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Adobe Debuts Creative Suite 3
Creative apps revamped; new collections launched
3/27/2007
Certifications
In addition to launching the new products and suite editions, Adobe is also revamping its certification programs for professional users, including faculty and other educators. The complete details of Adobe's new certification programs are not yet available, but they will be made public "soon," according to Adobe.
There will be two levels of certification in Adobe's new programs. These include:
- Associate-level certification, which Adobe says is designed to assess "essential entry-level skills that are needed to plan, design, build, and maintain effective communications using different forms of digital media."
- Professional-level certification, which is the higher-level certification designed for creative professionals.
We will provide you with additional information on the certifications as it becomes available.
Licensing
As of press time, Adobe had not finalized site license plans for colleges and universities. That information could be made available as soon as the next few days or as late as the end of the second quarter. The company has radically revamped its K-12 education licensing programs, but the same type of licensing overhaul is not expected to be made for higher education. We will keep you updated. (If you would like more information of K-12 licensing, please visit our sister site, THE Journal.
New versions of the applications
On the user level, the new applications in Creative Suite 3 mark major changes in the creative workflow and the feature sets available for creative production. The changes in all of the applications are too numerous to name here. And so all this week we'll be providing in depth "first look" articles covering the new Creative Suite 3 applications. The first article in our "hands on" series covering the Photoshop CS3 Extended is available for viewing now. (See link below.) Check back on our home page or our Digital Media section (linked below) throughout the week for coverage of the design, publishing and Web applications in the new suite.
Read More:
- Article: Hands on with Photoshop CS3 Extended
- Adobe
- Adobe Education
- Campus Technology's Digital Media Coverage
About the author: Dave Nagel is the executive editor for 1105 Media's educational technology online publications and electronic newsletters. He can be reached at dnagel@1105media.com.
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