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InDesign CS5 and InCopy CS5 Review
In my studio, InDesign CS5 has proven to be a solid workhorse with no major drawbacks and several benefits. It's already become a tool for building multimedia I would normally do in Flash.
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REVIEW: CorelDRAW X5 Adds Useful New Features
CorelDRAW X5 doesn't have the range of tools Photoshop and Illustrator might have, but it has some specific tools I don't see elsewhere and I am impressed by the strides made in web graphics and digital asset management.
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Premiere Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5 Review
After Effects CS5 seems like a less necessary upgrade than Premiere Pro CS5, but that's probably because After Effects doesn't have a game-changer like Premiere does with its new Mercury playback engine.
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Flash Professional CS5 Review
Flash Professional CS5 is still a phenomenal application that created an entire industry, but the fragmentation of the mobile market and the expanding Flash Platform has made its future unpredictable.
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Photoshop CS5 Review
No matter whether or not you use all of Photoshop CS5's new features, every one of them works as advertised and I don't have a major complaint about the upgrade.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Wealthy Freelancer Is Essential For Freelancers Today
Almost every freelancer has a dream—but the practical pitfalls of freelancing or owning your own business often get in the way. The authors of The Wealthy Freelancer think the truth is actually much different.
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Adobe Lightroom 3 Released
Today Adobe announced the release of Photoshop Lightroom 3. The digital photography management application had been available previously through a public beta, which will expire at the end of June 2010.
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Goodbye PMS, hello PANTONE PLUS
Pantone finally does what it could not do in 2007: announce an end to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® in favor of a new standard of color.
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Adobe eLearning Suite 2 Catapults Captivate 5 to Mac
Adobe Systems today announced the upcoming eLearning Suite 2 and Captivate 5, to ship in June 2010.
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Photoshop Extended CS5 First Impressions
Photoshop Extended CS5 excites me in a way Photoshop Extended CS4 didn't—its new features seem that much more useful and smart.
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Dreamweaver CS5 First Impressions
The Dreamweaver team has once again focused its efforts on CSS and live/dynamic webpage handling, making Dreamweaver CS5 very similar to Dreamweaver CS4 but a lot more useful for designers handling CSS and dynamic systems.
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InDesign CS5 First Impressions
InDesign CS5 doesn't seem to have the quantity of new features that some other CS5 products have, but what it does have are immensely useful new features.
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Illustrator CS5 First Impressions
Illustrator CS5 has some nice new features, but nothing really blows me away.
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DVD REVIEW: “For A Beautiful Web” DVD Series
The three-disk For A Beautiful Web DVD series is a very nice resource for web designers, with roughly two hours per disk on three important topics: CSS, microformats and web accessibility.
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BOOK REVIEW: Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook
I really enjoyed reading Friends With Benefits: the book has solid insights backed with research and some great case studies.
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BOOK REVIEW: Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Ed.
Zeldman's writing is sharp and clear as always, and the third edition is an essential read for those new to web design or web standards.
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BOOK REVIEW: High Performance Web Sites
I don't give out perfect ratings very often, but I did for Even Faster Web Sites and I will do the same for High Performance Web Sites.
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99 Free Valentine’s Day Fonts
Designorati romanced every free font resource, sampled every heart-shaped box of chocolatey, type treats, and arranged this bouquet of 99 ways to type "I love you."
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REVIEW: Maya Entertainment Creation Suite 2010 Is A Wonderful Package
The Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite, which bundles Autodesk Maya 2010 with Autodesk Mudbox 2010 and Autodesk MotionBuilder 2010 software, is a beautiful product combination from Autodesk—and one of its first.
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3D Projection on Buildings. New Art? New Advertising?
Is ultra-realistic, high-powered 3D projection of animations and messages the future of advertising?
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Photoshop/Premiere Elements 8: New technologies, same ease of use
Photoshop Elements 8 and Premiere Elements 8 are interesting upgrades because some cutting-edge technology from the professional-grade Creative Suite 4 (CS4) has migrated to the Elements consumer lineup.
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Dom Sagolla’s 140 Characters: Fragmented Writing Creates A Difficult Book
The author's pedigree and the subject matter excited me about this book, but I was disappointed by the writing.
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Adobe MAX Sneak Peeks—Video!
Video from the Sneak Peeks event at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles. Cutting-edge new technology from Adobe, perhaps coming to the next Creative Suite.
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In addition to all the wonderful things in our lives to be thankful for this season—loved ones, health, happiness, and Designorati—we thought you might also like to give thanks for some free* Thansgiving fonts. (...)
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REVIEW: Sibelius 6 Is Close To Perfect
The new Sibelius 6 is a beautiful application in both form and function—it makes me want to compose again.
