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InDesign

November 19, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

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Availability: Labs | Faculty/Staff | Download
Part of: Adobe Creative Suite
Comparable: Publisher, Scribus, iBooks Author

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats.

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Flash and Flash Studio

November 19, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & ModelingDesign & VisualizationMath & ProgrammingMultimedia

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Availability (Flash Studio): Labs | Faculty/Staff | Download
Part of: Adobe Creative Suite
Comparable: After Effects (animation)

Adobe Flash (formerly called Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Flash) is a multimedia and software platform used for creating vector graphics, animation, games and rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages, although usage of Flash on websites is declining.

Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It allows bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera. Flash applications and animations can be programmed using the object-oriented language called ActionScript.

Adobe Flash Studio is the official Adobe authoring tool for creating the Flash content, which also allows automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL). Flash Studio is included in the Adobe Creative Suite for Windows and Mac OS.

Adobe Flash Player makes the Flash content accessible on various operating systems such as Windows, OS X and Linux, and is available free of charge for common web browsers (as a plug-in) under a few of the major operating systems, some smartphones and tablets, and a few other electronic devices using Flash Lite.

The Flash Player installed in all Windows and Mac labs, and is installed by default on all faculty and staff computers.  Flash Studio is a part of the Adobe Creative Suite Design and Web Premium.  UNCC has a site license for all faculty and staff computers and it is available for installation upon request.

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Fireworks CS6

November 19, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

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Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks) was a bitmap and vector graphics editor. Fireworks is made for web designers for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces. Its features include slices and the ability to add hotspots. It is designed to integrate with other Adobe products such asAdobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash. It is available as either a standalone product or bundled with Adobe Creative Suite.

On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that Fireworks would be phased out. Adobe will continue to provide security updates and perhaps bug fixes for the current version, but does not plan to add any new features beyond what is in Fireworks CS6.

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Illustrator CS6

November 19, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

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Availability: CS6 is being replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud
Part of: Adobe Creative Suite
Comparable: Fireworks, Inkscape

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems.  Vector graphics is a technology that allows objects to be infinitely scalable to either very large or very tiny sizes without degradation in quality.  Often when an image is expanded to a large size the image distorts with rough squares and sharp edges, known as pixels.  This is a raster image which is based with a particular size in mind.  Vector images are based on geometry and relative location and angles, so its proportions can be scaled in any direction without pixelation or distortion.  Illustrator also includes 3-dimensional capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create simple 3D objects.

Adobe Illustrator CS6 is being replaced with Adobe Illustrator CC.

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Acrobat Pro

November 19, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Productivity & Utility

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Availability: Labs | Faculty/Staff
Part of: Adobe Creative Suite
Comparable: Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Acrobat Pro can create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files. Acrobat.com complements the family with a variety of enterprise content management and file hosting services.

Acrobat Pro is available to UNCC by request as part of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium package or separately.

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Photoshop CS6

November 19, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

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Availability: CS6 is being replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud
Part of: Adobe Creative Suite
Comparable: GIMP

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.

Photoshop has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, such that the terms “photoshopping” and “photoshop contest” were born. It can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, Lab color space (with capital L), spot color and duotone. Photoshop has vast support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to edit or render text, vector graphics (especially through clipping path), 3D graphics and video. Photoshop’s featureset can be expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 is being replaced by Adobe Photoshop CC.

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS6

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Design & Visualization

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Availability: CS6 is being replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud
Part of: Adobe Creative Suite
Comparable: BlueGriffon

Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design software that helps users create, edit, and support their own websites and web applications. It has applications that provides a visual editor and a code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for Windows and Mac devices.

Dreamweaver CS6 is being replaced with Dreamweaver CC.

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Adobe Creative Suite (CS6)

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Design & Visualization

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Availability: CS6 is being replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud
Components:  Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, Dreamweaver CS6, Acrobat Pro, Fireworks CS6, Flash Studio, and InDesign CS6.

Adobe Creative Suite (CS6) is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications. All of these features create attractive websites, documents, and printed content available for all users, from people learning in school to graphic artists and professionals.

Adobe Creative Suite is being replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud.

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