Product Description

Item #: 12478D. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web and interactive, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for designing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content. Design Premium offers a productive, intuitive, and tightly integrated environment with everything you need to design content for tomorrow as well as today.

Product Description
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium - product upgrade package
Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - desktop publishing, creativity - graphics & image editing, creativity - web design / publishing
License Type: Product upgrade package
License Qty: 1 user
License Pricing: Standard
Upgrade from: Adobe Creative Suite ¦ Macromedia Studio
Language(s): Universal English
Platform: MacOS
Distribution Media: DVD-ROM
Package Type: Retail
OS Required: Apple MacOS X 10.4.8
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3872 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 19500232
• Released on: 2007-04-20
• Platforms: Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .85 pounds

Features

• The ideal solution for creating pages for print, designing pages for the web and mobile devices, editing photos, and creating illustrations
• Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design
• Enjoy a unified, integrated design experience with new self-adjusting panels and other shared interface elements for maximum productivity
• Combines full new versions of Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional
• Combines all-new versions of essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment

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Note: This is the upgrade version of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Upgrade software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for producing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content--all in a unified, intuitive design environment.

From exploring design concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the tightly integrated tools in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real--in print, on the web, and on mobile devices.

Deliver Innovative Ideas in Print, Web, and Mobile Design

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment.

Design with essential tools
Let your ideas take flight with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, which equips you to craft your best creative work more easily and efficiently than ever before. From thinking through concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the intuitive tools in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium lets you stay true to your creative intent without making compromises along the way.

Keep your ideas flowing
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium lets you slip into the creative zone and stay there by offering tight integration and shared features that enable you to move fluidly between tasks. Easily move assets between components to avoid awkward workarounds. Import Adobe Photoshop Extended and Illustrator artwork into Adobe Flash, for example, or paste Photoshop images into Adobe Dreamweaver. Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge, coordinate with team members using Adobe Version Cue, and host real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect--all from within Creative Suite 3 Design Premium.

Design for today...and tomorrow
Prepare content for a wide range of media, from print pieces to interactive websites to mobile devices, using integrated tools to produce industry-standard output. Depend on reliable Adobe PDF workflows for print production, move from print design to web design by exporting XHTML from Adobe InDesign to Dreamweaver, and enable efficient developer workflows as you create cutting-edge interactive experiences. From pages to pixels, Design Premium lets you design for tomorrow as well as today.

Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing

Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation

Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout

Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design

Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development

Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows

Audience benefit

Design professionals
Express your ideas in virtually any medium, from paper to pixels, using intuitive tools that help you stay true to your creative intent. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing, combining all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for designing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content in a unified design environment. Design Premium also offers visual asset management, effective file management for collaborative creative teams, mobile content previewing, and access to services such as Adobe Stock Photos* for royalty-free imagery and Adobe Acrobat Connect* for web conferencing. With Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, you can create beautiful, engaging content, collaborate effectively, and equip yourself for new business opportunities with tools that let you design for tomorrow as well as today.

Print professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software offers print professionals industry-standard tools for design and production. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium combines full new versions of Adobe's leading design and production tools-- Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional--in a tightly integrated environment that offers productivity features for visual asset management, effective file management, mobile content previewing, and direct access to online services. Enjoy consistent print controls, shared color settings, and shared PDF export presets across Design Premium components, and generate reliable output using support for high-end Adobe PDF workflows, including PDF/X. Preflight |PDF files using Acrobat, which now offers automated file correction, and automate workflows using JDF. Even improve communication with customers using real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect.* Creative Suite 3 Design Premium gives you the most trusted tools for the job, helping you realize smooth production processes--and diversify your services.

IT professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software enables creative teams to realize their ideas more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Built on industry standards to provide long-term compatibility, Creative Suite 3 Design Premium can be deployed across networks, is extensible and scriptable, and can be tailored to meet a variety of specialized design and publishing needs. Design Premium combines full new versions of Adobe's essential design tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional--with Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, Adobe Stock Photos*, and Adobe Acrobat Connect* for improved collaboration and productivity in creative workgroups. Offering a single installer and serial number for easy installation and backed by the quality and reliability Adobe is known for, Creative Suite 3 Design Premium meets the needs of your creative team.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

Coordinate with team members using Adobe Version Cue

Host real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect

Top New Benefits of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

All-new versions of essential creative tools
Experience the ultimate creative toolset with Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout, Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing, Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation, Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design, Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development, and Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows.

Unprecedented integration
Use native files more easily than ever in different design workflows: Import Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, and copy Photoshop files into Dreamweaver. And enjoy a unified, integrated design experience with new self-adjusting panels and other shared interface elements.

Powerful design workflows
Bring your most visionary ideas to life in print, on the web, and on mobile devices. Automatically find and fix errors before printing high-quality pages using InDesign and Acrobat. Export InDesign layouts as XHTML to use in web designs in Dreamweaver. Easily create graphics in Flash using the Adobe-standard Pen tool. And test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central.

Support for the latest Mac and Windows systems
Get the most out of Creative Suite 3 Design Premium on Intel based Mac systems and Microsoft Windows Vista computers. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC based Mac and Windows XP systems as well.

New dimensions in digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Select image regions more intuitively, apply filters nondestructively, manipulate 3D images, and create accurate composites of images with similar content using Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Inspired vector graphics creation in Adobe Illustrator CS3
Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color in Illustrator CS3. Select and align points and edit paths more easily than ever before, and easily incorporate vector graphics into print, web and interactive, and mobile designs.

Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3
Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing.

Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Easily organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; nondestructive batch-editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files; playback of Flash files; and direct access to useful services such as Adobe Stock Photos.*

Stronger designer-developer workflows
Import layered Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, animate them, and export them automatically in the ActionScript 3.0 language to hand off to developers. Use new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages, and collaborate with developers to produce interactive web experiences using the Spry framework for Ajax.

Integrated support for mobile design
Produce compelling mobile graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop Extended, add interactivity in Flash, and code pages for mobile display in Dreamweaver. Then preview and test your designs using mobile device profiles in Adobe Device Central CS3.

Additional Features

Industry-leading image editing and illustration
Experience unrivaled image editing and compositing, and even perform advanced image analysis, using Photoshop CS3 Extended. Produce inspired vector graphics with Illustrator CS3, which lets you interactively explore, apply, and control color. And work seamlessly between the two components with native file format support.

Designer-developer workflows
Import layered Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, animate them, and export them automatically in the ActionScript 3.0 language to hand off to developers. Use new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages, and collaborate with developers to produce interactive web experiences using the Spry framework for Ajax.

Adobe PDF print workflows
Use widely available Adobe PDF to create reliable and consistent final output, streamline print production--including automatically fixing mistakes before they get to press--and automate workflows using JDF.

Support for PDF/X standard
Create reliable, press-ready layouts using ISO- and ANSI-standard PDF/X, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 (draft), and PDF/A.

Powerful JDF workflows
Automatically convert InDesign files to Adobe PDF and preflight and validate them against the targeted output intent (including number of pages, page size, and more) using enhanced JDF workflows.

Shared PDF presets
Use built-in Adobe PDF export presets--or create custom presets--in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to generate consistent Adobe PDF files for electronic review or final output.

Streamlined print production
Preflight Adobe PDF files in Acrobat 8 Professional and fix problems before they get to press. Automatically correct hairlines, downsample image resolution, flatten transparency, and more.

Automation through scripting
Speed routine tasks and automate processes within and across components of the software by writing scripts in JavaScript, AppleScript, Microsoft Visual Basic, and the ExtendScript toolkit.

Efficient and easy-to-manage deployment
Easily deploy Design Premium using a single installer and serial number, and track, manage, and accurately allocate Adobe software assets using Adobe License Manager.

* Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe Stock Photos and Acrobat Connect, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees. For details, visit www.adobe.com.

Adobe Creative Suite 3: What's in Each Edition?

	ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3 EDITIONS
	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	WEB STANDARD	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
Adobe Photoshop CS3 extended
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe illustrator CS3
Adobe indesign CS3
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Contribute CS3
Adobe Fireworks CS3
Adobe After effects CS3 Professional
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Adobe Soundbooth CS3
Adobe encore CS3
Adobe onlocation					*
Adobe ultra CS3					*
	ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND SERVICES IN ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3
Adobe bridge CS3
Adobe version Cue CS3
Adobe device Central CS3
Adobe dynamic link
Adobe Stock Photos
Adobe Acrobat Connect

* Adobe Ultra runs on Microsoft Windows only. For Macintosh users, Adobe OnLocation requires Bootcamp and Windows (purchased separately), or a separate Windows-based computer.

Customer Reviews

CS3 fails to deliver promised integration
I'm a long-time fan of Adobe, and eagerly anticipated CS3. I hoped they would work out the many Macromedia bugs, but they managed to add a few of their own! And the promised product integration simply isn't there:

The Dreamweaver inteface is unchanged, except for renaming the Layers panel, and adding a new Objects tab. It won't correctly display interactivity in a SWF preview (the first click works; subsequent click are treated as a right-click, showing the FlashPlayer drop-down menu rather than the functionality in the SWF!)

Photoshop may be the reason most people upgrade, but its most touted new feature--non-destructive filters--is implemented very poorly. Rather than working like adjustment layers currently work, SmartFilters, as they are known, convert the underlying Photoshop layer into a SmartObject and places the SmartFilter on top. You CS2 users know that you can't edit a SmartObject in Photoshop--you have to go to the object's native application. So to edit the image under a SmartFilter, Photoshop opens it in a new document window (meaning you can't see its interaction with layers underneath as you edit it, and can't see how the various SmartFilters make the changed composition look until you save and return to the original document.

Flash was the reason I purchased this upgade: I was elated about importing layered PSDs and AI files. PSDs work great; AI files cause Flash to crash! (and Adobe tech support will not even respond)

Flash added a couple of new tools: shape primitives, which came from Macromedia Freehand: they allow you to easily edit the corner radius of a rectangle long after it's drawn--even editing each corner independently!
But do they offer a Primitive Star or Polygon tool like Freehand had (which allows you to edit the number of sides on stars and polygons)?
No.

Are the new Primitive Shape tools in Illustrator or Photoshop?
No.

Are the tear-off tool sets from Illustrator and ImageReady CS2 in Photoshop or InDesign CS3?
No.

Speaking of ImageReady, does it exist anymore?
No.

Can Photoshop CS3 open and edit multiple frames of an animated GIF?
No!(Don't delete ImageReady from your hard drive yet!)

Can you move the new collapsable tool panels onto your second monitor?
No.

Does Flash correctly auto-format ActionScript?
No.

Can you open an InDesign CS3 document in CS2 if no CS3 features were used (would be useful for all the non-early-adopters, such as printers receiving the jobs files)?
No.

Can you open a Flash CS3 .FLA with Flash 8, even if no CS3 features were used?
No.

Should you buy CS3?
No.
Not even at the academic price. It's a beta-version at best; wait for CS4.

UPDATE: A week later I'm STILL waiting for Adobe's reply, even after opening a second support case! It's like they outsourced their software development and support to Microsoft.

Not up to snuff
As a graphic designer I've been happily using adobe products since 1990. The latest release, Creative Suite 3, is an uncharacteristic exception. Acrobat locks my machine and I haven't been able to open a .pdf file successfully yet since installing CS3 (had to uninstall the Acrobat App). Photoshop is very slow with odd periodic freezes for no apparent reason and crashes frequenty. They've also messed up some of the refined workflow within the interface. Flash takes far to long to start up. Overall I'm more happy with prior versions and much more productive with them. The only positive note so far is the ability to copy vector files cleanly and accurately into Flash from Illustrator. I wouldn't recommend this product in it's current state.

Wait for the upgrade!
Don't be fooled. This product is very buggy. Flash crashes often, especially when the debugger is on. Photoshop often hangs for no apparent reason and decides to come back to life after 60 seconds or so. All suite apps are extreeeeeemly slow at start up. The performance enhancements you got from you Mac Intel are once again devoured by a behemoth software package. Maybe it attemps to be too many things for too many people. Adobe competes with Microsoft for the bloatware award.