It’s hard to put a rating on such an expansive service like the Digital Publishing Suite. There are so many components to it that judging the whole publishing process seems to do a disservice to the product.
by Jeremy Schultz
Adobe announced today the release of Creative Suite 6 (CS6) and the Adobe Creative Cloud, representing the latest in the company's lineup of applications for creative professionals. They will be available for purchase in May.
It's hard to put a rating on such an expansive service like the Digital Publishing Suite. There are so many components to it that judging the whole publishing process seems to do a disservice to the product.
REVIEW: Adobe’s Touch Apps for Android
Some apps really stand out for their usefulness; others are not as helpful and robust. Despite this, I'm really glad to see Adobe stake a claim in the tablet market for creative professional apps.
HP’s EliteBook 8460w Still Durable and Tough, Inside and Out
Many changes have happened this year in the computer hardware industry as tablets continue to affect the form factor of our computers. The EliteBook remains a thick and durable piece of hardware.
Adobe Releases Touch Apps Tablet Applications For Android
Today Adobe officially released their lineup of Touch Apps for Android tablets, deepening their dive into products for mobile devices
Compared to the first day's MAX keynote, the second day's keynote was much more focused on hard-core development.
TypeKit, WoodWing and Nitobi customers are all affected by Adobe's announcements today.
After all these announcements, I wasn't sure if life will be easier or harder now for the traditional creative professional.
Adobe has thrown a lot of changes at us today—a significant update to the Creative Suite, an SDK, new applications, a discontinuation and a major change in the way creative professionals will buy vital equipment from now on.
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac: Smaller, Faster, Better
Those who didn't buy the Quadro FX 4800 have even less of an excuse to turn down the Quadro 4000.
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."
Review: Adobe Acrobat X Pro
While some past features (such as redaction) haven't targeted creative professionals, Acrobat X Pro steps up with cool new things creative professionals will embrace.
Adobe Announces Acrobat X
Yesterday Adobe announced Acrobat X, pronounced “X” but corresponding to version 10 of the flagship produce for PDF creation and handling. I’ve been working with the Acrobat X Pro beta for a couple weeks and my first impressions are mostly positive, but my complete responses will be in my upcoming review for CreativePro.com. In the meantime, Adobe’s press release is below for your review.
Pantone Releases CAPSURE Color Measurement Device
Unlike other devices by Pantone, CAPSURE is designed to only measure color, and to do it in a variety of products.
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.
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.
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.
As a file conversion utility Fusion works well and it's a full-featured product for producing PDFs
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.
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.
Company Marks 10-Year Milestone with Limited Edition Anniversary Book
Devastating news for the design world: After 55 years in publication, I.D. Magazine, America’s foremost design publication, has folded.
I.D. was the oldest design magazine in the country, and was the one-time employer of many noteworthy figures, including Bruce Mau. Its yearly design competition, the Annual Design Review, was the oldest and biggest design competition in America, and had been operating ever since I.D.‘s inception. The competition was also the magazine’s cash cow; F&W, I.D.‘s publisher, plans on continuing the event and publishing the results online.
Read more on Design Icon I.D. Magazine Folds After 55 Years in Print…
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.
The Only Way to Prevent Fragmentation–Before it Happens
PRESS RELEASE BURBANK, CA, November 18, 2009 –Diskeeper Corporation launched today Diskeeper® 2010 performance software–the only product available today that actually prevents fragmentation before it happens. Utilizing a new revolutionary technology called IntelliWrite™, Diskeeper 2010 intelligently writes files to the disk to prevent up to 85 percent of fragmentation from occurring. Coupled with Diskeeper software’s superior defragmentation technology, Diskeeper 2010 delivers a complete performance solution for every Windows system at every site, and goes far beyond what defragmentation alone can achieve.
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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