Wacom today announced greater integration of its pen input system with Adobe Creative Suite 4, which officially launched yesterday. The move aims to provide significant workflow advantages and numerous ways for users working with a Wacom pen tablet or interactive pen display to naturally express their creative ideas and enhance productivity.
Whether retouching a photo in Adobe Photoshop CS4, completing a drawing in Adobe Illustrator CS4, constructing an interactive document with Adobe InDesign CS4, or creating a new animated character in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, CS4 users can take advantage of the control and interactivity a Wacom pen offers. The device provides ergonomic and navigational benefits as well.
‘Adobe and Wacom have worked closely together to provide customers with a natural, results-focused computing experience,” says David Macy, senior product manager for Illustrator at Adobe. ‘While some applications within CS4, specifically Photoshop and Illustrator, are certainly more pen-centric than others, we also recognize pen input as a valuable tool for other applications within the CS4 family and we will continue to work closely with Wacom to develop new and exciting features.”
Wacom’s Intuos 3 pen tablets and Cintiq interactive pen displays feature customizable ExpressKeys and Touch Strips for quick access to keyboard shortcuts and modifiers. These non-dominant hand features greatly enhance productivity by fully utilizing the users hand that is not controlling the pen. Those working with a Wacom pen may also find it easier to interact with Adobe ConnectNow, is a new online resource in CS4 that enables users to remotely share screens and collaborate in real time. With this whiteboard functionality, users can draw or annotate directly on an image, easily communicate changes and share their ideas or concepts with others. For more information on how Wacom products integrate with Adobe CS4, go to www.wacom.com/cs4.
