Below are some URLs and selected bits: Adobe Creative Suite : "In our testing we have found no significant issues with running CS5, 5.5, Earlier versions of Adobe Photoshop® (CS3 and CS4) software were also tested with Mountain Lion and there are currently no known issues." Articulate Storyline : "Storyline does not currently run on Macintosh computers [but] you can run Storyline in a Windows virtual environment on a Mac." If you're using Parallels, please review these best practices for working with Articulate software." Mountain Lion." MORE >>

Adobe’s latest version of the eLearning Suite was released a few weeks ago and generally seems like a solid and worthwhile upgrade.perhaps not as much as the jump in version numbers would suggest, from the previous version being 2.5 to this most current release being 6, but that’s just to sync the suite up with the rest of the Adobe CS6 release numbers. One issue that’s come up during the installation process is, apparently, you can’t have Adobe Presenter 7 and Presenter 8 on the same machine. Adobe TV has a series describing the updates in more detail. MORE >>

Aviary Phoenix is a more robust application and close to something like Photoshop with the layering and more complex editing capabilities. Aviary Raven is a vector editor similar to the free Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator. Had lots of people ask about the Articulate Storyline at the recent conference. We’ll follow the presentation with a free Articulate jam session. May 24 : Articulate Conference hosted by Leeds. In a previous post, we looked at five free desktop image editors. They both look very capable. PhotoPlus SE. PhotoFiltre. Aviary. Pixlr. Splashup. MORE >>

You can produce e-learning materials in PowerPoint alone, but more likely you will be using an add-in, like Articulate Presenter, that converts your work into a more web-compatible format like Flash or, looking to the future, HTML 5. There is only one professional choice for photo editing and that’s Adobe Photoshop, although Adobe’s much cheaper consumer offering, Photoshop Elements, has almost as much capability. Most photo imaging tools, including Photoshop, also have excellent capabilities for producing diagrams and charts, as does PowerPoint. MORE >>

Adobe Photoshop Express – in the cloud and very popular. Most people assume that Articulate, Lectora and Captivate are the best tools out there, that is no longer the case. As the rapid content authoring market continues to grow, new features and capabilities are equally growing.  For the most part, that is a great thing, but as you are about to read, some are not. There are 124 authoring tools in my latest directory, of which 30 are SaaS or a combination of desktop and SaaS – which really what is the point of that? Trend 1. Slow growth of SaaS. Projection. MORE >>