Adobe released its new Creative Suite 6 (CS6) on Monday 7th May. Adobe’s new design software suite - famous for its market-leading applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Premier Pro – is available in four suites and also via an all-new Creative Cloud service.
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Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Design Standard software combines industry-standard tools for print design and digital publishing. Create eye-catching images, craft illustrations and graphics that scale to any size, and deliver top-quality print pages with elegant typography. Also lay out publications for iPad and other tablet devices as easily as creating pages for print.*
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Retouching magic in Photoshop®—Retouch images with astonishing ease and precision. Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the sample area Content-Aware will use to magically create your patch.
Mercury Performance System in Illustrator®—Work blazingly fast—even with processing-intensive effects such as blurs, glows, and drop shadows that used to slow you down. Access all the RAM on your system thanks to native 64-bit support on both Mac OS and Windows®.
Multiple layout versions in one InDesign® file—Efficiently manage multiple layouts based on a single set of content. Use Alternate Layout to create multiple versions in one document. Use Liquid Layout to automate layout resizing based on page size.
Content linking across InDesign documents—Link content that appears in multiple InDesign documents so that changes made to parent text or objects are applied automatically to all linked children objects. Save time and avoid hassles when making last-minute changes.
Astonishing performance in Photoshop—Experience blazing-fast interactions when editing with key tools such as Crop, Transform, Liquify, and Puppet Warp. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented speed and responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work**.
A: You’ll get more for your money. With the latest versions of your favorite components, Creative Suite 6 Design Standard offers a jam-packed creative toolbox at significantly less cost than the price of purchasing the individual components separately.
A: By upgrading to Creative Suite 6, you stay on the cutting edge by taking advantage of significant improvements in efficiency, along with new creative tools and tighter integration between products.
A: For each of the Creative Suite 6 editions, Adobe has selected the products that are most useful for specific customers and functions. In most cases, you will find that you use each tool in some capacity throughout the creative process. And even if you don’t use every component now, you have the flexibility to use them later.
* A Digital Publishing Suite account is required to access certain features and services that integrate with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.
** Some Adobe® Photoshop® GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.
Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Design & Web Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for professional design. Deliver eye-catching digital images and craft graphics that remain crisp when scaled. Lay out high-impact print pages with exquisite typography, build HTML5/CSS3 websites that look great on any screen, and design applications for tablets and smartphones.
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Retouching magic in Photoshop®—Retouch images with astonishing ease and precision. Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the sample area Content-Aware will use to magically create your patch.
Mercury Performance System in Illustrator®—Work blazingly fast—even with processing-intensive effects such as blurs, glows, and drop shadows that used to slow you down. Access all the RAM on your system thanks to native 64-bit support on both Mac OS and Windows®.
Multiple layout versions in one InDesign® file—Efficiently manage multiple layouts based on a single set of content. Use Alternate Layout to create multiple versions in one document. Use Liquid Layout to automate layout reformatting based on page size.
Linked content across InDesign documents—Link content within or across InDesign documents, so that changes (including interactivity) made to the parent text or object are applied automatically to all linked children objects.
Adaptive web layouts in Dreamweaver®—Use fluid grid layout to define styles and rules for adaptive web layouts that scale and look great on screens of virtually any size. It's now easier to design complex layouts without drowning in code.
A: Yes. Due to the similarity of the components included in Web Premium and Design Premium, we decided to combine the two editions. Customers who own a previous edition of Web Premium will find their trusted software applications included in CS6 Design & Web Premium.
A: Yes. Due to the similarity of the components included in Design Premium and Web Premium, we decided to combine the two editions. Customers who own a previous edition of Design Premium will find their trusted software applications included in CS6 Design & Web Premium.
Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Master Collection software is the ultimate design environment for expressing your creative vision. Use industry-leading tools to deliver for print, web, and video—from mobile displays to the silver screen. With blazing-fast performance and tight precision, you can make swift work of your most complex projects.
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Content-Aware technologies in Photoshop® Extended—Retouch images with astonishing ease, control, and precision. Remove or move selected image objects, and Content-Aware technology magically fills, patches, extends, or recomposes your image with stunning results.
Mercury Performance System in Illustrator®—Work with precision, speed, and rock-solid stability on large, complex files due to native 64-bit support on Mac OS and Windows.® Enjoy full access to your computer's RAM and overall performance optimization.
Alternate and Liquid Layout in InDesign®—Efficiently create and design multiple versions of a layout within a single InDesign file. Apply liquid page rules to automatically adapt content when you create an alternate layout with a different size or orientation.
Fluid grid layout for mobile devices in Dreamweaver®—Design and develop confidently for mobile devices with advanced tools, including CSS3-based layouts that scale to fit all screen sizes and form factors.
Global Performance Cache in After Effects®—Create more in less time with unprecedented 64-bit performance. This revolution "under the hood" takes full advantage of the power in your computer’s hardware.
A: CS6 Master Collection combines the latest versions of Adobe's professional design and development tools in one value-packed offering. Have all your favorite design, web, and video tools at your fingertips, including Adobe Photoshop® Extended, Illustrator,® InDesign,® Dreamweaver,® Flash® Professional, Adobe Premiere® Pro, and After Effects®, along with brand-new tools such as Adobe SpeedGrade™ and Adobe Prelude.™
CS6 Master Collection is ideal for small design shops that need to nimbly deliver across media and is essential for large media, advertising, and other companies that need to equip their design and development teams for any creative challenge. Educational institutions also find Master Collection an efficient way to outfit their classrooms and learning labs with the broadest array of professional tools for their students.
A: CS6 Master Collection delivers all-new versions of key Adobe professional products, including Photoshop and Illustrator, which were not updated for CS5.5. Significant performance improvements across almost every component are a highlight of CS6 Master Collection, with native 64-bit support and GPU enhancements that give you full advantage of your computer’s power. Powerful new creative options enable the crafting of fluid, adaptive designs across all media. Reach new audiences on the latest platforms.
A: You can save money when you upgrade to CS6 Master Collection or another Creative Suite edition instead of buying individual components. Generally, if you are planning to purchase three or more individual components and they are not available in another suite edition, then Master Collection can make financial sense.
Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Production Premium software is the heart of your video workflow. Log, edit, design, animate, composite, and refine audio and colour. Work with any type of content and output to virtually any format—from handheld tablets to the silver screen.
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Sleek Adobe Premiere® Pro user interface—See more of your video and less clutter, thanks to an efficient, highly intuitive interface featuring customizable Project panel views, transport controls, Audio Meter panel, and track headers. Play clips directly in the Media Browser.
Global Performance Cache in After Effects®—Create more in less time. Adobe After Effects intelligently optimizes and preserves your previews by taking full advantage of the 64-bit power in your computer’s hardware. Now you can beat deadlines instead of waiting for frame updates.
Photoshop® imaging magic—Retouch images with the new Content-Aware family of technologies. Experience fast performance when working with large files using the new Mercury Graphics Engine.
Creative tools in After Effects—Extrude fully ray-traced text and shapes natively while adding reflections, environment maps, and more. Track elements in 3D space with depth of field, shadows, and reflections, and apply 3D track points to 2D footage.
SpeedGrade™ for crafting the perfect look—Manipulate light and colour. Broad format support includes raw, HDR, and stereoscopic. Apply precise HDR grades to source, or import sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro for more in-depth colour grading.
A: Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium software goes beyond a new NLE, with the full post-production pipeline for virtually any type of production. Tight integration between Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects,® and Photoshop® expands your capabilities and saves time, and seamless project exchange with Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer makes it simple to switch.
A: Adobe Premiere Pro is not only designed to let you work easily between the editing timeline and After Effects or Photoshop, with support for a wide number of formats and Adobe Dynamic Link, but it is also part of a full production pipeline. You can ingest and organize footage in Adobe Prelude before bringing it into Adobe Premiere Pro, and while working on an edit, you can refine audio in Adobe Audition® and color grade and finish in Adobe SpeedGrade™ before batch encoding the result in Adobe Media Encoder. After Effects is closely integrated with Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator® as well.
A: CS6 Production Premium offers more value for your money than After Effects, without adding premium cost. Adobe Premiere Pro supports working with After Effects projects like no other NLE can, and Photoshop and Illustrator are closely integrated with After Effects, which now includes the ability to bring Illustrator vectors into After Effects as Shape Layers. SpeedGrade adds color grading and finishing, and Adobe Media Encoder is a superset of the Render Queue that works in the background.
A: CS6 Production Premium includes two entirely new applications. SpeedGrade is a sophisticated color grading and finishing system. Prelude is designed for on-set ingest, the addition of metadata, and rough edits that can be imported and improved in Adobe Premiere Pro. Prelude is available only in Production Premium.
To install an upgrade version of Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium, you must have an eligible earlier version of Adobe software. For information on eligibility, visit www.adobe.com/go/pp_upgrade.
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