Adobe Design Premium CS4 Windows Overview
Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for today's designer. Express yourself in exciting new ways and deliver rich creative experiences across print, web, and mobile media.
Explore new creative territory
Create rich, compelling content and achieve results you never thought possible. Run with your ideas using new animation, video, and 3D design tools within a comprehensive, integrated design environment.
Take advantage of simplified workflows
Deliver your ideas efficiently to more audiences in more places. New, simpler ways of working let you do more in less time, use existing skills to try new creative possibilities, and deliver high-quality cross-media campaigns.
Collaborate near and far
Work interactively with clients and colleagues, sharing screens and hosting live reviews across the hall or around the world. Learn from an extensive community of Adobe experts by accessing technical content online — directly from inside your design software.
DELIVER INNOVATIVE IDEAS IN PRINT, WEB, AND MOBILE DESIGN
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, achieving typographic finesse, creating stunning digital images and vector graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity within a single, unified creative environment.
Tightly integrated creative environment
Latest and greatest design tools
Discover new levels of creative opportunity and efficiency with all-new versions of professional Adobe tools for print, web, interactive, and mobile design.
Common user interface
Come up to speed quickly with the help of the consistent interface across all of the creative tools.
Exceptional integration
Work more productively than ever thanks to the exceptional integration of tools in Creative Suite 4. Easily exchange native file formats to streamline content creation across design disciplines. Import layered Adobe Photoshop® files into Adobe Illustrator®, InDesign®, Fireworks®, or Flash®, or copy and paste from Photoshop to Adobe Dreamweaver®.
Support for industry standards and best practices
Get the professional output options you need for every design discipline, from print to web to mobile. Adobe's ongoing focus on open standards means your work can easily go wherever you want.
Support for the latest Mac OS and Windows systems
Experience the ultimate in performance by running Design Premium natively on Intel® based Macs and computers running Microsoft® Windows Vista®. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC® based Macs and Windows® XP systems, as well.
Efficient installation and management
Simplify installation and software management using a single installer and serial number. Install all components at once, or install only those you most need now, and add more components later (one user per license).
Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS4
Creative possibilities
Create stunning designs using tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects, and placed images.
Productivity that flows
Move between tasks naturally and efficiently for fast, productive page layout in a flexible design environment.
Persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences using logical, condensed steps and advanced features such as automatic page addition and deletion.
Rich interactive documents
Build rich content using Adobe Flash technology and create engaging PDF documents that include professional typography and top-quality page design.
See all InDesign CS4 features
New dimensions in digital imaging with Photoshop CS4 Extended
Access to full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.
More efficient way to work
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.
3D and motion-based editing
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.
Precise image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.
See all Photoshop CS4 Extended features
Inspired vector graphics creation with Adobe Illustrator CS4
Powerful creative tools
Explore multiple design options and generate intricate graphics using robust creative features in Illustrator CS4. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely and quickly achieve just the look you want.
Smooth and efficient workflow
Accomplish more and stay in the groove by working directly on the artboard. Interact with tools and options more easily and complete your projects efficiently using a wealth of innovative, timesaving features and shortcuts.
Delivery virtually anywhere
Move easily between Illustrator and other Creative Suite 4 components while confidently delivering graphics for print, interactive experiences, video, mobile, and motion effects. Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity among the tools, work across Creative Suite components is virtually seamless.
See all Illustrator CS4 features
PDF file creation and collaboration with Acrobat 9 Pro
Rich interactive content and versatile print design combined
Enjoy native support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations, and applications in Adobe Acrobat® and Reader® software. PDF files have never been so lively and compelling.
Convenient, effective collaboration online
Help ensure that colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same page at the same time with the new ability to conavigate documents, to provide clarity and enhance discussion.
Unparalleled PDF workflows for professional creative production
Prepare high-quality, press-ready PDF files for print production workflows faster and more intuitively with enhanced preflight and automatic correction features. Intelligent, automatic overprint preview helps ensure that overlapping elements will print correctly.
See all Acrobat 9 Pro features for creative professionals
Rich interactive content development with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Easy and efficient design
Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Flash CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.
New creative possibilities
Extend the limits of creative possibility with powerful new drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Enrich your projects with advanced video and audio capabilities.
Collaboration across workflows
Enjoy timesaving integration among Adobe Creative Suite components with common tools and interfaces, and easily exchange assets between components with powerful new file formats.
Delivery for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices.The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR™ runtime, are right at your fingertips.
See all Flash CS4 Professional features
Professional website design with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.
Support for best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.
Control of your content
Enable your clients to make updates to web pages directly from the browser. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.
See all Dreamweaver CS4 features
Web prototyping and image editing with Adobe Fireworks CS4
Prototyping at the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Fireworks CS4. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.
Smooth collaboration
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Creative Suite 4 components, including Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4.
Designing for many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, or Adobe Flash or Flex® software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready, export standards-compliant CSS to Dreamweaver. Create HTML-based AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.
See all Fireworks CS4 features
Adobe Device Central CS4
Mobile content testing
Simplify the production of innovative and compelling content for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices with Adobe Device Central CS4. Save time by automating testing and simulating the network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated library of device profiles.
Delivery of engaging experiences
Create mobile projects to manage assets, target device profiles, and export tasks in one central location. Record content as it plays and send high-quality movie clips to pitch ideas more easily to clients. Thanks to intelligent integration with Creative Suite 4 components, Device Central CS4 helps creative professionals and mobile developers deliver engaging experiences to millions of mobile subscribers.
See all Device Central CS4 features
Online services
Adobe Community Help
Access the power of an online search engine from within Creative Suite 4, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth, product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities.
Adobe Bridge Home
Stay up to date on what's new at Adobe and get inspired by the design, web development, and audio and video production communities at large when you visit this online channel available in Adobe Bridge CS4. Watch Creative Suite 4 video tutorials, listen to podcasts from your favorite designers, and learn about training events in your community.
Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com
Sign up for Acrobat.com, a set of online services you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the ability to access one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, from within many Creative Suite 4 components, you can meet live over the web and share your screen with up to two online guests for no charge.
Adobe Kuler
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler™. Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community, accessible from the new Kuler panel within some Creative Suite 4 components, the Kuler website, and the Kuler Adobe AIR application. Browse and search for thousands of themes, download directly into your Swatches panel, and even upload your own themes to share.
See more online services for creative professional
Top New Features
Essential design tools enhanced and extended
Enjoy feature-packed new versions of your favorite design software. Discover innovative online services for collaborating, finding inspiration, and mastering your design tools, and use Adobe® Fireworks® CS4 for fast website prototyping.
Everyday tasks made even simpler
In Adobe InDesign® CS4, easily manage placed files in the new, customizable Links panel. Rotate the canvas in Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended or the spread in InDesign. Combine multiple artboards in a single document in Adobe Illustrator® CS4.
Streamlined delivery across media
Build rich interactive documents by exporting an InDesign layout and adding animation in Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional. Prototype websites by opening Photoshop or Illustrator mock-ups in Fireworks CS4, and then embellishing in Flash or publishing in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4.
Easy-to-do animation and video
In Flash CS4 Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps. Use Photoshop CS4 Extended to enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to the audio track.
Mobile designs for millions
Use Adobe Device Central CS4 to easily create, preview, and test mobile content on a wide selection of devices under simulated real-life conditions directly from your desktop.
Innovative collaboration and presentations
Easily share your screen to present, review, or brainstorm directly 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 CS4, preview content under real-world browser conditions with Live View in Dreamweaver CS4, test mobile designs in Device Central, and use enhanced preflight checks and corrections in Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro.
Convenient new common interface
Enjoy improved interface consistency across all Adobe Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium components. Flexibly arrange multiple documents in a single window to compare content or drag-copy objects between them. Easily tab through multiple open documents without maximizing each one.
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.
Why buy a suite edition?
Get more for your money
Compare the individual products you want and you'll see that Adobe Creative Suite 4 provides a substantial discount.
Expand your creative palette
With more tools, you can develop new skills that will inspire more creative possibilities and expand your career opportunities.
Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for today's designer. Express yourself in exciting new ways and deliver rich creative experiences across print, web, and mobile media.
Explore new creative territory
Create rich, compelling content and achieve results you never thought possible. Run with your ideas using new animation, video, and 3D design tools within a comprehensive, integrated design environment.
Take advantage of simplified workflows
Deliver your ideas efficiently to more audiences in more places. New, simpler ways of working let you do more in less time, use existing skills to try new creative possibilities, and deliver high-quality cross-media campaigns.
Collaborate near and far
Work interactively with clients and colleagues, sharing screens and hosting live reviews across the hall or around the world. Learn from an extensive community of Adobe experts by accessing technical content online — directly from inside your design software.
DELIVER INNOVATIVE IDEAS IN PRINT, WEB, AND MOBILE DESIGN
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, achieving typographic finesse, creating stunning digital images and vector graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity within a single, unified creative environment.
Tightly integrated creative environment
Latest and greatest design tools
Discover new levels of creative opportunity and efficiency with all-new versions of professional Adobe tools for print, web, interactive, and mobile design.
Common user interface
Come up to speed quickly with the help of the consistent interface across all of the creative tools.
Exceptional integration
Work more productively than ever thanks to the exceptional integration of tools in Creative Suite 4. Easily exchange native file formats to streamline content creation across design disciplines. Import layered Adobe Photoshop® files into Adobe Illustrator®, InDesign®, Fireworks®, or Flash®, or copy and paste from Photoshop to Adobe Dreamweaver®.
Support for industry standards and best practices
Get the professional output options you need for every design discipline, from print to web to mobile. Adobe's ongoing focus on open standards means your work can easily go wherever you want.
Support for the latest Mac OS and Windows systems
Experience the ultimate in performance by running Design Premium natively on Intel® based Macs and computers running Microsoft® Windows Vista®. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC® based Macs and Windows® XP systems, as well.
Efficient installation and management
Simplify installation and software management using a single installer and serial number. Install all components at once, or install only those you most need now, and add more components later (one user per license).
Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS4
Creative possibilities
Create stunning designs using tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects, and placed images.
Productivity that flows
Move between tasks naturally and efficiently for fast, productive page layout in a flexible design environment.
Persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences using logical, condensed steps and advanced features such as automatic page addition and deletion.
Rich interactive documents
Build rich content using Adobe Flash technology and create engaging PDF documents that include professional typography and top-quality page design.
See all InDesign CS4 features
New dimensions in digital imaging with Photoshop CS4 Extended
Access to full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.
More efficient way to work
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.
3D and motion-based editing
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.
Precise image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.
See all Photoshop CS4 Extended features
Inspired vector graphics creation with Adobe Illustrator CS4
Powerful creative tools
Explore multiple design options and generate intricate graphics using robust creative features in Illustrator CS4. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely and quickly achieve just the look you want.
Smooth and efficient workflow
Accomplish more and stay in the groove by working directly on the artboard. Interact with tools and options more easily and complete your projects efficiently using a wealth of innovative, timesaving features and shortcuts.
Delivery virtually anywhere
Move easily between Illustrator and other Creative Suite 4 components while confidently delivering graphics for print, interactive experiences, video, mobile, and motion effects. Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity among the tools, work across Creative Suite components is virtually seamless.
See all Illustrator CS4 features
PDF file creation and collaboration with Acrobat 9 Pro
Rich interactive content and versatile print design combined
Enjoy native support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations, and applications in Adobe Acrobat® and Reader® software. PDF files have never been so lively and compelling.
Convenient, effective collaboration online
Help ensure that colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same page at the same time with the new ability to conavigate documents, to provide clarity and enhance discussion.
Unparalleled PDF workflows for professional creative production
Prepare high-quality, press-ready PDF files for print production workflows faster and more intuitively with enhanced preflight and automatic correction features. Intelligent, automatic overprint preview helps ensure that overlapping elements will print correctly.
See all Acrobat 9 Pro features for creative professionals
Rich interactive content development with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Easy and efficient design
Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Flash CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.
New creative possibilities
Extend the limits of creative possibility with powerful new drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Enrich your projects with advanced video and audio capabilities.
Collaboration across workflows
Enjoy timesaving integration among Adobe Creative Suite components with common tools and interfaces, and easily exchange assets between components with powerful new file formats.
Delivery for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices.The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR™ runtime, are right at your fingertips.
See all Flash CS4 Professional features
Professional website design with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.
Support for best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.
Control of your content
Enable your clients to make updates to web pages directly from the browser. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.
See all Dreamweaver CS4 features
Web prototyping and image editing with Adobe Fireworks CS4
Prototyping at the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Fireworks CS4. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.
Smooth collaboration
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Creative Suite 4 components, including Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4.
Designing for many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, or Adobe Flash or Flex® software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready, export standards-compliant CSS to Dreamweaver. Create HTML-based AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.
See all Fireworks CS4 features
Adobe Device Central CS4
Mobile content testing
Simplify the production of innovative and compelling content for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices with Adobe Device Central CS4. Save time by automating testing and simulating the network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated library of device profiles.
Delivery of engaging experiences
Create mobile projects to manage assets, target device profiles, and export tasks in one central location. Record content as it plays and send high-quality movie clips to pitch ideas more easily to clients. Thanks to intelligent integration with Creative Suite 4 components, Device Central CS4 helps creative professionals and mobile developers deliver engaging experiences to millions of mobile subscribers.
See all Device Central CS4 features
Online services
Adobe Community Help
Access the power of an online search engine from within Creative Suite 4, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth, product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities.
Adobe Bridge Home
Stay up to date on what's new at Adobe and get inspired by the design, web development, and audio and video production communities at large when you visit this online channel available in Adobe Bridge CS4. Watch Creative Suite 4 video tutorials, listen to podcasts from your favorite designers, and learn about training events in your community.
Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com
Sign up for Acrobat.com, a set of online services you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the ability to access one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, from within many Creative Suite 4 components, you can meet live over the web and share your screen with up to two online guests for no charge.
Adobe Kuler
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler™. Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community, accessible from the new Kuler panel within some Creative Suite 4 components, the Kuler website, and the Kuler Adobe AIR application. Browse and search for thousands of themes, download directly into your Swatches panel, and even upload your own themes to share.
See more online services for creative professional
Top New Features
Essential design tools enhanced and extended
Enjoy feature-packed new versions of your favorite design software. Discover innovative online services for collaborating, finding inspiration, and mastering your design tools, and use Adobe® Fireworks® CS4 for fast website prototyping.
Everyday tasks made even simpler
In Adobe InDesign® CS4, easily manage placed files in the new, customizable Links panel. Rotate the canvas in Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended or the spread in InDesign. Combine multiple artboards in a single document in Adobe Illustrator® CS4.
Streamlined delivery across media
Build rich interactive documents by exporting an InDesign layout and adding animation in Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional. Prototype websites by opening Photoshop or Illustrator mock-ups in Fireworks CS4, and then embellishing in Flash or publishing in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4.
Easy-to-do animation and video
In Flash CS4 Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps. Use Photoshop CS4 Extended to enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to the audio track.
Mobile designs for millions
Use Adobe Device Central CS4 to easily create, preview, and test mobile content on a wide selection of devices under simulated real-life conditions directly from your desktop.
Innovative collaboration and presentations
Easily share your screen to present, review, or brainstorm directly 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 CS4, preview content under real-world browser conditions with Live View in Dreamweaver CS4, test mobile designs in Device Central, and use enhanced preflight checks and corrections in Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro.
Convenient new common interface
Enjoy improved interface consistency across all Adobe Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium components. Flexibly arrange multiple documents in a single window to compare content or drag-copy objects between them. Easily tab through multiple open documents without maximizing each one.
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.
Why buy a suite edition?
Get more for your money
Compare the individual products you want and you'll see that Adobe Creative Suite 4 provides a substantial discount.
Expand your creative palette
With more tools, you can develop new skills that will inspire more creative possibilities and expand your career opportunities.
Windows
- 2GHz or faster processor
- 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)
- 1GB of RAM or more recommended
- 9.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
- 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
- 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
- QuickTime 7.4.5 software required for multimedia features
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
- InDesign CS4
- Photoshop CS4 Extended
- Illustrator CS4
- Flash CS4 Professional
- Dreamweaver CS4
- Fireworks CS4
- Acrobat 9 Pro
- Adobe Bridge CS4
- Adobe Device Central CS4
- Version Cue CS4
