ADOBE to acquire MACROMEDIA

Postby **glitch1501** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:40 am

very interesting

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html

Postby **Locke** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:49 am

I saw this on the morning news on the scrolling news thing on the bottom.
Nice to finally see.

Heres hopping for an all in one suite!

Postby **Mithrandir** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:39 am

We'll see...

Postby **glitch1501** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:58 am

im excited about creative suite 2, im not sure if this will change anything on this release. macromedia and adobe are both great innovative companies, i hope that this is for the best

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:21 am

Postby **Psycho Ann** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:56 pm

Well, to be fair, the packages sell well under $1000, and when you get into deeper aspects of using the software, the Adobe products differ greatly from each other. It's like saying that the police, FBI, and US Army do the same thing so it's useless to have all of them.

There's no way Illustrator can have the rendering and painting abilites in par with that of Photoshop--and no way Photoshop can have the vector abilities of Illustrator. Same with InDesign; you can layout pages in Photoshop and Illustrator but InDesign is way more powerful.

And after that art student rant, I'll just say that if Adobe do get their hands on Macromedia... well, I hope they do a better job.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:50 am

*is curious*

A better job than....? A better job with...? A better job in spite of..?

Postby **mechana2015** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:04 am

This is interesting...I've been interested in doing flash fbf, but was worried about trying to flip stuff from PS to Flash for coloring effects and whatnot, (I havn't been doing research on this yet) but this gives me much more confidance in doing somthing along the lines of what I was planning.

Postby **Psycho Ann** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:37 pm

A better job at getting the bugs out of Macromedia's software (man, so many, even more than adobe products). And though it's cool that Flash MX can import Illustrator files, I do hope of more compatibility features in which I don't have to kill myself animating in Adobe AfterEffects instead of Flash MX.

Website · Postby **This is Song** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:29 pm

That's interesting! ^^ Id like to see photoshop and flash come in the same package.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:49 pm

...along with 27 other applications, yes. The "whole package" will surely be priced out of the market, though, prompting me to wonder if The Gimp could possibly start another off-shoot...?

Postby **mechana2015** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:34 am

I'd take a GIMP animation program if it was photoshop compatable.

Postby **blkmage** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:26 am

There goes their competition.

Postby **MyrrhLynn** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:20 am

Haha, well one thing this probably means is that with Adobe on the side of Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage can just kiss goodbye any chance of becoming the most popular wysiwug editor. :lol:

I'm like Ann that this will make things better. It would be nice if they could incorporate some of the useful things Fireworks has into Photoshop. And yes hopefully this means Flash will be able to open adobe files. I just wish Adobe go live would die. >_>

Humm... I wonder what this will do for the pricing though? Now Adobe really won't have much of any competition in the graphic design software field, since I'm sorry guys but Paint Shop Pro and Gimp aren't really much of a threat to them. :lol:

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:24 am

I suppose they are not, at that. But I've yet to need to do anything that Gimp can't do.

Postby **mechana2015** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:49 am

There is Corel out there with their art programs, though they're more in the area of drawing and painting.
Blkmage: I don't see how there was much competition before, except between GoLive and Dreamweaver... and dreamweaver has been the accepted program mostly (at least around my school it has been)... flash and photoshop where programs with different purposes and philosophies, and illustrator was very different from Flash as well. I as a graphic designer was confronting the fact that I was going to need to buy all of the programs... not just one or the other.

To Write Love on Her Arms · Postby **ZiP** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:45 am

This merger is going to be really interesting... I can't wait to see what'll happen with Flash + PDFs

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:13 pm

Hmm. Good point, zip. That could be very interesting indead!

Postby **Jasdero** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:57 pm

\^O^/ yay~!!!! My webpage design instructor has actually assigned us an extra-credit essay regarding this. He wants to us to research on what experts are saying about this merge and how it would alter the look, features and pricing of Adobe/Macromedia. o.o I shall use this thread as one of my sources. XD;

Meanwhile, I find this to be quite cool. I own a lot of both Adobe's and Macromedia's programs. T___T I'll cry if the prices go up, though. I already have a hard time enough convincing my parents to let me buy their programs.

Postby **anime4christ** » Tue May 03, 2005 5:31 pm

blkmage wrote:There goes their competition.

exactly, that's what I wanted to say

ADOBE to acquire MACROMEDIA

ADOBE to acquire MACROMEDIA

Who is online

Loading