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This heavy-duty software package for digital designers is the first to blend Adobe's famed Photoshop and other tools with interactive design apps formerly made by Macromedia. We're reviewing the lineup: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Premiere, AfterEffects, the new Production Premium video suite, and Adobe's Web and Design packages geared for Internet and print designers. Bookmark this page for ongoing news, reviews, and videos.
Which suite fits your work? There's a niche package to meet the needs of designers and editors of digital graphics, Web sites, interactive games, print publications, and videos.
Adobe is adding two flavors of Photoshop. The Extended edition includes video-ready features and some 3D image tools.
This update adds more support for Ajax and CSS coding, as well as integration with other CS3 apps.
Flash is faster than in the past, but is it better?
New drawing tools and imports from Photoshop and Illustrator make Fireworks pop.
If Illustrator is a key part of your Flash work flow, this is the update you've been waiting for.
Acrobat lets you fill out and collect paperless forms, and it can black out text permanently.
We spotlight heavy-duty film-editing packages from Apple and Adobe. Which one is ready for Hollywood? Read more
August 1, 2007Web 2.0 design is about building services that are clean, simple, fast, and interactive. Designers who get this are making sites that are leagues ahead of those from the previous generation. Read more
August 1, 2007Looking for a laptop that can run Photoshop like a pro? Here are a few configurations that should do the trick. Read more
July 12, 2007We pit veteran Adobe Dreamweaver against Microsoft's upstart ExpressionWeb. Read more
May 29, 2007There is indeed a way to save your project and your wallet from the $2,500 price tag of Adobe Creative Suite 3. You just have to be a bit...creative. Read more
March 27, 2007Expression Studio includes Microsoft's FrontPage replacement and three other new applications for creating and managing images, Web sites, and rich media applications. Read more
April 3, 2007A terrific Web editor for the price, Namo 2006 is an excellent choice for anyone looking to move up from basic freeware. Read more
April 18, 2006Mac fans on a shoestring budget can count on iLife to juggle photos, make movies, compose songs, and post blogs. Read more
February 7, 2003Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier. Read more
July 04, 2008Adobe shows off ambitious Acrobat; Major League Baseball strikes out in IP dispute; and Yahoo's pay plan leaks. Read more
June 02, 2008Microsoft's touching OS news; new congressional Internet row over China; live and in color--it's Mars! Read more
May 28, 2008The Phoenix lander touches down safely on Mars; researchers find an exploit in the newest version of Adobe Flash; and the man heading up Microsoft's Windows efforts starts talking Windows 7. Read more
May 27, 2008
Highlights of the new features and enhancements in Adobe's Create Suite 3 core applications.
A walkthrough of the new features in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended versions.
New features include color guides, an eraser, and integration with other Adobe applications.
Lightroom, not included in Adobe CS3, is a solid picture-organizing and retouching application.
Dressed up in much fancier duds, and facing little competition for high-end image-editing software, the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta is for the serious enthusiast only.
If you just want to retouch images a bit, Photoshop is overkill. Check out Paint.NET, an open-source freeware editor with all the essential tools, including those for cropping, rotating, resizing, adjusting colors, and creating collages.
The volunteer developers of The GIMP have been working hard to develop a polished, user-friendly, and freely distributed image editor.
A free, open-source, vectorized image-creator? You mean, like Adobe Illustrator, but smaller and at no cost? Could it be?
If you dislike that achy, bloated feeling that other HTML editors can give your computer, KompoZer may be the freeware cure you're looking for.
Microsoft Expression Web gives you all the tools you'll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them.
Installing this app is not for the faint-of-heart or casual users. It requires four different installer files, Gtk+, Gtkmm, Synfig Core, and Synfig Studio.
With so many audio editors out there, finding the right tool for the job can be tricky. The multiplatform, open-source editor Audacity has leaped to the top of our list with its clean interface, excellent features, and support for 32-bit floating-point audio.
What it lacks in pretty design, Scribus more than makes up for with a full complement of useful features that compare very favorably against more expensive competition.
If you're looking for a free program with the video and audio editing capabilities of professional-level software, Jahshaka should be tops on your list.
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