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Adobe Creative Suite 4 Released Today

October 15th, 2008 | Published in Technology

It’s out! Another landmark day in the Creative world. Adobe Creative Suite 4 is shipping and in-stores early this morning. Adobe also announced that for a limited time, owners of: CS2, CS1, Macromedia Studio 8, Studio MX 2004, or Production Studio will qualify for up to $200 on eligible upgrades to CS4. This special offer will last till February 28, 2009^[1].

You may order CS4 via Amazon by clicking the one that is appropriate for your line of work:

Upgrade to an Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design, Web, or Production Premium edition from an earlier version of Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Production Studio, or Macromedia Studio software and save up to US$200 off the regular upgrade price. Offer valid on Creative Suite 1 or 2, Adobe Production Studio, Macromedia Studio 8, or Studio MX 2004 Professional. Offer ends February 28, 2009. Prices are in U.S. dollars. All prices are available from the Adobe.com store and by calling 800-585-0774 and are valid in the U.S. and Canada only. Applicable local sales taxes and shipping charges may apply. Allow 2–3 weeks for software delivery. Offer subject to change or withdrawal without notice. Void where prohibited. [↩]

SUMO Paint - A Flash-based Photoshop Clone

October 7th, 2008 | Published in Technology

SUMO Paint

Dopeness. SUMO Paint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, edit and comment images online with powerful tools and layer support. I tried it for a quick bit, and I barely noticed any lag using it; then again, I didn’t have so much layers yet.

Being that its a Flash-based application/tool, that’s a whole lot of user-support and market share. That’s remarkable as Designers and non-Designers a like can use it whether they’re away from their workstations or just don’t have Photoshop or applications like it at their disposal. Some of the featured I’m digging are: Shape Trails, Symmetry Tool, and it’s support for Cooliris‘ 3D Gallery (formerly PixelLens).

Anyways, go check it out and let your mind free. You may access the application directly via sumopaint.com/app/

Adobe Creative Suite 4 - Launch Broadcast

September 25th, 2008 | Published in Technology

Since writing about the Adobe CS4 live web broadcast a couple of days ago, I was fortunate enough to finally view it. Enjoy!

You may view the video at a higher resolution via http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1556v1715. You may also find other related videos on that page with regards to CS4. The ones I am interested in seeing would probably be the following:

All I can say is that this is going to be one very nice Suite, and should be fun to play/work with.

Adobe Creative Suite 4

September 23rd, 2008 | Published in Technology

Adobe Creative Suite 4, originally uploaded by stechico.

Earlier today, Adobe hosted its special web broadcast entitled, “Something Brilliant”. It was held to introduce to the new Creative Suite 4.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 delivers tightly integrated software and services that measurably improve productivity and enable you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile.

I signed up for the broadcast a week ago but totally couldn’t make it in time as there was traffic heading into the City early this morning. I’ll probably have to just scour search results later for a good write-up/video summary of what’s new and what has been improved. Anyways, that’s a pretty quick period of release since CS3’s announcement in March 27, 2007. Looking forward to it nonetheless.

On a side note, I’m hoping Peachpit Press releases a Photoshop CS4 Wow! Book in the near future. Seeing that they didn’t even release one for CS3, and have a combined version for CS/CS2, this should be a safe bet as much have changed (workflow-wise) from CS2 and onward. Well, I guess that’s wishful thinking at least.

PS. Here’s a visual representation of what to expect per CS4 edition^[1]:
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