Make sure you check out the launch of Adobe CS3 today at 3:30pm EST.
The new products include:
- Adobe InDesign CS3
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
- Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
- Adobe Fireworks CS3
- Adobe Contribute CS3
- Adobe After Effects CS3
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
- Adobe Encore CS3
- Adobe Soundbooth CS3
The launch will be broadcasted here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/launchevent/webcast/
If you are interested, here are the new features of Flash CS3
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/features/
The end of the long anticipated wait for Adobe Creative Suite 3 is almost here. I got my first glimpse of the goodness to come in Las Vegas at Adobe MAX 2006. I expect the differences between Adobe and Macromedia products will finally come to an end as the best of both worlds are merged into one. Of course I’m mainly interested in Flash CS3. I never managed to make it onto the beta testing list and the Flash 9 alpha was Flash 8 with ActionScript 3 support, which was fun to play around with, but boasted no new interface enhancements and other goodies. Friends who did make it onto the beta have told me about some of the new features and I’m pretty stoked to try them out for myself.
The official announcement from the Adobe Creative Solutions PR team.
http://blogs.adobe.com/creativesolutionspr/
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A friend of mine just showed me Adobe’s new icons for branding their next product line. The concept is cool. It reminds me of the Periodic Table of the Elements and obviously borrows some ideas from Macromedia’s old set of logos, making it easy for a consumer to determine that a product was part of the Macromedia’s line because of their similarities. This relation was not so apparent with Adobe’s products.
Overall, this new approach to branding by Adobe seems much better than the old swirls and feathers of the past, but I don’t really understand the color wheel. I’m assuming that it has something to do with the relation between products, but I cant recognize what that relation is, only that Adobe has left the products that they acquired from Macromedia the same color that they were before.
Roll over the icons to view the related product.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/veerles-blog/328983830/
I was just told that the next release of Flash with be titled Adobe Flash CS3. If you are unfamiliar with CS, it stands for Creative Suite. The current release of Adobe’s Creative Suite is CS2, so I think we can expect a whole bundle of software being released at the same time that may include titles such as Flash CS3, Photoshop CS3, IllHand CS3 (Illustrator + Freehand), InDesign CS3, DreamLive CS3 (Dreamweaver + GoLive), Acrobat Paper CS3 (Acrobat + Flash Paper) and more. This is all just speculation on my part, so don’t take my word for it. I am pretty sure about the Flash CS3 part of it though.
The new Flash CS3 will definitely have enhancements to its importing abilities with Photoshop and Illustrator. From what I have heard, you will be able to access bitmaps and vectors right down to a specific layer within the import window. I am sure copy & paste between programs will function a lot smoother than previously.
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