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Adobe Illustrator CS4 Upgrade [Mac]

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Adobe Illustrator CS4 Upgrade [Mac] Feature

• Create files containing up to 100 artboards and display them any way you want–overlapping, side by side, or stacked; save, export, and print artboards independently or together; save a selected range or all artboards as a multipage PDF file
• Define the opacity of any individual color stop in a gradient; reveal underlying objects and images, and create rich color and texture mixes using multiple layers, knockouts, and cover-up fades
• Sketch with a brush that generates a single clean vector shape, even when strokes overlap; draw naturally, using the Blob Brush tool together with the Eraser and Smooth tools
• Interact with gradients right on your object; set gradient angle, position, and elliptical dimensions; add and edit colors using sliders–all with immediate feedback where you work
• Collaborate with your team, work across products, and deliver almost anywhere thanks to integrated tools and extensive format support; confidently design for print, interactive experiences, motion effects, and more

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Upgrade [Mac] Overviews

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool
Adobe Illustrator CS4 software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment with new transparency in gradients and multiple artboards that invite you to explore more efficient ways to design.

A single file can encompass multiple outputs
New multiple artboards allow you to manage an entire project within a single file. With up to 100 artboards varying in size, common elements such as colors, type, and symbols can be quickly updated all at once across all project components. The timesaving benefits are supported by independent research.

Drawing tools are intuitive
The new Blob Brush tool for natural sketching results in a single, filled object. Advanced path controls and graphic styles make drawing with vectors intuitive

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Adobe Illustrator CS4 Upgrade [Mac] Specifications

Design quickly and confidently with new Adobe Illustrator CS4 software, and deliver easily across tools and media thanks to tight integration with the Adobe Creative Suite family of products. New features such as multiple artboards, a Blob Brush tool for intuitive vector painting, and transparency in gradients with on-object controls invite you to explore more efficient and creative ways of working.

Use multiple artboards to work faster across many designs, all in one file. And increase your efficiency with controls right on your objects, such as those for gradients that now include color-stop transparency. Click to enlarge.

Upgrade to Adobe Illustrator CS4

Licensed owners of Illustrator CS3, Illustrator CS2, or Illustrator CS can upgrade to Adobe Illustrator CS4. Licensed owners of Illustrator CS3, Illustrator CS2, or Illustrator CS are also eligible for special upgrade pricing to certain editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4.

Owners of FreeHand 9, 10, or MX, and owners of CorelDRAW can also switch to Illustrator CS4.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Illustrator CS4

Multiple artboards
Create files containing up to 100 artboards of varying sizes and display them any way you want–overlapping, side by side, or stacked. Save, export, and print artboards independently or together. Save a selected range or all artboards as a multipage PDF file.

Transparency in gradients
Define the opacity of any individual color stop in a gradient. Reveal underlying objects and images, and create rich color and texture mixes using multiple layers, knockouts, and cover-up fades.

Blob Brush tool
Sketch with a brush that generates a single clean vector shape, even when strokes overlap. Draw naturally, using the Blob Brush tool together with the Eraser and Smooth tools.

Gradients exposed
Interact with gradients right on your object. Set gradient angle, position, and elliptical dimensions. Add and edit colors using sliders–all with immediate feedback where you work.

Integration and delivery
Collaborate with your team, work across products, and deliver almost anywhere thanks to integrated tools and extensive format support. Confidently design for print, interactive experiences, motion effects, and more.

Enhanced user experience
Stay in the creative groove thanks to interface improvements that include on-object controls. Interact with tools smoothly, and increase your efficiency using new timesaving features and shortcuts.

In-panel appearance editing
Edit object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to open fill, stroke, or effects panels. Work with shared attributes and control display for faster rendering.

Arrange multiple deliverables–such as packaging, cards, and an ad layout–on different artboards, all in one file. Click to enlarge.

Drawing with the Blob brush is a truly painterly, fluid way to create vector forms. Click to enlarge.

Choose tool options, stay precisely oriented, and make complicated edits to your artwork without interrupting your train of thought. Click to enlarge.

Multiple Illustrator documents are accessible via clickable tabs and can be viewed side by side or top to bottom by selecting a preset arrangement or dragging a tab. Click to enlarge.

Refined graphic styles
Combine styles for unique effects and increased efficiency, and apply styles without disturbing an object’s existing appearance. Enjoy new thumbnail previews and an expanded library of prebuilt styles.

Clipping masks demystified
Work with masks more easily by viewing only the clipped area of your objects during editing. Take advantage of Isolation Mode, and use Edit Clipping Path for even more control.

Separations Preview
Avoid color output surprises such as unexpected spot colors, unwanted overprinting, overprints that don’t overprint, white overprinting, and CMYK blacks in text and placed files.

Top new features of Adobe Illustrator CS4

The following are features in Illustrator CS4 that enable new ways of working so you can get the creative results you’re after more efficiently and deliver designs more easily, anywhere.

Multiple artboards
Define working areas of varying sizes with complete freedom, all within one document. Work on a variety of projects in a single file and share settings and content across designs. You no longer need to use page tiling to create multipage PDF files, and you can arrange up to 100 artboards of different sizes any way you want–tiled, overlapping or freeform. You can even create an artboard inside an artboard to easily export just a piece of a composition.

Multiple artboards provide the most powerful way yet to organize projects with multiple pages or diverse outputs. Sharing objects, styles, and output settings is a great time-saver, and you can apply symbols or test color variations with Live Color while viewing artwork in multiple contexts. Quickly set up bleeds and crop marks, and choose to show video-safe areas using preset profiles.

Export your artboards in any supported file format as a series of files that are automatically numbered in sequence, or save as a single, multipage PDF file–your choice.

Transparency in gradients
Create a gradient of many colors and define the opacity of any or all individual colors assigned to your color stops. Transparency within a gradient simplifies creating interaction between layers and enables easy mixing and knockouts. Use transparency to create cover-up fades or to reveal underlying objects or images. For example, make a rainbow gradient on one object, and then simply set the blue gradient slider or color stop to 0% opacity level to show what’s underneath.

You can even apply multiple fills to a single object, such as a pattern fill overlaid with transparent gradients, to create highlights and shadows that simulate the fabric of a draped garment. In the Appearances panel, simply apply additional fills and then use the Gradient tool to define opacities. And change the shape of that object as much as you want–all of your fills will follow along.

Transparency in gradients also enhances work between Illustrator and other Creative Suite 4 components in which transparency and gradients behave in a similar fashion, such as Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, and Adobe Fireworks CS4 software.

Gradients exposed
On-object interaction plus new elliptical gradients exposes the power of gradients in Illustrator CS4. The new controls enable fast adjustment with minimum interruption of your train of thought–no need to shift your attention to the Gradient panel.

Work with gradients right on your object with immediate visual feedback. Color sliders and swatches appear on your selected object, with gradient stops that you can drag along the gradient bar. You can add and delete gradient stops and set the angle and position of the gradient by clicking directly on the controls.

Radial gradients are enhanced with the new ability to set dimensions independently, to create an elliptical gradient of any proportion.

Blob Brush tool
The Blob Brush tool generates a clean, filled, vector shape while you sketch, even when strokes overlap, merging your paths naturally into a single object that’s easily selected and edited. Now, when you draw, you don’t get the typical jumble of paths, you get an outlined and filled shape–no expansion or Pathfinder tools required. And you can customize how your drawing flows together, choosing options for stroke character and pressure sensitivity.

Drawing with the Blob brush is a truly painterly, fluid way to create vector forms, especially when used in combination with the Eraser and Smooth tools. Use these tools together–alternately stroking and erasing–to perfect your silhouette to get a single, smooth outline without ever needing to expand paths or use the Pathfinder panel.

Integration and delivery

Collaborate with your team, work across products, and deliver anywhere, using integrated tools and extensive format support. Illustrator CS4 enables export of editable, workable content for web, interactive, and RIA projects. And moving smoothly among Adobe tools is easier than ever, thanks to cross-product feature support and common interface elements.

Flex integration
Enrich your Flex applications more easily and take advantage of further support for designer-developer efficiency with Adobe Flex 3 integration. Flex Skin Design extensions for Illustrator enable reliable creation of vector skins with export in native Flex format.

Smooth send and receive
Send your artwork anywhere with broad support of even more file formats and across Adobe products. Enjoy cross-product feature support such as the ability to import multiple artboards from Illustrator into both Flash and Adobe InDesign CS4 software.

Work across multiple applications
Streamline your work among multiple applications with more tool commonality, increased consistency of tool behavior, and new user-interface enhancements across the components of Creative Suite 4.

Smart Guides readouts are set up in the Preferences panel. View rotation angles in degrees, along with guides that show you relationships with nearby objects–continuously, while you transform your selection. Click to enlarge.

Isolation Mode now supports more object types, including compound paths, gradient mesh objects, images, and clipping masks. Click to enlarge.

Edit an effect such as Distortion in the Appearance panel and choose to view just that attribute while you edit. Click to enlarge.

To edit an attribute, simply click on a fill or stroke in the Appearance panel to access the corresponding options. Click to enlarge.

Enhanced user experience

Stay in the creative groove, thanks to significant interface improvements. Work faster and smarter with the following features that help reduce clicks and make interacting with Illustrator easier and more productive.

Options where you work
Choose tool options, stay precisely oriented, and make complicated edits to your artwork without interrupting your train of thought. New features in Illustrator CS4 help focus your attention where you need it most–on your artboard and on your objects.

Tabbed document view
With multiple open documents in a tabbed view, you can bring windows to the front with one click. Tabbed documents are also spring-loaded for easy copying and pasting. Simply drag a selection from your window onto a document tab, and that document pops to the front so you can paste your selection where you want. And, you can arrange multiple document windows in a tiled or cascaded view for easy visual comparison and even faster copying across documents.

Spring-loaded panels
Get to your panels even more quickly with springloading. Panels now expand automatically when you drag an object on top of the panel icon.

Practical Smart Guides
Smart Guides are more intuitive and practical, with an unobtrusive look and new behaviors, such as alignment to objects on the artboard rather than to the cursor. New on-object readouts tell you exactly where you are, without your having to shift focus away from your work.

Isolation Mode advances
Isolation Mode now supports more object types, including compound paths, gradient mesh objects, images, and clipping masks. You can isolate a single object as well as top-level layers. Control your view while in Isolation Mode with new support for Outline View and with quick locking and hiding of objects. It’s now easy to add new objects to a particular place in a stacking order, reducing the need for the Paste In Front/Back and Arrange commands.

Check the new iconic breadcrumbs to see at a glance what type of object you’re editing. The icons symbolize Layer, Group, Symbol, Path, and Image. The labels in the breadcrumbs are clickable so you can quickly navigate through your layers and objects. When you’re finished working in Isolation Mode, exit using the Escape key.

In-panel appearance editing
Edit multiple object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel. This improved panel shows attributes for single and multiple objects, such as fill or stroke color, which you can edit by simply clicking on the attribute–even when it’s shared among objects.

Another new function in the Appearance panel is the ability to control the display of individual attributes. You can simply click the eye icon to turn off a complex effect that must be re-rendered with every move, so that you can work faster and keep your creative momentum going.

And if you wish to select all objects in your artwork that have certain attributes, you can use a new Same Appearance Attribute option in the Select menu. Once you have selected objects with at least one common attribute, you can edit that attribute in the Appearance panel and see immediate results on all the objects at once.

The power of the new Appearance panel lies in centralization of control and streamlining of your workspace. You no longer need to keep multiple panels open to apply and edit fills, strokes, complex attributes, and more. You can even copy and paste within the panel, so adding attributes to any object is fast and simple.

Refined graphic styles
Apply sets of attributes to objects and text as a single graphic style, layering and combining styles for unique effects. The Graphic Styles panel provides new functionality that includes an option to preview all your styles on the seleted object or group of objects. It’s now easy to choose a style without having to actually apply it.

The Graphic Styles panel and the Appearance panel work hand in hand, supporting creation of complex styles that can be quickly applied without destroying an object’s original appearance. Add a new style while pressing the Option key (Mac) or the Alt key (Windows) and observe that it doesn’t replace the object’s existing appearance. To see all the attributes that make a graphic style, click on the style and find its attributes listed in the Appearance panel–each easily edited.

Illustrator CS4 makes graphic styles even more attractive with a new library of prebuilt styles to jump-start your creative exploration. New libraries include sets of effects such as pre-set blurs and drop shadows that you can add without affecting fills. And, of course, you can generate your own libraries of graphic styles that you can use again and again.

Clipping masks demystified
Work with masks more easily, thanks to true WYSIWYG behavior. Now, when the clipping object or group is selected, you will see only the clipped area (the visible parts of your objects). Edit the masking object in Isolation Mode or choose to make it visible using the Clipping Path menu options. Plus, with the buttons in the Control panel for Edit Clipping Paths and Edit Contents, you have truly intuitive choices for viewing and editing both your masks and masked objects.

Separations preview
Help ensure flawless printing using the new Separations Preview panel. Avoid color output surprises such as unexpected spot colors, unwanted overprinting, overprints that don’t overprint, white overprinting, and CMYK blacks in text and placed files. The Separations Preview panel displays a list of spot and process colors; you can choose to display individual colors for previewing color separations onscreen. Illustrator CS4 continues the tradition of improving print support so you can deliver artwork that prints more reliably than ever.

Thumbnail previews show you the style on your selected object, even on live text. Change style attributes in the Appearance panel and text still remains editable. Click to enlarge.

In this example, see how only four steps can create a soft, mixed shape. Use the Blob Brush tool to draw a red-filled object. Click a Graphic Style such as Airbrush 2 while pressing the Option key (Mac) or the Alt key (Windows) . Draw a blue-filled blob. Click Airbrush 2 again while pressing Option or Alt. Click to enlarge.

Work with masks more easily, thanks to true WYSIWYG behavior. Click to enlarge.

Check how your color separations will look using the Separations Preview panel. See the preview on your artboard while you work. Click to enlarge.

Creative Pro Online Services

Connect to the power of the online community through your creative desktop. New online services accessed from within Adobe Illustrator CS4 let you search for help and get answers from the online community; share your screen with colleagues or clients in a few quick clicks; get color inspiration from your peers, and more. With new online services in Illustrator CS4, you can take your ideas to the next level.

Adobe Community Help
Get the power of an online search engine within your Illustrator CS4 software, but with more targeted results thanks to Adobe Community Help. Searchable content includes the comprehensive product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you need, fast. (Internet connection required for extended content.)

Acrobat.com
Acrobat.com is a set of online services–file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and web conferencing–that you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the connection between one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, and Illustrator CS4, you can meet live over the web to share your screen, present creative concepts and ideas, and brainstorm with up to two online guests for no additional service charge. To share your screen with colleagues and clients, choose File > Share My Screen. Guests can then see your desktop on their screens as you work. You can exchange ideas using the chat pod, add a live video or audio feed, or use the Whiteboard feature to enable guests to comment on content. You can even temporarily hand over control of the screen to a guest to collaborate on a file. Additional Acrobat.com services, such as Share, Create PDF, My Files, and Adobe Buzzword, are accessible via your web browser. (Internet connection required.)

Adobe Kuler
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kick start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community. Browse thousands of themes by newest, most popular, or highest rated; or search themes by tag word, title, or creator. Themes can be downloaded and moved to your Swatches panel with a single click. You can also upload colors from your Swatches panel to share with others. (Internet connection required for community functionality.)

Adobe Bridge Home
Visit Adobe Bridge Home–an online channel available in Adobe Bridge CS4–and stay up to date with what’s new from Adobe and the design, web development, and video and audio production communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials for Illustrator CS4, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you work smarter and faster. (Internet connection required.)

Part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family

Adobe Illustrator CS4 is integral to the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family of products, providing a vector graphics environment that serves as the foundation for design across media.

Illustrator complements the other components of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium software for creating resolution-independent graphics that easily move among products and out to print, web, interactive, and mobile media. Design Premium provides all the tools you need to deliver your designs across media in a unified, intuitive environment.

Also a component of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium software, Illustrator CS4 is the key for building rich vector assets for use on the web and in interactive experiences, and for creating lightweight assets for mobile content. Web Premium provides a complete solution for creating and maintaining interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, mobile device content, presentations, and other digital experiences.

For film, video, audio, and interactive media, get Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium software, which includes Illustrator CS4 as the foundation for building creative assets for use in video and film. Production Premium is a total post-production solution, with tighter-than-ever integration between video, audio, and design tools for a smooth workflow from concept to delivery.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection software is your premier solution for professional creative work, including, of course, Illustrator CS4–the key to creating the vector graphics that are the basis of your designs. Master Collection combines the best of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Web Premium, and Production Premium editions, giving you advanced productivity features so you can create content for virtually all media using one value-packed offering.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Upgrade [Mac] CustomerReview

I upgraded to CS4 because Apple’s OS Leopard doesn’t officially support my older CS2 version. To be honest, the earlier version had nearly everything that I needed in a vector program. I was disappointed that Adobe no longer supplies a paper manual but they do offer one month’s access to Lynda.com tutorials, which have probably helped me more than a manual would have. There are several dozen tutorials by Deke McClelland which are very good (I still miss not having a manual nearby to thumb through). I also used the Illustrator CS2 “WOW” book which has lots of tips and techniques and samples of some great effects that are possible with Illustrator (the CS4 version is not yet published). I had been using Freehand up through version 9 and switched to Illustrator when Adobe bought Macromedia. I still have trouble with the switch and keep hoping that Adobe will adopt some of Freehand’s features. For example, Freehand’s one selection tool was much easier to use and did everything that Illustrator’s three separate selection tools accomplish. But the longer I use Illustrator, the easier it gets and the more I like it. Bold, graphic images are easy to create and when combined with raster art, there are no limits to what’s possible.

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Adobe Illustrator Version 6.0 Upgrade from Macromedia FreeHand or from Adobe Illustrator 3.2 or earlier to Adobe Illustrator 6.0 on CD-ROM for Macintosh, 3.5″ disks included

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Adobe Illustrator Version 6.0 Upgrade from Macromedia FreeHand or from Adobe Illustrator 3.2 or earlier to Adobe Illustrator 6.0 on CD-ROM for Macintosh, 3.5″ disks included Feature

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• * The leading illustration and page design tool

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“Adobe Illustrator version 6.0 Upgrade from Macromedia FreeHand or from Adobe Illustrator 3.2 or earlier to Adobe Illustrator 6.0 on CD-ROM, 3.5″ disks included.” (from box)

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Adobe Golive 5.0 Companion/Competitive Upgrade [Old Version]

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Adobe Golive 5.0 Companion/Competitive Upgrade [Old Version] Overviews

With over 100 new features, Adobe GoLive 5.0 is a Web authoring and site management tool for creative professionals worldwide. Keep your code clean and lean with 360Code, visually design dynamically generated Web pages with Dynamic Link for ASP, and enjoy seamless integration with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe LiveMotion. Move from creative concepts to dynamic, high-impact Web sites with the power of one of the industry’s most comprehensive and integrated Web applications.

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Corel Graphics Suite 10 Upgrade

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Corel Graphics Suite 10 Upgrade Overviews

Corel Graphics Suite 10 Upgrade works with all previous versions of CorelDRAW and Corel Photo-Paint to bring sophisticated graphics applications, including drawing tools, image editing features, and vector animation software, to your desktop.

Designed for professional Mac users in the graphic design, business, and educational communities, Corel Graphics Suite 10 features CorelDRAW 10, Corel Photo-Paint 10, Corel R.A.V.E., and Canto Cumulus 5.0. Interactive tools, context-sensitive toolbars, and Live Effects software put you in control of the design process. Advanced features, such as Web Image Optimizer and Web publishing, add flair to your sites. Built-in PDF output, professional color management, and industry-standard import and export filters ensure desired results.

Corel Graphics Suite 10 Upgrade runs natively under Mac OS X and Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2. User manuals are included.

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Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 Upgrade [Old Version]

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Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 Upgrade [Old Version] Feature

• Unified design environment
• Simplified file versioning
• Greater control over images in Adobe Photoshop CS2
• New power for vectors in Adobe Illustrator CS2
• Rich, versatile layouts with Adobe InDesign CS2

Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 Upgrade [Old Version] Overviews

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software is a unified design environment that combines full new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue CS2, the Adobe Bridge file browser, and Adobe Stock Photos. Delivering the next level of integration in creative software, plus consistent color and Adobe PDF file creation across components, Adobe Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere—in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices. Adobe PhotoShop Elements owners do not qualify for this upgrade.

Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS2 Upgrade [Old Version] Specifications

More than just an upgrade to the world’s leading imaging, design, and print production software, Adobe’s Creative Suite 2 will change the way you harness your creativity. Creative Suite 2 is a fully integrated design and workflow environment that is engineered to help creative professionals work faster, smarter and with better results. Robust new tools in Photoshop CS2, tighter integration between Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2, new object styles in InDesign CS2, and the revolutionary streamlining and collaboration offered by Adobe Bridge make Creative Suite 2 Adobe’s biggest release yet. Other top features include the ability to establish color settings across all the components of Adobe Creative Suite, access to robust help services, and easier control of, and access to, historical and alternate file versions.

The premium edition of Adobe Creative Suite 2 combines full new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos.

Adobe Photoshop CS2
New tools in Photoshop CS2 give you more creative options, better file handling and batch processing of digital camera RAW-format files, plus complete integration with Adobe Bridge (see below) for a seamless workflow. Designed to fit the way you work, Photoshop CS2 is only limited by your imagination. Top new features include:

The new Vanishing Point tool lets you edit and enhance images to match the source image’s perspective.

• Vanishing Point: Achieve amazing results in a fraction of the time with the groundbreaking Vanishing Point, which lets you clone, brush, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of any image area.
• Multiple layer control: Select and move, group, transform, and warp objects more intuitively by clicking and dragging directly on the canvas. Easily align objects with Smart Guides.
• Smart Objects: Perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of high-resolution vector data from Adobe Illustrator software.
• Multi-image digital camera raw file processing: Accelerate your raw file workflow with simultaneous processing of multiple images while you continue working. Import images into your choice of formats, including Digital Negative (DNG); enjoy automatic adjustments to exposure, shadows, and brightness and contrast; and much more.
• Image Warp: Easily create packaging mock-ups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an image around any shape or stretching, curling, and bending an image using Image Warp.

Adobe Illustrator CS2
Return to your love of vector drawing and illustration with Illustrator CS2. The big news here is a new bitmap conversion tool that lets you convert images to scalable, editable artwork in seconds. This version is designed to make it easy to find the tools you need quickly, while allowing you to customize your workspace to suit your way of getting things done. With Illustrator CS2 it’s also easier than ever to take your graphics to the printed page, Web sites, video, mobile devices–virtually anywhere you want to go. Top new features include:

Quickly convert your bitmap images, such as scanned sketches, to scalable, vector-based paths.

• Live Trace: Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.
• Live Paint: Apply color to any region or edge and use overlapping paths to create new shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.
• Control palette: Discover new features and find existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control Palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.
• Custom workspaces: Work more efficiently and optimize your screen area using custom workspaces that display only the palettes you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates.
• Photoshop layer comp support: Control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded, or opened Photoshop files from within Illustrator.

Adobe InDesign CS2
With new object styles and vastly-improved layer controls, InDesign CS2 offers print publishing professionals powerful new tools. Improved text and graphics handling and greater integration with other Adobe software is built in, too, allowing you to output your files with complete confidence and deliver projects faster. Top new features include:

Experiment with different designs by selectively displaying layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, as well as layers in Adobe PDF files.

• Object styles: Apply and globally update object-level formatting more efficiently using object styles. Save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks.
• Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support: Selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, and layers in Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layout–all while linking to a single file.
• InDesign snippets: Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a layout, InDesign recreates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page.
• Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments: Assign only the elements of a document that an editor using Adobe InCopy CS2 software needs to work on while you’re designing the rest–whether that’s specific frames on a page, frames on one or more spreads, or all the frames in a document.
• Save backwards to InDesign CS: Export your InDesign CS2 document to the InDesign Interchange (INX) format and open it in InDesign CS for sharing with people still working in the previous version.

Adobe GoLive CS2
With GoLIve CS2, you have the power of an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Web design tool that is compatible with the latest Web standards. Take full advantage of CSS and take your ideas to new places with powerful mobile authoring tools based on CSS/XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, and other global standards. What’s more, like the other components of the Creative Suite, GoLive is tightly integrated with other applications so you can work efficiently. Top new features include:

GoLive CS2 is ready to power your designs for mobile devices.

• Enhanced live rendering: Preview changes to Web and mobile content in a real-time, integrated engine built on the Opera browser that supports Small-Screen Rendering (SSR).
• Simple visual tools to build and edit CSS-based pages: Build Web pages that conform to open standards using innovative new visual CSS workflows based on the CSS Editor and CSS prebuilt block objects.
• Visual CSS authoring for mobile devices: Easily author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices using simple visual tools.
• Visual SVG-t inspection and authoring for mobile: View SVG-t content in split-view interfaces, enabling art tree, source, and XML outline views and access to an animation scrubbing timeline for rapid development.
• Total site management: Track and manage everything in your site, from assets to links, uploading content using Secure FTP and WebDAV via SSH or SSL. Easily synchronize local and remote files.

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional is the total PDF delivery solution, offering the fastest, most flexible way to produce and deliver secure, high-quality Adobe PDF documents for client review and print output. Top new features include:

Use Acrobat’s powerful print preflighting tools to preview designs before they go to press. Clients with the free Adobe Reader 7.0 can also add comments to your PDF files during design review.

• Inclusive electronic reviews: Use Acrobat 7.0 Professional to enable anyone with free Adobe Reader 7.0 software to add comments to Adobe PDF files during design reviews.
• Improved preflighting of Adobe PDF files: Check for problems in Adobe PDF files using the improved preflighting tool–which now supports droplets for automation–and share preflight reports as comments.
• Powerful print production tools: Correct common problems in Adobe PDF files–such as converting colors, previewing separations, remapping spot colors, flattening transparency, and fixing hairline rules–without having to recreate the file.
• Ink coverage, rich black detection, and overprint warnings: Minimize prepress errors with new warnings for total ink coverage, rich black detection, and overprints.
• Support for the latest standards: Create Adobe PDF files that are compliant with the PDF/X-1a:2003 and PDF/X-3:2003 print production standards, used for prepress document exchanges, and that include JDF product definitions with details about the jobs you’re submitting for print production.

Version Cue CS2
Tired of confusing filename conventions and versioning nightmares? Bring an end to all of that with Version Cue CS2, the file-version manager that’s built into the Creative Suite. Find files quickly using extensive search capabilities, create alternates to show as comps, and manage versions within Adobe Bridge. With Version Cue, the right file is always right at hand. Top new features include:

Version Cue CS2 makes it easy to find, link and share your design elements.

• Productivity made simple: Find files fast, track versions across applications, link files together, and share them in creative collaboration without fear of overwriting someone else’s work.
• Shared project information: Actively track the status of project files and enable this information to be easily shared across workgroups.
• Simplified sharing for small workgroups: Easily share files with others within the Version Cue Workspace and keep your files safe without fear of them being overwritten. View the status of each file to know who is working on what file.
• Automatic file naming: Say good-bye to awkward filenames such as “brochure_final_final3.indd.” Instead, you can name a file to suit your preferences and let Version Cue handle the version tracking without the need for a naming convention.
• File version notification: Receive helpful reminders while updating versions or placing photos and illustrations in layouts.

Adobe Bridge
At the heart of Adobe Creative Suite 2 lies Adobe Bridge, the new navigational control center built to join together all of the Creative Suite components. (Adobe Bridge is also available separately in Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, and GoLive CS2 software.) Based on the File Browser introduced in Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Bridge goes a step further by providing centralized access to your suite project files, applications, and color spaces, and other settings. With file organization and sharing, plus Adobe Stock Photos, at your fingertips all the time, Adobe Bridge is where you keep your ideas moving. Top features include:

Adobe Bridge CS2 intelligently links all of the elements of the Creative Suite together, so you can work more efficiently.

• Organized assets: Quickly organize, browse, locate, and preview the assets you need every day–Photoshop images, Illustrator graphics, InDesign layouts, Adobe PDF files, GoLive Web pages, and a variety of standard graphics files–with visual previews and scalable thumbnails as you work.
• Project and file sharing: Work collaboratively and access multiple versions as well as alternate renditions of your files through Version Cue CS2 in Adobe Bridge. Actively track the status of project files and enable this information to be easily shared across workgroups.
• Accessibility anywhere: Jump to Adobe Bridge from within Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, or GoLive CS2, work in it as a standalone application, or have it float onscreen as a palette.
• Powerful file searching: Search for files on a hard drive or across a network using extensive metadata information, including attributes such as all files that use a certain PANTONE color or set of fonts.
• Convenient access to stock photos: Browse and search royalty-free images from multiple stock photo agencies using Adobe Stock Photos in one convenient, familiar location. Purchase images from several agencies in a single shopping cart, and manage your imagery without ever leaving Adobe Creative Suite 2.

Adobe Stock Photos
Need royalty-free stock photos now? Adobe Stock Photos delivers hundreds of thousands of them, right from Adobe Bridge. Adobe has teamed up with top stock photo providers to deliver a comprehensive, centralized place to get all the images you need. Top features include:

Search over 230,000 images from multiple stock libraries at once from Adobe Bridge.

• Fast image searching: Search over 230,000 images from multiple stock libraries at once from Adobe Bridge. Adobe Stock Photos tracks your search path automatically, so returning to recent searches is easy.
• Hassle-free image creation: Double-click comp images to open watermark-free versions directly in Photoshop. Or drag and drop images from your favorite folders into InDesign or Illustrator.
• Simple image management: Don’t worry about tracking image ID numbers. The Adobe Stock Photos service automatically retains the data associated with each comp image–even after editing.
• Instant purchases: Purchase directly from within the document containing your comp images. Buy all your images at once–even if they originate from multiple providers.

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