Monday, September 29, 2003

Photoshop v8 has been announced (from MacCentral). Only Adobe is calling it Photoshop CS. Adobe experimented with non-version number product naming before with Illustrator 88 and then dropped it the following year. Some of the improvements and new features include: Photomerge feature creates panoramas from multiple images full-fledged editing of 16 bit images means an HDR workflow is more practical support for images as large as 300,000x300,000 pixels, images with non-square pixels, and up to 56 channels RAW camera plugin now integrated with Photoshop product activation over the Internet text on a path Match Color feature Customizable key shortcuts ImageReady can now export direct to Flash fully-optimized for G5 upgrades are $169 Anyone who uses Photoshop as part of a panoramic workflow will no doubt be interested in these new features. Adobe has also announced new versions of Illustrator, InDesign and GoLive. The software packages feature tighter integration and VersionCue, a tool for managing creative workflow. Reports are that Photoshop v8 will ship in late November. CreativeMac looks at the entire set of new releases in Up Close with the Adobe Creative Suite, wherein I found this little tidbit about GoLive: "On the multimedia front, GoLive CS gains a variety of enhancements, especially QuickTime support. This includes QuickTime interactive authoring with support for opening and editing 3GP, AVI, MOV and MPEG-4 files within GoLive's authoring environment and adding rich content through Apple's QuickTime Wired Action Programming Language. It also adds the ability to create and debug QuickTime scripts with multiple event handlers and automatically generate QuickTime wired sprites from Photoshop files. It adds support for QuickTime movie database containers and output of 3GP and MPEG-4 content for mobile devices." Coverage of reaction to the announcement at thinksecret, actionscript.com, and what do I know regarding the version number scheme, or lack thereof. 7:45:00 AM

QuickMix v1.0 offers multitrack video editing, from MacNN. Requires Mac OS X and QuickTime 6. 7:30:01 AM

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