Monthly Archives: March 2011

Adobe Flash CS5 professional combines more sophisticated design features like a new multilingual text engine (TLF) and more true to life inverse kinematics  (IK)  effects and more sufficient Action Script authoring options. Be deeply involved in creating experiences and video content on the multiscreen environment with Adobe Flash Professional CS5 software.

Adobe Flash Creative Suite integration enlarges productivity by using Adobe Creative Suite components such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Flash Builder.

Flash Professional offers to design absorbing interactive experiences simply by importing design from Photoshop CS5 Extended or Illustrator CS5 and adding interactivity and motion to make it more realistic.

Adobe Flash CS5 delivers high-impact, rich Web content. You can use effectively designs, animation, and application user interfaces immediately across all browsers and platforms, enhancing and amazing users with a rich Web experience.

Adobe Pixel Bender Tool allows to apply custom filters and effects at runtime for real-time creative expression without difficulty. Creating process of unique filters, blends, and fills to produce compelling, on-demand visual effects has become more effective and interesting.

The new features make easier workflow and improve the Flash tools.

The new Flash CS4 offers attractive animation features, Motion Tween, 3D transformation, and the new IK animation tool.

The Motion Tween is a revolution; easier to work with, powerful, including the new Motion Editor Panel.  Tweens are applied to objects instead of keyframes, providing direct control over each of the individual animation characteristics. The features permit you to control your objects in full 3D space in the timeline and Action Script 3.  Transformation tools 3D transform 2D into 3D animations and rotate them across X, Y, and Z axes. The new Inverse Kinematics (IK) animation tool is available for MovieClips and Shapes. CS4 allows the user to create animations with many features absent in previous versions.

Sample Sounds library includes sound effects for creation sound content.

The Adobe Kuler panel an online community of designers’ portal is available in SC4. Thousands of themes and colors on the Kuler web site can be browsed, then selected themes can be downloaded to edit or to include in your own projects. If you want to create, save themes and   share them with others, use Adobe Kuler panel to enrich Kuler community supply.

Adobe Media Encoder with H.264 support adds the highest quality video. It can be used to any format recognized by Adobe Flash Player with the same tool found in other Adobe video products such as Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Flash Creative Suite 3 is the first version of the Macromedia products fully integrated into the Adobe product line. Flash CS3 has made developers and designers very happy for its functional possibilities.

Creative Suite 3 offers the single-column Tools Panel, Workspace Menu button and the new panels system.  Adobe Flash CS3 features supports Action Script 3.0, allows entire applications to be converted into Action Script, and integrates with Adobe Photoshop. This permits copying, dragging, pasting, dropping, exporting and importing graphics from one program to another without loss of any image data.

The increased graphic integration with Photoshop and Illustrator makes it possible for the user to work with layers, editable text, symbols, paths, anchor points, objects and bitmap layer effects more efficiently. With the import dialog box you can control over import options, make text editable with import, create a movie clip.

Flash CS3 permits to import Photoshop’s PSD files and Illustrator’s AI files without difficulty. This feature enables producing animations in Photoshop or Illustrator using the layers, and importing them into individual key frames and you are having an instant Flash animation.

On April 12, 2010 an amazing Photoshop CS5 was launched. It is really intelligent image editing program.

Innovation in 3D allows images being edited by bringing 3D elements to 2D artwork directly within digital imaging application, which now offers an easy on-ramp to 3D image creation.

Puppet Warp new can easily warp any image element; stretch text to create new effects.

Content-Aware Fill new removes any image detail or object fills in the space left behind. This magical technology matches lighting, noise, and tone so it looks as if the removed thing has never existed.

New Mixer Brush blends multiple colors on a single Mixer Brush tip to use realistic color mixes. A dry Mixer Brush blends a photo’s colors and transforms it into a beautiful painting.

Mobile device support is also improved; you can create mobile content, such as wallpapers and screen savers, and then view how it will be on mobile devices using built-in Adobe Device Central CS5.

DICOM image allows importing, correcting, annotating, analyzing, and creating animations from DICOM images.

Conversion 16-bit to JPEG (New time-saver) automatically samples down 16-bit image files so you can save them as 8-bit JPEGs.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 can connect now from Acrobat.com. It is a very comfortable feature to share ideas and discuss project details with clients and colleagues online. Acrobat.com has become a part of new Adobe CS Live online services.

 

New features in Photoshop CS4

Photoshop CS4 offers a new 3D engine that makes it possible to paint directly on 3D models, put 2D images into 3D shapes, add depth to layers and text, and get print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine. It supports 3D formats, the new Adjustment and Mask Panels.

You can create more exact composites working with the new Auto-Align Layers command, and the spherical alignment to create 360-degree panoramas. The Auto-Blend Layers command mixes color and shading, stretches out the depth of field by correcting vignettes and lens distortion.

The Camera Raw plug-in allows applying corrections to specific areas of an image. Photoshop CS4 integrates with Photoshop Lightroom 2. With it you can open photos from Lightroom in Photoshop.   Combined photos from Lightroom automatically open into panoramas as HDR images, or open as multilayer Photoshop file.

Content Aware Resizing allows you to transform an image by removing pixel of areas of information that is not important. You can make amazing changes to an image simply by dragging the image.

Dodge and Burn tools have a new option:  the Protect Tones. The new thing – the Vibrance option gives possibility for a good improvement on colors.

Photoshop now can create shapes and apply textures for 3D models (Photoshop Extended version). Now you can paint directly on the 3D piece and it is possible to create animations with 3D works.

 

 

Photoshop CS3 software (improved over CS2 and earlier versions) brings a new level of power and control to the digital photography experience and to the creative process.

There are some basic changes in Photoshop CS3 – a redesigned interface, the wonderful Auto-Align Layers command, and the clamored-for Smart Filters. The application is much quicker to launch.

The new Auto-Align Layers orders wonderfully lines up several different images of the same scene, even if they were taken from different angles. Photo merge has seen a chief examination and repairing in CS3. The Auto-Align Layers technology is now combined, which produces a great result much better than in previous versions.

The Adobe Camera Raw plug-in lets you open raw images from many digital cameras. In CS3, Camera Raw has some improvements. Now you can open JPEG and TIFF files and process them in Camera Raw. If there is need to perform detailed adjustments to the images (raw files, JPEGs or TIFFs), the new Camera Raw is the best way to do it.

Device Central is a new satellite program that integrates with CS3, designed to create content for mobile devices, such as phones and PDAs. After choosing device for creation, the program offers you a document for the right size of the device’s screen. It also allows creating and previewing Flash, video and Web content.

Photoshop CS3 is greatly improved over CS2. Smart filters are a big plus. The Quick Selection tool fastens initial selection process, and Auto-Align Layers open up a new world of possibilities for photographers.

Photoshop CS2 is an impressive announcement of Adobe Systems Incorporated, a new version of the program. Photoshop CS2 is available as an alone software application or as a component of Adobe Creative Suite 2.

The Photoshop CS 2 program has lots of new features; photographers, web and graphic designers have a great variety for creation and entertaining.  New features include a new file browser – Adobe Bridge, a vanishing point tool, smart sharpen filter, noise reduction filter, smart objects, and camera raw workflow enhancements.

The red Eye Tool is another tool brought to Photoshop CS2 from Photoshop Elements 3. Just two clicks to remove red eye from the images. If there is a need, the pupil size and darken amount can adjusted. Spot Healing Brush treats photographic problems such as blemishes, red-eye, noise, and blurring and lens distortion.

Vanishing Point cuts annoyingly slow graphic and photo retouching tasks by allowing users to clone, paint and change the form of the images when continuing visual perspective.

 

Photoshop CS2 has a new addition to the Edit Transform menu – ImageWarping. It allows you to transform layers into a variety of shapes; it can fold, stretch, pull, twist and wrap an image into shape by selection an on-demand preset.

With the program you can create repetitive graphics such as buttons, banners, and titles by automatically merging text data into your designs.

The animation palette is available in Photoshop CS2 you can easily create GIF animations. Photoshop CS2′s spot healing tool has more variety to choose than the version in Photoshop Elements 3.

Photoshop CS2 allows non-destructive editing and the creation of 32-Bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) images, perfect for 3D performing and advanced compositing.

The 8 Version of Adobe Photoshop – Adobe Photoshop CS 1 is part of the Adobe Creative Suite which combines full, new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS with Image Ready CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe- In- Design CS, Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional.

Photoshop CS1 is one of the most significant moves towards digital photographers. Photoshop CS 1 provides new features for general users, web designers, video editors, and digital photographers. Adobe Photoshop adds enhancements and improvements to fasten the work. The version, Photoshop CS1 offers improvements for users, designers and photographers all of them benefit from it.

Photoshop CS1 adds a new feature under the filter menu–the Filter Gallery. The filter gallery gives you a more visual way of selecting effects filters and allows you to stack multiple filter effects and apply them in one step.

Photoshop CS1gives a live histogram that updates in real time as edits are made to the images.

Photo merge a new feature of Photoshop CS1 arranges automatically and combines multiple images to create a panorama.

The new History Log in Photoshop CS 1 allows you to keep in  memory how to repeat a technique, record time-tracking information, , and is useful for training purposes.

The PDF Presentation, Web Photo Gallery, and Online Services features in Photoshop CS1 provide a lot of new ways photographers can share their photos both for professional feedback, and among friends and family.

Adobe Photoshop 7.0, an application that promises more than ever. The leader in network publishing, Adobe Systems Inc.  announced Adobe Photoshop7.0, an upgrade to the  professional image editing program. Photoshop 7.0 impresses with an extensive set of new features that allow photographers, web designers to operate more efficiently, use new creative options and produce the highest quality photos for print, web and other media.

This version is goaled at web designers, professional and digital photographers. Adobe Photoshop 7 focuses less on magic and more on the user experience. It supports Mac OS X and has a web output enhancements, a complicated new scripting language, new file browser, auto color command and a healing brush for automatically removing scratches and dust.

The new features include File Browser, Healing Brush, Auto Color, Workspaces, ZoomView technology, Tool Presets.

File Browser allows you to rotate, sort, rank, and batch rename images. Healing Brush removes dust, scratches, blemishes, wrinkles, and other flaws. Improved Auto Color corrects color casts, if you use levels, curves or variations to do the job. Workspaces save the Photoshop desktop: your palette layouts that you prefer to use. Now you can use different desktops for different tasks for example for startup, photo editing, and retouching. ZoomView technology allows you to export your images in ZoomView format and to create the files you need to access Viewpoint’s technology from your Web site to zoom your images online.

What do you want to know about Photoshop? Read our articles about this soft and other products of Photoshop.

You hear very often nowadays such thing as: this image was certainly edited in Photoshop. And if you never have done it with graphics software, you are really limiting yourself. Practically all the users of this program, professional or beginners know Photoshop as an image editing program; a camera for your mind.

Photographers and graphic designers can correct color, create original artwork, composite scanned images, and prepare professional separations and electronic output easily.

Adobe Photoshop is image editing software developed and published by Adobe Systems Inc.

The program’s native format stores an image with support for imaging options in Photoshop. Available are layers with color, transparency, text, spot colors, clipping paths, duotone settings, masks, profiles ICC.

Photoshop plugins are extensional programs which act like mini-editors that change the images. The most common type of them is filter plugins. They provide different image effects. Filter plugins are in the ‘Filter’ menu. One of them- API has come to be a standard; a lot of other image editors support Photoshop Plugins.

When the type tool has been selected, in Photoshop 6, most of the type tool options are available from the options bar. The first thing you’ll see in the options bar is a set of four buttons. Compression JPEG makes your photos really smart and small and but too much compression can damage them beyond repair.

Adobe Photoshop 6 with a wealth of powerful painting and selection tools, plus multiple layers, special effects filters, and lighting effects transforms images into anything you can imagine.