Creative Cloud offers a web-based storage center for syncing content between a user’s devices, along with all of the upcoming Creative Suite 6 apps, Adobe Touch apps and services, and the newest content from Adobe (such as new products and features) as soon as they are publicly released. This includes Lightroom 4 once it gets out of beta, and Adobe’s new Muse and Edge web authoring software. All of these great things come at quite the cost, however, starting at a steep $49.99/month fee.

Adobe has released the third beta of its code-named Muse web design software which allows graphic designers to create professional HTML websites without any coding required. This new beta release of Muse contains over 40 bug fixes and enhancements, including improvements to the generation of HTML and CSS code by reducing data usage, and therefore load times. Adobe has been taking feedback from many of the over 260,000 users who have downloaded the beta software to date and implementing users’ suggestions.

Adobe has announced new versions of its widely popular photo and video editing applications, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, respectively. Photoshop Elements 10 brings new features such as paint and effect patterns, the ability to search for photos containing specific tangible objects, and depth of field simulation. Premiere Elements 10, on the other hand, introduces sharing features similar to those from Apple’s iPhoto ’11, such as instant uploading to Facebook and Flickr and the ability to tag Facebook friends from within the app.

Flash Media Server 4.5 and Flash Access 3.0 have been updated to support streaming Flash video on iDevices by repackaging the content into a format that is playable in iOS. Repackaging of content is done in real-time, modifying the protocol to those like HTTP Dynamic Streaming or HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) in order to fit compatibility with these devices. Therefore, iDevice users will essentially be able to view publishers’ Flash content without actually using Flash.

A new iOS app from Adobe, entitled CreatePDF, allows users to do exactly what the name suggests; from scratch, users can create a PDF directly on an iDevice with the same high-quality creation features their desktop Adobe Acrobat software allows, according to the company. As the app uses iOS’s “open in” feature, users are able to import media from other apps into CreatePDF, including file formats from Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, OpenOffice, StarOffice, and more.

The latest trends in web design seem to be pulling development further away from designers and placing more into the hands of coders. Adobe is seeking to remedy that with Muse (code name), their new web development software—now in open beta—that seems to fall somewhere between Dreamweaver and the template functionality of iWeb or Sandvox.

My review of Adobe After Effects CS5 summed up the idea that Adobe’s tools are getting advanced enough that they can guess what you’re trying to do, work on it automatically, and save you the trouble of fiddling with keyframes for two hours. With the CS 5.5, Adobe has added another tool to that “fire and forget” arsenal, as well as another effect that takes some fiddling but can produce amazing effects if you’re shooting without the ability to set focal length.

Although Adobe’s Flash is arguably dying off slowly and its AIR platform isn’t very popular, the company has just released new betas of the two. The betas bump Flash up to version 11 and AIR to version 3, and introduce new features such as 64-bit support, HD surround sound, Stage3D APIs, and plenty more.

Adobe just released their first three Photoshop Touch apps for iPad. These apps allow you to connect Photoshop on your computer to your iPad and use that connection to interact in different ways. Eazel is an app that allows you to paint on your iPad and send the resulting piece straight to Photoshop wirelessly. From there, you can touch up that piece and make it into a masterpiece.

If you were going to imagine an app for iPad that could help you use Photoshop more effectively, what would it be? For me, it would be along the lines of what Adobe came up with in Nav for Photoshop. It’s one of the first bunch of Photoshop Touch apps for iPad, and it turns your screen into a button interface for quick access to your most used tools in Photoshop. Simple and effective.