5 Cool New Features in Photoshop CS4

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In Photoshop CS4, Adobe isn’t a huge leap forward, but there’s enough to warrant some eye-openers. Here are five cool features Photoshop CS4 has to offer.

5. The New Adjustments Panel

4. Finally… Tabbing!

3. 3D editing made easy

2. Playing Around with Depth of Field

1. Context-sensitive Scaling

Photoshop CS4 […]

Wacom for Digital Art at Whistling Woods International

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The faculty in the first term uses Cintiq 21UX (an interactive pen display) for teaching process. When students want to learn and get attention, it is really tough to teach them art while standing around faculties and observing the process. With Cintiq 21UX, connected to the projector, they can sit in […]

4 Quick Ways to Boost Lightroom 2 Performance

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Given some comments I’ve read with in my Lightroom 2 review “Adobe Lightroom 2.0 – First Impressions That Impress” and across the web I thought it would be a good idea to share some Lightroom 2 optimization tips I’ve recently found. Hopefully this information and the respective web sites this information […]

Google Reaches Scanning Milestone With Adobe’s PDF

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Google late yesterday revealed that it has successfully implemented OCR (optical character recognition) technology to scan and convert a picture in a document created by Adobe’s PDF format into words. This renders these files searchable via the Web.

Google Product Manager Evin Levey noted in a blog post that prior […]

Dreamweaver CS4 Review

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is a solid upgrade to an already impressive Web site design program. The latest version adds to features introduced in Dreamweaver CS3 (Photoshop Integration and Spry JavaScript tools for building interactive interfaces, for example) and also presents a completely revamped interface that more closely resembles other products in the […]

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Software Review

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One question we field a lot around here – and I’m sure Adobe’s heard more than their share of this one too – is, “Will Lightroom replace Photoshop for what I do?” Entangled in this question is the issue that’s always been part of my typical response: “It depends on […]

QuarkXPress 8 Integration Guide with Adobe Creative Suite 4

QuarkXPress 8 Integration with Adobe Creative Suite (1.6 MB PDF)

Download the guide that will help you learn how Quark XPress 8 works with the new CS4 products from Adobe including Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator CS4, Flash Professional CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Acrobat 9 Professional, and InDesign CS4.

Quark XPress 8 is available at an academic […]

Profile: Adobe Bridge CS4

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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 […]

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection Now Shipping!

Create visually rich content for virtually any media–print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile–using the tightly integrated tools and services in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection software. From producing printed pages to distributing engaging content online, on film, on air, and on device, you get the ultimate design environment to keep pace with […]

Adobe CS4 Products Now Shipping!

The following Adobe CS4 products are now shipping:

After Effects CS4 Contribute CS4 Dreamweaver CS4 Flash CS4 Professional Creative Suite 4 Design Premium MAC Creative Suite 4 Web Premium MAC

Additional Adobe CS4 products are expected to ship later on this month.