Adobe launches Creative Suite 4

24 Sep 2008

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Adobe Systems Incorporated, has launched the Adobe Creative Suite 4, the company's latest professional media production software. Creative Suite 4 offers content creators "integrated software and services that measurably improve productivity and enable users to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile."

The Creative Suite 4 launch represents "Adobe's biggest software release to date," said president and CEO Shantanu Narayen during the video launch event.

It includes Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editors, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 production premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection. CS4 Master edition, assembled from 13 separate product lines and 14 "technologies," which are applications like DVD authoring program Encore that are only available in CS4. These product lines include Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, After Effects, and Premiere Pro.

Designers who work with Adobe Creative Suite can look forward to a simplified workflow, streamlining the design process and making it easier to complete tasks. Additionally, artists will no longer have to abandon a project when switching between mediums.

An interesting feature in CS4 called "content-aware scaling." can be used to resize a horizontally oriented photo of four people on a beach to fit a vertically oriented magazine cover without squeezing the people and making them look too thin -- "content aware scaling" cuts pixels from the landscape between the people so that it can preserve their physical proportions in the resized image.

 Narayen said that the distinction between web sites and interactive experiences is blurring and that "consumer expectations are clearly changing." Designers and developers are being asked to help end-users connect in more diverse ways with brands, he said. "We hope that with these tools you will be able to create a new generation of breakthrough technologies," he added.

Other new features include: multitrack support in SoundBooth, live preflight checking to catch possible print job errors before they happen in InDesign. Creative Suite 4 offers an upgraded set of tools and design capability in 3D rendering. CS4 allows designers to paint, composite and animate 3D models. Animation also gets an upgrade in CS4. Flash Creative Suite 4 allows users to apply tweens, or generating intermediate frames between two images, to objects instead of keyframes, creating more control of animation attributes. The new Bones tool, also a part of Flash CS4, creates more realistic animations between linked objects.

The Adobe Creative Suite 4 is currently scheduled to ship in October 2008. Adobe has priced the CS4 starting from $1,699, which will vary depending on the version purchased. The company also plans to offer tiered upgrade prices to customers with previous versions of the software.

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