Once upon a time there was a program called Photoshop, created by the Knoll Brothers. Twenty years and eleven versions later, it basically remains unchanged. Except for the damn bloody tabs.
Which do you hate most, the dumbstastic Adobe Creative Suite 4 tabbed interface or the flabbymoronic Microsoft Office 2007′s ribbon? Ready. Set. Fight!
I’ve spent more than a month working with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection. I’m impressed. It pushes the envelope again with new tools and enhancements that will save a lot of time.
Along with their 9600M GT card for portables announcement with the MacBook Pro, Nvidia has also announced their new Nvidia Quadro CX. The $US1,999 PCIe card, which according to them has been “specifically designed and optimised the Quadro CX to enhance the performance of Adobe Creative Suite 4″, will accelerate all most common operations in Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and H.264 encoding.
Were you tantalised by our taste of Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, the insanely huge upgrade to its product lines? You can stop holding your breath and start parting with your money, now that the product family–which includes improved versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver–is now shipping! Updates number into the hundreds, from hardware acceleration to multitouch. Full versions will run from $US1,700 to $US2,500, but Adobe will give you a discount if you’ve already got CS3. The press release is below.
Content producers of pretty much any ilk were excited to get news of the highly refined, newly hardware-accelerated CS4 product line, but probably missed this key feature buried deep in the release notes: multitouch trackpad support.
Looks like somebody over at Amazon made a big oopsies and accidentally put up details of Adobe Indesign CS4 on its website long enough for Apple Insider to get a bunch of screenshots. Features for the software, which is due for a public unveiling on Tuesday, include Live Preflight, conditional text, SWF file export and other additional enhancements. Indesign CS4 will be released on November 1 and cost you $US198. [Apple Insider]
Is Photoshop CS4 coming earlier than predicted? A screengrab of NAPP Newswire shows that something is about to hit on Sept. 23… and that it’s something to do with Adobe’s Creative Suite 4. How disappointing would it be if whatever it is that’s supposed to be “brilliant” turned out to be like… an ad? [-Thanks mrquintano2u!]
