- Truer Edge technology in Photoshop CS5 Extended offers improved edge detecting technology and masking results in less time. Photoshop CS5 Extended also lets users remove an image element and immediately replace the missing pixels with Content-Aware Fill.
- InDesign CS5 powers the transition to digital publishing with new interactive documents and enhanced eReader device support.
- Native 64-bit support in Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects enables customers to work more fluidly on high resolution projects.
- New Text Layout Framework in Flash Professional CS5 provides professional-level typography capabilities with functions like kerning, ligatures, tracking, leading, threaded text block and multiple columns.
- New stroke options in Illustrator CS5 allow users to create strokes of variable widths and precisely adjust the width at any point along the stroke.
- The NVIDIA® GPU accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine allows Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 users to open projects faster, refine effects-rich HD sequences in real time and play back complex projects without rendering.
- The new Roto Brush tool in After Effects helps users save time by isolating moving foreground elements in a fraction of the normal time.
- Dreamweaver CS5 now supports popular content management systems Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress, allowing designers to get accurate views of dynamic Web content from within Dreamweaver.
Adobe CS Live
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium integrates with new Adobe CS Live*, a set of five online services that accelerate key aspects of the creative workflow and enable designers to focus on creating their best work. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time and currently include:
- Adobe BrowserLab, an indispensable tool for testing Web site content across different browsers and operating systems.
- Adobe CS Review, which enables online design reviews directly from within Creative Suite 5 applications.
- Access to Acrobat.com services, such as Adobe ConnectNow Web conferencing, to enhance discussion and information exchange with colleagues and clients around the globe.
- Adobe Story, a collaborative script writing tool that improves production and post-production workflows in CS5 Production Premium.
- SiteCatalyst® NetAverages™ from Omniture, which provides Web usage data that helps reduce the guesswork early in the creative process when designing for Web and mobile.
Quotes
Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer, Adobe
- “While Creative Suite 5 continues Adobe’s storied history of delivering astonishing new creative features, this release puts us front and center of the big issues facing publishers and creatives worldwide – how to build businesses around digital assets and content. With Omniture Web technology we’re integrating critical business analytics directly into the creative process, shortening the time it takes to create and deploy high-impact content.”
Stephen Gates, interactive creative director at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
- “Owning the creative process of our nine global brands enables us to offer each hotel a unique, branded experience – from the Web sites to the online and offline advertising campaigns to the interior design – that keeps them creatively differentiated in the same market. Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection gives us everything we need to leverage our digital assets across print, room design, Web, video and mobile, creating a unified experience that is both effective and measurable.”
Peter Marx, vice president of production and technology, Mattel Digital Network
- “Mattel brings kids unparalleled play experiences through innovation and provides parents accessible online resources to help them choose products carefully for their kids. Having all the mission critical tools of Adobe Flash in Creative Suite 5 will allow us to do that quickly, easily and efficiently so that more of our resources can be available to do what we do best – bring new dimensions to how kids play.”
