Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection

Create visually rich content for virtually any media--print, Web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile--using the tightly integrated tools and services in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection. From producing printed pages to distributing engaging content online, on film, on air, and on device, you get the ultimate design environment to keep pace with your imagination.

The CS4 Master Collection is creative toolset. Design across media using a comprehensive, integrated creative environment. Work deeply in one discipline, such as print, Web, video, or audio, and then move your skills and content to another medium efficiently. Create eye-catching vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS4, produce powerful digital images in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, and lay out visually rich long and short documents for print and digital delivery in InDesign. Showcase design work in dynamic, customizable PDF Portfolios, and prepare PDF files for high-end printed output.

Prototype and create leading-edge digital experiences, including interactive Web sites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, and mobile device content, using Adobe Fireworks CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, and Flash. Exchange creative content between designers and developers without rework.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection includes:

• Adobe InDesign CS4
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Contribute CS4
• Adobe After Effects CS4
• Adobe OnLocation CS4
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
• Adobe Soundbooth CS4
• Adobe Encore CS4
• Adobe Bridge CS4
• Adobe Device Central CS4
• Adobe Dynamic Link
• Adobe Version Cue CS4
• Adobe Media Player

Top features:

Interactive design without writing code
Design sophisticated interactive content and create functional interfaces in new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS4 without writing code. Transform your unique vision into compelling online experiences and deliver perfect project files to developers.

Innovative vector drawing and painting
Quickly and accurately represent depth and distance using new perspective tools in Adobe Illustrator CS4. Precisely control stroke width, arrowheads, and dashes. And use the new Bristle Brush to draw with the expressive quality of watercolors, oils, and pastels, but with the scalability of vectors.

Interactive documents and presentations
Create memorable documents and presentations complete with interactivity, motion, sound, and video in Adobe InDesign CS4. Enhance page layouts with rich media using new motion presets for easy animation creation. Take advantage of support for FLV and MP3 audio file import to engage and excite your audiences.

Extraordinary image editing
Use the Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended to explore lifelike, naturally textured painting. Add dimension to your imagery with 3D extrusions using Adobe Repousse technology, and make precise image selections more quickly and easily with new Truer Edge selection technology.

Comprehensive reach of the Flash Platform
Realize your vision online with the capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform. Use Flash Catalyst CS4 to design interactive content without writing code, Adobe Flash Professional CS4 to create free-form, expressive content, and Adobe Flash Builder 4 to develop rich Internet applications.

Tapeless workflows in video production
Work natively with pristine tapeless footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Adobe After Effects CS4. Edit tapeless media formats using industry-leading tapeless workflows to keep from wasting valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping.

Industry-leading performance enhancements
Work up to ten times faster with very large images in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended and more fluidly on HD projects in Adobe After Effects CS4 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 thanks to native 64-bit support. New GPU-acceleration quickens work in Photoshop, the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine speeds up effects processing and rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro, and Dynamic Link is now dramatically faster.

Expressive motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects
Rotoscope in a fraction of the time with the revolutionary new Roto Brush in Adobe After Effects CS4. Isolating moving foreground elements from their backgrounds with automatic transparency is now dramatically faster.

Crisp graphics for web, interactive, and mobile delivery
Create clean, sharp artwork that aligns accurately — and automatically — on the pixel grid in Adobe Illustrator CS4, eliminating fuzzy graphics for the web or mobile devices.

Support for evolving web trends
Create dynamic websites more easily using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 with full support for the leading content management frameworks, including Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress.

Truer Edge selection technology
Get better masking results in less time when selecting even the trickiest image elements, like hair, in Photoshop CS4 Extended. Truer Edge provides amazing edge detection and selection quality when using the Quick Selection tool.

Type enhancements for the web
Create sophisticated typography for the web with support for bidirectional and vertical text, flowable text layouts, and support for more than 30 writing systems including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and more in Adobe Flash Professional CS4.

System requirements:

• 2GHz or faster processor for DV; 3.4GHz for HDV; dual 2.8GHz for HD*
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista®)
• 2GB of RAM (more RAM recommended when running multiple components)
• 24.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0®compatible graphics card
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0
• Dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
• For SD/HD workflows, an Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape
• OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
• DVD-ROM drive (DVD+-R burner required for DVD creation)
• Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray disc creation
• Microsoft Windows Driver Model® or ASIO-compatible sound card
• QuickTime 7.4.5 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features