Adobe Soundbooth CS4 review
Like its predecessor, Adobe’s audio-editing application Soundbooth CS4 is a compromise. Although it includes more advanced features than the original Soundbooth, it eschews...
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 review
Adobe runs a predictable product development life cycle – every 18 months or so we can expect to hear about new versions of its primary products. Photoshop CS4 has arrived right on schedule.
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Adobe Illustrator CS4 review
The latest version of Illustrator adds a feature that users have wanted for years: multiple artboards. This isn’t the only trick up Adobe’s sleeve, but in many ways it’s the most profound.
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After Effects CS4 review
AE CS4 is still the best overall compositing application, and the upgrade adds some useful tools – but it would have been great if Adobe had given it a more fundamental overhaul.
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FIRST LOOK: Premiere Pro CS4
Premiere Pro CS3's debut on the Mac last year was impressive, especially given the challenges it faced. It not only had to overcome the lacklustre reputation of its previous Mac-compatible predecessor, Premiere 6.5, but it also had to reclaim the territory it had ceded to Apple and Avid editing systems during its long absence.
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 review
Lightroom 2 is the third major release of Adobe’s digital photograph sorting, Raw image-processing and enhancement program for pro photographers.
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Adobe Acrobat 9 review
The latest incarnation of Adobe’s primary PDF-creating and editing application stresses multimedia integration and presentation -- it even plays Flash natively.
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Adobe Director 11 review
Director has been notable by its absence in the successive Master Collections, so it’s refreshing to see this old stalwart of the multimedia-authoring brigade decked out in Adobe’s new livery.
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Adobe student awards: one week till deadline
Students in creative disciplines have one week left to submit entries for this year's Adobe Design Achievement Awards, which offers the chance to win a trip to New York, cash prizes and vital exposure to leading industry professionals.
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Flash Player 10 available for public testing
Adobe made a prerelease test version of the Flash 10 Player available for download for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux from the Adobe Labs Web site.
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Adobe Photoshop Express beta adds Flickr support
Adobe has updated its Photoshop Express beta to add integration with Flickr and a Save As functionality, which it says are two of the most requested features by early adopters. Additionally, a new embeddable player will allow users to post their Photoshop Express slideshows to sites such as Facebook, MySpace, blogs and more.
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Adobe ditches GoLive
Adobe on Monday announced that its venerable visual Web site creation tool GoLive has been discontinued. The company has ceased development and sales of GoLive effective Monday, April 28.
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Adobe pulls Lightroom, Camera Raw updates
Last week Adobe updated its Photoshop Lightroom and Camera Raw Photoshop plug-in software. Over the weekend Lightroom's product manager acknowledged a problem with the updates and said that they'd been temporarily removed from Adobe's Web site.
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Adobe Ultra CS3 review
Adobe Ultra is tool for keying, compositing and virtual set work derived for the most part from technology from the Adobe acquisition of Serious Magic.
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Adobe GoLive 9 review
GoLive appears to be living on borrowed time. Adobe’s own literature and Web site seems to suggest migrating to Dreamweaver is a good idea, so we're keen to see what would be served up in the latest version.
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Soundbooth CS3 review
Soundbooth is an audio clean-up and score creation application with some rather neat features for video editors and multimedia professionals.
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Premiere Pro CS3 review
Premiere Pro has not received as much of a features boost as stablemate After Effects, though it too has been touched with the CS3 makeover brush.
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After Effects CS3 review
After Effects is the most popular of Adobe’s video tools, as its reach extends to motion-graphics artists, VFX professionals and 2D animators – and from simple Web cartoons to Hollywood blockbusters.
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Fireworks CS3 review
With Fireworks CS3, Adobe has subtly repositioned the application into a Web site planning and mock-up tool, making it a near-essential purchase for anyone working in Web design.
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Dreamweaver CS3 review
Dreamweaver is almost as ubiquitous in the Web-design arena as Photoshop is in the world of print. Unusually for a Web tool, its huge range of tools caters for designers and developers alike.