JSchoolTech News May 2025 Edition

Your monthly source for learning opportunities, tech updates and lesson ideas.

Drop in help times

May 5 8-12 JMC 300; 2-4 Portfolio

May 6 8-11 Portfolio,;2-5 JMC 300

May 8 8-10 JMC 300; 10-12 Portfolio

May 12 8-11 Portfolio; 1-4 JMC 300

May 13 8-11 JMC 300; 2-5 Portfolio

May 14 8-12 Portfolio

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Cool stuff, apps, lessons

Career Resources

Visit Behance

The new Behance Career Resource Hub offers several helpful and student friendly ways to build careers. The free guides offer tips, courses and events. With practice, students can apply for a commissioned project.

Office Hours presented a brief look at this new feature and offered some tips on creating case studies for a portfolio.

Build a next level case study

Express now offers analytics

Social Media Analytics is now fully integrated into Adobe Express, powered by Metricool! This powerful new feature helps you understand what's working in your social strategy and how to build on your success.

New Features

With Adobe Max London at the end of April, we have all sorts of new releases to celebrate!

Create Swatch Options

In your swatches panel, select swatches, then use flyout menu > create swatch info.

Illustrator will create swatch info icons with the CMYK, RGB and Hex codes.

Swatch info ready to be sent to printer.

Drag and Drop Gradients

This amazing time saver allows designers to drag and drop swatches into the gradient panel and Illustrator will evenly space those out.

Photoshop Gradient Methods

You can now create striped gradients in Photoshop. This fun feature allows multiple creative possibilities for design!

Premiere Pro - Translate Captions

Now you can translate your captions into multiple languages and increase your reach!

Read more here

Additionally, you can take this one step further and translate the audio itself to a new language using Firefly*. *requires Premium subscription.

Visit Firefly Audio

Firefly Boards (beta)

Previously known as Project Concept, this feature allows users to quickly visualize ideas with generative AI, moodboarding and combining different ideas to complete a vision.

Two AI images combined into third (on far right).

Sign up for the Beta and start experimenting!

Firefly Boards

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