Free Adobe® Ideas 1.0 for iPad

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Adobe Ideas allows you to sketch out ideas, annotate photographs, extract color themes from photographs and more. Sketches created in Adobe Ideas can be emailed as a PDF for editing in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop or viewing with any PDF viewer.

Adobe Ideas Feature List

The key features […]

Kick-Ass website created with Flash, Fireworks, Maya, 3ds Max, and ZBrush

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“Kick-Ass” Promo from Ralph from Ralph on Vimeo.

After inventing or auto-choosing a name, visitors see their superhero star in a customized trailer along with Kick Ass and other characters from the movie. Visitors are then encouraged to post the custom trailers to Facebook, invite their friends to visit the […]

Adobe Launches Flash Builder 4

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Previous versions of Flash Builder went by the name Flex, but this was changed because many developers use it for coding in ActionScript, the language used to program Flash, without making use of the Flex framework. The name “Flex” is now relegated to the code framework, which is also launching as […]

Flash vs. HTML5 test at Streaming Learning Center

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Overall Conclusions: Overall, it’s inaccurate to conclude that Flash is inherently inefficient. Rather, Flash is efficient on platforms where it can access hardware acceleration and less efficient where it can’t. With Flash Player 10.1, Flash has the opportunity for a true leap in video playback performance on all platforms […]

Adobe InDesign Turns 10

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Launched in late 1999 and created as a successor to Adobe® Pagemaker® software, Adobe InDesign® revolutionized the publishing industry with its unrivalled technology and features. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Adobe is releasing a commemorative book titled “Page by Page: 10 Years of Designing with Adobe InDesign” that highlights […]

Machinarium deconstructed

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Interview with the creators of Machinarium describing how they used Photoshop and Flash to bring their hand drawn drawings to life:

We felt we needed something warm with visible human touch in it to create a contrast to that robotic world that the character goes into, so we came up with […]

Adobe CS4 Suite Deal for Education – Save $50!

Save $50 on education versions of Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium, Production Premium, Web Premium, and Master Collection. Offer ends March 5, 2010. Choose the suite that’s right for you and start creating highly innovative print, web, video, mobile, and rich media projects.

Creative Suite 4 Design Premium on sale for $549! $50 off […]

Free Total Training Acrobat 9 Pro Essentials Training DVD ($64 value) with your purchase of Acrobat 9 Pro!

Free Total Training Acrobat 9 Pro Essentials Training DVD ($64 value) with your purchase of Acrobat 9 Pro! Offer good through 2/28/2010.

Acrobat 9 Professional is available at an educational discount price of $145.

A look back at 20 years of Adobe Photoshop with one of the founders

Robert Scoble interviews John Knoll, one of the founders of Photoshop.

Push your pixels to the next level

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Article discussing new software and hardware tools to add some creativity to ho-hum photos. Photoshop Elements 8 and Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 are discussed along with plugins from Alien Skin and Nik Software:

Concentrate instead on plugins — separate software packages that work within photo-editing software and perform astonishing feats.

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