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[Bogoh67]

yea what is it
because my dad said that he is going to buy me a adobe product(any choice of mine)
since my birthday is soon
and im kinda away from home in san diego so all i have is a ipod with little internet connection and cant watch any videos
so i ask you guys what is it, what can it do,what adobe product should i get

[Snyper345]

What are you interested in?, Besides programming XD

[mikethedj4]

If you're gonna get an Adobe Product I'd say get After Effects, as their isn't ant free software that truly matches it. Some do, but their limited like Wax 2.0, Blender, Cinelerra, Jahshaka. I can keep going on and on.

However if you buy PS I'd say you're wasting your money as you can do everything in PS in Gimp. PS is faster, at a lot of stuff, but Gimp gives you more freedom. (Gimp 2.10 the iWarp filter will be a tool, and well 2.8 30+ updates insane!)

No need for Dreamweaver as all you really need is a text editor like Notepad++ (Win), Geany (Lin), or TextWrangler (Mac)

Illustrator has a little more to offer than it's closest alternative Inkscape, but a lot of the added features I don't see you using in Illustrator. Plus you haven't posted any vector art so I'd recommend using Inkscape first to get the feel of it, and understand it, cause if you don't like/want it then there goes the money ya know?

Adobe Soundbooth is nice, and it's closest alternative Audacity I'd say to go for, however auto tuning your voice for example you need to get a plugin/extension for the app that you haft to download unlike in Soundbooth it's built in so Audacity needs add-ons to download, but other then that it's your choice here. I personally would save my money as I don't mind getting another free app to do the job or, search and find the extension.

If you wanna get Adobe Flash Professional I'd say save your money as well, cause Adobe made Project ROME. Some stuff needs code, but you can make a whole interactive website/game without the need of code. However I'd say to avoid flash unless you're making a desktop app, cause there's a lot of developer including myself who won't use flash on websites. The reason why this is, is because adobe banned flash from their Macs, and iOS. Plus other tablets don't have it. So we make our websites in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, and/or Ajax/PHP and thoughs users can see the website. It loads faster is more user friendly, and you don't haft to worry about it slowing your computer as bad as flash content does as it uses more memory, and cpu. So if you wanna give that a try checkout a program Adobe's working on called Adobe Edge. My friend Daniel already did a tutorial on it.

Now I want you to take a look at the prices of these products
Photoshop $799
Illustrator $599
Flash Pro $699
After Effects $999
Dreamweaver $399

Now the Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection is $2,599.

However there's free software for all this that is just as good in not better. Plus the prices of these you could get a whole new computer. So maybe try that instead. Doesn't hurt to have an extra comp.

[Bogoh67]

anything im open to try new things besides Adobe photoshop, illustrator, and flash pro as i have gotten those from b-days before

[Bogoh67]

o and mike is Adobe Premire also like after effects cause i dont have a 64 bit computer

[Axel]

I wouldn't waste my money on that. Your post is convincing, speed. Of course you get what you pay for... but I find 2,599$ very expensive. Offtopic: The reason why I wouldn't like a fulltime programming job is because I have to let the people pay for it which I don't like to do myself

[mikethedj4]

Adobe Premiere does a whole lot less than AE does. Premiere is advanced, but more simple than After Effects. So After Effects would be the way to go for video editing, and minor 3d modeling.

I'd say use Blender for 3D Modeling as I've used an older version of 3d max (not the newest one) however I still found that I could do everything in Blender that I could in 3ds max. Plus more ad Blender does 3d modeling, game creation, and video editing.

[Bogoh67]

so for my prebirthday presents i got After affects CS4 and PS5 for my other computer
no i got AE cs4 because my laptop isnt 64 bit
so we called adobe did some under the table deals black market stuff, bribing(haha no i keed you =D) and they hooked me up with CS4

[mikethedj4]

Cool. I really like After Effects. I wanna see a free alternative though really give it a run for it's money, but won't be for awhile.