Adobe Announces Creative Suite 5
Courtesy of Adobe News Room, April 12, 2010.
Adobe
Systems Incorporated today
announced Adobe Creative Suite 5, a
breakthrough release of the industry-leading
design and development software for
virtually every creative workflow. Focusing
on interactivity, performance and maximizing
the impact of digital content and marketing
campaigns across media and devices, the
Creative Suite 5 product line brings
exciting full version upgrades of flagship
creative tools while delivering significant
workflow enhancements to designers and
developers. Featuring integration with
online content and digital marketing
measurement and optimization capabilities
for the first time, Creative Suite 5
products include access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and
analyze information generated by Web sites
and other sources. Additionally, a brand new
component, Adobe Flash Catalyst, joins the
Creative Suite, ushering in the ability to
design interactive content without writing
code and improve the collaborative process
between designer and developer.
The Adobe CS5 product family also enables
the creation of content and applications for
the much anticipated releases of Flash
Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2, which are
optimized for high performance on mobile
screens and designed to take advantage of
native device capabilities for a richer,
more immersive user experience.
The new lineup is headlined by Adobe
Creative Suite 5
Adobe Master Collection, which includes,
in a single package, all of Adobe’s renowned
Creative Suite tools, such as
Adobe Photoshop CS5,
Adobe Illustrator CS5,
Adobe InDesign CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5,
Adobe Flash Professional CS5,
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5,
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5/a> and After Effects
CS5. These tools are also available
separately or in one of the five Creative
Suite editions. The complete Creative Suite
5 lineup includes
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection,
Creative Suite 5 Design Premium,/a>
Creative Suite 5 Web Premium,
Creative Suite 5 Production Premium and
Creative Suite 5 Design Standard, as
well as 15 point products, associated
technologies and integration with new
Adobe CS Live Services (CS Live Services
are complimentary for a limited time).
“While Creative Suite 5 continues Adobe’s
storied history of delivering astonishing
new creative features, this release first
and foremost addresses the challenges facing
publishers and reatives worldwide—how to
build profitable businesses around digital
content,” said Shantanu Narayen, president
and chief executive officer at
Adobe. “By coupling sophisticated online
business analytics with dazzling creative
tools, we’re ensuring that publishers,
designers and marketers can create, deliver
and optimize beautiful, high-impact digital
experiences across media and devices.”
Design Without Boundaries
More than 250 new features have
been integrated into the
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection.
Adobe InDesign CS5 is powering the
transition to digital publishing with new
interactive documents and enhanced
electronic reader device support. Image
creation and editing get a boost in
Adobe Photoshop CS5 with Refine Edge,
which offers better edge detecting
technology and masking results in less time.
Photoshop CS5 also includes the ability
to remove an image element and immediately
replace the missing pixels with
Content-Aware Fill. New stroke options allow
Adobe Illustrator CS5 users to create
strokes of variable widths and precisely
adjust the width at any point along the
stroke.
Work Faster with Greater
Precision
Engineering
breakthroughs throughout
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection
work together to dramatically improve
performance.
Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects are
now native 64-bit applications on both Mac
and Windows, allowing users to work more
fluidly when working on high-resolution
projects. The highly anticipated NVIDIA®
GPU-accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback
Engine allows
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 users to open
projects faster, refine effects-rich HD
sequences in real time and play back complex
projects without rendering. The
revolutionary time-saving Roto Brush tool in
After Effects helps users isolate moving
foreground elements in a fraction of the
normal time. In addition,
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 now supports
popular content management systems Drupal,
Joomla! and WordPress, allowing designers to
get accurate views of dynamic Web content
from within the product.
Accelerate and Optimize Creative
Workflows
Adobe Creative Suite 5 pproducts
integrate with new Adobe CS Live, a set of
five online services that accelerate key
aspects of the creative workflow and enable
designers to focus on creating their best
work. CS Live online services are
complimentary for a limited time and
currently include Adobe BrowserLab, Adobe CS
Review, Acrobat.com, Adobe Story and
SiteCatalyst® NetAverages™ from Omniture.
Adobe CS Review enables online design
reviews directly from Creative Suite 5
applications, while Adobe BrowserLab is an
indispensable tool for testing Web site
content across different browsers and
operating systems. NetAverages provides Web
usage data that helps reduce the guesswork
early in the creative process when designing
for Web and mobile. Adobe Story is a
collaborative scriptwriting tool that
improves production and post-production
workflows in
Adobe CS5 Production Premium. Access to
Acrobat.com services, such as Adobe
ConnectNow Web conferencing, is also
included to enhance discussion and
information exchange with colleagues and
clients around the globe.
Create and Deliver to More Mobile
Platforms
Using
Adobe Flash Professional CS5, designers
and developers can create, test and deliver
Web content across a wide range of mobile
platforms and devices such as smartphones,
tablets, netbooks, smartbooks and other
consumer electronics. Users can look forward
to deploying content in the browser with
Flash Player 10.1 and as a standalone
application with AIR 2 when those planned
products become available. In addition,
users can now build AIR applications using
the new Packager for iPhone tool preview, a
component of
Flash Professional CS5, which can be
deployed on the iPhone and iPad (subject to
Apple's requirements and approval) with
future device support planned for Android,
BlackBerry and Palm webOS.
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