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 […]

Office 2008 for the Mac: 8 Things You Didn’t Know

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If you use Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, you probably like it and dislike it at the same time. You probably like that it’s the most powerful office suite on the Mac platform, with Apple’s iWork suite still playing catch-up. You probably like that it’s almost fully compatible with documents […]

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 […]

Cintiq Digital Pen Fosters Product Design at Oakley

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As a designer at Oakley, it’s Adam Smythe’s job to bring all these elements together. It’s a demanding and varied position. One day he’s designing graphics and concept artwork for snow goggles, or digitally recreating an oil painting so parts of it can be applied to sunglass frames. The next, he’ll be […]

Virtually normal: a review of VMware Fusion 2 for Mac

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The Intel Mac virtualization scene has had a couple of years to mature now, and things are finally getting exciting. Now, with the latest VMware Fusion 2 release, we’ve left the adolescent phase of Mac virtualization and entered the adult phase, where virtualized Windows really starts to operate in all the ways […]

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.

Review: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS4 Extended

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All of the changes in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Extended CS4 add up to a friendlier, more accessible interface (and with Photoshop that’s an accomplishment), with increasingly helpful tools that are much easier to find and use than before. The changes may take some getting used to, but in the end, you’ll […]

Five reasons to try Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom–particularly the new Lightroom 2–feels more like my living room. I am happy to stay there all the time, viewing and organize my photos from within its comfortable and logical interface.

You might wonder how Lightroom is different from more traditional photo editors like Photoshop. You can think of Lightroom […]