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Design Across Media with ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 4

Just when you thought you just bought Adobe Creative Suite 3, get ready to take out another credit for Adobe CS4, which WAS publicly unveiled on September 23, officially released on October 15, and its Master Collection suite available on Mid November, including free-trials. Improvements to Photoshop and Flash are expected to headline the events.

Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of cutting-edge applications (e.g., Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign) and technologies (e.g., PostScript, PDF, Flash). The latest version is now Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 (CS4) delivers tightly integrated software and services that measurably improve productivity and enable you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile. All applications in CS4 feature the same user interface, with a new tabbed interface for working with concurrently running Adobe CS4 programs where multiple applications can be opened inside multiple tabs contained in a single window. It was announced that nVidia CUDA technology is now supported to allow for the accelerated encoding of video. Adobe CS4 is also developed to perform better under 64-bit and multi-core processors. Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and Adobe Soundbooth CS4 will officially support 64-bit. However, Adobe CS4 64-bit will not be available for Mac OS X. In early testing of 64-bit support in Adobe Photoshop CS4, overall performance gains ranged from 8% to 12%. Those who work with extremely large files may realize noticeably greater gains in performance, in some cases as dramatic as ten times the previous speed. This is because 64-bit applications can address larger amounts of memory and thus result in less file swapping — one of the biggest factors that can affect data processing speed.

Different Editions of Adobe CS4 come in bundles of your choice and, of course, financial preference.