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Creative Suite 3 applications reviewed

With Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 now shipping, Macworld has posted reviews of the suite’s key applications, including Photoshop (and its big brother, Photoshop CS3 Extended), Bridge, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Contribute, and Fireworks. We also have a review of InCopy CS3, Adobe’s editing application for InDesign-based workgroups.

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Professional Photography Blog from HP

Join HP’s enthusiastic team of photographers, digital-imaging experts, and professional writers in sharing insights and observations about the evolving art, technology, and business of photography at the HP Pro Photo Blog.

Additional Resources from HP

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HP Mac-connect: Find links to Mac compatible products, drivers, promotions and more. read more »
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HP Graphic Design: Express your creative uniqueness and start getting the output to match your creativity today. read more »
Creative. Stories. Ideas.: The “whodoneit” and “howdoneit” of the graphic arts community right at your fingertips. read more »

Featured project

As users submit their works in the Creative Space forum, we'll pull out the best and brightest to showcase here.

Submitted by: lunarlightlord
Project summary: My friend’s band has been working with the star seen in different media. Through a series of approximately 10 layers or so, the first image was created in Photoshop. I scanned the star and rebuilt it to create a globe-like effect. I took this one step further in Illustrator and created a vector-file.
Comments: I liked the simplicity of the lines. The star is punched out of the middle.
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