Back to Archives TIP, courtesy of Jay Nelson, Design Tools Monthly: If a file opens into your browser, but you'd prefer to download it directly to your hard drive, try dragging the text link (not the thumbnail) to your desktop. It will download there without first showing up in your browser.) Software Author Issue Adobe Golive 5: Dynamic Links Drive Data To The Web Bob Connolly & Jason Lee August 2000 Adobe GoLive 4: Minor Update for Macintosh, New Authoring Environment for Windows Peter Dudar July 1999 Adobe Illustrator 10: Big, Bold and Beautiful to the Web and Back Lidka Schuch December 2001 Adobe Illustrator 9: A Step Closer to Perfection. Illustration Software Lidka Schuch June 2000 Adobe Illustrator 8: Adobe Finally Delivers Mona Idriss March 1999 Adobe InDesign 1.0: An Excellent Set of Creative Tools Dan Brill September 1999 Adobe InDesign 1.0 Preview: Quark-Killer Dan Brill March 1999 Adobe InProduction 1.0: IN the Production Trenches Shane Steinman March 1999 Adobe LiveMotion 1.0: No Flash in the Pan. Web Animation Software Bob Connolly June 2000 Adobe PageMaker 7: Graphic Design Evolves into a Business App Lidka Schuch & Lerrick Starr August 2001 Adobe Photoshop 7: The Artist's Photoshop Ron Giddings April 2002 Adobe Photoshop 6: Full Color Management and Vectors Galore Offer Near Perfect Upgrade Kirby Ferguson & Dan Brill October 2000 Adobe Photoshop 5.5: Photoshop Attacks Web Page Image Creation With a Vengeance Peter Dudar October 1999 Adobe Photoshop 5: Lots of New Goodies but Tiptoe Around Color Management Dan Brill July 1998 Adobe Premiere 6.5: Real-time Previews and Beefed-up Title Designer Kirby Ferguson December 2002 Affordable DVD-R at Long Last! GX February 2001 Alienskin Eye Candy 4000: Are You Playing With a Full Deck? Ron Giddings December 2000 Apple Final Cut Pro 4: Apple Raises Macintosh Video to Prime Time Bob Connolly October 2003 Apple Final Cut Pro 3: Mac Users Get High End Video Editing in OS X Bob Connolly February 2002 Apple Final Cut Pro: Timothy Leary's Dead Bob Connolly November 1999 AppleScript: Is It Worth Biting Into? Carsten Arnold November 1999 A Rich New Dimension To PDF Bob Connolly August 2003 BBedit. Web tools: Text Editor. Bare bones? Hardly! Lidka Schuch October 2000 binuscan PhotoRetouch Pro 1.0 Ron Giddings August 2002 CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11 Steve Aykroyd October 2002 CorelDraw 10 Graphics Suite Kirby Ferguson February 2001 CorelDraw 8: Features and Functions That Fit Demands for High End Graphics John Korchok January 1999 Corel Procreate Painter 7 Lidka Schuch October 2001 Curious Labs Poser Pro Pack Ron Giddings June 2001 Deneba Canvas 6: An Integrated Application with Transparency Capabilities Peter Dudar May 1999 Dreamweaver 1.2: Suite Philosophy Streamlines Web Design Peter Dudar November 1998 Dreamweaver MX: Dreams Do Come True Peter Dudar June 2003 Enfocus PitStop 4: Whatever Gets You Through the Night, It's Alright Lerrick Starr November 1999 Enfocus PitStop Server Lerrick Starr June 2002 Extensis BeyondPress 4 and Myrmidon 2: Ease the Pain Peter Dudar January 1999 Extensis MaskPro and Chroma Graphics MagicMask: Masking Tools for Photoshop Ron Giddings February 1998 Extensis Portfolio 5 Shane Steinman June 2001 Extensis Preflght Pro and Markzware FlightCheck: Predicting the Future of Print One Job at a Time Shane Steinman July 1999 Getting Over the Hump with After Effects Kirby Ferguson August 2002 GoLive CyberStudio 3: Advancing to the Leading Edge Peter Dudar July 1998 Hip Software LiveStage Professional: QuickTime Authoring, eh? Bob Connolly January 2000 Illustrated Versions Louis Fishauf June 2002 Illustrator 9 Tips, Tricks and Workarounds Lidka Schuch February 2001 Jasc Paint Shop Pro Kirby Ferguson February 2001 Life Without Adobe...and Quark and Apple and Macromedia Kirby Ferguson October 2000 Life Without Adobe Part 2: Output Kirby Ferguson December 2000 Live Picture 2.6: Faster Creativity Can Be Fun John Korchok April 1998 Look Sharp Ron Giddings December 2003 Macromedia Dreamweaver: Roundtrip HTML Technology and Dynamic HTML Peter Dudar February 1998 Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 Peter Dudar February 2001 Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 Fireworks 3: The Dawn of a New Studio System Peter Dudar January 2000 Macromedia Dreamweaver 2: Update Provides Collaborative Design Enhancements Peter Dudar March 1999 Macromedia Fireworks 2: The Swiss Knife of Web Graphics Peter Dudar July 1999 Macromedia Flash 5: Enhanced Workflow and Advanced Scripting Peter Dudar December 2000 Macromedia Flash 4: Vector Application Provides Workflow and Interactivity Enhancements Peter Dudar September 1999 Macromedia Flash MX Robert Wong August 2002 Macromedia FreeHand 9: Collaborative Competition and SWF Peter Dudar March 2000 Macromedia FreeHand 10: A Little Flash, but Otherwise Just Fizzle Kirby Ferguson August 2001 MetaCreations KPT 5: What Are You Gonna Do With All These Filters? Ron Giddings May 1999 MetaCreations Poser 3: Put On a Happy Face Ron Giddings November 1998 Multi-Ad Creator2: A Scriptable Comprehensive Publishing Application Peter Dudar July 1998 Painter 6: Pecking Your Way Through Painter Lidka Schuch & Donald McDonell October 2000 Painter 8: A New Face To Go With a New Home Lidka Schuch August 2003 Pantone HexWrench: Pantone Makes Six-Color Printing Easy Shane Steinman May 1999 PDF Color Production Grows Up Michael Kieran August 2003 PDF for Creators: Adobe Acrobat 5, CreoScitex Synapse and Agfa Create Lerrick Starr June 2001 PDF Prepress in OS X: Pushing the Right Buttons Lerrick Starr August 2003 Professional Page Layout: Past Present and Future Dan Brill December 2000 Quark Workflows in Transition Peter Dudar December 2002 QuarkXPress 4 Does Bezier Peter Dudar April 1998 QuarkXPress 6: The Last Upgrade Peter Dudar October 2003 Sonic Foundry Vegas Video 3, Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.5 Kirby Ferguson April 2002 The Original Preflight Tool Does PDF, Too Lerrick Starr December 2003 Ultimatte KnockOut: Oscar-Winning Blue Screen Software Bob Connolly January 1999 Xara and Ulead PhotoImpact Kirby Ferguson April 2001 back to top