Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe's applications (e.g. Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign), that are based on various technologies (e.g. PostScript, PDF, Flash). The latest version, Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), was announced on September 23, 2008 as the successor to Adobe Creative Suite 3. It was officially released on October 15, 2008. 30-day trials for all products are available.
New in Creative Suite:
All applications in CS4 feature the same user interface, with a new tabbed interface for working with concurrently running Adobe CS4 programs where multiple applications can be opened inside multiple tabs contained in a single window.It was announced that nVidia CUDA technology is now available via 3rd party plugins which will accelerate H.264 video encoding. Adobe CS4 is also developed to perform better under 64-bit and multi-core processors.
On Windows, Adobe Photoshop CS4 runs natively as a 64-bit application. Although they are not natively 64-bit applications, Adobe After Effects CS4 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 have been optimized for 64-bit computers. However, Adobe has stated that no 64-bit version of CS4 will be available for Mac OS X. In early testing of 64-bit support in Adobe Photoshop CS4, overall performance gains ranged from 8% to 12%. Those who work with extremely large files may realize noticeably greater gains in performance, in some cases as dramatic as ten times the previous speed. This is because 64-bit applications can address larger amounts of memory and thus result in less file swapping. one of the biggest factors that can affect data processing speed.
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Adobe Device Central's primary purpose is to integrate parts of the Creative Suite together to offer both professional and individual creative professionals, web designers, and mobile developers an easier way to preview and test Flash Lite, bitmap, web, and video content for mobile devices . Adobe Dreamweaver : is a combination code / GUI web development application. Adobe Acrobat : is a software family dedicated to Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).
Adobe After Effects : is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems. It can be used in film and video post-production. Adobe Bridge : is an organizational program. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Contribute : is for editing the content of a website. It allows a wide variety of people within an organization to update web pages by reducing the amount of web design skills necessary for the process. Adobe Device Central's : primary purpose is to integrate parts of the Creative Suite together to offer both professional and individual creative professionals, web designers, and mobile developers an easier way to preview and test Flash Lite, bitmap, web, and video content for mobile devices.
Adobe Dynamic Link : integrates After Effects with Premiere Pro and with Encore. Adobe Encore : is a DVD and Blu-ray authoring software tool produced by Adobe Systems and targeted at semi-professional video producers. Files are automatically transcoded to MPEG-2 or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video and Dolby Digital audio. DVD and Blu-ray menus can be created and edited in Adobe Photoshop using special layering techniques. Adobe Fireworks : is a bitmap and vector graphics editor, aimed at web designers (with features such as: slices, the ability to add hotspots etc.). Adobe Illustrator : is a vector graphics editor. Adobe InDesign : is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application. Adobe OnLocation : is a direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software.
Adobe Photoshop : is a raster graphics editor (with significant vector graphics functionality). Adobe Premiere Pro : is a real-time, timeline based video editing software application.
Adobe Soundbooth :is a digital audio editor. Adobe has described it as being "in the spirit of Sound Edit 16 and Cool Edit 2000". Soundbooth is not replacing Adobe Audition, rather creating a product for creative professionals who do not specialize in audio. Adobe Version Cue : enables users to easily track and manipulate file metadata, which is information about the history of computer files, such as the fact that one file is a new version of a related older file. Version Cue also automates the process of collaboratively reviewing documents among groups of people.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3):
Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) was announced on March 27, 2007, it introduced universal binaries for all major programs for the Apple Macintosh. Some Creative Suite programs also began using the Presto layout engine used in the Opera web browser Adobe began selling CS3 applications in six different combinations called "editions." These editions were the same as those released for CS4. Design Standard & Premium and Web Standard & Premium began shipping on April 16, 2007, and Production Premium and Master Collection editions began shipping on July 2, 2007. The latest released CS3 version was version 3.3, released on June 2, 2008. In this version Fireworks CS3 was included in Design Premium and all editions that included Acrobat 8 Pro had been replaced with Acrobat 9 Pro.
Adobe Dreamweaver : is a combination code / GUI web development application.
