The Seybold Report

Adobe Moves Creative Suite Software 100% to the Cloud

Earlier this week, Adobe announced it would no longer sell Creative Suite as discreet products available for purchase in boxed or download form. Instead, the company will sell access to Creative Suite software in the Creative Cloud form. Users will be able to access one software program for $19.95 a month or the entire software collection for $49.95 a month. Existing Creative Suite owners (CS3 and later) will pay less, initially. Details on this announcement and several other signicant ones Adobe also made this week will be in the next issue of the Seybold Report, which publishes next week. more

Adobe Reveals Second Peek at Edge Reflow Tool in Creative Cloud

Adobe has announced Creative Cloud users may now get a look at the latest version of Edge Reflow, a Web-based, Web site design tool. The company says the latest version has improved layout capabilities and is more stable. more

Tech Data to Distribute Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams

Tech Data Corporation has announced it will distribute Adobe Creative Cloud for teams. Tech Data says this partnership with Adobe will give resellers access to Creative Cloud for teams through the Value Incentive Plan (VIP), Adobe's membership-based volume licensing program. more

Adobe Celebrates 20 Years of After Effects

Adobe has announced several activities in celebration of After Effects' decades in cinematic digital postproduction. The company says the celebration will include After Effects users from over the years sharing their stories and talking about postproduction’s metamorphosis. The celebration kicked off January 15 and includes a dedicated Facebook page and a Twitter chat to celebrate After Affects’ impact on the industry. more

Adobe Releases Photoshop Touch 1.3

Adobe has announced immediate availability of Photoshop Touch 1.3 for iPad and Android tablets. Photoshop Touch provides the core Photoshop features, allowing users to create layered images, edit images, and apply professional effects on a tablet. The resulting images can be shared through Facebook or synced through the Adobe Creative Cloud to be refined in Photoshop CS6. New features include Retina Display support for iPad, higher-resolution capabilities, the addition of Russian and Brazilian Portuguese and addition of two new effects: Shred and Colorize. The new version is available as a free update to existing Photoshop Touch users or $9.99 for new users. more

Output Factory for InDesign on Adobe Exchange

Zevrix Solutions’ Output Factory for Adobe InDesign CS6 is now available on Adobe Exchange, the new Creative Suite extension marketplace. The plug-in appears as a panel within several CS6 applications and automates batch printing, layer versioning, preflighting, and other time-saving features. more

Adobe Announces Source Sans Pro Open Source Type

Adobe has responded to requests for a typeface tailored to open source environments by releasing Source Sans Pro, a new open source type family. Based on the Open Font Format and on News Gothic and Franklin Gothic, the new type family is designed to be readable in user interfaces and in passages of text on screen and in print. more 

Zevrix Adds Interactive PDF Support to Output Factory

Zevrix Solutions has released Output Factory v 1.3.2 for Adobe InDesign on Mac OSX. The new version lets users automate document generation using InDesign’s export to interactive PDF feature. more 

Adobe Announces Technical Communication Suite 4

Adobe has announced Communication Suite 4, including new versions of FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Illustrator, Captivate, Presenter, and Acrobat X Pro. Communications Suite 4 is designed as a single-source authoring and multi-device publishing toolkit for technical writers, instructional designers, and others involved in publishing long documents and technical documentation. more

Adobe Adds Lightroom to Creative Cloud

Adobe announced Photoshop Lightroom 4 software is now available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud membership. more

Adobe Introduces Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6

Adobe has announced Creative Suite 6, the latest full new version of its flagship product line for design, Web, and video professionals, as well as the new Adobe Creative Cloud. A subscription-based service, Adobe Creative Cloud provides tools for making, sharing, and delivering creative work and includes access to a Software-as-a-Service version of CS6. more 

Adobe Releases Photoshop CS6 Beta

Adobe Labs has announced release of a Photoshop CS6 beta as a download. Highlights of the new release include a content aware patch, faster performance, and a new user interface. more

Adobe Eases Upgrade Path from CS5.5 to CS6

Adobe has announced starting March 26 new purchasers of CS 5.5 will receive a complimentary upgrade to CS6 when the new version released. more

Adobe Photoshop Touch Available for iPad 2

Adobe announced Photoshop Touch is now available for iPad 2 via the iTunes App Store. The app offers core Photoshop features as well as new capabilities for creating and sharing in an app custom-built for tablets. more

Adobe Announces Digital Publishing Suite Enhancements

Adobe has announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona upgrades to the Digital Publishing Suite to increase the software's functionality and extensibility. The enhancements include new in-app merchandising, provisioning of targeted content based on user role, accelerated app creation, and HTML5 support. more