New York — Adobe Inc. is craving to capitalize on the tablet craze, opened a new chapter today as it announced the availability of its mid-cycle upgrade to its development and design software, Creative Suite 5.5., which now includes tools to target the Apple iPad, Android and BlackBerry tablets.
Adobe’s Creative Suite 5.5 products actually consist of a variety of tools that are commonly used by content creators to create emphasizing work such as magazines, newspapers, video production, Flash and Web programming, and design and much, much more.
Basically, if you are developing a consumer oriented publication, you are going to use some elements of Adobe’s software. This latest version 5.5 is bundled with new features, including tools that lets content creators target the Apple iPad, BlackBerry PlayBook and the variety of Android tablets that are coming, as well as empowers the user to operate Photoshop remotely.
“Adobe is mainly focusing on HTML5 authoring with new capabilities in Creative Suite 5.5 that will radically boost the delivery of HTML content across multiple browsers — on the desktop, tablets and smartphones,” said David Wadhwani, senior VP and general manager at Adobe, in a prepared statement.
Collectively, the features show that Adobe is turning, though with the nimbleness of a battleship. The newly released apps dubbed as: Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Nav and Adobe Eazel that have been devised as such to help incorporate Apple’s iPad and its touchscreen into the Creative Studio 5.5 software.
The three new iPad apps are:
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Adobe Color Lava: This app allows you to mix colors with your finger tips, create custom swatches, and instantly manipulate any colors on your computer’s installation of Photoshop CS5. Instantly access them in Photoshop CS5–all you need is a network connection between your iPad and computer. Or use the app wherever inspiration strikes, and then bring your colors into Photoshop CS5 when your are connected. Share colors via email, too.
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Adobe Nav: With Adobe Nav, your iPad becomes your Photoshop CS5 toolbar, enabling you to quickly and easily access your most frequently-used tools. It gives you full toolbar customization functionality and also allows you to see all of your open documents and navigate through them. Browse, reorder, view, and zoom in on up to 200 open Photoshop documents on iPad.
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Adobe Eazel: Adobe Eazel delivers the power of painting on your iPad screen, giving you the ability to use Photoshop tools with your fingertips. With it, you can paint inside the app and then send the creation to your Photoshop CS5 from any location. You can even create entire paintings and then send them via email as finished products.
Adobe is putting a lot of focus on Flash and HTML5, with which it says it has made major advances. Although Flash has been an extremely important product for the company, but no longer is the Web world relying on it to bring innovation to browsers, and Apple still has banished it from iOS. Now Adobe is growing beyond Flash, though, while still trying to adhere to its ideal of developing content once that can then be used on a variety of devices.
“For creators of mobile apps on iOS, Android or BlackBerry Tablet OS, our latest Flash tools deliver stunning high-performance apps, without having to start from scratch for every device,” said Wadhwani.
Owners of Creative Suite 5 will also be able to use the new iPad applications using the a free Photoshop 12.0.4 update. This latest release of software suite includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat, Flash Builder Premium, Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Premiere and After Effects, all of which come in one of five different bundles: Design Standard, Design Premium, Production Premium, Web Premium and Master Collection, which includes all of the applications.
The Master Collection, which incorporates all of the products, costs $2,599, and at the other end of the scale, CS5.5 Design Standard costs $1,299.
Nevertheless, we may never see Flash on the iPhone, you can be sure Adobe will have a lot of its fingerprints on many iOS and other tablet apps. The Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 should wind up creating many programs and apps which you see on various devices, as companies like USA Today and NBC Universal have already endorsed the product.
Furthermore, it is a professional-grade product and is rated accordingly (possibly somewhat pricey though, depending on where you get it) but you will certainly see the impact on your tablet soon.
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More information about the new iPad apps can be found on the Adobe website: Adobe Eazel, Adobe Nav and Adobe Color Lava.