Sep
29
Adobe Releases CS4
Photoshop CS4
Photoshop CS4 creates a more flexible, faster and more integrated way to accomplish tasks. Photoshop CS4 gives us a tab-based interface with dockable self-adjusting panels. Experience earth shattering 3D editing to compost directly onto 3D models and convert 2D images to 3D in a snap.
With the addition of the Adjustments and Masks panels, non destructive editing becomes a more unavoidable part of the workflow. Feeling much more like Camera RAW, you can move between all the adjustment types without committing to the change. The Photoshop CS3 Masks panel is a centralized location for both Vector and Bitmap masks, and the ability to access Refine Edge is a welcome addition.
InDesign CS4
Increase Productivity with Fluid Workflows
Adobe InDesign CS4 enables more productive workflows with other Adobe applications, especially Flash. A step behind Quark, InDesign CS4 now can export directly from InDesign to Flash. Layouts are completely preserved including text editability in XFL. While Acrobat has included Page Transitions for quite a while, now InDesign has native page transitions including fade, dissove, wipe, and more, making Adobe quite a competitor of PowerPoint!
Adobe InDesigns’ Live Preflight allows for production glitches to display in real-time format without having to enter Preflight. InDesigns’ CS4 Preflight monitors your document as you work, looking for issues such as overset text, and low res images and suggests solutions to the problems.
- Jori Curry