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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software, the successor to Adobe Production Studio, allows you to create visually innovative work for film, broadcast, web, mobile phones, and other portable devices. New releases of Adobe’s post-production and graphic tools are combined with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional and intuitive new audio tool Adobe Soundbooth.
If you design across media and need all the power Adobe has available, then Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3 Master Collection is for you. It has everything you need to design for print, web, video, and even mobile!
This is the big one, the first Adobe web software suite with the Macromedia apps—not counting the transition package we’ve had over the last several months. Adobe has finally put their mark on the Macromedia stable of apps.
Photoshop is sporting a new slogan to go with its latest news.
Has anyone seen this page on Photoshop’s 20-year history and its new “Extended” family?
Not only does it define Adobe’s approach to the digital imaging market and its positioning of the Photoshop brand, it also gives away a new slogan for the product:
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Photoshop CS3 will be available in Standard and Extended versions, each one suited for specific market segments.
Adobe Systems made big news recently by announcing that the upcoming Photoshop CS3 will be available in two versions. This is news because, while applications such as Photoshop Elements have been around awhile for non-professional consumers, this is the first time Photoshop itself has been segmented in this way—and unlike Photoshop Elements, the newest Photoshop is for specific professional users. From the Adobe website:
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Entry-level live web version answers competition from Microsoft, Google
In an article on CNet News.com, it was announced today that Adobe, makers of well known software for creative artists, plans to bring a version of its signature Photoshop online in a web-hosted form, sometime in the next three to six months:
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I’ve yet to write a review of the much-anticipated Photoshop Lightroom 1.0, but Macworld.com has put one out there for us.
Macworld.com has posted a review of Photoshop Lightroom; it will be in the May 2007 issue, but is on their website now.
Corel is now shipping the next generation of Painter: Painter X! Painter X has new features including the new RealBristleâ„¢ Painting System and new composition tools, and a printed user guide. And if you act fast, the Paint Can is back in a Limited Edition!
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PRESS RELEASE
Next-Generation Art Studio Delivers a Natural Painting & Illustration Experience Unmatched by Any Other Software
Ottawa, Canada, February 6, 2007 – Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) today announced that Corel® Painter(TM) X, the world’s most powerful painting and illustration software, is now available for pre-order from www.corel.com/painterx. The latest version of Corel Painter continues its focus on giving professional artists, designers and photographers a natural painting and illustration experience that is unmatched by any other software.
Learning with pictures rather than words is the philosophy of In Pictures, and they have recently launched a line of free online tutorials on Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, and more.

In Pictures, the company that brought readers free e-books last year, recently launched a new line of free online computer how-to tutorials. Currently there are 12 tutorials on Microsoft Office 2003, OpenOffice.org and Dreamweaver 8. Because In Pictures tutorials are based on pictures, not text, you learn by seeing examples as you work. These tutorials are an effective way to get started learning a new software package, or seeing what’s new in newer versions of software you already use.
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Corel is pleased to announce that CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 has been Certified for Windows Vista – the first full featured graphics suite to achieve certification status. For those of us who have already moved to Windows Vista, this is good news indeed!
Electric Rain, a company known for motion graphics software for video and the web, has announced the release of STANDOUT, a presentation application that makes PowerPoint look like Print Shop.

On Monday I discussed STANDOUT with Mike Soucie, Electric Rain CEO, and came away with a few basic notions about STANDOUT and the thinking behind the product:
Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom, which has been a public beta application for over a year now, has graduated to full application status and is now available for purchase.

Visit Adobe.com and you’ll find that Photoshop Lightroom is now available for purchase. While the application will not be shipping until mid-February 2007 (late February for the French version), you can download it from the Adobe website. If you purchase before April 30, 2007, you can purchase Photoshop Lightroom for $199 (regular price is $299). The Photoshop Lightroom beta will expire on February 28, 2007.
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If mobile phones are becoming mp3 players, THE mp3 player has become a mobile phone
Let’s face it. Mobile phones have got little left of their “phone side.” You can use them to play games, watch TV, listen to music or watch music videos, and a lot more. You might think that the next thing will be mobile phones that make coffee. While that’s the dream of many designers, that hasn’t happened yet. However Apple thought of evolving their iPod into the iPhone. You can still ask Jobs to add a coffee function if you will.
The news, posted by Dan Margulis tonight on the Color Theory list, pays much homage to the “father of digital color management”.

Bruce Fraser, Photoshop pioneer and considered one of the most important influences on how Photoshop interprets and manages color, died yesterday after fighting a terminal illness. From Dan Margulis’ post to the Color Theory group:
The past nine months have seen an unprecedented level of disclosure from Adobe Systems, Inc. first with committing to a firm release date, sneaking a look at InDesign CS3, and today with the announcement of Photoshop CS3 as a public beta–the first in Adobe’s history.
According to a Reuters news bulletin published moments ago, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen refined his March 2006 promise to ship Creative Suite 3 in the 2nd Quarter of 2007. Despite conflicting announcements expected from today’s Adobe Systems, Inc. fourth quarter fiscal 2006 earnings conference call with shareholders, Reuters reports Chizen has having stated that Adobe will ship “the biggest release in Adobe’s history” at the end of 2Q2007, which could be as late as June.
AppleInsider.com announced the rumor earlier that the long-awaited CS3 may be released as a public beta. Now they say that Photoshop CS3 itself will be released as a beta on Friday, December 15, 2006. Will it happen?
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Adobe has revised its free Adobe Reader to version 8.
PRESS RELEASESAN JOSE, Calif. — December 6, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Adobe® Reader® 8 software is available as a free download. Adobe Reader 8 enables trusted information exchange between enterprises, government agencies, constituents and consumers who view, print, search, digitally sign and collaborate with PDF files. Adobe Reader 8 also features a new “Start Meeting†button that launches Adobe Acrobat® Connect™, an Adobe-hosted software service that provides real-time online collaboration through Adobe Flash® Player.
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A Most Intriguing Political Animal
In the USA’s tempestuous modern political landscape, the “gerrymander” has raised its quizzical head
In the ongoing war of words that appears to amount to American politics latterly, we’ve heard much of the “gerrymander”. A most unique beast, it is a creation of man, a friend to those in power, and the enemy of those out of power.
- Adobe Releases kuler, A Web Application For Building Color Themes
kuler allows designers to build groups of colors quickly and easily, and it’s web-based.
Today Adobe introduced a technology preview of kuler, a Web-hosted application that allows users to quickly create and share harmonious color themes over the Web. I first heard about it from Adobe’s PR team yesterday, and John Nack has written a bit about it on his blog here.
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- Acrobat 8 News: INTERVIEW With Lonn Lorenz, Acrobat 8 Product Manager
On Tuesday, November 7 I had the opportunity to discuss the new Acrobat 8 with Lonn Lorenz, Acrobat 8 Product Manager at Adobe Systems.
By the time I talked with Lonn Lorenz, I had already had some experience with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional through working with the beta and now the gold master versions. It’s a different beast than Acrobat 7 in several respects (see my upcoming review to learn more), and these are what I keyed in on in my questions with Mr. Lorenz. Here’s some key details I learned:
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- Master Typographer Frutiger Honored by SoTA
Major Typophile group honors decades of historic work
At an event on 1 November 2006 the Society of Typographic Aficionados, commonly known as SoTA, awarded type master Adrian Frutiger its prestigious 2006 Typography Award, reports Linotype:
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