CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

very interesting

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html

I saw this on the morning news on the scrolling news thing on the bottom.
Nice to finally see.

Heres hopping for an all in one suite!

We'll see...

im excited about creative suite 2, im not sure if this will change anything on this release. macromedia and adobe are both great innovative companies, i hope that this is for the best

Me..

Well, to be fair, the packages sell well under $1000, and when you get into deeper aspects of using the software, the Adobe products differ greatly from each other. It's like saying that the police, FBI, and US Army do the same thing so it's useless to have all of them.

There's no way Illustrator can have the rendering and painting abilites in par with that of Photoshop--and no way Photoshop can have the vector abilities of Illustrator. Same with InDesign; you can layout pages in Photoshop and Illustrator but InDesign is way more powerful.

And after that art student rant, I'll just say that if Adobe do get their hands on Macromedia... well, I hope they do a better job.

*is curious*


A better job than....? A better job with...? A better job in spite of..?

This is interesting...I've been interested in doing flash fbf, but was worried about trying to flip stuff from PS to Flash for coloring effects and whatnot, (I havn't been doing research on this yet) but this gives me much more confidance in doing somthing along the lines of what I was planning.

A better job at getting the bugs out of Macromedia's software (man, so many, even more than adobe products). And though it's cool that Flash MX can import Illustrator files, I do hope of more compatibility features in which I don't have to kill myself animating in Adobe AfterEffects instead of Flash MX.

That's interesting! ^^ Id like to see photoshop and flash come in the same package.

...along with 27 other applications, yes. The "whole package" will surely be priced out of the market, though, prompting me to wonder if The Gimp could possibly start another off-shoot...?

I'd take a GIMP animation program if it was photoshop compatable.

There goes their competition.

Haha, well one thing this probably means is that with Adobe on the side of Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage can just kiss goodbye any chance of becoming the most popular wysiwug editor.

I'm like Ann that this will make things better. It would be nice if they could incorporate some of the useful things Fireworks has into Photoshop. And yes hopefully this means Flash will be able to open adobe files. I just wish Adobe go live would die. >_>

Humm... I wonder what this will do for the pricing though? Now Adobe really won't have much of any competition in the graphic design software field, since I'm sorry guys but Paint Shop Pro and Gimp aren't really much of a threat to them.

I suppose they are not, at that. But I've yet to need to do anything that Gimp can't do.

There is Corel out there with their art programs, though they're more in the area of drawing and painting.
Blkmage: I don't see how there was much competition before, except between GoLive and Dreamweaver... and dreamweaver has been the accepted program mostly (at least around my school it has been)... flash and photoshop where programs with different purposes and philosophies, and illustrator was very different from Flash as well. I as a graphic designer was confronting the fact that I was going to need to buy all of the programs... not just one or the other.

This merger is going to be really interesting... I can't wait to see what'll happen with Flash + PDFs

Hmm. Good point, zip. That could be very interesting indead!

\^O^/ yay~!!!! My webpage design instructor has actually assigned us an extra-credit essay regarding this. He wants to us to research on what experts are saying about this merge and how it would alter the look, features and pricing of Adobe/Macromedia. o.o I shall use this thread as one of my sources. XD;

Meanwhile, I find this to be quite cool. I own a lot of both Adobe's and Macromedia's programs. T___T I'll cry if the prices go up, though. I already have a hard time enough convincing my parents to let me buy their programs.

blkmage wrote:There goes their competition.

exactly, that's what I wanted to say