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Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard

Advantages: It will easily convert documents of a different format to pdf
Disadvantages: It uses a lot of processor speed, it takes a long time to load,

...of a button. Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard also is capable of breaking down large pdf documents into smaller more managable files. Which can then either be loaded or saved seperately to make the file size smaller, or the user can disguard pages that are demmed unnecessary. Be aware it is loaded instead of the quicker acrobat reader after install when viewing pdfs The software is realitively expensive for its usefulness but it does provide a professonial ...

serenhere 18.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard

Worth the upgrade fee from CS2?

Advantages: New tools, excellent new layout
Disadvantages: Quite expensive

...designs for clients. To me, Adobe Creative Suite 3 is like a hammer for a carpenter - it's a must have tool. Adobe seem to upgrade their main packages almost religiously every year - 18 months, so it seems little point forking out the best part of £500+ to simply add a couple of extra brushes or tools for each package. I believe they are already working on their fourth incarnation as we speak. However, CS3 adds more than just a couple of new elements. ...
...the user a brand new interface with more customizable options which may or may not suit all. I however think it's one of the best updates they have released since they introduced Layers in Photoshop way back in an earlier version. One of the best updated features has to be Photomerge, which is nestled away in Photoshop CS3 under the File > Automate option. Photomerge gives you an option to merge two images together which are similar to give a panoramic ...

macmonkey 10.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard

Lights! Camera! Action!

Advantages: Free trial, reasonable price, easy to use, professional result.
Disadvantages: Burning DVDs is slow.

...free. As I already have Adobe Photoshop Elements (which is also good), I started with the video version. Try it free first. The first good news is that you can try Adobe Premier Elements 3.0 for free for 30 days at www.adobe.com/uk/downloads/ . Pick the righthand option 'free trial downloads'. The only difference (that I found) between the trial and full versions is that the trial version has less templates and puts an 'adobe' watermark at the top ...
...(Check this at the Adobe website or on the box) -Pentium 4 or Celeron 1.3GHz -Windows XP -512mb RAM -4GB diskspace (more if you have a lot f footage) -colour monitor (16bit colour, 1024x768 resolution) -MS Direct X 9 sound and display -DVD ROM/RAM writer (assuming you want to make DVDs) -DV/iLINK/Firewire/IEEE 1394 or USB2 port (check if you have a compatible camcorder) -Camcorder with DV/iLINK/Firewire/IEEE 1394 -auto saves your project ...

innovator 19.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Premiere Elements 3

Excellent image organiser and photo editor

Advantages: Almost as good as Photoshop CS at 1/10th the price
Disadvantages: Some functions are tricky to use

Photoshop Elements is the ideal choice for anyone who uses a digital camera, or scans images into their computer. It combines an editor which has most of the functions of its big brother Photoshop CS and a excellent organiser. The editor has two modes, one for beginners and the other for more confident users. The Quick Fix is all most people will need to enhance the photographs they take, but it's nice to know that more power is available if you ...
...it even more versatile. The organiser can manage a huge number of images, being based upon an Access database. It is very simple to categorise your photos and add tags within the categories. If neccesary you can get Elements to write the tags to jpegs so that you can use them in other software. All in all an excellent piece of software and well worth the money to upgrade from the previous version. ...

SteveF48 26.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Photoshop Elements 5

iTunes - Thank You, Apple!

Advantages: Great arrangement, look, sound; easy to use and understand.
Disadvantages: Doesn't have more than one iTunes for different iPods.

Probably the best media application out there, iTunes just keeps on getting better. I worship it and everything that is Apple. But then again, music is a very big part of my life. ITunes provides me with everything that I need; it's easily the most important application on my laptop. It's very easy to control and arrange all of my media with iTunes; it takes very little time to get the hang of it. It looks amazing and works very efficiently...I ...
...life. Everything I need to find is there somewhere. It stores all of my media just the way I want it to be stored - in the right sections, in the perfect playlists, alphabetically, etc. There are, of course, a few minor points that could be perfected, but for the price (free!), it's pretty amazing. I would definitely use iTunes for my media, regardless of whether or not I had an iPod (I do). I doubt any other media application out there, however ...

LadyMissMina 22.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Apple iTunes 9