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.
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
While the content and the delivery is good, I think the production quality of the DVD can be improved.
After all these announcements, I wasn't sure if life will be easier or harder now for the traditional creative professional.
The Inspiration Guide might be a hard sell for illustrators—after all, why buy the book when you can see the work online?
BOOK REVIEW: Vector Basic Training Shows The Grunt Work
Surprisingly, Vector Basic Training actually has relatively little emphasis on Illustrator or other vector drawing applications. But it's still a good book on illustration.
There's an ecliptic mix of painters, illustrators and photography pros in this book so styles differ and I like some more than others, but they are all excellent.
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."
This product on Adobe Labs gives Illustrator CS5 some new features helpful for HTML5 developers.
The more I use Illustrator CS5, the more I find I like its new features.
Illustrator CS5 has some nice new features, but nothing really blows me away.
BOOK REVIEW: Papervision3D Essentials
Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder's Papervision3D Essentials is a solid book with clear writing, a very hands-on approach to learning Papervision 3D.
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.
REVIEW: DrawPlus X3 Does Some Catching Up
The latest version of Serif's DrawPlus sports new features, some of which are familiar to Photoshop and Illustrator users.
Adobe CS4 and ROI: Is Productivity The New Killer Feature?
Research suggests efficiency may be worth as much as the cool features.
REVIEW: Corel Painter 11 Produces Beautiful Work, Makes Small Improvements
The new Painter 11 is very similar to its predecessor—many of its improvements are small and increase efficiency and compatibility. But a few new features will excite artists and illustrators.
Compared to the other CS4 applications, Illustrator CS4 does not have a lot of upgrades and new features—but one in particular almost answers a decade-old problem. Almost.
Milestone Release Radically Improves Creative Workflow Efficiency; Redefines Collaboration Between Designers and Developers
CS4 Design Standard includes four applications:
Since Acrobat 9 isn’t new, I’ll concentrate on the first three programs in this first look. The following information is based on my experience using betas of the CS4 apps since July of this year.
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Adobe Announces Creative Suite 4
Today, Adobe Systems announced Creative Suite 4 (CS4).
REVIEW: Serif Jumps The Pond With Four Creative Pro Apps
Serif releases four applications in the US, delivering solutions for page layout, graphics, photo editing and webpage creation.
An interesting new link has shown up on the Adobe Systems Web site.
FreeHand, Macromedia’s vector drawing tool, is at end-of-life, according to latest information from Adobe, but is still available for purchase
FreeHand, Macromedia’s (now Adobe’s) 2D vector drawing tool, similar in reach to Adobe Illustrator, has been ended as an evolving tool, according to Adobe.
The online color community from Adobe Labs delivers themes right into AICS3-via RSS
Many illustrators and Illustrator users now make use of an innovative new venture from Adobe Labs–Kuler. This is more than a source for inspiration. From your web browser you can compose, share, get feedback on, give feedback on, rate, and generally contribute to a color-interested community.
The CS3 suites and the main applications are available now!
Today Adobe released the Creative Suite 3 applications and suites comprising the Design Premium and Standard suites, as well as the Web Premium and Standard suites; you might have read my article here that mentioned the release date beforehand. As for the CS3 Production Premium and Master Collection suites, which include Adobe’s video editing applications, those will not be available until “the third quarter of 2007.”
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