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Adobe Releases Updated Creative Suite

Posted by Hemos on from the new-features-new-bugs dept.

jonknee writes "MacMerc just noted that Adobe has dropped the motherload and updated most of its core non-video apps in a bundle called the Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign and InCopy (a new product).It looks like Adobe PR popped the press releases a little early as not much is up on their site yet. The official debut will be tomorrow at a press event that looks to have a webcast."

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  1. Not that amazing... by JanusFury · · Score: 3, Informative
    Photoshop CS - improved file browser, layer comps, text on a path (finally)
    GoLive CS - buffed up CSS and PDF features
    InDesign CS - improved cross-media support
    Illustrator CS - 3D Effects, Refined Typography and Lightning Performance
    This doesn't sound that amazing. What's newsworthy about this? Anyone in the know care to comment? The story's links seem to be extremely light on content.
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  2. Macromedia too by axlrosen · · Score: 3, Informative

    They released the MX 2004 versions of all their tools a week or so ago.

    http://www.macromedia.com/software/mx2004/

    For example Dreamweaver now supports CSS Layout.

  3. Product Activation by mattso · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now with Product Activation
    http://www.adobe.com/activation/main.html

  4. Adobe's site is up! by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look it's even easy to click!
    http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/

    Karma Eats

  5. Software is dirt cheap for professionals by benwaggoner · · Score: 5, Informative

    Those who think that Adobe software is overpriced clearly are hobbyists, not professionals. If you bill by the hour, this stuff pays for itself in a couple of days.

    For example, one single feature of Photoshop CS would make it worth the full purchase price for me, let alone the upgrade price, let alone the other new features:

    Native non-square pixel support!

    Since video doesn't have square pixels, it's always been something of a pain to author graphics in Photoshop. Getting this to work right will save me 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there. At $300/hour, I only need to use this feature three times for it to pay for the upgrade!

    For those who aren't professionals, the cheap Photoshop Elements is a great alternative at fraction of the price.

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