Key Features
Latest and greatest design tools
Discover new levels of creative opportunity and efficiency with all-new
versions of professional Adobe tools for print, web, interactive,
and mobile design.
Common user interface
Come up to speed quickly with the help of the consistent interface
across all of the creative tools.
Exceptional integration
Work more productively than ever thanks to the exceptional integration
of tools in Creative Suite 4. Easily exchange native file formats
to streamline content creation across design disciplines. Import
layered Adobe Photoshop® files into Adobe Illustrator®,
InDesign®, Fireworks®, or Flash®, or copy and paste
from Photoshop to Adobe Dreamweaver®.
Support for industry standards and best practices
Get the professional output options you need for every design discipline,
from print to web to mobile. Adobe's ongoing focus on open standards
means your work can easily go wherever you want.
Support for the latest Mac OS and Windows systems
Experience the ultimate in performance by running Design Premium
natively on Intel® based Macs and computers running Microsoft® Windows
Vista®. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC® based Macs and
Windows® XP systems, as well.
Efficient installation and management
Simplify installation and software management using a single installer
and serial number. Install all components at once, or install only
those you most need now, and add more components later (one user
per license).
Creative possibilities
Create stunning designs using tools that enable free-flowing expression,
with fine control over graphics, typography, color, transparency,
effects, and placed images.
Productivity that flows
Move between tasks naturally and efficiently for fast, productive
page layout in a flexible design environment.
Persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored
for unique audiences using logical, condensed steps and advanced
features such as automatic page addition and deletion.
Rich interactive documents
Build rich content using Adobe Flash technology and create engaging
PDF documents that include professional typography and top-quality
page design.
Access to full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended offers
with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing
freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.
More efficient way to work
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with
other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of
today's faster graphics processors.
3D and motion-based editing
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on
3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop on 3D content.
Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for
speed and precision.
Precise image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image
features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.
Powerful creative tools
Explore multiple design options and generate intricate graphics using
robust creative features in Illustrator CS4. Industry-standard
drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely
and quickly achieve just the look you want.
Smooth and efficient workflow
Accomplish more and stay in the groove by working directly on the
artboard. Interact with tools and options more easily and complete
your projects efficiently using a wealth of innovative, timesaving
features and shortcuts.
Delivery virtually anywhere
Move easily between Illustrator and other Creative Suite 4 components
while confidently delivering graphics for print, interactive experiences,
video, mobile, and motion effects. Print delivery is more reliable
with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity
among the tools, work across Creative Suite components is virtually
seamless.
Rich interactive content and versatile print design combined
Enjoy native support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling reliable,
cross-platform sharing of video, animations, and applications in
Adobe Acrobat® and Reader® software. PDF files have never
been so lively and compelling.
Convenient, effective collaboration online
Help ensure that colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same
page at the same time with the new ability to conavigate documents,
to provide clarity and enhance discussion.
Unparalleled PDF workflows for professional creative production
Prepare high-quality, press-ready PDF files for print production
workflows faster and more intuitively with enhanced preflight and
automatic correction features. Intelligent, automatic overprint
preview helps ensure that overlapping elements will print correctly.
Easy and efficient design
Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in
Flash CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient.
Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a
powerful coding environment.
New creative possibilities
Extend the limits of creative possibility with powerful new drawing,
animation, and interactive design tools. Enrich your projects with
advanced video and audio capabilities.
Collaboration across workflows
Enjoy timesaving integration among Adobe Creative Suite components
with common tools and interfaces, and easily exchange assets between
components with powerful new file formats.
Delivery for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms
and devices.The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and
delivery to the Adobe AIR™ runtime, are right at your fingertips.
Next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and
dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party
web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your
pages.
Support for best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations
of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting
best practices.
Control of your content
Enable your clients to make updates to web pages directly from the
browser. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex
coding.
Prototyping at the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive
designs with Fireworks CS4. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics
more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset.
Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file
generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved
Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.
Smooth collaboration
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks
CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality,
such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Creative
Suite 4 components, including Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4.
Designing for many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, or Adobe Flash
or Flex® software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with
the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks
and, when you're ready, export standards-compliant CSS to Dreamweaver.
Create HTML-based AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks
to provide layout design and to display user interaction before
developing your application.
Mobile content testing
Simplify the production of innovative and compelling content for
mobile phones and consumer electronics devices with Adobe Device
Central CS4. Save time by automating testing and simulating the
network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated
library of device profiles.
Delivery of engaging experiences
Create mobile projects to manage assets, target device profiles,
and export tasks in one central location. Record content as it
plays and send high-quality movie clips to pitch ideas more easily
to clients. Thanks to intelligent integration with Creative Suite
4 components, Device Central CS4 helps creative professionals and
mobile developers deliver engaging experiences to millions of mobile
subscribers.
Adobe Community Help
Access the power of an online search engine from within Creative
Suite 4, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes
the in-depth, product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered,
plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts
at Adobe and in the design and production communities.
Adobe Bridge Home
Stay up to date on what's new at Adobe and get inspired by the design,
web development, and audio and video production communities at
large when you visit this online channel available in Adobe Bridge
CS4. Watch Creative Suite 4 video tutorials, listen to podcasts
from your favorite designers, and learn about training events in
your community.
Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com
Sign up for Acrobat.com, a set of online services you can use to
create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify
working with others. Thanks to the ability to access one of the
Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, from within many Creative
Suite 4 components, you can meet live over the web and share your
screen with up to two online guests for no charge.
Adobe Kuler
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler™.
Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the
online Kuler community, accessible from the new Kuler panel within
some Creative Suite 4 components, the Kuler website, and the Kuler
Adobe AIR application. Browse and search for thousands of themes,
download directly into your Swatches panel, and even upload your
own themes to share. |
