Tags: adobe cs5
05/05/10
04:43:53 pm, Categories: Welcome , Tags: adobe cs5, captivate 5, cs5, elearning on ppt, elearning suite 2, flash cs5, interactive pdf, mac, powerpoint for elearning, presenter 
Heads up! The Adobe CS5 Suite is shipping! I have downloaded the trial versions of the CS5 suite for my Mac (reviews coming soon), and am going to be upgrading my client machine to the newly released eLearning Suite 2! (NOTE: It will be released mid-June. I got a little too excited!) Yes, during this last round of upgrades, they created another eLearning Suite and an upgrade to Captivate.
The eLearning Suite 2 contains:
- Captivate 5
- Flash CS5
- Photoshop CS5 Extended
- Dreamweaver CS5
- Presenter 7
- Soundbooth CS5
- Acrobat 9
Interesting that Soundbooth isn't included in the Web suite now, and that Presenter is still version 7. I have a love/hate thing with PowerPoint and eLearning (don't get me started), but I recently created an interactive PDF with Presenter that my client loved so I can't totally hate it.
It's interesting that Adobe didn't upgrade Presenter this round. Makes me wonder if they are going to drop the tool, or more likely, integrate Captivate tools into PPT. Makes you think though...
However, something that I cannot wait to try, is Captivate 5 ON THE MAC. Yes, this is the first iteration of Captivate that runs on a Mac! I really like Captivate and what it can do for certain eLearning projects, and now that it runs on the Mac, it makes me very happy. I'll let you know my opinions of the new Captivate 5 on both the PC and the Mac this month.
Thanks to Adobe for releasing upgrades to products I love to use! Now, if we can just figure out a way to get Apple and Adobe to play nice, my world will be a better place!
02/01/10
12:00:11 pm, Categories: News, Software, Adobe, On the web , Tags: adobe cs5, april, cs5, flash cs5, photoshop cs5 
There have been reports leaking to the web that hint of an April release date for the Adobe CS5 suite of software. Although Adobe goes out of their way to keep these release dates a secret, reports keep coming out. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I've had lots of buggy situations with Flash CS4 and with Dreamweaver CS4 on my Mac, so I'm hoping that in addition to those new features which are coming, Adobe has taken the time to clean up the code a bit.
And, because I cannot wait, here are some CS5 Videos and a dedicated CS5 website that should keep you enticed:
Flash CS5 : Export to iPhone
Flash CS5 : New Features
Photoshop CS5 : Sneak Peek
Photoshop CS5 : Patch Match
Photoshop CS5 : Spot Healing
GREAT CS5 Site: http://cs5.org/
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