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State
of the Art Awards
Best
Art & Design Products of the Year
Overall
Best Design Product
I'd like to start this off with a look at what must be universally regarded as
the most valuable, ubiquitous tool available for designers. Some will certainly
disagree, but when we look at the rest of the products that make this year's award,
you will find maybe one or two that can get along without the overall winner.
The rest of them are all, in one way or another, dependent upon this product.
Of course, I mean Adobe Photoshop.
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the historical context, Adobe Photoshop was almost single-handedly responsible
(at least on the software side) for the development of our industry. It defined
image editing functionality and brought to the world a standard for interface
design. This year the program's functionality and interface were refined yet further
with the release of version 6.0. I've been using Photoshop since version 2. Over
the years it has received updates of questionable value, adding a couple new features
with each release and an awful lot of overhead. Version 5.5 put a definitive end
to this practice, and version 6.0 takes updates to a whole new level. Vector tools,
weighted alpha channels, expanded layer functionality, better workflow features:
It all combines to make this the most significant upgrade ever of the most significant
program in graphic design.
Like many of
you, I certainly don't do all of my design work in Photoshop. But not a day goes
by when I don't use it for something. I simply couldn't do my job without it.
Company Web
Site: http://www.adobe.com
The
categories:
Best
Overall Design Product
Best Graphics Program
Best Web Graphics Editor
Best Web Page Layout Program
Best Web Animation Tool
Plugins of the Year
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