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Adobe update policy for CS6 clarified

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Today I am happy to share with you some updates on Adobe Upgrade Policy for coming Creative Suite 6.

I have written a post about the Upgrade Policy a while ago – you can find it here:

New Adobe upgrades policy.

However, I have just found out a lot of new information. Here’s what I have found out.

Here’s something exciting that Adobe says:

We’re very excited about the upcoming release of Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 software and Adobe Creative Cloud™. CS6 will be a major new release of our creative desktop tools, with huge improvements for every type of creative professional.

Adobe Creative Cloud will be our most comprehensive creative solution ever, giving members access to all of the CS6 desktop software plus additional services, new tools, Adobe Touch Apps, and rich community features.

In addition, Creative Cloud members will receive continuous upgrades and updates to all products and services as part of their membership.

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New Adobe upgrades policy

Friday, November 25th, 2011
Adobe Creative Suite 5

Adobe Creative Suite 5

As you may have noticed, we had an upgrade from Adobe earlier this year, named CS5.5. Even though it wasn’t a major upgrade, not every Adobe application got an upgrade, i.e. Photoshop (among some other applications) doesn’t have anything new and it is not a Photoshop CS5.5.

There are some major changes just around the corner, that will change the way new versions (starting from what I understand will be CS6) will get upgrades. From what I understand, when Adobe release Photoshop CS6, you will need to have CS5 or CS5.5 to get an upgrade (you will only be able to upgrade up to two versions, so CS5->CS5.5->CS6. Correct me if I’m wrong.

From what I understand, if you do not have CS5 or CS5.5 when CS6 is released, you will NOT be able to get an upgrade… You will have to buy the full version instead, what for Photoshop would be somewhere around £700 in the UK ($700 in the US)…

What is suggested (not by me) is that people upgrade their CS4 to CS5.5 now, so next year they could get an upgrade to CS6. But then, will it come cheaper to pay for an upgrade now and then next year again? You judge it by yourself.

Another option you will have will be to pay subscription for Adobe software (monthly or yearly), which makes some sense to some people, people who don’t use Photoshop on regular basis as an example.

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Announcing Adobe Creative Suite 5.5!

Monday, April 11th, 2011

CS 5.5Good morning to you! Great news for you today! And finally I can share it with you, I cannot wait to do it so let’s get straight to the point.

Adobe announces Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5! And it even comes with optional subscription based pricing! Adobe has just announced an update to its Creative Suite – CS 5.5. The update mostly focuses on updates for the smartphone platform.

Adobe plans to change their “major releases cycle” to 24 months instead of 18.

Adobe says:

“the CS update is focused on enabling designers and developers to target popular and emerging smartphone and tablet platforms,” and provides “substantive advances to HTML5, Flash authoring, digital publishing and video tools as well as new capabilities that kick-start the integration of tablets into creative workflows.”

Adobe has also introduced subscription-based pricing for the Creative Suite, with monthly pricing schemes.
The monthly pricing scheme includes products like Photoshop for US$35 per month, Adobe Design Premium CS 5.5 for $95 per month, and Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection for $129 per month.
Of course, you can also pay for the suite all in one go, but it’ll cost you anywhere from $1299 up to $2599 for the Master Collection.

For all the information about the new exciting features and changes, navigate to Adobe website:

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 family

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Great videos resource from Terry White

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Terry WhiteAre you looking for a great place to learn the Adobe technology? You’re in the right place. I am going to point you in the right direction.

You know there are loads of videos about anything Adobe on YouTube but it’s hard to find really professional ones. Anyone can post to YouTube which means there are many videos with poor quality… That’s where Terry White comes in! :-)

Terry is an Adobe Evangelist for Design platform at Adobe and he has its own Channel on YouTube. If you want to learn from professionals, this is the place to go!

Here’s the link to Terry’ channel:

Terry White techblog on YouTube.

In here, you will find lots of amazing videos that Terry created and they’re all the highest quality material. Terry has lots of videos on Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign among many. Terry’s videos have already been watched over 3,000,000 times! This is huge! A must see!

Go to Terry’s channel and enjoy! :-)

One more great resource for Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge fans, will be my channel on YouTube with some great videos:

Marek Mularczyk – SaiTraining on YouTube.

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Adobe CS Review

Friday, January 21st, 2011

CS Review in Creative Suite 5

CS Review is a fantastic new service from Adobe implemented into Creative Suite 5.

It is available in Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, and Premiere Pro CS5. It is so much easier to use it instead of creating Pdf comps and sending them to your clients.

The main purpose behind CS Review is to quickly share your design ideas with your clients or colleagues and you can do it straight from within Adobe Photoshop (or other applications as mentioned above)!

CS Review is a part of CS Live Services introduced by Adobe with Creative Suite 5 release last year and it is a complimentary service for a year. You just need to sign up with your Adobe account (which is Free as well).

Have a look at the interesting article that I found online and read it through. It explains how to work with CS Review and it guides you step by step. Here is the link:

Speed up Photoshop Projects using Adobe CS Review by Jacob Cass.

Enjoy! :-)

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Update your Ps, Lr, Br

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Do you know how to check if you are running the latest version of your Adobe application? Do you know how to check which one is the latest update for your Photoshop or Bridge or Lightroom?

The topic seems to be very simple but I meet many people who don’t think about that or maybe don’t even know how to do it and this is a crucial topic. Make sure your software is kept to date!

For this reason I recorded a video for you that shows how to check all that and make sure you have the latest updates installed – remember they’re all Free!

I hope you will find the video useful and will enjoy it.

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Photoshop CS5 demo assets

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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Good morning :-)

Have you  upgraded to CS5 already?

Maybe you want to play with the new features and you would like to use demo assets Adobe used in their presentations. Here is the answer for you. Adobe provided a link people can use to download the demo assets for every Creative Suite 5 product.

There are seperate downloads for Windows and Mac users and you can download demo assets for Photoshop and all the other applications.

You can download Demo Assets from this location. These assets can be used: “for demonstration and testing purposes.” (quote from one of Adobe employees).

Enjoy! :-)

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Adobe CS5 Live in Birmingham

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Adobe CS5 LiveHello everyone. Yesterday was a fantastic day!

Lots of very interesting information from the best people in the industry. I found the event to be of great value.

Even myself as an Adobe Instructor found many new interesting techniques that I will apply in my training courses.

Many training sessions that anyone would find interesting (there was a Web  session and a Production Session for video guys and a Design Session for designers).

I was especially excited to see the man himself – Terry White – who came to us all the way from Michigan in the United States! Thank you very much for coming Terry! It was a fantastic experience to see your presentations, especially the one about Photoshop as I love Photoshop! And it was also very funny and informative at the same time. Great stuff!

Here are a couple of images from the event. Enjoy!

Steve Burnard from Adobe

Terry White from Adobe

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CS5 Live in Birmingham tomorrow!

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Cs5 LogoTomorrow is the day! I’ll be joining Adobe and some of the “best of the best” in Birmingham – Terry White and Greg Rewis will be there among others!

You can expect some valuable information from me after the event. I will also post some images so stay tuned if you cannot join us in Birmingham.

We will watch our creative hosts work their magic using the latest CS5 tools! I am very excited about the event!

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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Launch in Birmingham – Join Us!

Monday, May 24th, 2010
Adobe Creative Suite 5

Adobe Creative Suite 5

Good morning. It is Monday and the beginning of  a new exciting week!

This Thursday I will be in Birmingham at the Adobe Creative Suite 5 Launch  with  the Adobe Team and the guys from Nti – a training centre in Birmingham. If you would like to join us to celebrate the CS5 Launch, we will be happy to meet you!

We will have amazing hosts presenting the best in Creative Suite 5 including Terry White himself! and Greg Rewis!

I hope you can make it and hope to see you there.

More details on: Adobe Creative Juices website.

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