Jun 20
Adobe’s shift to cloud-based software provision for its new Creative Cloud design suite
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Jun 18
Adobe pulled the covers off its shiny new Creative Cloud earlier this month
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Jun 04
Adobe XD’s Project Mighty and Napoleon: the future of cloud-connected design tools for tablets (hands-on)
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Adobe’s best known for its creative software, but lately it’s been toying with the hardware side of design. Over the past few weeks, the company’s XD division’s been teasing Projects Mighty and Napoleon for tablets: the former is a pressure-sensitive stylus, while the latter is a ruler for drafting. Both hardware experiments feature Bluetooth but, more importantly, they tap in Adobe’s Creative Cloud. The units are essentially a serious side project for Adobe, but we have a feeling designers will be seriously excited once they get to see these prototypes in action. Geoff Dowd, XD’s Design Lead, was kind enough to delve a bit deeper into the projects for us in a video walkthrough you can catch after the break.
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Sep 25
Adobe Edge swells to include Tools & Services, streamlines the designer web
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Adobe really wants web designers to kick things up a notch. Not satisfied with where Edge has gone so far, it just released a full-fledged Edge Tools & Services suite to cover the bases for polished desktop and mobile pages on most any modern platform. Motion tool Edge Animate (formerly Edge Preview), automated previewing tool Edge Inspect (formerly Shadow) and mobile app packager PhoneGap Build have all arrived in the suite as version 1.0 releases, and come with both Edge Web Fonts as well as TypeKit to spruce up text. A pair of pre-release utilities, Edge Code (Brackets) and Edge Reflow, are also joining the group to tackle the nitty-gritty of editing web code and layouts. Any of the apps will readily cooperate with third-party software, although they won’t always be cheap: while most of the Edge suite is free to use in at least a basic form as long as you have a Creative Cloud membership at any level, Edge Animate is only free during its initial run and should eventually cost either $15 per month or $499 in a one-time sale. For pros that want to burnish their corner of the web to a shine, the result just might be worth the expense.
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Adobe Edge swells to include Tools & Services, streamlines the designer web originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sep 18
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition gets cozy with Creative Cloud, code deficient designers rejoice
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If you’ve been looking for a way to make publishing for the iPad much easier and erase the coding headaches, Adobe is looking to oblige. The software company has announced that its Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) Single Edition is now part of the Creative Cloud software collection. Not familiar with DPS? No worries. The program allows designers to create single-issue iPad publications (annual reports, brochures, portfolios, etc.) in InDesign and then export them to the Digital Publishing Suite App Builder for all of the requisite coding and finishing touches. When all is said and done, the user is left with an app that can be immediately sent to Apple for its seal of approval. Pretty neat, eh? The software will still be available on its own for $395 or as part of a $49.99 annual or $74.99 month-to-month Creative Cloud commitment. However, those upgrading from CS3 or later can opt in for $29.99 per month. If a few more details are what you’re after before signing up, consult the full PR below.
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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition gets cozy with Creative Cloud, code deficient designers rejoice originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 20
Adobe begins regular updates to Creative Cloud applications, details future improvements for Creative Suite
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Adobe’s subscription-based software service is three months old and the outfit is rolling out the first of its regular updates to the Creative Cloud set of applications. Alongside a new preview of Adobe Edge (now Edge Animate), added features to Adobe Muse highlight this round of improvements — set to go live for members at 12:01 AM EDT tonight. The app that allows users to create websites without writing a line of code now includes custom contact forms, links to downloadable files (PDFs and such) and the option of using HTML5 animations from Edge and other programs. Other tweaks range from align / distribute and ruler guides that you’ve grown accustom to using on the fly in Creative Suite to a few FTP and publishing enhancements.
Also included in the news is that the company plans to roll out select new features to the regular ol’ Creative Suite offerings ahead of the annual release schedule to Creative Cloud subscribers. Some of the newfangled features that will arrive in CS7 will arrive early for those who opt for the membership route as each product team sees fit. For example, a file-packaging feature for Illustrator that was previewed recently is on its way soon. In order to get the entire truckload of new tech that the aforementioned release stands to haul, though, you’ll have to wait until the entire lot hits in properly licensed form. Sound like the kind of early access you’d enjoy? Well, those looking to switch from the normal CS license model (CS3 and later) can join the Cloud for $29.99 per month for the first year instead of the usual $49.99 until August 31st.
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Adobe begins regular updates to Creative Cloud applications, details future improvements for Creative Suite originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jun 26
Adobe’s primary tool for tweaking and organizing photos was always destined to be part of the Creative Cloud offering, but for whatever reason it didn’t make it in time for launch. As of today though, Lightroom 4 is available to download on PC or 64-bit Mac (or both, since you’re allowed multiple installations) as part of a CS6 monthly license. The additional title may not be enough to sway cloud doubters, but even they can’t dispute that the subscription approach now delivers more software than the full-on $2599 shrink-wrapped Master Collection.
Lightroom 4 finally floats into Adobe’s Creative Cloud originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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