Tag: FIREWORKS

Earlier this month, Adobe announced that they would be holding a streaming webcast to officially introduce Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) to the public. Adobe calls CS4 its "biggest software release to date," but then, they claim that with every version (I think CS3 was its "largest release ever" or something to that effect). Having had the opportunity to play around with some of the CS4 betas, I ...

Adobe, who only last week was denying Creative Suite 4 release date rumors (or that the next version of Photoshop will be called Photoshop CS4), has just released the first CS4 betas for three of their products. Early versions of the next-generation of Soundbooth, Dreamweaver and Fireworks are all available for download for both Mac and Windows (Soundbooth is only available for Intel Macs). ...

CS3 pricing is out, and it looks a bit high! Amazon might have let the cat out of the bag a little early when it comes to the not yet released Adobe CS3 applications. Officially CS3 is due out on March 27th, but Amazon accidentally flipped the switch to show the pricing of the newly designed creative suite a day earlier. The pricing structure looks like this: Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Web ...

I'm a day or two late with this one, but PC Magazine has an interesting article on the software and hardware behind professional fireworks displays. In it, Eric Tucker, the "lead creator" for Boston's Fourth of July fireworks show, describes how he gets the job done using a program called Visual Show Director--$3,750, in case you're curious--and $30-50,000 worth of digital firing equipment.  ...