Adobe Canada Blog

Adobe launched Creative Cloud & Creative Suite 6 on Monday April 23 and Canadian creative pros loved what they heard. Here are some responses.

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You can also pre-order & get the special monthly rate for $29.99 if you’re a CS3 or later user.

Since Adobe’s launch of Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6, we have generated a lot of content to share our news and excitement for the new subscription services, new features and how we want to celebrate your creativity.

Here are a list of resources for your easy reference.

Creative Cloud news release

Creative Suite 6 news release

April 23 launch event video

Creative Cloud & CS6 feature tour

If you’d like to learn more about Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6, or to pre-order your membership or copy, please visit our web site.

Adobe Creative Cloud is a new subscription offering from Adobe. When it becomes available in the first half of 2012, it will give members access to a creative hub where they can explore, create, publish, and share their work using Adobe Creative Suite® desktop applications, Adobe Touch Apps, and Adobe services together for a complete ideation-to-publishing experience.

Adobe Creative Cloud will be everything designers need, everywhere they work — starting at US$49.99 per month.

The vision for Adobe Creative Cloud is to turn previously difficult, disparate workflows into one intuitive, natural experience so our customers can create freely and deliver ideas on any desktop, tablet, or handheld device.

Paul Trani answers some frequently asked questions about the Creative Cloud Membership in the latest video blog post from Creative Layer!

Sign up to try parts of Adobe Creative Cloud today or register to be notified when membership becomes available.

Photoshop CS6 beta was first unveiled last Thursday March 22. Already more than half a million users worldwide downloaded the beta from Adobe Labs.

Users have been extremely enthusiastic about the beta so far. Here’s what they say.

Still wondering if Photoshop CS6 is for you? See these new features and decide.

Adobe hosted its largest Digital Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, last week, attracting more than 4,000 attendees and  distinguished leaders in the media, social media and marketing communities. Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of Huffington Post, Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter and Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe, are some of our keynote speakers at the Summit. You can access the keynotes on demand below.

You can catch the highlights by visiting the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit blog, filled with on-site interviews, feedback from attendees and the buzz of the event.

You can continue to join the conversation on Twitter #AdobeSummit and see what people are talking about by clicking here.

For those who have been following our sneak peaks on YouTube for the latest development of Photoshop, you will realize why we are so proud and excited about this upcoming release.

Here’s Russell Brown talking about his favorite Photoshop CS6 features.

Russell Brown on his favorite Photoshop CS6 beta features

Russell Brown on his favorite Photoshop CS6 features

We’re very excited to let you know that Photoshop CS6 is now available on Adobe Labs for public download.

Just as you think what possible new features can be added to Photoshop, here are a few highlights:

• Content-Aware Patch — Patch images with greater control using the newest member of the Content-Aware family of technologies. Choose the sample area you want to use to create your patch, and then watch Content-Aware Patch magically blend pixels for a stunning result.
• Blazingly fast performance and a modern UI — Experience unprecedented performance with the Mercury Graphics Engine, which gives you near-instant results when you edit with key tools such as Liquify, Puppet Warp, and Crop.* Plus, a refined, fresh, and elegant Photoshop interface features dark background options that make your images pop.
• New and re-engineered design tools — Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, create and apply custom strokes and dashed lines to shapes, quickly search layers, and much more.

You will also discover hundreds of new ways to work faster and with greater creative freedom and precision when you dive into Photoshop CS6 beta.

The public beta program is designed to get feedback from users like you. Please download Photoshop CS6 and let us know what you think.

If you’d like to read more about Photoshop CS6, please visit the Photoshop blog.

Photoshop Lightroom 4 Box shot

What a week of launching new tools and previews.

Just last Monday, Photoshop Lightroom 4 became available at $149 for the full version.

Lightroom is the essential digital photography workflow solution helping amateur and professional photographers quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase their images.

If you want to find out people’s experiences with Photoshop Lightroom 4, please click here.

Adobe Shadow

Then Adobe Shadow was introduced on Wednesday in our Adobe Labs. Adobe Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool that allows front-end web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to customize websites for mobile devices. You can find out more here.

Adobe Edge

Today Adobe Edge preview 5 is now available! Preview 5 introduces significant improvements to speed up the animation creation process, new on-stage tools, as well as publishing and optimization features for older browsers and lighter code output. You can find out more here as well.

Adobe Shadow on mobile devices

Adobe Shadow Labs Release 1 is launched today (Mar 7).

The software enables Web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining preview and customization of websites for mobile devices.

Adobe Shadow aims to alleviate the time and stress of working on websites across mobile browsers. Web pros can wirelessly pair multiple smartphones and tablets with their computer and simultaneously view real-time previews of Web content across multiple iOS and Android devices, quickly seeing refreshed website designs with live updates.

We heard from the community that emulators and simulators just won’t cut it and it’s absolutely critical that website compatibility is checked on the actual devices. Adobe Shadow’s synchronized browsing nearly eliminates the need to touch the device, but still provides a real, on-device experience.

Following the Adobe Shadow Blog to learn more. Visit the Adobe Labs to download this Labs Release version of Adobe Shadow.

If you are going to SXSW, visit our Creative Camp session on Shadow titled, Boost your Mobile Workflow with Adobe’s Newest Product – Monday, March 12 at 11:00 a.m.- Noon in the Radisson Town Lake Ballroom.

Spring is in the air and it is a season for new ideas and inspiring dialogues.

It’s also an exciting time to be in the creative business. Whether you are a designer, developer, photographer, videographer or someone with brilliant ideas and no label to describe your genius, we want to talk to you. We also want to keep you abreast of the exciting news from Adobe to help realize your ideas.

And this is what the Adobe Canada blog will be about. Follow us @Adobe_Canada as well for quick chats.