Since Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, the creative landscape has really picked up steam. Especially with the rise of AJAX. Adobe is not standing still in the current Age of Google. On March 27th the long expected announcement of their Creative Suite 3 will be rolled out. And following the Vista lead we may see several versions of CS3 to choose from.
On the sidelines, but no small potato is Apollo. Adobe has been working to keep this development kicking for a while but has recently announced it public beta alpha release in both Mac and Windows versions.
All in one breath: Bringing the best of Flash, CSS and programming APIs to the desktop for rapid development of new types of client tools that tap the internet?
Hmmm…okay. So leverage Flash as the be all — end all — with CSS tied in and skip the need for a web browser?
To keep up with Google, Adobe will also be rolling out a web version of Photoshop. I’m sure it will be stripped with an option to save your work to a storage server. Interesting. This is another online tool for Adobe following Photobucket.
I’m sure it will drive a lot of traffic, but how does the Photoshop brand survive? CS3 will show us two versions of Photoshop — Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended. On top of the expected web version sits Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Album. And Adobe just rolled out Photoshop Lightroom. So long Elements?
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