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I guess it’s the Adobe’s answer to Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. For sure it’s a huge step forward for embedding video files inside of a web page. What Im talking about ha? Adobe have just recently released a beta version of Flash Player 9 that adds new Full Screen Read the rest of this entry »

All the time when I layouting I need some placeholder text or images or both. If you are not a newbie in layouting you know what Read the rest of this entry »

New issue of Adobe Magazine is available for download. The magazine is released every 4 months by Adobe for audience of designers, photographers and Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to the guys from Pixelfumes it’s possible now to view & search feeds of color schemes Read the rest of this entry »

There was lots of changes and transformation last season beginning with bigger ones like Apple move to Intel-based Macs and Windows got upgrade to its current Vista version. Besides the biggest ever released Adobe package has been announced where GoLive users migrate to Read the rest of this entry »

I used to play lots with one of the big improvement in CS2 - Smart objects. I was anxious to see the development of this non distructive way of working in CS3 and Im quite satisfied of the result. Im gonna put aside for awhile all the huge benefits of working with smart obejcts overall CS3 and focusing on Dreamweaver and the way it interact with Read the rest of this entry »

Everytime when I have to speak with the clients from the first time I crash my head over few question:
1. How to explain him in delicate way that the price may very and might change when he change his mind over some aspect of the project.
2. How can I explain him having a web site is something you have to watch over after it is once created.
3. How to convience him that the Designer/Developer knows better what is right and wrong for his web site in terms of usability, cross-OS platform, cross-browser compatibility, SEO, accessibility and so forth. Read the rest of this entry »

As always there is a battle for market between the big players in the business and this is what push the technologies forward every single day. Its about Adobe and Microsoft this time. Since Adobe is a global leader in design market with its products obviously Microsoft got no intention to starring at how Adobe totally swallowed the design users on both PC and MacTel platform. Will Microsoft have the success in this battle?! My personal opinion is no and you gonna say ???why??? then I began this issue - here is the answer. Recently Microsoft announced a new product called Silverlight - a respond to Adobe Flash/Flex software. From what I??�ve heard and see on the blogosphere and officially from Microsoft its at least sounds very good this new competitor called Silverlight. At first glance you might tread it as a Read the rest of this entry »

… so after nearly 2 months break Im back. Lots of things happened during this time and among all of them there is one big news for me - Adobe announced Creative Suite 3 release on 27 of march. So up to this point there is nothing on the market and I was sure its gonna be that way because its a huge transition inside of this releases of CS and huge amount of products coming up at once so there will be marketing tricks, price balancing and so on.

The first two release of the main packages will be 16 of april - CS3 Design Premium and CS3 Web Premium and as far as I can tell the release of CS3 Master Collection which collect all the Creative suite products will be available no earlier than 15 of july 2007.

Its been nearly 3 weeks after Adobe officially announced Photoshop CS3 beta release so it deserve a bit to be said. I want first to set the things clear with the idea behind this word “beta”. On the 4th of February 2006 Adobe announced first public beta test version of a very innovative and powerful piece of software called Lightroom. I mentioned this because Read the rest of this entry »