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A Lowly Apprentice Production has released InEffects 1.0, a plug-in for Adobe's InDesign page layout application that provides an integrated method for adding drop shadows, inner shadows, inner glows, outer glows, bevels and embossing to any InDesign page object. You can save effects as reusable styles too.
The Orphanage, responsible for special effects in such movies as Hellboy and Jeepers Creepers 2, announced on Wednesday that they are making a key piece of their technology available for non-commercial use.
Adobe has announced After Effects 6.5, a new version of its motion graphics and visual effects software. New features include G5 optimization, new Animation Presets, an advanced clone tool and more. The new release is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2004 and will be available in both Standard and Pro versions.
Adobe is demonstrating its latest version of Premiere Pro at NAB in Las Vegas, which includes support for high definition (HD) video. Support for HD formats has been the basis of many product announcements at NAB 2004, including Final Cut Pro HD and Xpress Pro.
GridIron Software announced its X-Factor plug-in for Adobe After Effects 6.5 at NAB in Las Vegas. X-Factor enables After Effects users to preview and render their video effects faster using a grid computing network. The new plug-in is expected to be released at the same time as After Effects Professional 6.5, which is expected in the second calendar quarter.
Adobe has put out an update to their print publishing tool InDesign CS that brings the application to version 3.0.1, for both Windows and Mac. The upgrade fixes a number of issues, including broken hyperlinks within a book after it has been exported to a PDF file, imprecise constraint when shift-dragging an anchor point on a page item, and more.
Fred Miranda, who offers a variety of digital photography resources through his Web site, recently released the BW Workflow Pro plug-in, which offers a wide variety of options for working with black-and-white images in Photoshop.
It’ll be as useful as a gift-wrapped cow at a vegetarian’s birthday bash.
Apago announced on Monday the release of an Adobe Acrobat plug-in called Box Editor that uses a new XML data format for easier exchange of important data between publishers and advertisers. The company made the news public at the PrintMedia Conference and Expo happening this week in New York City. Apago also noted that publishers Time and CMP Media now support the new XML format and will make their ad specs available in it later this month.
Abneil Software and graphicxtras.com have released a collection of new plug-ins for Photoshop (Windows only) as well as updates to their brushes collection.
Adobe has announced that a free plug-in is now available for Photoshop CS that extends Camera Raw file support to an additional 14 digital cameras from Fujifilm, Kodak, Leaf, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, and Sony. You can download the new plug-in from Adobe's Web site.
I saw that my latest attempt to print money – literally – had been arrested.
Adobe intends to enhance the performance of After Effects by harnessing the multiple computers over a network. The company is preparing a version of the compositing software that will be able to run across a group of computers, bringing the concept of grid computing to a commercial desktop application for perhaps the first time. However, the functionality will only be available to owners of the Professional version of the software.
If there’s a weak link in Adobe’s plans for world domination, it’s probably GoLive.
Despite Adobe’s decision to drop version numbers and call everything CS, the splash screen reveals what we all knew anyway: this is InDesign 3.0.
Illustrator CS is an old-fashioned upgrade that just gives you some new graphics and type tools to play with. It’s got eye-candy, in other words.
When you open Encore DVD, you are greeted with a faintly familiar tabbed palette setup – but with a cut-down five-piece toolset. The timeline comes from the likes of Premiere, and the layers from Photoshop, so users of other Adobe products (particularly those within the Video Collection) will have little trouble navigating it.
Premiere is back from the brink. Just when it looked like the video-editing product should be put out of its misery, it has been given ...
For many editors, compositing tools such as After Effects are a largely unknown area – too complicated to create all but the most basic motion ...
When Adobe introduced Acrobat 5.0 in 2001, it was aimed at persuading the MS Office-dominated corporate market to start using Acrobat PDFs for device- and ...
