Adobe® Captivate® 5 lets you rapidly author and maintain professional eLearning experiences including software demonstrations, application simulations, and branching scenarios without programming. Engage and retain learners with multimedia, interactivity, and quizzes. Conveniently host and review collaborative projects, and easily track results by leveraging Acrobat.com. Enable learner collaboration using the new Twitter widget from Adobe. Deliver content to the web, desktops, mobile devices, and leading Learning Management Systems.

Version 5 offers exciting new features for authoring professional content including an opti­mized user interface with Property inspector, multiple document interface, personalized work­spaces, rich animation effects, multi-video support and synchronization, quick project-wide formatting using Object Styles and Master Slides, and an expanded asset library, plus major performance improvements and support for Apple Mac OS.

Top 13 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Captivate 5

• Rapid content development – Rapidly author professional eLearning content, including software demonstrations, application simulations, branching scenarios, and robust quizzes, without programming thanks to template-based authoring, application recording, widgets, and the repurposing of existing content.
• Optimized user interface – Get going faster, do the job in fewer steps, and improve the overall authoring experience with Property inspector, multiple document interface and personalized workspaces.
• Rich animation effects – Create rich object animations within Captivate 5, by combining predefined effects like straight-line motion, rotation, and glow. For added impact, seam­lessly import custom animation effects from Adobe Flash® Professional.
• Object Styles – Define styles and apply them to selected objects for quick and consistent formatting across a project.
• Master Slides – Use Master Slides to easily create and maintain well-formatted and consistent-looking content that meets corporate guidelines.
• Multi-video support and synchronization – Import video in a wide variety of formats (AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG) and synchronize it with the project, slide, or set of slides.
• Roundtrip PowerPoint workflow – Leverage existing Microsoft PowerPoint slides in your projects. Import slides with audio and interactivity, easily update the content, and keep your PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate files in sync with the dynamically linked import option.
• Hosting and collaboration via Acrobat.com – Host published or in-progress eLearning projects on Acrobat.com and share them with learners and reviewers, who can access them from virtually anywhere.
• In-context learner collaboration using Twitter – Leverage the Twitter widget from Adobe to create courses that let learners collaborate with one another as well as the author by just logging into their Twitter account. They can ask questions, get answers, and access preexisting discussions.
• Tracking and reporting – Satisfy basic evaluation needs at no extra cost by tracking and reporting key performance metrics, like average score and pass or fail, without having to invest in a Learning Management System.
• Integration with SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems – Publish your eLearning content to Acrobat® Connect™ Pro, other eLearning applications, and leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems.
• Community Help – Access a large repository of Help content, generated by Adobe and the user community at large, using an Adobe AIR® application.
• Expanded asset library – Get a larger set of prebuilt widgets, playbars, skins, stock anima­tions, images, text captions, and buttons with superior aesthetics and usability.

Captivate 5 Anchors the New Adobe eLearning Suite 2

Adobe eLearning Suite 2 is the complete integrated toolbox for efficiently creating profession­al eLearning content end-to-end, and easily maintaining it without programming. Accelerate development with the smarter aggregation capabilities and optimized user interface of Captivate 5, easy new roundtripping between authoring and asset creation tools, application capture in Flash Professional CS5, and an enhanced set of out-of-the-box toolbars, widgets, and buttons. Add interest and impact using value-added functionalities like domain-specific HTML templates. Leverage Acrobat.com to improve collaboration, and easily track results.

Adobe eLearning Suite 2 combines:

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Adobe announced their second quarter financial results yesterday and during the accompany­ing conference call, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spoke about their Flash technology and how it’s doing given the recent contro­versy with Apple. The call transcript quotes Narayen as saying:

Enabling our customers to deliver engaging experiences across multiple devices remains a focus of the company. Today we announced availability of Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices, which delivers on the promise of enabling access to the full web across desktops and devices. We expect millions of devices to ship with 10.1 in the second half of 2010.

Flash is strategic for Adobe because it delivers great value to our customers. Approxi­mately 3.5 million Flash designers and developers are working with Flash-based solutions today, and their ranks grew by 59 percent in 2009. The new release of Flash Player creates a whole new sandbox for these millions of designers and developers to create next-generation content, advertising, games, applications and experiences.

We’ve already seen that those who have been using the new Flash Player on Android phones love it; and as devices start to ship with Flash during the rest of the year, those that don’t have Flash on their smartphones will wish they did.

During the subsequent Q&A session with analysts, the question came in, “are you seeing any impact on the Creative Suite business relative to the Flash and HTML5 debate?” Last month we reported here there would be “no impact,” and yesterday the CEO confirmed:

No, we really have not seen any impact on our Flash authoring business. What we are finding frankly is that we’re seeing more and more fragmented workflows as people have to author to different standards. And the demand actually on our authoring side, to be able to deal with all these disparate workflows is actually causing more attention being paid to the Creative Suite 5 features.

In fact, for CS5 products containing Flash authoring and output, we have a 22% increase in revenue over CS4 to date. And I think you’ll see probably another ten tablet-style devices that come out with different resolutions between now and holiday season, which will increase the demand for that capability within our products.

And we’ve said this multiple times, both Flash and HTML are really going to be the solution for the web. Both of them have benefits. And Adobe has had a long history of supporting both existing formats; and when the formats don’t exist, of inventing appropriate technology to enable people to deliver the kind of experience they want.

But if you think about sporting events that are happening or when you think about television, all of that’s also being streamed on the internet and frankly all of that’s in Flash. So for those who have been watching the soccer or golf, virtually all of that content is in Flash.

The press reviews of the new Flash Player 10.1 on mobile devices have been good and the demos impressive, and it’s the #1 free download on Android. At today’s Droid X launch in New York (see video interview below with Adobe, Google, Verizon, and Motorola), Google’s mobile VP Andy Rubin shared that 160,000 Android phones are now activated each day, up from a prior estimate of 100,000/day just last month. As more and more Android devices come to market, along with planned support for Flash Player on RIM’s Blackberry devices, Nokia’s Symbian and MeeGo devices, Palm’s WebOS devices, and future versions of Windows Phone, Flash’s future looks bright.

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The buzz is building that Adobe is hard at work on a new version of Lightroom custom-built for Apple’s iPad… In his blog review of the iPad Camera Connection Kit in late April, Adobe’s Terry White dropped the following hint:

I know what you’re thinking: Wouldn’t it be cool if we had Lightroom for the iPad? All I can say on that one is…… ;)

Then a week ago, Photoshop’s Principal Product Manager John Nack penned a post entitled, “Of Lightroom, iPads, and muffins,” where he talked about “building a great iPad app for mobile photo review, editing, and sharing” – and welcomed feedback on photography workflow apps generally, either LR or non-LR.

Finally this week Terry White echoed similar sentiments, asking, “what people might want in an Lightroom-type app for the iPad?” He goes on to outline a couple different options for how to adapt Lightroom and its five modules to work best on the iPad, and again requests reader input and comments. But he finishes with the following caveat:

By the way, there are no promises here. There are lots of technical limitations to overcome and even then if such an app were to be built, it would still have to be approved by Apple. So keep that in mind. For those of you thinking, “how hard can it be?” you might want to take a look at this post.

So it’s clear now there is definitely work going on to build a version of Lightroom for the iPad – but the question remains as to if and how it can be done, and what it would cost… If you have thoughts on the matter or ideas on how you’d like the potential product to work, please feel free to share them by commenting on one of the two Adobe posts mentioned above, either via John Nack or Terry White.

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Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 delivers sweeping new capabilities to help you bring out the best in your photography, whether you’re perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Accelerated performance makes key tasks quicker, and now you can manage video files from most digital SLR cameras side-by-side with your still photos. Perfect your images and experiment fearlessly with new nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction and lens correction. Showcase your work with greater style and impact using more customizable print layouts, captivating slideshow videos with music, streamlined publishing to online photo-sharing sites, and more. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

Top 12 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Lightroom 3

• Accelerated performance – Get your digital photography tasks done faster, giving you more time to shoot and promote your work. Enjoy optional cross-platform 64-bit support and use advanced memory-handling capabil­ities of the latest Mac OS and Windows® oper­ating systems. Already quick performance has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image.
• Superior noise reduction – Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won’t need more than what’s built into Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.
• Lens correction – Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles. Even images from the best lenses will be improved. (See the Lens Profile Creator.)
• Support for DSLR video – New support for video files from most digital SLR cameras lets you easily manage and organize both still photographs and video files side-by-side.
• Image watermarking – Easily embed your identity or your brand and logo in your images with more options for customizing their look. The new watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position, and opacity.
• Tethered shooting – Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Use it to make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting, or the shooting setup. Or get instant feedback from clients or subjects.
• Flickr integration – Use Lightroom seamlessly with Flickr, a Yahoo! service. When friends or clients post comments and ratings on your Flickr galleries, you can immediately see their feedback in the Lightroom 3 Library alongside your images.
• Easy-to-share slideshow videos with music – Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style and flair using elegant slideshows with music. Slideshows are a breeze to create, and you can share them easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition.
• Easy image importing – Save time with fast image importing. The newly designed import interface is easy to set up and navigate with clear visual indications of where your photos will be located and how they’ll be organized after you’ve downloaded them.
• Perspective correction – Get more natural-looking results by applying powerful, nonde­structive perspective corrections to your images. Reduce or eliminate the distortion that can occur, for example, when you take a photograph with the camera pointed upwards, causing buildings to appear to be leaning backwards in your image.
• More flexible print layout – Showcase your work in more creative formats using highly customizable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates. With the new custom print layout creation tool, you just drag one image or several different shots onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.
• Film grain simulation – Use new sliders to easily control the amount, size, and roughness of grain that you can add to your images to simulate the look of film.

And more of what you love about the previous versions

• Powerful image management – Take advantage of a powerful suite of image manage­ment features to organize your photographs, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using a wide range of metadata tags and information.
• Nondestructive editing environment – Set your creativity free in a nondestructive editing environment that encourages experimentation. Your original images are always safely unaltered, and it’s easy to reverse your steps or save multiple versions of any photo.
• Superior image processing – Get the absolute best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls that work with raw files from more than 290 camera models as well as JPEG, TIFF, and other file formats. Make precise overall adjustments or correct targeted areas for just the look you want. Dodge and burn, convert to black-and-white, add grain, reduce noise, adjust sharpness, create vignettes, and more.
• One-click adjustments for multiple images – Save time when processing photographs that were shot under consistent conditions by applying the same Develop settings to all the images in a group at once using presets or the sync feature.
• Develop presets – Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to images. When you’ve perfected a look that you particularly like for an image – a high-contrast black-and-white effect or a super-saturated color look, for example – you simply save the settings as a preset and apply it to your other photographs at any time. Many presets are included with Lightroom, and thousands more are available from the thriving worldwide community of Lightroom photographers and experts.
• Seamless Photoshop integration – Select one or multiple photos and then automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop for detailed, pixel-level editing (e.g., Content-Aware Fill) or to merge multiple photos into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multi­layered file. After finishing in Photoshop, see the results immediately back in Lightroom.

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Back at the TED Conference in February, Adobe unveiled a prototype of a new digital magazine solution running on a tablet computer… The demo was built on the cross-platform (and Flash-based) Adobe AIR environment and illustrated the possibilities for magazine publishers to reach readers in new ways. The concept enabled — in digital form — the immersive content experience maga­zines are known for, and allowed new interactive features to stimulate reader engagement. The idea was that with the upcoming release of Creative Suite 5, publishers could use the new InDesign CS5 to create the rich media content for the new format, and then run the reader applications across a variety of device types because Adobe AIR is portable – including the iPhone and iPad through the new Packager for iPhone capa­bility included in Flash Professional CS5…

But then in early April, just before CS5 was launched, Apple made some changes to their SDK license restricting the technologies that developers can use for their products, including Adobe Flash software… So without Flash-derived apps being approved in Apple’s App Store, would that mean the end of Adobe’s new magazine publishing initiative on Apple devices?

On the contrary actually – showing remarkable speed and resourcefulness, Adobe yesterday announced the official release of the first magazine (WIRED) and Reader application using the new format, available now through the Apple iTunes App Store:

Created with InDesign® CS5 and additional Adobe® publishing technologies, the WIRED Reader is designed to revolutionize the magazine reading experience and allows readers to immerse themselves in magazine content like never before. This Digital Publishing Solution showcases how Adobe is enabling magazine and other publishers to deliver groundbreaking experiences across tablets, smartphones and other devices. Soon, the company plans to deliver software on Adobe Labs that will help publishers to transform InDesign CS5 layouts into compelling applications like WIRED Reader. Because this digital magazine solution integrates tightly with Creative Suite® 5, pub­lishers can expect to leverage their existing workflow investments and designer skills.

So how did they do it?

The answer is revealed by putting together the pieces from a new FAQ on Adobe’s site – in just two months Adobe reimplemented their Digital Publishing Platform to use Objective-C to support the iPad, and will continue to use Adobe AIR and Flash everywhere else:

Adobe is pursuing a multiplatform development strategy that will include Objective-C for the iPad and the Adobe AIR® runtime for the desktop and other mobile platforms. Adobe AIR is a cross–platform solution for building applications based on Adobe Flash technology. AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 software will deliver high performance on mobile screens and allow publishers to create engaging, standout experiences for a wide variety of devices (Android™, Windows, Linux), as well as leverage the industry-standard advertising platform built with Flash technologies.

So there you have it – showing there’s more than one way to skin a cat, and a victory for both companies really… Also exciting is the release of the new portable publishing technology this summer on the (free) Adobe Labs – software which, “in combination with InDesign CS5, will equip you to begin developing your digital publishing workflows and creating a solution similar to the WIRED Reader experience.”

[UPDATE (July 19th) – Late this summer, Adobe will release these new publishing technol­ogies (Digital Content Bundler and Digital Content Viewer) on Adobe Labs... Publishers can add interactivity without writing code using InDesign CS5 and create monetizable digital magazines for the Apple iPad – with other platforms and devices expected in the future.]

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At a west coast investor conference Monday, Adobe Chief Financial Officer Mark Garrett said he doesn’t see an impact to Creative Suite 5 adoption from the recent moves by Apple to restrict Flash development for the iPad and iPhone. And Adobe Investor Relations VP Mike Saviage asserted that HTML5 is still in its formative stages but Adobe will lead the pack for tools when it’s ready.

Highlights from the 25-minute presentation are transcribed and excerpted here:

I’m sure you read the papers – there’s a lot of press around Flash, but there’s actually also a lot of momentum with Flash as well, moving from PC to non-PC devices. We’ve announced that Flash Player 10.1, which is shipping soon, will be supported by 19 out of the top 20 smartphone manufacturers, so we’re going to be on virtually every smart­phone out there. We’re very excited about Flash 10.1 and think it’s going to be a great, compelling experience for customers and a big product launch here for Adobe.

There are roughly 1.3 billion devices in the world that already have Flash in some form on mobile handsets. We think there’s 3.5 million Flash designers and developers in the world, a number that grew 59% last year over 2008. You’re going to see Flash 10.1 first on Android devices, but we’re working closely with companies like RIM for BlackBerry, Palm/HP, and others to bring that same capability to their devices.

Obviously the bar has been set by Apple with their devices, and everybody’s racing to either hit that bar or to exceed it – and every one of them is using Adobe as a differen­tiation because of the prevalence of Flash in the world and how people use it to create rich, engaging experiences – video being only one aspect of why Flash is used in the world. We’re on track to ship 10.1 imminently – you’ll see it at Google I/O, and in the second half of this year you’re going to start to see a lot of devices shipping with the code we’re going to deliver to handset manufacturers in the coming weeks.

[In response to a question about the impact of Apple's actions] So the question is regarding the six million creative professionals and how they weigh their decision to use our tools, given what is going on with Apple. Those six million creative profession­als, they’re all going to still use our tools, even though they’re creating content for Apple. We don’t think there’s going to be an impact to our Creative Suite tools as a result of this change from Apple. What it basically means though is they have to have two workflows now – one to create content for the Apple devices, and one to create content for everything else. And I think it’s a little bit of a misconception out there is that people would not use our creative tools for Apple devices, but the truth is they will, they’re just going to have two workflows. Our customers are now challenged by having to add a different workflow, and it’s very frustrating for them because they have to add cost at a time when they’ve been trying to cut cost.

[Regarding HTML5] We’re the leading provider of HTML authoring tools for profes­sionals with Dreamweaver, and whatever the formats of the future are, Adobe will support those, including HTML5. Adobe will be the best tool provider in the world for HTML5 content, when HTML5 is ready. The fact of the matter is it’s nowhere close to being ready today – there’s very little browser support for it and very little HTML5 content currently on the web. The issue is that HTML5 is still in the specification design stages, and we’re a long way away from getting agreement around some of the technologies within, so it’s sort of a chicken-and-egg situation. We want to help our customers get there, but it’s going to take years and not a matter of weeks or months.

The duo also offered insights on the launch of CS5 generally:

We’re going to have a tremendous product launch here in 2010 – CS5 is the largest product launch in the history of the company. We’re in the midst now of shipping every major language around the world and it’s an incredible release – if you look at the press and the reviews, they’ve all been stellar.

Again, like we’ve done with prior releases we’ve had significant performance improve­ments in the product, the workflow and productivity is better and better, the integra­tion of all our products working together is better and better, and it’s going to be a very successful release.

There’s a lot of pent-up demand for CS5, if you look at the fact that due to the economy a lot of people did not upgrade to CS4… But it’s difficult for our customers to be two releases behind in the creative ecosystem, so we think more and more people will upgrade to CS5.

When we show our customers CS5, there’s many different attributes of the product that get them excited. One is the “wow” features – I’ve been at Adobe now for quite some time, and it’s been a while since we’ve seen the buzz around new features in Photoshop, new features in Illustrator, new features in InDesign – tools that millions of creative pros use every day.

So between the strong product release and the economy improving and the pent-up demand we believe that CS5 will be very successful.

And there’s momentum in other areas too, for example if you look at Acrobat, the business has picked up in the past couple of quarters and Acrobat 10 is going to launch in the second half of this year – so another major product release in 2010.

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[UPDATE (May 17th) – All sessions were recorded & are now available for on-demand viewing.]

Adobe Developer Week 2010 begins today worldwide and will showcase Adobe end-to-end web devel­opment tool suites and solutions. This is your opportunity to learn about the Adobe Flash Platform, including Flash Professional CS5, Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst CS5, AIR, and other Adobe technologies for free, directly from Adobe evangelists and product managers. Speakers include Ben Forta, Ryan Stewart, and many others.

These technology experts will present live, online webinars and demos, with the oppor­tunity to ask questions during interactive Q&A sessions. There are twenty hour-long present­ations throughout the week and you can sign up for as many as you like, and you may be eligible to win cool prizes such as Flash Builder 4 and CS5 Web Premium.

Here’s a preview of some of the topics to be covered this week:

• Introduction to the Adobe Flash Platform
• What’s New in Adobe Flash Builder 4
• Building Multi-Screen Applications with the Adobe Flash Platform
• Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 for Developers
• New Features in Adobe Flash Player 10.1
• Building Mobile Applications with Flash Pro CS5: Create a Game
• Adobe ColdFusion 9 and Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5
• Creating Sexy Applications with Flash: Designer-Developer Workflow
• Flash Builder 4 for Dreamweaver CS5 Users
• Building Desktop Applications with Adobe AIR 2.0
• Advanced Features in Adobe Flex

Visit the Adobe Developer Week site for more details and to enroll for free.

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	CS5 Design Premium System Requirements Windows Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7 1GB of RAM or more recommended 9.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280×800 display with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 Some features in Adobe® Bridge rely on a DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs Java™ Runtime Environment 1.5 (32 bit) or 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files Broadband Internet connection required for online services Mac OS Multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6 1GB of RAM or more recommended 10.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280×800 display with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files Broadband Internet connection required for online services
	CS5 Web Premium System Requirements Windows Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7 1GB of RAM 9.1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280×800 display (1280×1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM DVD-ROM drive Java™ Runtime Environment 1.5 (32 bit) or 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files Broadband Internet connection required for online services Mac OS Multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6 1GB of RAM 11.2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280×800 display (1280×1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 DVD-ROM drive Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files Broadband Internet connection required for online services
	CS5 Production Premium System Requirements Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5 require a 64-bit operating system. The CS4 versions are bundled with CS5 Production Premium for use when a 64-bit operating system isn’t available. (See how to tell if your PC is running a 32-bit or a 64-bit version of Windows, or how to tell if your Intel-based Mac has a 32-bit or 64-bit processor.) Windows 64-bit support required: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom II required for Adobe Premiere® Pro 64-bit operating system required: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended) or Windows 7 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended) 16.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280×900 display (1280×1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit this page for the latest list of supported cards Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop® require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape for SD/HD workflows OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media) Java™ Runtime Environment 1.5 (32 bit) or 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features Adobe Flash® Player 10 software required to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files Broadband Internet connection required for online services Mac OS Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6.3; Mac OS X v10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended) 20.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280×900 display (1280×1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit this page for the latest list of supported cards Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed Core Audio-compatible sound card DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media) Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files Broadband Internet connection required for online services
	CS5 Master Collection System Requirements Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5 require a 64-bit operating system. The CS4 versions are bundled with CS5 Master Collection for use when a 64-bit operating system isn’t available. (See how to tell if your PC is running a 32-bit or a 64-bit version of Windows, or how to tell if your Intel-based Mac has a 32-bit or 64-bit processor.) Windows Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom II required for Adobe® Premiere® Pro Processor with 64-bit support required for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects® Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7 64-bit edition of Windows Vista or Windows 7 required for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended) 24.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280×900 display (1280×1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit this page for the latest list of supported cards Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop® Extended require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape for SD/HD workflows OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media) Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included) QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features Adobe Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files and to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files Broadband Internet connection required for online services Mac OS Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6.3; Mac OS X v10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended) 26.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices) 1280×900 display (1280×1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit this page for the latest list of supported cards Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed Core Audio-compatible sound card DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media) Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files and to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files Broadband Internet connection required for online services

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Creative Suite® 5 Product Matrix	Design Premium	Design Standard	Web Premium	Production Premium	Master Collection
	Design Professionals	Print Designers Print Professionals	Web Designers Web Developers Interactive Designers	Video Professionals MotionGraphics Artists Broadcasters	Graphic Design Pros Web & Interactive Pros Video & Broadcast Pros
* CS Live Online Services are complimentary for a limited time. Please see CS5 System Requirements for comprehensive platform information,                                as well as the CS5 Price Sheet for product pricing.
Photoshop® CS5 Extended	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes
Photoshop CS5		Yes
Illustrator® CS5	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
InDesign® CS5	Yes	Yes			Yes
Acrobat® 9 Pro	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes
Flash® Catalyst™ CS5	New		New	New	New
Flash Professional CS5	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes
Flash Builder™ 4			New		New
Dreamweaver® CS5	Yes		Yes		Yes
Fireworks® CS5	Yes		Yes		Yes
Contribute® CS5			Yes		Yes
Premiere® Pro CS5				Yes	Yes
After Effects® CS5				Yes	Yes
Soundbooth® CS5				Yes	Yes
OnLocation™ CS5				Yes	Yes
Encore® CS5				Yes	Yes
Additional Components
Bridge CS5	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Device Central CS5	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dynamic Link				Yes	Yes
Integrates with Adobe CS Live Online Services*
	New	New	New	New	New

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Creative Suite® 5 Price Sheet	Total Value	USD	EUR	GBP	Education
	Combined Worth	Price in Dollars	Price in Euros	Price in Pounds	Academic Version
Full prices shown. Upgrade prices determined by which software you already own. Euro pricing shown is for International English version. Education pricing is up to 80% off for the Student and Teacher Editions. * Premiere Pro includes OnLocation CS5 and Encore CS5. Please see the CS5 Product Matrix for complete product configurations,                               as well as CS5 System Requirements for platform information.
Photoshop® CS5 Extended		$999	€999	£794	$199
Photoshop CS5		$699	€689	£548	$199
Illustrator® CS5		$599	€649	£516	$199
InDesign® CS5		$699	€749	£595	$199
InCopy® CS5		$249	€249	£198	N/A
Acrobat® 9 Pro		$449	€559	£444	$119
Flash® Catalyst™ CS5		$399	€449	£357	$149
Flash Professional CS5		$699	€699	£556	$179
Flash Builder™ 4		$249	€175	£139	Free
Dreamweaver® CS5		$399	€449	£357	$149
Fireworks® CS5		$299	€299	£238	$99
Contribute® CS5		$199	€199	£187	$99
Premiere® Pro CS5*		$799	€849	£675	$349
After Effects® CS5		$999	€1,099	£873	$349
Soundbooth® CS5		$199	€199	£159	$79
Creative Suites
CS5 Design Standard	$2,446	$1,299	€1,299	£1,032	$299
CS5 Design Premium	$4,542	$1,899	€1,899	£1,509	$449
CS5 Web Premium	$4,291	$1,799	€1,799	£1,429	$449
CS5 Production Premium	$4,693	$1,699	€1,899	£1,509	$449
CS5 Master Collection	$6,987	$2,599	€2,899	£2,303	$899

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Adobe MAX 2010
October 23–27, 2010
Los Angeles Convention Center and
Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE
Los Angeles, California

At Adobe MAX 2010, you’ll discover the next wave of opportunities fueled by the explosion of rich content and applications across multiple screens (from smart phones to tablets to PCs to TVs), the merging of digital content and commerce, and workflows that bring design and development together. MAX is an experience unlike any other – for five unforgettable days, MAX 2010 will bring together thousands of designers, developers, and decision-makers to set the course for the next generation of digital experiences.

Join the leading innovators of the greater Adobe community with more than 100 hands-on labs and 200 sessions and explore the latest trends, techniques, and technologies in the Adobe Flash® Platform and get extensive training on Creative Suite® 5, Flash Professional CS5, Flex®, Acrobat®, ColdFusion®, AIR®, and LiveCycle®.

MAX 2010 will be hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center and Nokia Theatre, part of L.A. LIVE, an exciting entertainment campus offering world-class restaurants and venues.

Should be amazing with all the new products rolling out this year… Learn more and register now or get on the mailing list.

[UPDATE (July 1st) – Save $400 off a full conference pass with the new promotion here. Or if you are a full-time college student aged 18 years or older, you can save even more and get it for the greatly-discounted price of $199. See details at the MAX site.]

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Adobe® After Effects® CS5 delivers the visual richness required to get noticed in today’s media culture. Native 64-bit support makes full use of all available RAM, allowing you to work more efficiently with HD, 2k, and 4k projects – plus get longer real-time previews. The new Adobe Roto Brush tool intelligently automates rotoscoping, so you can get great results in a fraction of the time, and dozens of new user-requested features streamline everyday tasks. Whether you’re working in film, broadcast, online, or mobile media, Adobe After Effects enables you to create groundbreaking motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects.

Top 12 reasons to upgrade to Adobe After Effects CS5

• Innovative compositing and animation tools – Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, still images and graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space, and then animating virtually any aspect of each element. Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects that stylize, distort, shatter, and more. Combine effects to create Hollywood-caliber visual effects. Create grids, radio waves, particles, and more.
• Native 64-bit support – Get the most out of your hardware investment: Native 64-bit support means After Effects can use all available RAM, so it’s easier to work efficiently on complex projects. Enhanced disk caching allows you to spend less time waiting and more time creating.
• Comprehensive masking and keying tools, including new Adobe Roto Brush – Isolate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds in a fraction of the time it used to take. Identify foreground and back­ground elements and then let the Roto Brush automatically create transparency for you. Refine edges easily for extremely precise results.
• mocha for After Effects – Experience the powerful new capabilities of this popular 2.5D planar tracker, included with After Effects CS5. Masks are now trackable, have variable width feather, and can be applied directly to layers in After Effects using mocha shape.
• Dynamic cross-references – Simplify the writing, production, and management of long documents with flexible and powerful cross-references that dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document.
• Auto-Keyframe mode – Animate quickly by automatically setting a starting keyframe at the current time.
• Dozens of enhancements – Gain productivity from dozens of customer-requested refine­ments, including a new Refine Matte effect, the ability to align layers to a composition’s boundaries, and importing additional Adobe Photoshop® adjustment layer types.
• High-fidelity color – Get precise, predictable color in After Effects with support for high dynamic range (32-bit-per-channel floating point) color, including Pro EXR files, ICC-based color management tools, and new color lookup tables (LUTs). Easily manage consistent color in your workflow with popular color LUT formats to simulate film and alternate devices or to apply different looks to your footage.
• Color Finesse – Enjoy an enhanced color correction workflow with Color Finesse LE 3, included with After Effects CS5. New features include vibrance controls that work in a similar way to those in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom®, hue and saturation curve controls, and highlight recovery.
• Digieffects FreeForm – Turn flat objects into virtually any 3D shape using this popular 3D mesh warp plug-in by Digieffects.
• Everything else – Apply realistic motion blur. Use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Fix unwanted movement with the Motion Stabilizer. Remove bluescreen and green­screen backgrounds with the award-winning Keylight.
• Unmatched integration with industry-standard Adobe applications – Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing Adobe Photoshop® images and layer types. Move easily between After Effects and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5. Export projects for enhancement in Adobe Flash® Professional CS5.

Video Demo Playlist: What are the Top New Features in After Effects CS5?

• Rotoscope with Rotobrush
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• After Effects CS4 vs. CS5
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Craft your story efficiently with Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5, the high-performance video production solution that enables you to work dramatically faster thanks to the native 64-bit, GPU-accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. Edit natively with the latest tapeless formats and DSLR cameras without transcoding or rewrapping. Save time by batch-encoding source content to a wide variety of video formats for web, disc, broadcast, film, device, and mobile delivery. Accelerate production with an efficient script-to-screen workflow, round-trip editing with interoperability between Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Avid software, and dozens of user-requested editing enhancements.

Top 12 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

• Industry-leading performance with the all-new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine – Work dramatically faster thanks to the native 64-bit, GPU-accelerated [supported cards] Mercury Playback Engine that pro­vides rock-solid performance and stability, even at 4K resolution and beyond. Open projects rapidly, and create multilayer, effects-rich sequences without rendering.
• Expanded native tapeless workflows – Work with the latest tapeless formats thanks to new native support for XDCAM HD 50, AVCCAM, DPX, and AVC-Intra, as well as DSLR cameras and enhanced RED. Native support means you never waste valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping and always have access to the original file’s pristine quality.
• Script-to-screen workflow through integration with Adobe Story – Move from script to screen faster with Adobe Story, a new Adobe CS Live online service. Efficiently manage your shoot and streamline logging by importing scripts from Adobe Story to create complete shot lists and capture production notes in Adobe OnLocation™. Use Speech Search to synchronize the script to footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and quickly produce rough cuts. With Adobe Encore®, turn your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects into searchable web-DVDs, and use Adobe Media Encoder to deliver your video for broadcast, device, film, and mobile distribution.
• Open workflows with Final Cut Pro and Media Composer – Bring the creative benefits of Adobe tools to the whole project, exploring new possibilities with Adobe After Effects® and other Adobe software. Collaborate more efficiently by importing and exporting Final Cut Pro and Avid projects into Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Faster editing with metadata – Turn spoken dialogue into searchable text-based meta­data faster and more accurately. Edit quickly by marking in and out points in the speech analysis, synchronize footage with scripts, and quickly locate clips containing human faces.
• Dozens of timesaving improvements – Boost productivity with workflow features and enhancements suggested by users like you. For example, use automatic scene detection to create separate clips from HDV tapes, import assets from DVDs, and control keyframes with even more precision.
• Streamlined encoding with revamped Adobe Media Encoder – Deliver content in virtually any format, including DPX, FLV, H.264, MPEG-2, QT, and WM, with Adobe Media Encoder, now with a more intuitive user interface. You can batch encode multiple versions of source files and sequences, manage priorities, and control advanced settings for each item individually.
• Tapeless camera support in Adobe OnLocation CS5 – Use virtually any camera to record directly to disk. Plus, you can now use the powerful logging options in Adobe OnLocation, even when working with tapeless cameras on set.
• Adobe Ultra® keyer – Achieve fast, accurate chroma keying, even on challenging DV or HD footage. Optimized for less-than-perfect footage, Ultra preserves shadows and can achieve complex keys on smoke, liquids, and transparent objects with minimal effort. The GPU- accelerated Mercury Playback Engine can dramatically increase rendering speeds when using supported NVIDIA graphics cards, depending on the system configuration and file types.
• Broad format support – Work with virtually any video, image, and audio format without transcoding or rewrapping thanks to native editing support for DV, HDV, RED, DPX, Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD 50, XDCAM EX and XDCAM HD, Panasonic P2, DVCPROHD, AVCHD, and AVC-Intra, plus the latest Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras.
• Searchable web-DVDs with Adobe Encore CS5 – Create more engaging web-DVDs that automatically include a search interface, making it easier for viewers to navigate content. Metadata created throughout production makes your web-DVDs searchable and makes it easier for viewers to discover your site.
• Unparalleled toolset integration – Work more efficiently from planning through delivery with the tightly integrated toolset in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Eliminate intermediate rendering when moving sequences into Encore, and easily hop between your edited sequence and After Effects. Paint, add text, and clone across multiple frames with new video features in Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended.

Video: Breakthrough CS5 Performance with Mercury Playback Engine

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Adobe® Contribute® CS5 enables users to quickly create and edit web pages collaboratively in an easy-to-use WYSIWYG HTML editor, without writing code. New features include native XML file editing, image hotspot definition, cross-browser preview and compare, Spry widget editing, Server Side Includes (SSI) file editing, and advanced search and replace. Its in-browser editing environment gives content authors the capability to drag and drop FLV, SWF, and PDF files directly into pages, as well as advanced text- and image-editing tools. Managers can encour­age creative web development while easily controlling workflow, review and version processes to produce static or dynamic websites with one-click publishing.

Top 13 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Contribute CS5

• Predefined content types – Create new pages quickly based on existing design templates and page functionality. Set the workflow to hold new pages for review or to have them go live instantly. Set auto­matic expiration dates for new content.
• XML file editing – Edit site-associated XML content natively, without having to leave Contribute and open an XML editor. Easily update Spry data sets and other pages that render content from dynamic XML-based sites by editing the corre­sponding XML file.
• Cross-browser preview – Verify the look and feel of updated pages in multiple browsers. Preview edited pages in any installed browser. Windows® users can view three browsers simultaneously with synchronous navigation and crawling for side-by-side comparison.
• Spry widget editing – Edit any content contained in a variety of Spry widgets, including data within accordion, tabbed, and collaps­ible panels. Change properties such as panel transition animation effects.
• Collaborative publishing – Establish collaborative workflow processes to author, review, and publish content. Define different review paths, whether a single approval for an internal page or multiple sign-offs for a public page. Enable multiple reviewers to comment on drafts simultaneously with in-context tools for faster and more effective web publishing cycles.
• Multiple page search and replace – Use the enhanced search and replace capability to update information on multiple open draft pages. Streamline the update process by performing in minutes a previously tedious task.
• Subversion support – Roll back pages to previously archived files using the built-in Contribute rollback feature or Subversion, which is supported by Contribute CS5.
• Dynamic website editing – Add content to dynamic websites powered by Movable Type, TypePad, or WordPress. Simply define the Contribute connection with the proper settings, and site content is instantly available for updating.
• Image hotspot support – Create multiple links to different parts of a single image with integrated WYSIWYG hotspot support. Draw one or more hotspots onto any image, and then add alternative text and URLs for immediate interactivity.
• SWF or FLV file embedding – Insert SWF or FLV files, and Contribute creates web standards-compliant code, compatible with that created in Adobe Dreamweaver® software. This helps ensure that content is Adobe Flash® Player compatible while enabling drag-and- drop authoring in Contribute.
• Server Side Includes file editing – Allow authors to edit Server Side Includes (SSI) files. Authors can choose SSI files from a list, without needing to know the file path. Modify HTML content in the SSI file with Contribute.
• Text and image enhancements – Create superscript and subscript text directly in Contribute. Rescale, rotate, crop, and sharpen images, and adjust their brightness and contrast. Changes are displayed accurately with enhanced CSS rendering.
• Publish to websites and blogs – Publish with a single click to a wide variety of websites or blogs. Contribute is the one web authoring tool that supports FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Meta­Weblog, and Atom protocols.

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Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 is an approachable new interaction design tool. Use it to transform Adobe Photoshop,® Illustrator,® and Fireworks® artwork into expressive interfaces and fully interactive content without writing code, and publish as Flash SWF or Adobe AIR® files. Collaborate with developers who can open your project files with Adobe Flash Builder™ to extend functionality, and leverage the reach and consistency of the Adobe Flash Platform.

Top 10 reasons to buy Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5

• Approachable interaction design – Create expressive interfaces and inter­active content without writing code. Designers can define behaviors and control sophisticated interactions with simple menu-based commands without requiring any development or coding skills.
• Interactive components – Turn static Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks artwork into interactive components and add interactions that respond to user input. Interfaces and interactive content can appear with a branded look and feel, as the design requires.
• Smooth animated transitions – Graphically edit and create animated transitions between pages or states of components. Designers can extend their creativity by creating engaging experiences with objects that move and smoothly fade in and out.
• Design-time data – Define and preview the look and behavior of dynamic data quickly and easily. Similar to using placeholder text or images, you can use mock data without having to actually connect to a back-end system.
• Video and dynamic media – Integrate video, sound effects, and dynamic media as easily as working with static artwork, and then add interactions to control their playback. Even import SWF files that you can play from a specific frame.
• Round-trip editing – Edit artwork in Photoshop or Illustrator at any time while preserving structure and interactions. Reduce the number of steps required to edit artwork with full fidelity by preserving all layers and visibility settings.
• Pages and states – Use these building blocks to organize your projects and to control navigation and interactions. Create unique designs for rollovers and behaviors, and visualize exactly how content will appear through different stages of user interaction.
• Powerful layout tools – Get the look you want quickly and precisely with sophisticated page layout tools and functions. Rulers, grids, and guides provide accurate placement of objects while object arrangement tools perform grouping and alignment.
• SWF and Adobe AIR export – Export projects to the web as a finished SWF file that leverages the ubiquity, expressiveness, and reach of Adobe Flash Player 10 software, or directly to a customer as an Adobe AIR file that can run outside of the browser.
• Adobe Flash Builder integration – Open Flash Catalyst projects with Adobe Flash Builder (formerly Adobe Flex® Builder™) software, making it easy to add connections to a database or web services while preserving the visual and interaction design defined by designers. Both Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder leverage the open source Flex framework, enabling designers to hand off projects directly to developers in a usable format.

Video: What is Flash Catalyst?

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Take advantage of all the precision and power in the new Adobe® Illustrator® CS5. Draw accurately in perspective, create variable-width strokes, and paint expressively with lifelike brushes. Collaborate thanks to integration with new Adobe CS Live online services* and explore interactive designs for Adobe Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 software. Used by creative professionals worldwide, Adobe Illustrator helps you get the job done efficiently but beautifully. And now with a host of new time-savers, move quickly from multiple ideas to multiple outputs with complete control while delivering exactly what you had in mind.

Top 12 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Illustrator CS5

• Perspective Drawing – Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accu­rate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspec­tive. Create the look of realistic depth and distance with snap-to guides to quickly put objects, live text, and symbols into per­spective.
• Bristle Brush – Paint with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes. Control bristle characteristics and paint opacity to achieve the expressiveness of natural media with the scalability of vectors. Define bristle length, stiffness, and shape. Transparency provides lifelike blending.
• Beautiful Strokes – Adjust stroke width interactively using new width handles. Precisely position arrowheads and symmetrically align dashes. Control stretch at any point when scaling art brushes on a path, and see how patterns behave beautifully at corners.
• Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices – Create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid for delivering pixel-aligned artwork. Generate clean, sharp raster graphics by turning on Align To Pixel Grid and using text anti-aliasing options for individual text frames.
• Multiple artboard enhancements – Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file, organized and viewed the way you want – overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save, export, and print artboards independently or together.
• Shape Builder tool – Intuitively combine, edit, and fill shapes directly on your artboard. Drag your cursor across overlapping shapes and paths to create new objects and add color without accessing multiple tools and panels. Quickly unite, exclude, trim, and more.
• Drawing enhancements – Work faster with everyday tools. Draw behind, disregarding stacking order. Draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask. Join paths with one keystroke, see ruler origins at the upper left, and scale symbols with 9-slice control.
• Gradients and transparency – Interact with gradients directly on your object, defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colors, and adjusting opacity. Control the trans­parency of individual colors in a gradient, including those applied to a gradient mesh.
• Industry-standard graphic file format support – Work with almost any type of graphic file – including PDF, EPS, FXG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, SVG, DWG, DXF, and more.
• Roundtrip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 – Take Illustrator designs into Flash Catalyst and create interactive experiences without writing code. Roundtrip editing allows you to perfect your vector art in Illustrator while preserving the structure and interactivity you added in Flash Catalyst.
• Resolution-independent effects – See raster effects such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures maintain the ideal appearance across media. Create work for different types of output and know that raster effects will look just right no matter how your resolution settings change.
• Integration with Adobe CS Review* – Create and share—from within Illustrator—online reviews for clients and colleagues down the hall or around the world. Publish your review to the web and see comments in Illustrator so you can track feedback on specific design elements.

* CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time – see details.

Video: Illustrator CS5 Feature Tour

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Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 is the industry-leading environment for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that are presented consistently across personal com­puters, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution. Design expressive content with professional typography and pixel-precise drawing tools, write code precisely and efficiently with code completion and customizable code snippets, and deliver superior-quality video to audiences practically everywhere.

Top 10 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Flash Professional CS5

• New text engine – Take control over your text with print-quality typography via the new Text Layout Framework. Work with columns and bidirectional text, and main­tain layout and formatting with greater fidelity when importing from other Adobe products.
• XML-based FLA source files – Manage and modify projects using source control systems and collaborate on files more easily. An XML-based nonbinary implement­ation of the FLA format allows projects and associated assets to function as items in a directory or folder.
• Code Snippets panel – Quickly include functional code for timeline navigation, actions, animation, audio and video, and event handlers. Reduce the ActionScript® 3.0 learning curve and promote greater creativity by injecting prebuilt code into projects.
• Enhanced ActionScript editor – Increase development speed with an improved Action­Script editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion. Start projects and grasp the fundamentals of using ActionScript code more quickly, or reference your own code or external code libraries more efficiently.
• Improved Adobe Creative Suite® integration – Enhance your productivity and workflow when using Adobe Photoshop,® Illustrator,® InDesign,® and Flash Builder.™ Leverage the FXG graphics file format and integration with Adobe Mini Bridge for digital asset manage­ment.
• Distribution of content virtually anywhere – Deliver consistently across screens of virtually any size and use Adobe Device Central for enhanced testing. Distribute, track, and monetize applications on social networks, mobile devices, and desktops via Adobe Flash Platform Services. Flash Professional CS5 also includes the Packager for iPhone to publish applications for the iPhone.
• Adobe Flash Builder integration – Use Adobe Flash Builder software as your primary ActionScript editor for Flash Professional projects. Streamline your workflow by testing, debugging, and publishing content in Flash Professional while already editing code in Flash Builder.
• Spring for Bones – Create more realistic inverse kinematic effects with new motion attributes added to the Bones tool. Strength and damping settings provide more realistic and complex physics movements within a simple and familiar user interface.
• Video improvements – Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with on- stage video scrubbing and a new cue points property inspector. See and play back FLV components directly on the stage.
• New Deco drawing tools – Add advanced animation effects with a new comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain, and draw stylized lines or patterns with multiple objects.

Video: Flash Pro CS5 Feature Tour

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The industry-leading Adobe® InDesign® CS5 provides precise control over typography and built-in creative tools for designing, preflighting, and publishing documents for print, online, or to mobile devices. CS5 introduces new and enhanced productivity and collaboration features. Integrate interactivity, animation, sound, and video in documents and presentations to attract, engage, and inform your audience. Take advantage of intuitive tools that simplify object selection and editing and make page layout simpler and faster. Streamline file management by including mixed page sizes in a single file. Access Adobe CS Live online services* from within InDesign to streamline critical review processes.

Top 13 reasons to upgrade to Adobe InDesign CS5

• Cross-media publishing – Publish documents and presentations in print, online, or on mobile devices. Engage and inform readers with interactive documents (SWF) for playback in Adobe Flash® Player, complete with animation, sound and video, interactive PDF documents with video or sound, or sophisticated layouts for print publishing using a versatile, intuitive toolset.
• Simplified object selection and editing – Perform repetitive layout tasks efficiently. Manipulate frames and frame content without switching tools. Dynamically adjust white space between objects while maintaining the relationship between frames. Use on-object controls to modify frame corners directly in the layout.
• Integration with Adobe CS Review* – Create and share document reviews online from within InDesign through integration with CS Review, a new CS Live online service.* Invite colleagues and clients to comment using just a browser. Using the CS Review integration in InDesign, you can view comments in the context of your InDesign layout, making it easier to address feedback to meet project deadlines more efficiently.
• Multiple page sizes – Create pages with different sizes in a single document to streamline file management. Share the same master page across different-sized layouts for greater efficiency.
• Tracked text changes – Mark up text directly in InDesign and easily track copy revisions. Get to final copy faster by accepting or rejecting text changes within the document.
• Paragraphs that span and split columns – Quickly format headlines, subheads, or any text to span multiple columns in a single text frame without having to create separate text frames.
• All-new Layers panel – Easily manage layers in simple and complex documents. Quickly find, select, lock, hide, name, and change the stacking order of individual page items directly in the Layers panel. Drag objects from one group to another. The new Layers panel behavior is similar to the Layers panel in Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop®.
• Preflighting and production enhancements – Speed up production, increase reliability, and deliver error-free documents with document-installed fonts, PDF export in the back­ground, live preflighting, JDF technology, and on-screen controls. Preview InDesign pages and placed images in Adobe Bridge. Find linked assets used in one layout and drag them into another InDesign document using the integrated Mini Bridge panel.
• Eliminate missing fonts – InDesign automatically installs the required fonts when you open a document and uninstalls them when you close it. Appropriate font licensing is still required.
• Automation – Create powerful automated workflows to reduce the time you spend on repetitive tasks. Standards-based XML features can automatically lay out pages with text and images. Incorporate databasedriven content for greater efficiency when publishing across channels.
• Extensibility – Rapidly build unique workflows and software solutions for custom publish­ing using InDesign Markup Language (IDML), an XML-based file format that enables developers to create or modify files using standard XML tools.
• Digital export – Export your page design and text layouts with greater fidelity to Flash Professional CS5, retaining animation, video, and sound from your InDesign document. Export InDesign content as XHTML with greater control over page order for editing in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5. Export eBooks authored in InDesign CS5 to industry-standard EPUB files for reading on laptops or mobile devices, including the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, and Barnes & Noble nook. Include rich media to bring eBooks to life when read on a personal computer using Adobe Digital Editions, a desktop reading application.
• Live captions – Generate static or live captions automatically from image metadata, and add text before or after the selected metadata tag in InDesign. Specify the position and style of the caption, optionally including the caption on its own layer.

* CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time – see details.

Video: InDesign CS5 Feature Tour

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The CS5 Product Matrix and CS5 Price Sheet. Or, download a free trial.

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