Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design
Adobe CSuite4 Design Premium software 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.

Adobe CS4 Design Premium Includes:

• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended 
• Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe InDesign CS4
• Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Mac OS

• PowerPC® G5 or multicore Intel® processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4
• Java™ Runtime Environment 1.5 required for Adobe Version Cue® Server
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 10.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional hard-disk space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or 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
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.4.5 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services

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Adobe CS4 Design Premium Point Product Upgrade PC / MAC
If you own one of the following software titles (PC or Mac), you're eligible for the CS4 Design Premium Upgrade

• Adobe InDesign CS4, CS3, CS2, or CS
• Adobe Illustrator CS4, CS3, CS2, or CS
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, CS4, CS3 Extended, CS3, CS2, or CS
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 or CS3
• Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 or MX 2004
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional or CS3 Professional, Macromedia Flash Professional 8, MX Professional 2004, Basic 8, or MX 2004

Adobe CS4 Design Premium CS3 to CS4 Upgrade PC / MAC

If you own one of the following software titles (PC or Mac), you're eligible for the CS4 Design Premium Upgrade!

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium, or Master Collection

Adobe CS4 Design Premium Studio Upgrade PC / MAC

If you own one of the following software titles (PC or Mac), you're eligible for the CS4 Design Premium Upgrade!

• Adobe Design Bundle: Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium plus Macromedia Flash Professional 8
• Adobe Web Bundle: Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium plus Macromedia Studio 8
• Macromedia Studio 8 or MX 2004
• Adobe Creative Suite 2.x Premium or Standard; 1.0 Premium or Standard