Design Premium CS5.5

Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for designing eye-catching print content, immersive digital magazines1, elegant eBooks, and websites based on HTML5/CSS3 standards. And now, bring your rich designs to life on smartphones and tablets, including the iPad, Motorola XOOM™, BlackBerry® PlayBook, and more.

• Breakthrough image editing in Photoshop Extended
  Create compelling digital images with Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended, the industry standard in digital imaging. Paint with realistic strokes, make exacting refinements, and use a wide range of workflow and performance features to accelerate everyday tasks.
• Creative 3D possibilities
  Quickly add depth and create unusual effects using 3D editing tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Create attention-getting 3D logos and artwork from text and shapes and edit, manipulate, and paint directly on 3D models.
• Vector graphics for virtually any medium
  Create scalable vector artwork for projects ranging from logos to billboards and from animations to interface elements. Used by design professionals worldwide, Adobe Illustrator® CS5 provides powerful drawing tools and expressive natural brushes for creating attention-getting content.
• High-quality page layout and production
  Lay out, preflight, and produce stunning page layouts with Adobe InDesign® CS5.5, an intuitive design environment that offers precise control over typography and built-in tools for creative effects.
• Enhanced eBook authoring in InDesign
  Create more engaging eBooks, with less need for developers. Use a smoother EPUB workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. You can now even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that support HTML5 video and audio tags4.
• Folio Producer tools in InDesign
  Create engaging digital magazines, newspapers, and retail catalogs that incorporate eye-catching elements such as 360° object rotation and image panoramas for a wide variety of tablet devices. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite3 for further production and distribution.
• Interactive PDF documents
  In InDesign, craft dynamic digital documents and presentations that include interactivity, video, and audio, and deliver them as PDF files for viewing in Adobe Reader.
• Robust preflighting
  Prepare files for hassle-free production by detecting errors with Live Preflight for InDesign layouts and robust preflight checks and fixes for PDF files with Acrobat X Pro.
• World-class websites and applications
  Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications with Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5.5. Jump-start your designs with built-in page templates using cascading style sheets (CSS), and work visually or directly in code.
• Interaction design without writing code
  Create resizable applications and components and craft more precise and expressive transitions and effects with Adobe Flash Catalyst® CS5.5.
• Easy website prototyping with Fireworks
  Easily prototype website and mobile device designs by repurposing Photoshop and Illustrator assets with the built-in bitmap and vector editing toolset in Adobe Fireworks® CS5. Generate high-fidelity PDF files or interactive HTML comps for client review.
• Mobile content testing with Device Central
  Design, preview and test content for your choice of devices with Adobe Device Central CS5.5.
• Authoring of accessible documents
  Use features in InDesign CS5.5 and Acrobat X Pro that help you to deliver publications that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 standards. Apply accessibility features in InDesign CS5.5, and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Acrobat X Pro.
• High-quality PDF files with Acrobat X Pro
  Create more secure and richly expressive PDF files and confidently prepare files for high-end print production with Adobe Acrobat® X Pro.
• Help when you need it
  Take advantage of Adobe Community Help, an online service for instruction, inspiration, and support that enables you to find the best answers for your Adobe product questions, no matter where they may be found.
• Visual media browsing
  Find files fast by browsing thumbnails instead of filenames with Adobe Bridge. Or browse thumbnails and place files from the Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop CS5 and InDesign CS5.5.
• Acceleration of key project workflows
  Boost efficiencies in your day-to-day design and production work with Adobe CS Live online services.1,2 Streamline reviews, initiate web-based meetings, share and collaborate on documents, and efficiently preview web pages on multiple browsers and operating systems — all from within your web browser.
• Affordable subscription option
  Get ongoing access to CS5.5 Design Premium software for an affordable monthly fee. Choose a one-year plan for lower payments or a flexible month-to-month plan you can stop and restart as needed.
• Consistent Adobe user interface
  Work quickly and intuitively thanks to a consistent user interface across all Design Premium components. Enjoy a shorter learning curve and stay more focused on the art of design.
• Performance on newer operating systems
  Take advantage of the power and performance of newer Apple and Microsoft operating systems so you can work more quickly. And Photoshop CS5 is 64-bit native, which means even faster image-editing no matter which computer platform you use.
• Enhanced creative freedom on the go
  Take your creativity beyond the desktop. Use mobile devices like the iPad with Adobe Ideas sketching software and additional companion apps as they become available for Photoshop CS5 Extended.5  Creation of immersive interactive experiences
  Deliver interactive microsites and games that present consistently across computers, browsers, and mobile devices with Flash Professional CS5.5. Import your design from Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, or InDesign, and then add interactivity and motion to bring it to life.

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 2; or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 9.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x800 display with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• 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 compatible with dual-layer DVDs
• Java™ Runtime Environment 1.5 (32 bit) or 1.6
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 10.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x800 display with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs
• Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis