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Worth the money.

Advantages: Easy to use, lots of tools.
Disadvantages: Expensive.

A few years ago I decided I wanted to do some photo editing and graphics on my computer. A friend of mine recommended Photoshop and I am so glad I took his advice! I was new to graphics and had never done anything like that before but I quickly got the hang of it and kept on learning new things and I still learn new things today. I would say the learning curve for this program is quite steep. When you first get it, it is very confusing as you are ...
...start to learn how to use it as you get used to the tools available. The tools are neatly displayed at the side and top making it easy to locate the one you need. It took me a while to find some of the things I needed because I was not sure of the name or symbol for it but I quickly found it, usually. There are lots of very customizable filters you can put on your photos, creating very interesting effects eg. artistic, blur and distortion . There ...

hannahanarchy 16.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Photoshop CS4 (PC)

Rough around the edges

Advantages: Same interface to retain die-hard Adobe fans
Disadvantages: Brush engine lag, not too much difference from CS3

...programmers hard to work at Adobe so that we would be able to save some seconds from our own time. I purchased this with a student discount (thank goodness) about a week ago, because I was absolutely sick and tired of using trial versions, whilst I greatly appreciated the student prices offered, but it was still an extortionate amount of money to part with when student loans if your own means of living for awhile. But for the sake of long-term investments ...
...fact, fulfill this problem using Adobe Bridge), with Photoshop extended there is a plug-in that you can install which enables you to do that function within Photoshop itself rather than opening up another program. There are some other plug-ins available which is provided in the CD along with the package. But there really isn't that much difference between Photoshop standard and Photoshop extended otherwise. As aforementioned, I haven't had quite ...

stkfu 11.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Photoshop Extended CS4 (Mac)

Adobe Dreamweaver - fantastic bit of software!

Advantages: easy to use, code hinting, loads of useful features
Disadvantages: sometimes is a bit tempremental

Adobe Dreamweaver is one of the best web design programs of all time, or at least that's what I think. I started using Dreamweaver as the designer of my site, never venturing into the code side of things. Dreamweaver is great when it comes to this, the new CS4 interface makes everything so much easier to get to. It is so simple that you can have a table based template set up in no time! However, when I started looking into making my site a little ...
...started using this coding language, I knew nothing about it, however when I opened up a blank CSS document, I noticed that when I typed I got suggestions of what could be put in. Using this I gradually learned CSS through code hinting, that is how great it is. Another great thing with Dreamweaver is the ease of setting up a connection to an ftp server. It is as simple as opening a box, typing in the data and pressing ok. You can then send the data ...

scrobby 24.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 (PC)

The best in efficiencies across platform adobe synchronisation.

Advantages: Superb finish, unbelivable outfut and detail that can be manipulated, changed, created.
Disadvantages: cumbersome and overwhelming for 1st time users.

...pertains to after effects and adobe illustrator and photo shop. I use photo shop mostly to give offline marketing back up to the visual campaign. I use photo shop mostly for creating elements and structuring pictures to go with the visuals. One thing i dont like about it is that it insists that the help goes online. There is another way where you cn download the entire help pdf unto the computer but having done that there is no offline link to it ...
...like me. i am guessing it would be pretty annoying to get the small stuff you forget to use like the shortcut keys and other lil thing you come along as you do advanced tutorials from the resources available online. that why i have given it a poor. but thats only my personal opinion. The ease of use is exceptional. its logic and very easy to know what you are going to get for simple aks like editing and stuff its a not brainer. create different layers ...

klobrown 14.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Upgrade Edition (PC)

Most useful editing software

Advantages: Easy to use, lots of handy features
Disadvantages: Does not have a beat match feature

Adobe Audition is a powerful peice of software for editing audio. It works well on most computers but to get the most out of it I would run it on at least a 1ghz computer with at least 512mb of RAM and allow plenty of hard drive space. Adobe Audition is an updated version of Cool Edit Pro, when Adobe bought out cool edit and renamed it Adobe Audition the only real change was the title, there was a few small tweaks like a major improvement to the ...
...in real time. Adobe Audition is a professional yet affordable peice of software used at radio stations accross the country. I believe that you can also add on other effects however I have not got round to trying this. I often use Adobe Audition on Windows XP and Windows 200 and occasionally it does crash, however it is really good at recovering what it was doing, when you next open it it prompts you if you would like to continue where you left off. ...

stevo871 06.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Audition 1.5 Complete package