Adobe announced its “biggest ever” product release on Tuesday. The Creative Suite 4 product family, a new series of media applications scheduled to ship in October, features tightly integrated workflow solutions designed to advance the creative process across print, Web, mobile, interactive, film and video production.
The entire product line includes Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editions, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and the Creative Suite 4 Master Collection.
Photoshop, the most widely used Adobe product, will take advantage of new graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware in the CS4 edition ($699) to deliver a smoother pan and zoom experience, allowing users to easily edit images at even the highest magnifications. For an additional $300, Photoshop CS4 Extended give users the ability to manipulate 3D imagery, such as painting directly on 3D models and surfaces, merging 2-D files onto 3D images, and animating 3D objects.
InDesign, Adobe’s page layout program, also comes in for some interesting upgrades, including a feature that highlights potential production problems in real-time from within the layout and directs users to the problem area to resolve the issue. Other new features make it easier to create and manage long documents such as manuals and textbooks, including a Conditional Text feature that lets users quickly produce multiple versions of a document for different uses such as multi-lingual documents or Teacher/Student materials.
Below we reproduce Adobe’s comparison chart to help give you an idea of the range of options available in the new applications and their bundles, but be sure to visit the Adobe website for detailed information and several arresting demos of the kinds of work supported by these products.
4 responses to “Adobe’s Biggest Product Announcement Ever: Creative Suite 4 Products Coming in October”
Didn’t I just pay several hundred dollars for CS3 a year ago?
Lonnie Lazar, Adobe peddler extraordinaire!
But seriously…couldn’t you of made this less like a cram-down-your-throat-paid-for-by-adobe advertisement and more of a “hey guys, adobe’s stuff is coming out soon, here’s what’s cool : _______”.
Nothing says Mac more than staring at packages with too many combinations and sorting out chekboxes and seeing if you need the ultimate or basic or…..wait…this sounds like I’m buying Vista…
(By the way, I found
http://www.microsoft.com/windo…
to be really funny when I scrolled down and found that apparently home premium promises more having of fun than home. Maybe they should try scare tactics instead and say that home basic causes impotence. That might boost sales.)
I digress. More Mac entries. Less ads.
Cheers,
Thomas