The new Adobe After Effects allows you to work with sophisticated tools and enjoy tight integration with Adobe ‘s leading design applications while you deliver stunning work to virtually any media type. Design from scratch or jump-start projects from hundreds of customizable presets and templates — all from within a streamlined interface. After Effects uses a system of layers organized on a timeline to create composites from still images and motion footage, such as video files. Properties such as position and opacity can be controlled independently for each layer, and each layer can have effects applied. After Effects is often described as the "Photoshop of video", because its flexibility allows compositors to alter video in any way they see fit, as Photoshop does for images.

Only 9 more applications to go! Seems like the applications are endless as Adobe Premiere Pro is next. Do you want more?

Adobe’s Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor made by Adobe . This application is the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images for the web and rapidly prototyping websites and web applications. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and timesaving integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, and Adobe Flash CS3 software. Mock up designs quickly in Fireworks, or leverage other assets from Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash. Then move directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

Adobe After Effects is up next to bat. I didn’t realize there were so many features to Creative Suite 3. It has been almost an entire both of reviewing a new application every other day. Hope everyone is enjoying these reviews because this series won’t be over for awhile.

Adobes most famous application, Adobe Photoshop , or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems . It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals"Ideal for film, video, and multimedia professionals and graphic and web designers using 3D and motion, as well as professionals in engineering and science, Adobe Photoshop software delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. Stop time with easy editing of motion graphics on video layers. And probe your images with measurement, analysis, and visualization tools.

Adobe Fireworks is up next for review. Are you ready for this?

Adobe’s Adobe Illustrator software allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, while timesaving features such as easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. Improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications also help you produce extraordinary graphics for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs.

What is the next product you ask…none other than Adobe Photoshop! If you haven’t heard of Photoshop before where have you been?

The new Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application produced by Adobe Systems . Built for demanding workflows, InDesign integrates smoothly with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy, and Dreamweaver software; offers powerful features for creating richer, more complex documents; and reliably outputs pages to multiple media. With its sophisticated design features and enhanced productivity tools for streamlining repetitive tasks, InDesign CS3 lets you work faster and better than ever.

I’ll be reviewing Adobe Illustrator next. Maybe over some time I could incorporate some of my workings with these programs into this blog. Only time will tell, but until then keep reading!