Brushing up your Creative Suite skills

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With the recent announcement of Adobe Creative Suite 4, users may find themselves looking to brush-up on their application skills before diving in to all the new features of CS4 apps—especially now that the updated apps are available for download, with boxed copies shipping soon.

I’ve put together a list of some […]

Stop Motion Pro v6.5 Now Shipping!

Stop Motion Pro v6.5 Now Shipping!

Developed with input from Aardman Animations (the makers of Wallace and Gromit), Stop Motion Pro version 6.5 offers students, animators and animation producers the most comprehensive and easy to use toolset yet.

What is new in version 6.5:

* Multilingual – switch between English, French, Spanish and German. […]

Creative Suite 4 K-12 Site Licenses

Creative Suite 4 K-12 Site Licenses now available for ordering.

The new Adobe Creative Suite 4 K-12 Site Licenses are specifically set up for schools and districts that offer career and technical education programs and integrate multimedia education throughout the curriculum. K-12 institutions can make the most of their software budgets and readily provide […]

Adobe Releases Flash Player 10

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Tom Barclay, senior product marketing manager, Platform Business Unit, Adobe Systems, said Adobe Flash Player 10 delivers enhancements and new features such as new support for custom filters and effects, native 3-D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration. In addition, the new release builds on Adobe’s expertise with […]

one step until brilliant: ScreenFlow

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But I’m now very hopeful utopia has been found. ScreenFlow is an elegant and powerful program that captures a presentation and synchronizes it flawlessly. It even has post-production editing built in. And while I’ve hit some flakiness with long presentations (I’m a lawyer, what do you expect?) with media (genuine flakiness […]

ZBrush 3.12 for Mac Now Shipping!

ZBrush 3.12 for Mac is now available at an academic discount price of $390.

ZBrush 3.12 MAC OS X List of New Features:

-Posable Symmetry -TransPose with topology masking -HD Geometry -SubTools with Project All, GroupSplit and Extract -3D Layers -MatCap -Brush Palette with Many new brushes, Mesh Insert, Alpha Tiling and Wrap Mode, Gravity, […]

Why Do You Need a Wacom Tablet with Adobe CS4?

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Wacom pen tablets and pen displays have long been the tools of choice among professional users of the Adobe Creative Suite. And now, with the release of Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 (CS4), Wacom products have become indispensable for harnessing the full power of Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and the entire Adobe Creative Suite. […]

How to use Sorenson Squeeze 5 to create high quality video for YouTube

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Sorenson Media products can be purchased at an academic discount price from Creation Engine.

Software Review: Sharpener Pro 3.0 from Nik Software

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Nik Sharpener Pro 3.0 has not only been updated with a new interface, it also contains Nik’s premier U Point technology that gives you pin-point control over what you want sharpen. No longer are you limited to working with global changes and masking to accomplish your goals. Rather, now you […]

VMware Workstation 6.5 free upgrade for VMware Workstation 6 customers

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New features in VMware Workstation 6.5 include:

Seamless desktop experience with “Unity” — Run applications in virtual machines alongside applications on your normal desktop. The desktop of the virtual machine disappears and applications appear as a normal window in the rest of their environment. Color coding of Unity application windows makes it […]