Review of Canvas 9
~~ Sara Froehlich, Northlite Designs
Canvas 9 is the upgrade Canvas users have been waiting for!
As an integrated program, Canvas has always been a pioneer, providing
vector, bitmap and page layout capabilities, with complete typography tools,
in one neat package. Now it's better than ever!
I've always loved Canvas' tabbed interface. Now it runs
faster and it is smarter. With the new Smart toolbox and properties bar,
finding what you need has never been easier.
New features include an attributes palette and new Crop and
Scale options to adjust image resolution and proportion in a single
operation. I used the new version 9 Professional about 10 minutes before I
decided I no longer need version 8! When I upgraded to Canvas 8 from 7, I
found myself returning to 7 again and again. It ran faster for me. Not this
time...version 8, move over! There's a new Canvas in town.
Canvas also is now geared for three distinct user groups:
Canvas 9 Professional, Canvas 9 Scientific Imaging (SI) Edition, and Canvas
9 GIS Mapping Edition. To compare the products and see all the new features,
read this press release. It's a long one, because there is a lot to
cover.
Canvas has one of the best web pages of any company I have
seen, full of tips, tutorials, a knowledge base, and user forums. Canvas
customer support is unsurpassed, making the complete package even better.
I will be offering classes in Canvas Professional at
Eclectic Academy
in November 2003. Stay tuned to my
classes page
for information on enrollment.
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Sara Froehlich of
Northlite Designs
is an instructor with Eclectic Academy, where her online courses include
Expression: Beyond the Basics, 4 levels of Photoshop Elements classes,
Photoshop Pizzazz!, a special effects Photoshop class, Fireworks, FreeHand,
and various filters. Go to
http://www.eclecticacademy.com to enroll in one of her classes.
She also is an instructor at LVS Online, where she
teaches intermediate Adobe Illustrator classes, FreeHand, Fireworks and
Intro to Dreamweaver. Go to
http://www.lvsonline.com
to enroll in one of her classes there.
For more information on all of the classes Sara
teaches, go to
http://www.northlite.net/classes.htm
Expression Tips and Tutorials:
http://northlite.50megs.com/expr
Illustrator Tips and Tutorials:
http://northlite.50megs,com/illus
All tutorials are listed at
http://www.northlite.net/tutes.htm
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