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Adobe Creative Suite
Developer Adobe Systems
Latest release Creative Suite 3 / April 16, 2007
OS Windows and Mac OS X
Genre Graphic design, video editing and web development
License Proprietary
Website Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The latest version, Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3), was announced on March 27, 2007; it introduced Universal binaries for all programs for the Apple Macintosh.[1]

Adobe sells CS3 applications in six different combinations called "editions." Some editions began shipping on April 16, 2007, and Production Premium and Master Collection editions began shipping on July 2, 2007.

CS3 includes several programs, including Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks that were developed by Macromedia, a former rival acquired by Adobe in 2005.

An extra DVD is supplied with Arabic, Hebrew and North African versions of Adobe CS3 in Central European and Middle Eastern versions for language support.[2]

Contents

Below is a matrix of the applications that are bundled in each of the software suites:

Design Web Production
Premium		 Master
Collection
Standard Premium Standard Premium
Photoshop CS3
Photoshop CS3 Extended
Illustrator CS3
InDesign CS3
Acrobat 8 Professional
Flash CS3 Professional
Dreamweaver CS3
Fireworks CS3
Contribute CS3
After Effects CS3 Professional
Premiere Pro CS3
Soundbooth CS3
Encore CS3
Shared features, services, and applications
Bridge CS3
Version Cue CS3
Device Central CS3
Stock Photos
Acrobat Connect
Dynamic Link
OnLocation CS3 (Windows only)
Ultra CS3 (Windows only)

It appears that Adobe has decided to drop the following programs from the CS3 software bundles:[3]

Adobe will continue to develop GoLive and Audition as standalone products. Adobe GoLive 9 was released as a standalone product on June 10, 2007. Adobe Audition 3 was announced as a standalone product on September 6, 2007.

Adobe Encore and Adobe OnLocation (formerly Serious Magic DV Rack HD2) are now included as part of Adobe Premiere Pro and will not be released as standalone products.

Adobe InCopy, an application closely integrated with Adobe InDesign, is also part of the Creative Suite family, but is not included in any CS3 edition. It can be ordered from Adobe, third party plug-in developers, or systems integrators.

Adobe has discontinued ImageReady and has replaced it with Fireworks, with some of ImageReady's features integrated into Photoshop.

Some Creative Suite programs use the Presto layout engine used in the Opera browser since version 7.0.

Icons of the core CS3 programs lined up. The colors of the icons are reflected in each program's box.
Icons of the core CS3 programs lined up. The colors of the icons are reflected in each program's box.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Family of products intended for professional print, web, interactive and mobile designers.

The key difference between Design Premium and Design Standard is the addition of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, and Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 to the Premium version.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium includes the following stand-alone products:

  • Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
  • Adobe Illustrator CS3
  • Adobe InDesign CS3
  • Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
  • Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
  • Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Family of products intended for professional print designers and print production professionals.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard includes the following stand-alone products:

  • Adobe Photoshop CS3
  • Adobe Illustrator CS3
  • Adobe InDesign CS3
  • Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Family of products intended for professional rich media and video post-production experts who create projects for film, video, broadcast, web, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium includes the following stand-alone software:

  • Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
  • Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
  • Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
  • Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
  • Adobe Illustrator CS3
  • Adobe Soundbooth CS3
  • Adobe Encore CS3
  • Adobe OnLocation CS3 (Windows only)
  • Adobe Ultra CS3 (Windows only)

The legacy equivalent of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium is Adobe Production Studio.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Family of products intended for professional web designers and developers.

The addition of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended and Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe’s 2D and 3D animation software for vector graphics, are the key differentiators between Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium includes the following stand-alone products:

  • Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
  • Adobe Illustrator CS3
  • Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
  • Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
  • Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
  • Adobe Contribute CS3
  • Adobe Fireworks CS3

The closest legacy equivalent of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium is Macromedia Studio 8.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Family of products intended for professional web developers and coders. Its more advanced brother edition, Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium, includes Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended and Adobe Illustrator CS3 for web designers who do more advanced visual design work.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard includes the following stand-alone products:

  • Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
  • Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
  • Adobe Contribute CS3
  • Adobe Fireworks CS3

The closest legacy equivalent of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard is Macromedia Studio 8.

The Adobe Creative Suite 2 logo
The Adobe Creative Suite 2 logo

Adobe Creative Suite was first released in 2003. The first two versions (CS and CS2) were available in two editions.

The Standard Edition included:

The Premium Edition also included:

Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio (previously Adobe Video Collection) was a suite of programs for acquiring, editing, and distributing digital video and audio. The suite was available in standard and premium editions.

The Adobe Production Studio Premium edition consisted of:

The Standard edition consisted of:

In CS3, Adobe Production Studio became part of the Creative Suite family. The equivalent version for Production Studio Premium is the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium.

Macromedia Studio was a suite of programs designed for web content creation designed and distributed by Macromedia. After Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, Macromedia Studio 8 was replaced, modified, and integrated into two editions of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 family of software. The closest relatives of Macromedia Studio 8 are now called Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard.

Core applications from Macromedia Studio have been merged with CS3, including Flash, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks. Some Macromedia applications were absorbed into existing Adobe products, e. g. FreeHand has been replaced with Adobe Illustrator CS3. Director and ColdFusion are not part of Adobe Creative Suite and will only be available as standalone products. Four recent versions of Macromedia Studio released include:

  • Macromedia Studio MX Released 29th May 2002, internally it was version 6 and the first incarnation of the studio to use the "MX" suffix, which for marketing purposes was a shorthand abbreviation that meant "Maximize". Studio MX included Dreamweaver, Flash, FreeHand, Fireworks and a developer edition of ColdFusion.
  • Macromedia Studio MX Plus Released 10th February 2003, sometimes reffered to as MX 1.1. MX plus was a special edition release of MX that include Freehand MX (replacing Freehand 10), Contribute and DevNet Resource Kit Special Edition in addition to the existing MX suite of products.
  • Macromedia Studio MX 2004 Released 10th September 2003, despite its name, it is internally version 7. Studio MX 2004 included FreeHand along with updated versions of Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks. An alternate version of Studio MX 2004 included Flash Professional.
  • Macromedia Studio 8 Released 13th September 2005, Studio 8 was the last version of Macromedia Studio. It comprised of Dreamweaver 8, Flash 8, Flash 8 Video Converter, Fireworks 8, Contribute 3 and FlashPaper.

  1. ^ Adobe Systems. "Support for Intel-based Mac computers", Adobe Systems, 2006-01-31. Retrieved on 2006-09-29. 
  2. ^ Adobe Systems. Adobe Creative Suite 3: Which language in which edition? Central European and Middle Eastern versions. Retrieved on 2007-11-20.
  3. ^ Adobe Systems. "New Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Enhances Adobe Creative Suite 2.3", Adobe Systems, 2006-09-18. Retrieved on 2007-03-24. 

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Adobe Creative Suite
Current products Acrobat · After Effects · Contribute · Dreamweaver · Encore · Flash · Fireworks · Illustrator · InCopy · InDesign · Photoshop · Premiere Pro · Soundbooth
Shared applications Acrobat Connect · Bridge · Device Central · Dynamic Link · OnLocation · Stock Photos · Ultra · Version Cue
Historical products Audition · GoLive · ImageReady
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Adobe Systems
Desktop software Creative Suite · Technical Communication Suite · Acrobat · Audition · Digital Editions · GoLive · PageMaker · Photoshop Lightroom · more
Server software ColdFusion · LiveCycle · Flash Media Server · JRun · Premiere Express
Technology PostScript · PDF · FlashPaper · Authorware · Flash · Font Folio · DNG · Flex · AIR  · BlazeDS
Services ASN · ADC
Board of directors Charles Geschke · John Warnock · Bruce Chizen · Shantanu Narayen
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