Tom Arah explores the 3D handling in Adobe’s recent CS3 releases and wonders if it is a sign of things to come.

With its current blitz of CS3 software launches, it might seem that Adobe has the entire creative arena well covered. However there’s one surprising omission from the list – 3D.

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Tom Arah explores the vector and bitmap capabilities in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop and how to make the most of them.

Photoshop and Illustrator are the twin graphical pillars of Adobe’s Creative Suite. As standalones they each offer their own unique mix of state-of-the-art vector and bitmap-based handling but, for maximum creative power, their respective strengths can also be pooled.

VERDICT: New multiple page support and improved text handling and workflow integration but the program’s main strength remains its underlying speed.

Xara has always stood out for the astonishing speed of its vector handling and for the hands-on creativity that this enables...