Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.
Features:
• manipulate vector and raster graphics
• support for bidirectional streaming of audio and video
• 3D transformation
• Motion editor
• Metadata (XMP) support
• XFL support
A&H use case 1 description:
The “Imaging papyri at Oxford” project has used Adobe Flash to visualize content.
An editing tool for web content. Dreamweaver offers a graphics-based (What You See Is What You GET) and code-based user interface for the development of web pages and sites. The tool may be used to simplify the process of web site development (in comparison to creation of individual web pages), through the provision of a templating system that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.
Features:
• WYSIWYG
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
• Subversion integration
• FTP/SFTP support
• WebDav support
• Web site template system
• Adobe Spry AJAX framework support
A&H use case 1 description:
The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (1700-1945) project has used Dreamweaver to design and develop their project web site.
Adobe Photoshop is an editor for still images. It is equipped with a diverse range of processing tools, enabling users to create or modify content through the use of drawing tools, filters, or other plug-ins.
Features:
• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins which act like mini-editors that modify the image.
• Can utilise the colour models RGB, lab, CMKY, Greyscale, binary bitmap and duotone.
• Reads and writes raster and vector image formats
A&H use case 1 description:
“The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland” project has used Adobe Photoshop to edit digital images in both TIFF and high JPG formats of Romanesque sculpture in Britain.
Adobe Bridge is a media management application that may be used to organise, browse, locate, and view creative assets. It was provided as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2.
Features:
• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software (except for the standalone version of Adobe Acrobat 8)
• Extensible through use of Javascript
A&H use case 1 description:
The Winsor & Newton Colourman's Manuscript Archive used Adobe Bridge to organise scanned images associated with paint making.
PageMaker was the first desktop publishing (DTP) program, introduced in 1985. The last version is PageMaker 7.0 released in July 2001. In 2004, Adobe announced that development for Adobe PageMaker had ceased but that Adobe would continue to sell and support it. InDesign is presented as the successor product.
Features:
• Automatically rearrange a document’s pages into printer spreads for professional printing
• Automatically create and style bulleted and numbered lists
• Create customised publications (e.g. catalogues, business cards)
• Resize and move images and their frames or reposition content in relation to frames using the “Position tool”
A&H use case 1 description:
The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture utilise Pagemaker during the production of project documentation.
Creator:
Aldus Corporation (in early versions), Adobe Systems Incorporated
InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books.
The latest version, InDesign CS4 Server (codenamed Thyme), is the tenth generation in the product line.
Features:
• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Dynamic cross-reference support that updates content when moved within a document
• Spread rotation
• Smart guides (Quickly align space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides.)
• Conditional text (Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.)
• Smart Text Reflow (Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference.)
• Live Preflight
A&H use case 1 description:
Interpreting The Bible and its Visual Expression Within the Cultural Landscape of Wales used Adobe InDesign to process Welsh artwork created in the 19th and 20th century that depicts biblical scenes and characters.
After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software. After Effects allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2d and 3d space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation.
The latest version, CS4 (9.0.2), is the eighteenth generation in the product line.
Features:
• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Searchable timelines and projects
• Independent keyframing of x, y, z values
• 3D compositing
• Cartoon effect
• layer-oriented
A&H use case 1 description:
The Virtual Reconstruction of Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico project used After Effects for video production during the life of the project.
Creator:
Company of Science and Art (v1-2), Adobe Systems Incorporated (v3+)
Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. The latest version, Illustrator CS4, is the fourteenth generation in the product line.
Features:
• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Raster and type-in vector format support
A&H use case 1 description:
The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate resources associated with Greek inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria.
A&H use case 2 description:
The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used Adobe Illustrator during the production of visual data for use by the geological and archaeological community.
A&H use case 3 description:
The British Town maps project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate graphical data produced between 1470 and 1895.
