Adobe - Creative Suite 3, Web Site Design, Graphic Design, Video Editing, Photo Editing Software

Well it’s not exactly the latest news but it is definately worthy of a mention that what used to be Macromedia products and now interwoven into the Adobe range of products so we have a whole new range of Creative Suites with packages for the print designer, web designer & developer, production studio or if you want to have it all, you can buy the lot with the Master Suite of the best of the best from Adobe.

I haven’t yet had the opportunity to get my hands on these latest releases of CS3 however after spending alot of time on the Adobe site, I decided to preorder and upgrade my Studio 8 suite to the Web Design Premium package which has everything I need right now although I would have liked to have some of the software from the Production Suite but maybe next time.

From what I have seen from the information on the Adobe website, most of the new features seem to work on product cross over integration where it will now be easier than ever to work across multiple applications and importing graphics seems like a life saver solving many issues today working from Adobe products and Macromedia products.

I also like the improved CSS support and updated features particulary now in Dreamweaver that you can move the CSS rules around the CSS panel. Also the Ajax integration in Dreamweaver is another nice extra using the Adobe’s own Spry framework. There are quite a few extra features in both Photoshop, Illustrator, & Fireworks but currently I’m very curious to see if Dreamweaver has some better dynamic validation options for database driven sites as Dreamweaver 8 didn’t have any built in behaviours to fast track the process. Late last year in Sep 06 Adobe aquired the company Interakt who built some nice validation plugins for Dreamweaver so it will be interesting to see if Adobe has integrated some of this into Dreamweaver CS3.

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Word is out on the web that Adobe is about to release the next version of Photoshop CS3 as Beta but no word on other upcoming applications like Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Fireworks.  Check out the Apple Insider article.

Whilst hanging out at Keyframer forum for Flash Animators & Developers one of the member pointed out how Adobe has contributed their Actionscript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Open Source foundation in a move to help create a standard web scripting language that is uniform across platforms, applications and browsers. Read more about this at Digital Trends News.