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Two senior Adobe Engineering staff has responded to user concerns and criticisms over Adobe's installers, particularly related to CS3 and CS4 creative applications, and have invited feedback to shape development on CS5.
Adobe on Wednesday released an update to its version management software, Version Cue.
Adobe Systems has released an update to its Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop. Available for free download from Adobe's Web site, the new plug-in is version 5.2. Adobe has also updated its DNG Converter software to 5.2.
Adobe Systems on Thursday announced the release of Premiere Pro CS4 4.0.1, an update to its video editing software that's part of the Creative Suite 4 Production Premium package. It's a free update for registered users. Adobe Premiere Pro costs US$799.
Adobe Systems at its Adobe Max 2008 conference Tuesday heralded a slew of new technologies, including links between its Flex application development platform and Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform. Also paraded at the conference was Flash Catalyst, an interactive design tool for building interfaces and interactive content without coding. The planned Bolt release of the ColdFusion IDE, featuring Eclipse capabilities, was touted as well.
Adobe has released the first full version of Configurator, an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Photoshop CS4.
Adobe will hand out a technical preview of Flash Catalyst on Monday, a new interface design tool that was previously known under the codename of Thermo.
Adobe Systems is adding dynamic streaming, which adjusts to the bandwidth rate on the desktop, and DVR capability to its Flash Media Server for streaming of Flash content.
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.
Adobe Bridge is an organizational and image-browsing powerhouse that's been shipping with Photoshop since the inception of the creative suite. However, in previous versions it was sometimes painfully slow and the workspace wasn't friendly as it could have been. That's all changed in Photoshop CS4 -- Bridge got a makeover, a speed boost, and a new Review Mode that'll make photographers squeal with joy.
Adobe made some pretty serious changes in Photoshop CS4, especially in the workspace. And while some of them will take some getting used to, they're changes that are long overdue.
Adobe has released free updates to Photoshop Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in. The releases provide added raw file support for 15 digital cameras including the Nikon D90, Nikon D700, Canon EOS 50D and Canon EOS 1000D. The Lightroom 2.1 update also includes improvements to Photoshop integration, Web module stability for Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit operating systems, performance with 64-bit Mac OS X 10.5 Macintosh computers, and Keyword migration from Lightroom.
Adobe on Thursday released an update for its page layout application InDesign and InCopy CS3.
Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player software, fixing a critical security bug that could make the Internet a dangerous place for Web surfers.
Adobe has released Flash Player 10, which gives interactive designers and developers access ot the new expressive features and visual performance improvements for more creative control to deliver the most compelling Web applications, interactive content and high quality video to users across multiple browsers and all major operating systems.
Adobe has released Creative Suite 4, the latest version of its collection of tools for designers, illustrators, digital artists, Web designers, video editors, and VFX and motion graphics artists.
Adobe has launched the fourth major release of its Creative Suite collection of tools for design, animation and editing across a wide range of output media, including print, Web, broadcast, optical disc or mobile phone – and we got our hands on the full set of beta versions of the tools to test them in-depth for you.
Carting a camcorder with you has become a whole lot easier, thanks to pocket-sized digital camcorders such as Pure Digital Technologies' Flip Ultra and Flip Mino. These inexpensive cameras are not only drop-dead easy to use -- push a button to record and another to play -- but produce video acceptable for posting to sites such as YouTube and Facebook. Recently, Kodak entered this market with its diminutive pocket camcorder, the Zi6.
The interface's radically different look could be quite a shock for long term users, but the upside isthat the new interface is a great improvement on the old one.
Fireworks CS4 version attempts to boost the application's art tools by including more features taken from Photoshop (and other Adobe applications).
