We have liftoff! As promised on Monday with the news that Creative Suite 6 was shipping, Adobe has taken the wraps off Creative Cloud, its .99 per month subscription service which includes all CS6 products along with a host of others.
Adobe Systems Inc. announced the immediate availability of Adobe Creative Cloud on Friday, the beginning of a new era in the company’s long history which provides a radical new way of providing tools and services for its customers.
“A subscription-based offering, Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub for making, sharing and delivering creative work and it is centered around a powerful release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software, packed with innovation across its industry-defining design, Web, video and digital imaging tools,” the company explains in a press release.
Adobe Creative Cloud features the entire Creative Suite 6 product line for Mac and Windows, which includes the latest versions of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash Professional and more — all available for a monthly .99 subscription, based on annual membership.
When purchased separately, Creative Cloud also introduces Touch Apps into the mix for both iOS and Android, today adding Adobe Proto and Adobe Collage, as well as new features and additional language support for the existing Photoshop Touch and Adobe Ideas apps. Creative Cloud members on an annual plan will receive a complimentary month of membership upon signing into Creative Cloud from three qualifying Touch Apps. The service tops off these great tools with 20GB of free cloud storage.
“Adobe Creative Cloud members receive full access to the entire portfolio of Creative Suite 6 tools, integration with our touch tools, file storage and sharing services and Web hosting — everything they need to go from idea to finished work, at a breakthrough monthly subscription price,“ said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media Business, Adobe. “Creative Cloud will allow our product teams to unleash a constant stream of innovation, releasing new features, apps and services as they are developed.”
Also available today is Adobe Muse 1.0, the company’s new software that enables designers to create HTML5-based websites without writing code. The software just exited a successful beta period which saw 700,000 downloads from developers who gave it a spin, and best of all, Muse is included with Adobe Creative Cloud.
Adobe Creative Cloud is now available for .99 per month with an annual subscription, and for a limited time, CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 customers can receive special introductory pricing of .99 per month for the first 12 months. Month-to-month plans are also available for .99 per month for occasional use.
(Updated to clarify that Touch Apps must be purchased separately from the App Store and are not included free with Creative Cloud.)
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Last week was utterly dominated by the Samsung Galaxy S3, but the merry-go-round of high-tech wares continues unabated and this week we’ve seen some really tasty treats.
The highly competitive cameras market continues to be an area of constant innovation – Nikon has been leading the way and the D3200 looks like being the must-have entry-level DSLR of 2012.
Elsewhere we’ve seen new graphics cards, Blu-ray players, phones and laptops, and we’ve tested them all…
This Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 then is one of the Kepler cards we’ve been desperately waiting for. The second tier cards in the Kepler line up were always going to generate more interest than either of the overly expensive GTX 680 or GTX 690. And they’re going to sell a hell of a lot more too.
The key thing here though is that there is so little difference in performance and architectural terms between the Nvidia GTX 680 and GTX 670. In fact with the frame rates you’re getting with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 it’s going to be rather difficult for us to recommend anyone buying the GTX 680 if they’re going to leave it at stock speeds.
Just 3.7cm tall and less than 20cm deep, there’s not an AV rack around that couldn’t take Samsung’s well-equipped Samsung BD-E6100 Blu-ray player. That fact that it’s 3D-capable will attract many, especially since that feature only appears to attract a premium of £30 or so over a bare bones Blu-ray deck, but in truth it’s only a polished user interface or two away from Samsung’s 2011 crop of Blu-ray players.
It’s a great value 2D and 3D Blu-ray player boasting excellent picture quality, impressive streaming and digital file playback. Samsung’s entry-level Samsung BD-E6100 stutters only on a slow Smart Hub interface that’s cluttered with novelty apps, services and even advertising.
Nikon has delivered an entry-level camera with real photographic punch. Borrowing elements from its more expensive siblings, the D3200 should appeal to a large section of would-be photographers. There’s lots of interesting technology crammed into the relatively small body of the D3200, including things which have trickled down from its more expensive siblings.
Those include features such as the Expeed 3 processing engine, which promises to deliver quicker processing times, low noise and different frame rates for the full HD video recording. Overall, we are impressed by the D3200 and are very much looking forward to properly putting it through its paces when the time comes.
With a serious matt black finish that denotes a enthusiast-targeted piece of kit without even delving into the riches of its feature set, the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC HX200V is one of the more impressively attired superzoom cameras out there.
Hands on: BlackBerry Curve 9320 review
Taking on the budget smartphone market is getting tough these days, but RIM’s new Curve 9320 is well-placed to achieve success. The new phone is a re-tooled version of the last iteration, the Curve 9300, and brings with it a very familiar design.
This week’s other reviews:
Cameras
DECT phones
Archos 35 Smart Home Phone review
Desktops
Zotac Zbox nano XS AD11 Plus review
Graphics cards
Hard drives
Buffalo DriveStation Velocity review
Laptop accessories
ReTrak Retractable Universal 70W Notebook Wall Charger review
Laptops
Acer Aspire Ethos AS8951G-9630 review
Hands on: HP Envy Spectre XT review
Hands on: HP Envy Ultrabook review
Mice
HP Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse review
Mobile computing
Hands on: Kingston Wi-Drive 64GB review
Mobile phones
Hands on: Samsung Focus 2 review
Hands on: HTC Evo 4G LTE review
Hands on: Droid Incredible 4G LTE review
Portable Audio
Printers
Storage
Tablet cases
Hands on: The OtterBox Defender for the new iPad and Samsung Galaxy Note review
Tablets
Hands on: Toshiba Excite 13 review
Televisions
It’s Mother’s Day weekend so we hope you got your mom some kind of a gift or flowers or something. No? Really? Well, sucks to be you, scrambling around looking for the perfect gift in such a short amount of time. Of course, if your mom’s a techie kind of mom or loves her iPhone, here’s a few sale apps for the weekend that might help make your shopping a little simpler.
Another week of Pocket Informant HD being on sale. If you want to get things done with power, this is the app for you. Down from .99 to just .99. Get it quick.
Kick with this universal electronic music making app with classic synths and drum machines along with other studio hardware. Four bucks off to just one dollar.
It’s a dollar more than Rhythm Studio, but SunVox is another great music making app and it’s going for just a measly .99. With the money you saved on the previous app, treat yourself to another one.
Turn your images into unique vintage comics that are sure to be a treat for your friends and family. And it’s free for now, so get SOCKO, BLAMMO now.
Wow, seven dollars off the price tag takes this birding and butterfly hunter app down to just one dollar, and it’s from the Audubon Society, so you know it’s got the goods.
A hold over from last week’s all travel apps, visit the Land Down Under and do it with Lonely Planet’s expert advice and it won’t cost you one red cent, mate.
And if you’re a nightlife kind of traveler who goes for clubbing globally then you need this app (and it’s free too so hop to it).
Psychedlica, man! Puzzle game with color out the whazoo, this is all about eating, growing and blooming and bring life to the cosmos for free.
Don’t forget mom! Make her a beautifully framed picture of yourself and shoot it over to her like a 21st century swell kid (and do it for free plus time, heh heh, it’ll be our secret).
Keep track of your iPhone or iPad usage with this slick piece of software that keeps track of all your stats for you. Save 50% and get the iPhone version for a mere buck and the iPad version for just .99.
Once upon a time this app sold for .99 but now it’s free for you in the App Store, so you can restore order to the royal court in this beautiful solitaire game.
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