Adobe Creative Suite 5 Launched

Adobe today launched the Creative Suite (CS) 5 in a live web event. The new version of Adobe’s Creative Suite besides containing the newer versions of its main line of applications i.e. Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Premiere Pro also contains Flash Player 10.1, Adobe AIR 2, a new product Flash Catalyst along with many other Products. Also Flash Builder 4 (previously called Flex Builder) is also included with CS5. CS5 has more than 250+ new features.

There are five editions of Creative Suite 5: Web Premium, Production Premium, Design Standard, Design Premium and the Master Collection. Adobe is introducing CS Live, an online service which will work within the CS5 applications.

Everything in CS5 is now 64 bit (including both Windows and Mac) with Premiere and After Effects being 64 bit only.

The main fact is that Adobe with its CS5 has enabled developers to come up with applications for all kind of platforms like PC, Mac, smartphones, tablets etc using technologies like Flash and other Adobe technologies easily.

According to a press release at Business Wire

Product Family

This release line-up includes the following Creative Suite 5 editions:

• Creative Suite 5 Master Collection (see separate release)
• Creative Suite 5 Design Premium (see separate release)
• Creative Suite 5 Design Standard
• Creative Suite 5 Web Premium (see separate release)
• Creative Suite 5 Production Premium (see separate release)

Also included are 15 point products, associated technologies and integration with new Adobe CS Live services: (CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time.)*

• Photoshop® CS5 (see separate release)
• Illustrator® CS5 (see separate release)
• InDesign® CS5 (see separate release)
• Acrobat® 9 Pro
• Flash Catalyst CS5 (see separate release)
• Flash Professional CS5
• Flash® Builder^TM 4
• Dreamweaver® CS5
• Fireworks® CS5
• Contribute® CS5
• Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5 (see separate release)
• After Effects® CS5
• Encore® CS5
• Soundbooth® CS5
• Adobe® OnLocation^TM CS5
• Adobe Bridge CS5
• Adobe Device Central CS5
• Adobe Dynamic Link

New Features

• Truer Edge technology in Photoshop CS5 Extended offers improved edge detecting technology and masking results in less time. Photoshop CS5 Extended also lets users remove an image element and immediately replace the missing pixels with Content-Aware Fill.
• InDesign CS5 powers the transition to digital publishing with new interactive documents and enhanced eReader device support.
• Native 64-bit support in Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects enables customers to work more fluidly on high resolution projects.
• New Text Layout Framework in Flash Professional CS5 provides professional-level typography capabilities with functions like kerning, ligatures, tracking, leading, threaded text block and multiple columns.
• New stroke options in Illustrator CS5 allow users to create strokes of variable widths and precisely adjust the width at any point along the stroke.
• The 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 new Roto Brush tool in After Effects helps users save time by isolating moving foreground elements in a fraction of the normal time.
• Dreamweaver CS5 now supports popular content management systems Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress, allowing designers to get accurate views of dynamic Web content from within Dreamweaver.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Creative Suite 5 and its associated point products are scheduled to ship within 30 days, with availability through Adobe Authorized Resellers, the Adobe Store and Adobe Direct Sales.

• Estimated street price for:
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection is expected to be US$2599
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium is expected to be US$1899
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Standard is expected to be US$1299
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium is expected to be US$1799
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium is expected to be US$1699
  • Tiered upgrade pricing from previous versions is also available. For more detailed information about features, upgrade policies, pricing and international versions please visitwww.adobe.com/creativesuite.

It should also be mentioned that the CS5 release was the most trending topic on Twitter today and many Twitter users were watching the online event at http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ and also tweeting about the same launch in Twitter simultaneously.

If you want to know more about the new features of Adobe CS5, you can check this post at WebDesignerDepot

Also you can visit Adobe to learn more or to preorder CS5

You can also view the re telecast of the Online launch at http://cs5launch.adobe.com/

Adobe has certainly seem to have developed CS5 as a extreme and highly feature-packed application pack for developers and designers. I personally cannot wait to get my hands even on the trails. So, What do you think of the CS5 are you all excited about upgrading to the new CS5 or you are not going to upgrade? Please share with us your view about CS5

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