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Adobe Photoshop
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Adobe Photoshop is Adobe's raster image-editing and compositing application for retouching, layout assets, image correction, and professional visual production. In this taxonomy it supports graphic design, learning media, documentation visuals, and branded content development.
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Adobe Illustrator
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Adobe Illustrator is Adobe's vector graphics application for icons, diagrams, illustrations, logos, and scalable production artwork. It belongs under Adobe, graphic design, and content development because vector assets often support documentation, training, presentations, and brand systems.
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Affinity
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Affinity is Canva's professional creative application for illustration, image editing, and page layout workflows.
It supports Skill 4 as a modern tool for creating graphic assets, visual layouts, export-ready media, and supporting content for documentation and training.
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Canva
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Canva is a collaborative visual-communication platform for presentations, training assets, social graphics, handouts, and lightweight creative production.
It fits Skill 4 because it helps teams produce polished visual learning materials, templates, diagrams, and media assets quickly.
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Adobe Express
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Adobe Express is Adobe's lightweight content-creation app for fast graphics, short videos, presentations, PDFs, social content, and branded visual assets. It complements Creative Cloud tools and belongs in Adobe, content development, and graphic design workflows for quick professional media production. Additional Resources:
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CorelDRAW
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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is a current professional design suite for vector illustration, page layout, typography, photo editing, and production graphics.
It remains supported and relevant, so it is retained as a current graphic design tool rather than treated as legacy solely because the brand is long-running.
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GIMP
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GIMP is a free and open-source image editor for retouching, compositing, and preparing visual assets.
It is retained as a practical raster graphics production tool for image cleanup, diagrams, screenshots, and supporting graphics.
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PaintShop Pro
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PaintShop Pro is Corel's supported photo-editing and graphic design application for image editing, effects, and visual communication assets.
It supports Skill 4 where production work involves photo editing, screenshot enhancement, and supporting graphics for learning or documentation.
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Adobe InDesign
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Adobe InDesign is Adobe's desktop publishing and page-layout application for producing polished print and digital documents. It is useful for structured publication workflows, templates, collateral, manuals, and long-form visual communication.
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Figma
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Figma is a collaborative design platform for interface design, visual systems, prototyping, developer handoff, and design-to-code workflows.
It is a current enterprise-standard UI/UX tool because teams use it for components, design systems, real-time collaboration, prototypes, and product visual workflows.
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Sketch
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Sketch is a professional design toolkit for digital product design, interface layouts, interactive prototypes, design systems, collaboration, and developer handoff.
It remains relevant in Skill 32 as a current UI/UX and prototyping platform, though Figma is prioritized as the broader current enterprise standard.
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Adobe XD
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Adobe XD is Adobe's UI/UX design and prototyping application, but it is treated as maintenance-mode portfolio history rather than an actively developed strategic Adobe product. It is preserved under Legacy and Graphic Design where historical interface-design experience remains useful. Additional Resources:
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Adobe Lightroom
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Adobe Lightroom is Adobe's photo editing, organization, and batch-processing application for professional image workflows. It supports content-development and visual-design work where consistent photography, image correction, and media libraries matter. Additional Resources:
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Adobe Premiere Pro
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Adobe Premiere Pro is Adobe's non-linear video editing application for assembling, editing, color-correcting, captioning, and exporting professional video. It supports media production for training, communications, instructional content, and digital learning assets.
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Adobe After Effects
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Adobe After Effects is Adobe's motion graphics, animation, and visual-effects application for compositing and animated media. It supports learning media, explainers, branded video, and graphic-design workflows that need movement or visual polish beyond basic video editing. Additional Resources:
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Adobe Media Encoder
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Adobe Media Encoder is Adobe's media transcoding and export application for preparing video and audio deliverables across formats, resolutions, and delivery channels. It supports Premiere Pro, After Effects, and production workflows that require reliable output management.
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Camtasia
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Camtasia is TechSmith's screen recording and video-editing application for creating instructional videos, software demonstrations, tutorials, narrated training media, and polished visual communications. It belongs in TechSmith and learning-media workflows because it connects recording, editing, audio, callouts, and publication into a practical production tool.
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Blender
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Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation suite for modeling, animation, rendering, compositing, visual effects, and video editing.
It is included selectively because 3D and animation workflows can support product visualization, explainers, and rich multimedia learning assets.
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Snagit
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Snagit is TechSmith's screen capture and screen recording tool for creating annotated screenshots, quick videos, job aids, technical documentation visuals, and support graphics. It belongs in TechSmith, content development, technical writing, and graphic communication workflows because it turns screen information into clear reusable visuals.
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Vyond
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Vyond is a business video creation platform for animated explainers, onboarding content, process training, and scenario-based learning media.
It fits Skill 4 because animation and visual storytelling support learning content, technical onboarding, and change communication.
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Adobe Firefly
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Adobe Firefly is Adobe's generative AI creative platform for producing and editing images, video, audio, vectors, text effects, and other media through prompt-based workflows. It belongs in Adobe, AI, graphic design, and content development because it supports professional creative ideation and production inside the Adobe ecosystem. Additional Resources:
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DALL-E
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DALL-E is OpenAI's image-generation model family for creating visual assets from natural-language prompts.
It is retained in Skill 4 because it directly supports generative image creation for concept art, illustration drafts, visual ideation, and supporting media assets.
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Grok Imagine
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Grok Imagine is xAI's image and video generation feature for creating visual media from prompts.
It is retained in Skill 4 because it directly creates visual media, unlike broader AI assistant records that are better kept only under AI/ML.
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