Adobe Launches Creative Suite 4 Product Family

Adobe Systems (News - Alert) Incorporated, a company specializing in development of multimedia and design software products, has announced its new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) product family is available to the markets.

 

The product family is available in six new versions, namely Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium and Master Collection.

 

Adobe Creative Suite, integrated with the newly-launched Adobe Flash Player 10, promises to deliver new levels of creativity and expressiveness across media channels.

 

Adobe has also made available the brand new versions of its Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, InDesign CS4, Illustrator CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver CS4, Fireworks CS4, Contribute CS4, After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Encore CS4, Soundbooth CS4 and Adobe OnLocation CS4. All these products combine to form the comprehensive Adobe CS4 product family.

 

Adobe Creative Suite 4 offers a simplified workflow, which makes it easier for users to complete common tasks and move content seamlessly among applications, enabling them to design across media more efficiently.

 

InDesign CS4 includes a new Live Preflight tool that allows designers to catch production errors and a newly-customizable Links panel to manage placed files more efficiently.

 

Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended feature a revolutionary new Content-Aware (News - Alert) Scaling tool that automatically recomposes an image as it is resized, preserving vital areas as it adapts to new dimensions.

 

The users can also move and update content between After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Soundbooth CS4, and Encore CS4 without rendering by deploying an expanded version of Dynamic Link in CS4 Production Premium. This functionality saves countless hours in production.

 

Adobe CS4 offers a simplified production workflow with deep XMP metadata support. The simplified workflow results in online content that gives viewers new ways to interact with and search for video, while giving content owners new opportunities to track and monetize content.

 

Adobe Creative Suite 4 also brings new 3D capabilities, enabling the users to deploy familiar tools in Photoshop CS4 Extended to paint, composite, and animate 3D models.

 

Flash CS4 Professional now offers the ability to apply tweens to objects instead of keyframes, providing greater control over animation attributes. The software also features new Bones tool, which help create more realistic animations between linked objects.