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Adobe CS4 Compatible With Snow Leopard, Who Knows About CS3

Jason Chen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:20:50 +0000

Here’s Adobe’s message behind their Adobe CS4/Snow Leopard compatibility report: please buy Adobe CS4 and stop using Adobe CS3.

To make a long story short, Adobe says that they’ve tested CS4 compatibility with SL and it doesn’t need any software updates to be compatible with the new OS. But CS3?

Older versions of Adobe creative software were not included in our testing efforts.

In other words, they don’t give enough of a shit to even test it. Even if anybody thought enough to throw the disc in to “see what happened”, the results weren’t included in this report.

That’s about all the FAQ says. Except that it takes two pages to do so. [Adobe]

Adobe’s Interactive Wall Is Like Minority Report Future Sans Apple and Microsoft

Seamus Byrne — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:07:23 +0000

See Adobe’s interactive wall, featured in the New York Times and in fact on Giz, fewer than 24 hours ago. See nerds trying to get exercise they wouldn’t otherwise dream of, in the hopes of triggering one of Adobe’s—what was that, infrared?—motion sensors. Enjoy the man-on-the-street critiques of this cutting-edge technology, and most of all, without a doubt—Look, flying toasters! – Video by Nick McGlynn

Adobe Pimps Creative Suite 3 With Interactive Wall in Union Square

Seamus Byrne — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:00:37 +0000

Adobe is shilling for its Creative Suite 3 with a 7×15 ft. interactive wall outside of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square that debuts this morning. The display grants the closest passerby control of a slider button on the bottom that manipulates what’s projected based on their walking speed and direction, producing different effects in the animation. It also reacts incidentally to the crowd around it, which should make the glorious pedestrian congestion in that area even more awesome.While definitely slick, the implementation of the idea actually seems somewhat limited, and doesn’t make full use of its potential—imagine a 20×20 foot version of Microsoft Surface that people could just walk up and draw on. If it recorded every stroke made over the display’s duration, it could turn into a really interesting mass art project, for instance. Sure, you’d probably wind up with more than a few obscene renderings, but it’s New York, people can handle it.

That said, Adobe is at least slightly savvy to its users, immediately torpedoing the idea to stick the demo in the tourist hellhole (or just general hellhole) that is Times Square, despite its heavier foot traffic.

If you want to check it out but don’t feel like rushing out right now to beat the sweating masses to 14th St., don’t worry, it’ll be there for a month. [NYT]

Coolness Roundup: Adobe CS 3 Hands-On

Seamus Byrne — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:10:00 +0000

Join the gurus of cool in Coolness Roundup episode 87, praising and blasting product after product in lots of lively tech talk. This week, join Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher as they give you their hands-on impressions of Adobe’s latest software uber-suite, CS3, and evaluate features of the as-yet-unreleased video editing application Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 as well as compositing app After Effects.

After that, get the real story on that eStarling picture frame, a second attempt at a Wi-Fi enabled display that flops just as badly as the first one did. Then Charlie and Stephen really separate the coolness from the lukewarm with their Rapid Fire Roundup of Cool Products they’ve seen during the week. It’s all on the Coolness Roundup, a free download from the iTunes store or you can get it straight from the show’s official website.

Program Site [Coolness Roundup]

Adobe CS3 Is Finally Here; May Prove Macromedia Merger Was Good Idea

Seamus Byrne — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:40:35 +0000

For all you graphics geeks who have been waiting eagerly to find out whether or not Adobe has screwed up all of your favorite Macromedia design tools, now’s your chance to plunk down $1,000+ to find out. CS3 launches today, and it’s as freakin’ thorough as expected. You can buy Design Premium for $1,799, Design Standard for $1,199, Web Premium for $1,599 and Web Standard for $999. Also available are separately wrapped apps: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, and Adobe Contribute CS3.

If you’ve been holding out on buying a new system, Adobe says go ahead: All of the programs run as Universal apps for both PowerPC Macs and their Intel-based successors, with some significant speed improvement there. Adobe also says that you get a speed boost running CS3 on the latest Windows hardware.

Follow the jump to see CS3’s new scary clown mascot plus some extra specs…

Crazy list of features:
â€¢Experiment with, save, and apply color combinations quickly and intuitively using the new Live Color feature in Illustrator
â€¢Perform image editing tasks such as selecting image areas, compositing images, and applying filters faster and more flexibly with Photoshop CS3 Extended
â€¢Master Flash more easily thanks to its new Adobe-standard user interface
â€¢Repurpose print content on the Web by exporting InDesign CS3 documents as XHTML and the modifying them in Dreamweaver CS3 using CSS
â€¢Import native Photoshop and Illustrator files directly into Flash and Fireworks with full fidelity
â€¢New Spry Framework for AJAX, a pre-built, cross-browser compatible library of widgets and effects that make it faster and easier to build rich, interactive websites
â€¢Fireworks CS3 boasts new workflows for rapidly prototyping RIA layouts for websites and Web applications, intelligent Photoshop and Illustrator integration, and a library of common and customizable graphics assets
â€¢Updated version of Adobe Bridge CS3, the hub of Adobe Creative Suite, which provides instant access to Version Cue CS3, Acrobat Connect and an expanded Adobe Stock Photos service
â€“Wilson Rothman

Adobe CS3 [Gizmodo]