Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Design Premium (Win) Upgrade From CS4

This upgrade version of Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Design Premium (Mac) will install only if you are a licensed user of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium, or Master Collection.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for designers who need to express their wildest ideas with precision; work fluidly across media; and produce exceptional results in print, web, interactive, and mobile design. Craft eye-catching images and graphics, lay out stunning pages, build standards-based websites, create interactive content without writing code, and extend page layouts for viewing with eBook reading devices.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium includes:

• Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended -- Create powerful images with the professional standard
• Adobe Illustrator CS5 -- Explore new paths with the essential vector tool
• Adobe InDesign CS5 -- Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing
• Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 -- Create expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code
• Adobe Flash Professional CS5 -- Create and deliver rich interactive content
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 -- Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications
• Adobe Fireworks CS5 -- Rapidly prototype and design for the web
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro -- Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF
• Adobe Bridge CS5 -- Powerful media manager
• Adobe Device Central CS5 -- Design, preview, and test engaging mobile content

FEATURES:

PRINT

From business card to billboard, annual report to packaging, CS5 Design Premium offers designers the complete toolset needed to quickly and reliably produce high-quality, unique, and visually compelling print designs.

• State-of-the-art image editing : Use industry-standard Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to edit, enhance, and refine high-quality images for any print project.
• Versatile, resolution-independent graphics : Create stand-out graphics that scale from business card to billboard with Adobe Illustrator CS5.
• Dynamic PDF creation : Use Acrobat 9 Pro to create PDF documents and package layouts, drawings, images, animation, movies, audio, and other files in a single, dynamic PDF Portfolio.
• Streamlined reviews : Maximize design time by streamlining reviews with Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service. Initiate shared reviews from within Photoshop CS5 Extended,Illustrator CS5, and InDesign CS5. Invite others to comment with easy-to-use tools, and view their comments in the context of your design.
• Integration with CS Live online services : Take advantage of integration with new Adobe CS Live online services* to accelerate time-consuming processes such as creative reviews, web page testing, and collaborative content authoring. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
• Performance on the latest operating systems : Take advantage of the power and performance of the latest Apple and Microsoft operating systems. Enjoy 64-bit support for faster image editing across platforms with Photoshop CS5 Extended.
• Creative 3D possibilities :Quickly add depth and create unusual effects using 3D editing tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Create attention-getting 3D logos and artwork from text and shapes and edit, manipulate, and paint directly on 3D models.
• High-quality page layout : Lay out, preflight, and produce stunning page layouts with Adobe InDesign CS5,an intuitive design environment that offers precise control over typography and built-in tools for creative effects.
• Visual media management : Find files fast by browsing thumbnails instead of filenames with Adobe Bridge.Or browse thumbnails and place files from the Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop CS5 Extended and InDesign CS5.
• Adobe Community Help: Find the answers you need, including in-depth, product-specific Help from Adobe and additional third-party expert content, all accessed from within your design software.
• Consistent Adobe user interface : Work quickly and intuitively thanks to a consistent user interface across all CS5 Design Premium components. Enjoy a shorter learning curve and stay more focused on the art of design.
• PDF preflight and correction : Reduce errors at the printer with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. Apply extensive preflight checks and easily fix issues form faulty hairlines to transparency handling, black conversion, spot color mapping, and more.

WEB

CS5 Design Premium enables designers to create standards-based websites with compelling graphics and interactive content.

• State-of-the-art image editing - Edit, manipulate, and optimize images for the web with industry-standard Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended.
• Crisp graphics for the web - Create resolution-independent vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS5 that appear crisp in Adobe Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash Professional-and on virtually any screen.
• Standards-based websites and applications - Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications with Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Jump-start your designs with built-in page templates using cascading style sheets (CSS), and work visually or directly in code.
• Dynamic PDF creation - Use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro to create PDF documents and capture web pages, including interactive elements. PDF versions of web pages are easy to print, archive, mark up, and share.
• Powerful 3D possibilities - Create attention-getting 3D logos and artwork from text and shapes and edit, manipulate, and paint directly on 3D models with 3D editing tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended.
• Website prototyping - Prototype websites using Fireworks CS5. Repurpose Photoshop CS5 and Illustrator CS5 assets, generate PDF or HTML comps, and then export final designs to Dreamweaver CS5 for site development.
• Integration with BrowserLab - Preview web pages on multiple browsers and operating systems with Adobe BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service.* Avoid having to buy testing hardware and maintain testing labs. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
• Adobe Community Help - Find the answers you need, including in-depth, product-specific Help from Adobe and additional third-party expert content, all accessed from within your design software.

INTERATIVE

Capturing attention and eliciting a response is more challenging than ever. Consumers are bombarded with information-- in print and broadcast media, online, and on handheld devices. Great design can make all the difference. CS5 Design Premium gives designers a range of tools to create interactive content that delivers a consistent and engaging experience across screens.

• State-of-the-art image editing - Use advanced creative tools in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to edit, manipulate, and optimize images for eye-catching interactive experiences.
• Crisp vector graphics - Create resolution-independent vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS5 that appear crisp in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and Flash Catalyst CS5--and on virtually any screen.
• Immersive interactive experiences - Design banners, games, and interactive experiences that appear consistently across computers, browsers, or devices with Flash Professional CS5. Add interactivity and motion to designs imported from Photoshop CS5 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS5 , or Adobe InDesign CS5.
• PDF Portfolio creation - Use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro to create PDF documents and package images, animation, video, audio, and other files more securely in a single PDF Portfolio.
• Creative 3D possibilities - Quickly add depth and create unusual effects using 3D editing tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Create attention-getting 3D logos and artwork from text and shapes, and edit, manipulate, and paint directly on 3D models.
• Dynamic digital documents - Add attention-grabbing interactivity, animation, video, and sound to your digital documents and presentations with InDesign CS5. Export documents directly from InDesign to SWF format.
• Interactivity without writing code - Take Photoshop or Illustrator artwork and transform it into high-quality interactive content for web pages, user interfaces, and applications with Flash Catalyst CS5. Define buttons, scrollbars, sliders, page transitions, video players, and more, all without writing code
• Adobe Community Help - Find the answers you need, including in-depth, product-specific Help from Adobe and additional third-party expert content, all accessed from within your design software.

HANDHELD DEVICES

CS5 Design Premium enables designers to create content that can be viewed consistently using a wide range of hand-held devices including mobile phones and eBook reading devices.

• State-of-the-art image editing - Edit, manipulate, and optimize images for inclusion in eBook and other mobile content with industry-standard Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended.
• Prototyping for mobile - Use Adobe Fireworks CS5 and Device Central to quickly set up a mobile design project with the correct specifications. Prototype the mobile site in Fireworks, preview and test your design in Device Central, and then export the design for development.
• Content testing for mobile devices - Plan, preview, and test content for a wide spectrum of devices from mobile handsets to gaming systems with Adobe Device Central.
• Versatile PDF workflows - Use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro to create PDF documents and package layouts, drawings, images, web pages, animation, video, audio, and other files more securely in a single PDF Portfolio.
• Crisp graphics for mobile - Create resolution-independent vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS5 that appear crisp when viewed on any mobile or handheld device.
• Immersive interactive experiences - Deliver immersive interactive experiences such as microsites and games that present consistently across computers, browsers, and mobile devices with Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Import your design from Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, or Adobe InDesign CS5, and then add interactivity and motion to bring your design to life.
• eBook document design - Prepare InDesign CS5 pages for viewing on eBook reading devices such as the Apple iPad, Barnes ; Noble nook, Amazon Kindle, and Sony Reader by exporting to the ePUB format.
• Adobe Community Help - Find the answers you need, including in-depth, product-specific Help from Adobe and additional third-party expert content, all accessed from within your design software.

WHAT's NEW IN CS5 DESIGN PREMIUM

Craft Artwork That Stands Out :

Discover powerful new creative tools in Photoshop and Illustrator for crafting artwork that stands out in a wide range of media.

• Realistic painting effects - Easily paint with lifelike brush strokes to create beautiful, expressive images in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Blend a photo's colors; use bristle properties such as shape, length, and stiffness; or define multiple colors on a single brush and blend them into the underlying colors on your canvas.
• Fluid vector painting - Combine the expressiveness of painting with the editability and scalability of vectors. Paint freely with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes, controlling paint opacity and bristle characteristics such as shape, length, and stiffness, with Illustrator CS5.
• Easy 3D extrusions - Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with the Adobe Repousse feature in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then apply materials such as chrome, mud, and grass to achieve different looks.

Express Your Ideas Faster

Design Premium includes dozens of features designed to reduce the number of steps required to complete common tasks. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver-the tools you use every day-all offer numerous enhancements to help make fast work of your next project.

• Truer Edge selection technology - Produce highly accurate masks and make selections faster with Photoshop CS5 Extended. Even the trickiest image elements, such as hair and foliage, can be masked quickly and accurately to produce realistic composite images.
• Beautiful strokes - Avoid time-consuming workarounds by using convenient width handles to adjust stroke width interactively in Illustrator CS5. Precisely size and position arrowheads, and align dashes symmetrically. Control stretch at any point when scaling art brushes on a path, and see how strokes join intelligently at corners.
• Simplified object selection - Save time by performing finicky layout tasks efficiently. Manipulate frames and frame content without switching tools in InDesign CS5.Dynamically adjust white space between objects to reposition page items. Use on-object controls to modify frame corners directly in the layout.
• More efficient CSS-based design - Design web pages more easily using cascading style sheets (CSS) in Dreamweaver CS5--without diving into code or using additional software. Quickly inspect pages and individual components to understand how they are structured.
• Multiple page sizes in a single file - Streamline design and production for projects with multiple pages sizes in a single InDesign CS5 file, such as brand identity, marketing collateral, and complex magazine folds. Include different page sizes in a single document and intelligently apply the same master page to each
• Crisp graphics for web, interactive, and mobile delivery - Create resolution-independent vector graphics in Illustrator CS5 that appear crisp in Adobe Fireworks CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, and Flash Professional CS5--on virtually any screen.
• Convenient asset handling - Access all your creative assets within the context of what you're working on with Adobe Mini Bridge. Use a customizable panel in Photoshop CS5 Extended or InDesign CS5 to sort and filter files, and then drag them directly into your layout.

Creative Interactivity Without Writing Code

CS5 Design Premium equips you to tackle the creation of interactive content using familiar tools, skills, and design processes--without writing a line of code.

• Roundtrip editing with Flash Catalyst - Edit artwork in Illustrator CS5 while maintaining structure and interactivity added using Flash Catalyst CS5.
• Interactive content without code - Design compelling interactive content without writing code with Flash Catalyst CS5.Start with artwork created in Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, or Adobe Fireworks CS5 and transform it into high-quality interactive content for web pages, user interfaces, and applications, or into finished content for viewing with Adobe Flash Player.
• Enhanced eBook document design - Create compelling eBooks with enhanced support for the EPUB format. Use InDesign CS5 to author eBooks that can be read on a variety of devices such as the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, and Barnes ; Noble nook. Enjoy more consistent text and image placement, more accurate translation of page breaks, and support for text and table formatting.
• Dynamic digital documents - Add attention-grabbing interactivity, animation, movies, and sound to your digital documents and presentations with InDesign CS5. Use enhanced tools, motion presets for easy animation, and support for importing FLV and MP3 audio files. Export to the SWF file format for playback in Adobe Flash Player.
• Superior onscreen typography - Make sure your typography looks as good on screen as in print -- preserve high-quality typography when handing off layouts from InDesign CS5 to Flash Professional CS5. A new text engine in Flash Professional supports text styling, text layout control, multiple columns, and more.
• Simplified mobile-content design - Easily experiment with designing for mobile devices with Fireworks CS5 and Adobe Device Central CS5. Use Device Central and Fireworks to quickly set up a project with the correct specifications, design visually in Fireworks, and hand off your prototype for development in Flash Professional CS5 or Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.

Streamline Critical Processes

New with CS5 Design Premium, Adobe CS Live online services* are built to integrate with and extend the capabilities of CS5 components. The services can help boost efficiencies in your day-to-day design and production work. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.

• Streamlined reviews - Maximize your design time by streamlining inefficient review processes with Adobe CS Review, part of CS Live online services. Initiate shared reviews from within Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, and InDesign CS5. Invite colleagues and clients to comment using easy-to-use annotation tools, and view comments directly in the context of the design.
• Web-based meetings - Choose File > Share My Screen from your design software to initiate an Adobe ConnectNow web conferencing session to quickly share ideas with others, all online. ConnectNow is a feature of Acrobat.com, part of CS Live online services.
• Web page testing - Efficiently preview web pages on multiple browsers and operating systems with Adobe BrowserLab, part of CS Live online services. Save time and money by eliminating the need for buying costly testing hardware, installing multiple browsers, and maintaining testing labs.
• Personal online workspace - Easily share and collaborate on a set of documents with individuals or teams outside your organization using online Workspaces on Acrobat.com. You decide who has access and the level of access to each document.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

* This product may allow you to extend its functionality by accessing certain features that are hosted online, including CS Live online services ("Online Services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The Online Services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages, and/or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the Online Services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Online Privacy Policy, and access to some services may require user registration. Some Online Services, including services that are initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees and require a separate subscription.

 

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.