ph1x | 
05 18th, 2007| 
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.
When Adobe decided to extend their Photoshop’s file browser back in version 8 into something called Bridge I remember well how most of the people was a bit mistrustful about its existence, they were like “it is far more slower than the usual browsers” and “we all got explorer/finder”. Of course we all got alternatives for viewing pictures and track them ( editing XMP data ) outside of pixel-editing software. The idea behind moving Bridge Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
So finally we got it! Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta is on our hard drives - I got itch on them since Ive download the beta. Ive tested out this new brilliant piece of software on PC with 1 GB of RAM and it working pretty well - I need to mention it load literally twice faster than CS2 (I got few more plug-ins on CS2 anyway) but I didn’t expect to be faster and by the way it’s pretty stable for first beta release. So I encourage you to download this new version and check it out for yourself how powerful it is.
I guess there will be some registration problems since it require a real Read the rest of this entry »
I’m still a bit exciting from what Ive just saw - some of the new features in Photoshop CS3 - quick select tool (its not first by accident), curves with histogram on the back (something that I was waiting since forever), improved well known clone stamp tool with the new clone source panel, improved printing dialog box, jpg and tiff files in Camera Raw (yeah!It is true!!!), new zoomify function, new auto align and auto blend tools, smart filters, new cloning and healing tools, the interface is much more flexible, huge Read the rest of this entry »
As you probably know there is a free of charge substitute for Adobe Photoshop called GIMP, anyway my point is not about raster but vector software. And of course there is a substitute for Adobe Illustrator too called Inkscape.
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with Read the rest of this entry »
Today Adobe Inc. will introduce beta version of Adobe? Photoshop? CS3 , the next release of the world standard in digital imaging. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft? Windows? XP and Windows Vista computers. The final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 is Read the rest of this entry »
There were few editions of Proxy Magazine last 3 years and during Read the rest of this entry »
“During the Photoshop World keynote, Adobe’s Sr. Vice President of Creative Solutions provided a quick look at Photoshop CS3, apparently running on Read the rest of this entry »