Adobe CS4 is AMAZINGLY seamless, it's slippery...

I would say that since Adobe acquired Macromedia (sob and then yay), one of the objectives has been to try and seamlessly integrate the work flow between the 2 companies offerings. The latest version of Creative Suite 4 really lives up to the slogan "Shortcut to Brilliant" and the apps work REALLY well together.

I attended Adobe's CS4 Launch Event today at The Rock at Suntec and got a cool water bottle as the door gift. So glad I don't have another notebook / sticky pad / post it / useless key chain / squeeze ball / not-ANOTHER-fat-plastic-pen to throw into the Abyss-Box.

There's really too many improvements CS4 has over CS3, but from the presentations / demos, I would say that the 4 software with major workflow / productivity improvements would be Flash, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Fireworks.

Here's my list of top 3 most AMAZING features of CS4.

1. Flash has animation macros to speed up / easily create animations. Effects which took 10-20 steps to do, now only needed 2-3 steps. And there's Inverse Kinematics (Bones) function to help animate your objects. IK used to be only found in expensive 3D software like 3D Studio Max / Maya etc.

2. Fireworks is CRAZY, with the slice, auto CSS generator and tab views of javascript etc in the same window. Edits to preview updates all related files on the fly. There's even a browser built INTO Fireworks so you no longer have to SAVE, Preview in IE / FF / Safari.

3. The most AMAZING feature is the interpolability between the apps, like from InDesign, to Flash. Or Photoshop to Fireworks to HTML (with CSS). Photoshop to Dreamweaver, and when you resize the image in Dreamweaver, it goes back to the PSD, saves a copy and updates the image in Dreamweaver AUTOMATICALLY! Same with making an image edit in PSD which has a referenced image in Dreamweaver, it updates dynamically. No more SAVE AS JPG, DELETE IMAGE, INSERT IMAGE. WOW!

Is it worth the upgrade price of $1000 ish (CS3 to CS4).

A definate YES!




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