cs5.5 design premium
deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design
Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for designers who need to express their wildest ideas with precision; work fluidly across media; and produce exceptional results in print, web, interactive, and mobile design. Craft eye-catching images and graphics, lay out stunning pages, build standards-based websites, create interactive content without writing code, and extend page layouts for viewing with eBook reading devices.
ideal for …
- Graphic Designers
- Print Professionals
top reasons to invest in Adobe® Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium
| Ultimate design toolset | Design for print, web, and mobile devices in a powerful, integrated, and comprehensive creative environment. Plus, enjoy innovative services for collaborating, finding inspiration, and mastering your design tools. |
| Compelling vector graphics and digital images | Create eye-catching vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator® CS5 and powerful digital images in Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended. Deliver imaginative combinations of graphics and images in many media. |
| Layout and production for print, web, and mobile | Use Adobe Fireworks® CS5 to prototype websites, Adobe InDesign® CS5 to create short and long documents for print or digital delivery, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5.5 for standards-based web production, and Adobe Flash® CS5 Professional to build engaging interactive experiences. |
| Ideas in motion | In Flash CS5 Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps. Use Photoshop CS5 Extended to enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to the audio track. Incorporate animations and video in PDF, web, or mobile creations. |
| Powerful 3D possibilities | Edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D content and even paint directly on 3D models with Photoshop CS5 Extended. Wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes, and create 3D animations by controlling movement, camera position, and rendering. |
| Mobile designs for millions | Deliver compelling content to mobile subscribers worldwide. Use Adobe Device Central CS5.5 to easily create, preview, and test mobile content on an extensive selection of devices under simulated real-life conditions directly from your desktop. |
| Innovative collaboration and presentations | Access the Adobe ConnectNow service to easily share your screen to present, review, or brainstorm from within your design software. Showcase your work in a dynamic, customizable PDF Portfolio that is easy to distribute and view. |
| Quality testing as you work | Catch production errors on-the-fly with Live Preflight in InDesign CS5.5, use preflight checks and corrections in Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro, preview content under real-world browser conditions with Live View in Dreamweaver CS5.5, and test mobile designs in Device Central CS5.5. |
| Convenient common interface and native file support | Work quickly and intuitively using common interface elements. Flexibly arrange multiple documents in a single window to compare content or drag-copy objects between them. Benefit from using native file formats that streamline moving files between Design Premium components. |
| Answers when you need them | Connect to the expertise of the online design community through your creative desktop. Access information ranging from basic tips, Adobe Help content, and video tutorials to community discussions and blogs. |
top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium
| Realistic painting effects | Easily paint with lifelike brush strokes to create beautiful, expressive images in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Blend a photo's colours; use bristle properties such as shape, length, and stiffness; or define multiple colours on a single brush and blend them into the underlying colours on your canvas. |
| Fluid vector painting | Combine the expressiveness of painting with the editability and scalability of vectors. Paint freely with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes, controlling paint opacity and bristle characteristics such as shape, length, and stiffness, with Illustrator CS5. |
| Easy 3D extrusions | Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with the Adobe Repoussé feature in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then apply materials such as chrome, mud, and grass to achieve different looks. |
| Truer Edge selection technology | Produce highly accurate masks and make selections faster with Photoshop CS5 Extended. Even the trickiest image elements, such as hair and foliage, can be masked quickly and accurately to produce realistic composite images. |
| Beautiful strokes | Avoid time-consuming workarounds by using convenient width handles to adjust stroke width interactively in Illustrator CS5. Precisely size and position arrowheads, and align dashes symmetrically. Control stretch at any point when scaling art brushes on a path, and see how strokes join intelligently at corners. |
| Simplified object selection | Save time by performing finicky layout tasks efficiently. Manipulate frames and frame content without switching tools in InDesign CS5.5. Dynamically adjust white space between objects to reposition page items. Use on-object controls to modify frame corners directly in the layout. |
| Enhanced eBook document design | Create compelling eBooks with enhanced support for the EPUB format. Use InDesign CS5.5 to author eBooks that can be read on a variety of devices such as the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, and Barnes & Noble nook. Enjoy more consistent text and image placement, more accurate translation of page breaks, and support for text and table formatting. |
| Crisp graphics for web, interactive, and mobile delivery | Create resolution-independent vector graphics in Illustrator CS5 that appear crisp in Adobe Fireworks® CS5, Dreamweaver CS5.5, and Flash Professional CS5 — on virtually any screen. |
| Convenient asset handling | Access all your creative assets within the context of what you're working on with Adobe Mini Bridge. Use a customizable panel in Photoshop CS5 Extended or InDesign CS5.5 to sort and filter files, and then drag them directly into your layout. |
| Interactive content without code | Design compelling interactive content without writing code with Flash Catalyst CS5.5. Start with artwork created in Photoshop CS5 Extended,Illustrator CS5, or Adobe Fireworks® CS5 and transform it into high-quality interactive content for web pages, user interfaces, and applications, or into finished content for viewing with Adobe Flash Player. |
frequently asked questions
- Why should I upgrade to Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium over an individual product?
- Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium gives you the tools you need to design for virtually any media. Craft precise layouts for print and online documents; create stunning digital images and vector graphics to incorporate in print, web, interactive, and mobile designs; and prototype and develop eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences. The components of Design Premium are built to work smoothly together, so you don't need to worry about file formats and compatibility, and a common user interface makes it easy to transition between your software tools.
- I design only for print. Why do I need Design Premium?
- Design Premium combines industry-leading print design and production software InDesign CS5.5, Illustrator CS5, and Acrobat 9 Pro with Photoshop CS5 Extended, Fireworks CS5, Dreamweaver CS5.5, and Flash CS5 Professional. Use the skills you have with familiar software such as Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop to expand your design output beyond print media to eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences. Use Fireworks CS5 to rapidly prototype web pages and confidently incorporate Photoshop and Illustrator artwork. Export your prototype to Dreamweaver or Flash, and discover new visual design features in both applications that make it easier than ever to create online content without coding.
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