just Photoshop's most useful tools, or Adobe Photoshop CC, the robust image editor with a tool for every need? Windows and Mac (choice of which to install in application manager). Scripting support. cloudcomputing Cloud Adobe digital storytelling software cloud computing storymakers MORE

Windows and Mac (choice of which to install in application manager). Scripting support. Check out the product pages for Photoshop Elements (part of the Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements bundle ) and Photoshop CC (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan and Photography plan ). cloudcomputing Cloud Adobe digital storytelling software cloud computing storymakers MORE

When it comes to slideshows on Web sites, you’re pretty much got two choices: Adobe Flash, or JavaScript (which for the purposes of this post we are no going to call jQuery*). Flash has been around for quite a while and has a very robust set of tools (made by Adobe, and formerly by Macromedia). jQuery is JavaScript, which means that some experience with the ubiquitous scripting language is going to make things much easier. MORE

On the high end, Adobe Audition offers professional level audio editing tools, but for most podcasts, comparable quality can be achieved with the cheaper applications. If you're using Audacity, you may need to download and install the LAME encoder which is required to produce mp3 files and must be distributed separately from the application installation.). It will take time to script, record, and edit the audio, engage with listeners, and collaborate with contributors. MORE

Check out Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 , the newest in Adobe's line of consumer-level image-editing software and a new addition to TechSoup's product catalog. TechSoup also offers other image-editing software from Adobe: Photoshop Extended CS5 (a souped-up version of Photoshop CS5) for both Windows and Mac. Support for automating Photoshop tasks through scripts written by developers. Adobe Special Donation Program. MORE

Windows and Mac (choice of which to install in application manager). Scripting support. Check out the product pages for Photoshop Elements (part of the Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements bundle ) and Photoshop CC (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan and Photography plan ). cloudcomputing Cloud Adobe digital storytelling software cloud computing storymakers MORE

TechSoup is proud to announce the newest version of Adobe's Elements bundle, containing both Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13. Both programs are lighter editions of Photoshop, Adobe's popular photo-editing application, and Premiere Pro, its robust video-editing application. A full list of features is available from Adobe. MORE

For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. MORE

To create a basic web application on the Microsoft platform, or to extend an existing application that supports their web programming standards, you, at a minimum, need to know XML; a scripting language such as Visual Basic or C#; and Active Server Pages (ASP). These languages support REST, a simple (albeit less secure) way of transmitting data in web applications. It was eclipsed completely by what is now Adobe's Dreamweaver. MORE

Fluid is an application you can use to create Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) on the Mac based on the Safari rendering engine (WebKit). As well as Adobe AIR which brings its own tricks to the party beyond just duplicating a browser. When you launch the application you just tell it which page should now be treated as a stand-alone application. Proceed with caution here and only install scripts you know/trust. How did I not know how wonderful this was before? MORE

If you're going to work more effectively with images and don't already have an image-editing tool, you might consider Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 11. TechSoup also offers professional-level image-editing software from Adobe: Photoshop Extended CS6 (for both Windows and Mac ). Over the past few years, Adobe's added a number of features to the Elements line that bring its capabilities even closer to the full version of Photoshop. MORE