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Review of Adobe Creative Suite 5

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the draw-me-a-picture dept.

Barence writes "Adobe today updated its Creative Suite software to version 5, and PC Pro has an absolutely massive collection of reviews. Along with an overview of the entire suite, from Design to Web to Production bundles, every individual component gets the full in-depth treatment. It includes video demonstrations of Photoshop CS5's fabulous Content-Aware fill trick and new Puppet Warp function; a long-awaited step up to 64-bit for Premiere Pro CS5; and big updates to Dreamweaver CS5, After Effects CS5, and the rest."

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  1. Re:Any update on the export to iPhone? by c_sd_m · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hope they atleast release the Actionscript to Obj-C cross compiler so that people can at least attempt to use it for themselves, if not distribute it through the App Store.

    Or for enterprise (proprietary, in-house) use.

  2. Gushing, ignoring the important issues by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's not an overview, it's a gushing, excited press release. And it doesn't even drop one word on my most important concern: is Adobe continuing their trend of writing awful, inconsistent, ugly, usually-slow UIs?

    The fact that that, after Macromedia's was acquired, I'd actually pay extra to get Flash 8's UI back... well, that tells you something. How the hell do you write a UI worse than Macromedia's? That takes the kind of talent only Adobe can offer I guess... IBM should hire these guys to do Lotus Notes next. ;)

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    1. Re:Gushing, ignoring the important issues by WarForge · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It is good, but it is even better in GIMP, where it has been for years known as the Resynthesizer plugin.

      http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-aware-fill-unbelievable

  3. Eclipse, Java, GIMP, Blender3D > CS5? by LifesABeach · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think a Bench Marks applied here would be most telling.

  4. Waste of time... by Roogna · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sadly after their ridiculous always broken DRM in CS3 I stopped buying Adobe products. The only unfortunate thing is that I've still yet to find a replacement for Illustrator since Freehand was killed. Ahh well...

  5. Re:FLOSS alternative? by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Then how do you suggest that software developers who target people instead of corps make money?