With Web Standard/Premium, Design Premium AND Macromedia’s products now absorbed into CS3, choosing the right suite is EASY.

A questionable interface redesign and greater-than-ever complexity lead to a half-baked feeling.

Throughout its long and chequered career – first under MetaCreations, then Procreate and now Corel – Painter has always stood out as the artistic and creative computer application bar none. The reason is simple: Painter's unique range of natural media brushes.

A period of transition as Adobe deals with its Macromedia inheritance and the changing nature of the web.

Powerful new versions of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, and now Acrobat 8 Professional too.

QuarkXPress defines and dominates high-end publishing in much the same way as Adobe Photoshop does photo editing.

With Flash media handling and integration with Acrobat.com the Acrobat platform embraces the Internet – at last

Our massive guide to Adobe's huge overhaul of the Creative Suite, including reviews of Photoshop CS4, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver.

Macromedia Contribute (March 2003, page 57) caused considerable excitement with its ability to keep site content up-to-date, under control and within budget.

With advanced packages such as the latest Photoshop (to be reviewed next month) Adobe is the leading software developer when it comes to traditional graphic design...