Adobe Photoshop Touch 1.3 Adds Retina Display Support

While the Mac version of Photoshop is still waiting for Retina Display support, Adobe is making good on its promise to bring the same to the touch-enabled iPad app with a new version released on Wednesday.

Adobe has released Photoshop Touch 1.3, a new version of the company's $9.99 image editing app for the iPad. Available now from the App Store, the update brings full Retina Display support for the third-generation iPad and a host of other features.

In addition to Retina Display support for the new iPad, Adobe Photoshop Touch 1.3 now allows even higher-resolution images up to 12 megapixels -- a big improvement over the limitations of the original release.

Photoshop Touch is now localized in Russian and Brazilian Portuguese while including two new effects, Shred and Colorize. Adobe has made animation and scrolling in the organizer, tutorial browser and file picker smoother than previous versions as well.

Finally, Adobe Photoshop Touch includes a new gesture to toggle 100 percent view as well as three-finger tap for fit to screen, with new pixel nudging mode for precision movements and support for iCloud Photo Stream.

Adobe Photoshop Touch 1.3 is now available from the App Store for $9.99, and the update is free for existing users; the app requires and iPad 2 or higher running iOS 5.0 or later.

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Thursday Recap: CEO Chats, Adobe Retina Display Updates, Kindle Fire Sells Out

With a week to go before Amazon holds a media event, the e-tailer has announced its best-selling Kindle Fire is now sold out -- which certainly sounds more like "we stopped making them because a new model is coming" to us. While that seven-inch slate was quite nice a year ago, Google's Nexus 7 has pretty much made many of us forget all about the Kindle Fire, so Amazon is going to have to pull a real rabbit out of its hat to wow us once again. In the meantime, let's get caught up with the day's news for this Thursday, August 30, 2012.

Report: Google, Apple CEOs Holding Patent Talks

Reuters is reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page have been holding a series of "behind-the-scenes conversations about a range of intellectual property matters." According to sources in their inner circle, the two executive spoke by phone last week, presumably ahead of Friday's courtroom defeat for Google partner Samsung. Another source claims a new meeting was scheduled for this Friday but "delayed for reason that were unclear," but additional meetings will be held in the coming weeks. The move would certainly fit with Cook's own comments about wanting to settle patent issues outside of the courtroom, but we're a bit skeptical any such talks are actually taking place.

Adobe: Retina Support Coming This Fall for Key Creative Suite 6 Apps

There are still plenty of Mac apps yet to be updated for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display's high-resolution screen, and Adobe's Creative Suite 6 is definitely among them. But that will be changing this fall, as the company has officially announced Retina Display (i.e., HiDPI) support will be arriving in the next few months for a number of the company's key Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud software. The free updates will include Dreamweaver, Edge Animate, Illustrator, Lightroom, Photoshop Touch for iPad, Prelude, Premiere Pro, SpeedGrade and yes, Photoshop, which was demoed during the introduction of the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display back in June. According to the company's Photoshop.com Blog, Photoshop Elements "will not fully support HiDPI displays in the immediate future," but the team is hard at work determining what they need to do to make that happen.

Kindle Fire Now Sold Out, We Really Can't Imagine Why

Amazon issued a press release this morning to boast about selling out of the Kindle Fire, its number one best-selling product ever. Claiming the seven-inch tablet has already captured 22 percent of the U.S. tablet market, the news seems curiously timed considering the e-tailer is holding a media event next Thursday, which seems quite certain to debut a new Kindle Fire (and maybe a few other surprises). "Kindle Fire is sold out, but we have an exciting roadmap ahead," CEO Jeff Bezos says. "We will continue to offer our customers the best hardware, the best prices, the best customer service, the best cross-platform interoperability, and the best content ecosystem.

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Adobe Launches, Updates Mobile Offerings in the Education Niche

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Review

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Adobe Illustrator CS6 Review

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Adobe Illustrator has long been the choice for illustration professionals, designers, and anyone who wants to work with infinitely scalable vector graphics. Over the years it’s gained some highly impressive features, such as mesh tools for drawing photorealistic objects, perspective tools for taking the pain out of vanishing points, and much, much more. So, what can CS6 bring? Oh, just plenty of new features and an all-new interface.

The charcoal-gray interface, like Photoshop’s by default, gives Illustrator a more refined, professional feel. If it’s a little much, you can change the interface color via Preferences (unlike Photoshop’s theme-based approach). It’s a minor, but lovely touch. But the real thing you notice about Illustrator is its blazing fast speed. Mainly thanks to the Mercury Performance System and native 64-bit support, complex documents with meshes, gradients, and many points can be manipulated with relative ease. Redraw certainly seems snappier as well.

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Review

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When Apple released Final Cut Pro X last year, many veterans were up in arms. FCPX wasn’t just an update to the program they’d come to rely on--it was a complete departure from what they were used to. You either loved it or hated it, and Adobe was only too pleased to welcome new clients to its platform. With Premiere Pro CS6, Adobe is working very hard to make sure its clientele stays put.

The entire interface has been redesigned. Everything is centered around the editing process with very large Source and Program monitors at the top, and huge thumbnails in the browser section. Although they take up a lot more room, the thumbnails are extremely useful for seeing at a glance which clip you want, and Adobe took a page from iMovie and Final Cut Pro X, letting you mouse over a clip to skim through your footage. It also does one better: click the clip to reveal a small timeline. Drag a clip’s playhead to look through it, and if you’ve already set In and Out points, they’ll appear there as well--this functionality almost makes the Source monitor redundant.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Review

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After dipping its toe into the subscription-pricing waters with last year’s Creative Suite 5.5, Adobe has moved onto the next phase with Creative Cloud. While the new service offers cost-effective access to the full Creative Suite 6 Master Collection for under 50 bucks a month, the cloud cover feels a little thin as far as other worthwhile features, at least for the time being.

Instead of purchasing individual apps or even a Creative Suite 6 bundle (such as Design & Web Premium for layout work or Production Premium for video), Creative Cloud lets you access everything for the low price of $49.99 per month with an annual subscription--the price jumps to $74.99 per month without a 12-month commitment.

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5 Quick Tips for Mastering Adobe Creative Suite 6

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Adobe's Creative Suite is the be-all, end-all for creative professionals, so when a new version comes out, it's a very big deal. And this time around, Adobe made its juggernaut Creative Suite software available to the masses with a Master Collection available to access at just $49.99 per month after committing to a full year. So those of us regular folk who don't who just like to dabble with Photoshop and InDesign for personal projects can still get full access to all of the powerful features we love from Creative Suite without paying gobs of money.

And speaking of dabblers, if you've been trying to wrap your head around how to use the new CS6, here are five quick tips to get you starters.

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Adobe Collage Review

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It's a bit of a lost art, the collage. We have Facebook walls and Pinterest boards, but in the digital age, there aren't too many platforms that replicate the timeless practice of snipping words and photos and sticking them to a poster. With Collage, Adobe attempts to digitize the process for the iPad, but doesn't quite conjure the nostalgia I was hoping for.

It didn't take me long to master Collage's toolset, but that's not necessarily a compliment. While it's nice to fully learn the app in a few minutes, its ease of use has less to do with the intuitiveness of its interface than its overly limited features. It's easy to dive into Collage and certainly fun to use, but it doesn't really do anything that the desktop-caliber Photoshop Touch cannot, making its $9.99 price tag baffling.

Adobe Collage obviously revolves around photos, and Adobe has included several importing options, though copyright restrictions severely limit what's found from search tools like Google and Flickr. Photos can be rotated and resized with ease, and a nifty cut-out tool mimics the jagged impreciseness of cutting up a magazine. Video support is a nice touch, but the lack of Retina support for a premium app released after the new iPad's retail debut is a bummer.

Collage can import PSDX files (with support for layers, but not transparency) via Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription service, but its proprietary COLZ files can't be opened in Photoshop Touch for advanced editing. I was surprised Adobe didn't include any filters or unique brushes (maybe tape or pushpins) to compensate for its rudimentary toolset, and I would have liked to see more font options, -- especially one that makes it look like words should on a collage. Without these touches, finished collages look pretty one-dimensional.

The bottom line. Adobe's latest app for the iPad captures the essence of collaging, but it still isn't quite as satisfying as working with scissors and glue.

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Nuance Hates Adobe

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Adobe Creative Wolke, Muse 1.0, Touch Apps jetzt verfügbar

Wir haben Liftoff! Wie versprochen am Montag mit der Nachricht, die Creative Suite 6, Adobe hat die Packungen kreative Cloud Versand wurde, sind $ 49.99 pro Monats-Abo-service, alle Produkte, die zusammen mit einem Wirt anderer CS6 enthält.

Adobe Systems Inc. kündigte die sofortige Verfügbarkeit von Adobe Creative Wolke am Freitag, den Anfang einer neuen Ära in der langen Geschichte des Unternehmens, eine radikale neue Art der Bereitstellung von Tools und Dienstleistungen für seine Kunden anbietet.



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Adobe Now Offers Photoshop Lightroom 4 in Mac App Store

Adobe Systems is having a big week, shipping Creative Suite 6 on Monday and Creative Cloud expected on Friday, but in-between they’ve quietly slipped Photoshop Lightroom 4 into the Mac App Store, marking their fourth title to land on Apple’s virtual store shelves.

Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 4 to the Mac App Store, which now joins Photoshop Elements 10 Editor, Premiere 10 Elements Editor and Adobe Revel (formerly Carousel) on Apple’s Mac storefront. Lightroom 4 is priced at $149.99, which matches Adobe’s own retail pricing, but it’s not much of a deal considering the software can be purchased at a discounted $99 for customers also buying a Creative Suite 6 bundle, which Adobe shipped on Monday.



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Adobe Officially Announces Creative Suite 6, Creative Cloud, Preorders Available Now

After being teased since last fall, Adobe Systems Incorporated has taken the wraps off Creative Suite 6 and its new Creative Cloud offering on Monday, now available for preorder, including a special introductory offer for previous Creative Suite users.

Adobe Systems Incorporated officially announced four new Creative Suite 6 editions on Monday, in addition to the company’s long-awaited Creative Cloud, which includes not only everything CS6 has to offer but a variety of other cloud-based services, all for one low monthly fee.

Available within 30 days with preorders starting today, Adobe Creative Suite 6 has been streamlined into four editions: Design & Web Premium (previously offered as separate packages), Design Standard, Production Premium and Master Collection, which includes pretty much everything but the kitchen sink.

In addition to the all-new Photoshop CS6 which has been in public beta for several weeks, CS6 includes major upgrades to Illustrator CS6 and InDesign CS6 as well as a brand-new application, Adobe Muse, which allows designers to create and publish HTML5 websites without writing code. Web creation applications Dreamweaver CS6 and Flash Professional CS6 also see major improvements, and video professionals will also get plenty of new features with Premiere Pro CS6, After Effects CS6 and the new Prelude CS6 and SpeedGrade applications.

Perhaps even bigger than CS6 itself is the official announcement of Creative Cloud, Adobe’s new $49.99 per month subscription offering which not only includes all of the CS6 applications for Mac, iOS and Android but also new apps yet to come and all future upgrades for members with an active subscription. It’s a radical new approach for Adobe, who continues to offer traditional boxed and downloadable copies of its CS6 software as well.

Adobe Creative Cloud includes 20GB of cloud storage in addition to the Adobe Creative Cloud Connection software to allow syncing, sharing and storing of files across both mobile devices and desktop computers.

Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Adobe Creative Cloud will be available within 30 days, but preorders are available for both products starting on Monday. If you are a previous user of CS3, CS4, CS5 or CS5.5, Adobe is offering a special introductory offer on a Creative Cloud subscription for $29.99 per month -- a $20 per month savings for the first year (month-to-month options are also available at a higher price).

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Adobe Offers High-Quality Design Features with Creative Suite 6 Delivered Through the Cloud

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Thursday Recap: Windows 8 on iPad, My First Five Years, Adobe Revel Hits 1.2

New parents: Drop those poopy diapers and head to the Mac App Store, immediately! (Or, you know, when you’re done cleaning up.) The best-selling Anne Geddes baby record book My First Five Years has now been converted to a Mac app and it looks pretty amazing. Don’t have a kid? Then gift it to someone who does! About the only way this could be even better is if they make it available for the iPad (hint, hint). While you ponder that, read on to find out what else is making news for this Thursday, April 12, 2012.

Splashtop Brings Windows 8 Consumer Preview to iPad

We’ve already seen Windows 7 running on an iPad, but that’s old news now that Microsoft plans to roll out the Metro-centric Windows 8 later this year. Splashtop Inc. today announced the availability of Win8 Metro Testbed, a remote desktop app for software developers and technology enthusiasts alike to simulate the Windows 8 environment on an iPad. Empowered with Windows 8 Metro touch gestures, the app allows developers to test this functionality as they code and compile new apps for Windows, without having to invest in a Windows 8-compatible tablet.

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First Look: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta

Adobe surprised everyone late Wednesday with a public beta for their new Photoshop CS6, which is expected along with the rest of Creative Suite 6 in the first half of this year. But is this just another iterative update without many new features? You be the judge with our first look.

Adobe Labs has released a public beta of the forthcoming Photoshop CS6, which marks one of the most radical new updates in years, in terms of new and enhanced features. The company has posted an extensive 42-page PDF document detailing the release, but here’s the short version for those of you who prefer not to tinker with public betas.

 

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