Express yourself with new painting techniques. Create interactive media content without writing code. Work faster than ever without sacrificing precision or quality. CS5 Design Premium will bring your visions to life.
Adobe Evangelist Terry White demos the hottest new CS5 features for designers, including new features in Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, and Flash Catalyst.
With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software, designers will be able to express ideas faster and more naturally, and will discover new possibilities to deliver ideas in digital media without writing code. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5 and intuitive object object-selection features in Adobe InDesign CS5.
Turn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium will let you streamline common design and production tasks with feature-packed releases of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Flash Professional. And extend the reach of your work by creating interactive content with new Flash Catalyst - without writing code.
Terry White’s Favorite Things about CS5 Design Premium
Terry White shares a few of his favorite new features in CS5 Design Premium including making precision selections, quickly with Photoshop, create expressive graphics easily with variable-width strokes in Illustrator and delivering visually engaging interactive documents that include video, audio and animation with InDesign.
Get More Done in Less Time with CS5 Design Premium
Make fast work of common design and production tasks like image re-touching with magical content aware fill in Photoshop Extended, creating complex shapes with Shape Builder tool in Illustrator, and intuitive object-selection features in InDesign and more.
CS5 Design Premium Makes Web Design More Approachable for Graphic Designers
Jump-start your standards-based website design with updated and simplified CSS starter layouts in Dreamweaver CS5. Regardless of your experience, CSS starter layouts speed your development time by providing a variety of solid structures upon which to build your designs. For print designers and others just making the move to web design, CSS starter layouts can dramatically speed up the learning process.
Make Short Work of Common Print Layout Tasks With CS5 Design Premium
Create, preflight and publish documents faster. New and enhanced tools and on-object controls help speed up and simplify repetitive, everyday tasks such as selecting and editing frames and frame content, adjusting the white space between images, or creating grids. The ability to create pages with different sizes in a single InDesign file, and other productivity features in InDesign CS5 let you complete your page layout in fewer steps.
Craft Artwork that Stands Out with CS5 Design Premium
Achieve beautiful paint effects using lifelike brush strokes in Photoshop Extended and expressive Vector-Painting Brushes in Illustrator, or use 3D Extrusion Tools in Photoshop Extended to create artwork that will stand out in print and digital media.
As eBook technology continues to evolve, designers are looking for ways to deliver high-quality content in the latest formats for the latest devices. Create compelling eBooks with enhanced support for the EPUB file format with CS5 Design Premium and Digital Editions.
Interactive Design Without Writing Code with CS5 Design Premium
Deliver engaging work onscreen to connect with more people in more ways. See how you can use new Flash Catalyst to transform Photoshop or Illustrator artwork into functional designs for user interfaces, info-graphics and rich internet applications.
Join Worldwide Design Evangelist Terry White as he runs through his 5 favorite Adobe InDesign CS5 features. Included are Multiple Page Sizes, Spanning, Splitting and the Gap Tool.
See how InDesign CS5 allows you to take advantage of metadata embedded in an image to create live captions and then automatically and flexibly place them in your layout.
Take the frustration out of finding previously used assets with Adobe Mini Bridge. See how to peer into your InDesign CS5 documents to find linked images, text and more to use them in another layout.
Adobe Photoshop software is the tool of choice for designers and web professionals. Now with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush. Create superior composites for print or web layouts with new technology that makes it easy to select even the trickiest image elements, like hair. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels. Easily create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask using new Adobe Repoussé technology. Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photo realistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. And import animated GIFs. Plus so much more.
Take the time and frustration out of making precise image selections. New Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended offers better edge detection and masking results in less time—even when you select the trickiest image elements, like hair. Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with new color decontamination capabilities.
Painting: New Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips in Photoshop CS5
New in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended - Easily take your imagery and designs in new artistic directions with natural and realistic painting effects. The new Mixer Brush lets you define multiple colors on a single tip to paint with subtle color blends, or you can use a dry brush to blend a photo’s colors to create a beautiful painting. New Bristle Tips enable you to easily paint with lifelike, naturally textured brush strokes using defined bristle properties like shape, length, and stiffness, and you can experiment away by adding Bristle Tips to a variety of Photoshop brush tools.
Faster Performance Across Platforms in Photoshop CS5
With Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended you can perform day-to-day imaging tasks faster and work faster with very large images by taking advantage of even more RAM—up to 128GB on desktops and 8GB on laptops. (Requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Mac OS, Microsoft Windows 7, or Windows Vista).
With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with new Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then easily apply rich materials like chrome, glass, and cork to explore different looks. And take your designs even further by leveraging the Adobe 3D Forge engine for advanced editing of your 3D models.
Enhanced 3D Realism and Rich Materials in Photoshop CS5
With Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can easily enhance the realism of your 3D designs by generating shadows with simple steps to invoke the shadow catcher. Browse different looks for your 3D models and extruded designs by picking realistic materials like chrome and cork from the rich new materials library. Explore with different focus points in your 3D scene by previewing and adjusting the range for depth of field. Even use stunning HDR images or panoramas to light your 3D scene.
View the top 5 Photoshop CS5 photo editing software features. Russell Brown, Photoshop senior creative director, presents his favorites from over 100 new features, including Content-Aware Fill, Puppet Warp, HDR Pro, realistic paint brushes, and new selections tools for the trickiest elements like hair.
Web and interactive designers count on Adobe Photoshop software to help them create just the right look for their clients. Now with Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can keep exploring new creative possibilities in web and interactive design. For example, take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to quickly make your pages and designs pop with 3D artwork for logos, buttons, and more. Plus, you get enhanced 3D animation effects with the ability to take your 3D model and easily add an animated depth of field.
Whether you're helping corporate clients communicate through images, expressing your vision in fine art, or capturing life's moments at weddings, in portraits, or for news media, you're driven by the art of your craft. That's why professional photographers have long relied on Adobe Photoshop software for the ultimate in creative control and image quality. New Photoshop CS5 helps you achieve the visual and emotional effects you’re after with re-engineered features for reducing and adding grain, performing post-crop vignetting, and sharpening. CS5 reinvents HDR imaging with Exposure Merge, which makes it easy to preserve the full tonal range of a scene—or go from photorealistic to wildly surrealistic—and automatically remove ghost artifacts. It delivers new black-and-white conversion features and a GPU-enabled crop experience. It accelerates your workflow with powerful new selection technology, integrated Adobe Mini Bridge for faster file browsing, and cross-platform 64-bit support for faster performance.
Manage your media visually with Adobe Bridge CS5 software, which now offers more flexible batch renaming, support for drag and drop between Creative Suite components, and the ability to access files in the context of what you’re working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended.
With Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, when you remove an image element, Content-Aware Fill replaces the missing pixels almost magically. This revolutionary new tool matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks like the deleted content never existed.
Next Generation 32-Bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging in Photoshop CS5
With Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can use new HDR Pro technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-Bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Exposure Merge offers automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments so you can retain complete clarity and see the full tonal range.
What's new in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended
Adobe Photoshop software is the undisputed standard in digital imaging, preferred by professionals worldwide for its unmatched editing and compositing capabilities. Photoshop CS5 redefines the image‐editing experience with a strong focus on photography, breakthrough painting and selection capabilities, and a wide range of workflow and performance enhancements that boost productivity at every level. Designed for professionals who want to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging, Photoshop CS5 Extended delivers everything in Photoshop CS5 as well as features that enable you to create and edit 3D imagery and motion‐based content and perform advanced image analysis. Watch this video for a sample of just a few of the many powerful features in both products.
Join Terry White as he covers some of the exciting new features found in Illustrator CS5 including Perspective Drawing, Multiple Artboard Enhancements and New Brush features.
Join Worldwide Design Evangelist Terry White as he runs through his 5 favorite Adobe Illustrator CS5 features. Included are Perspective Drawing, The Width Tool, The Shape Builder Tool and more!
Take Illustrator CS5 designs into Flash Catalyst and create interactive experiences without writing code. Refine your vector art in Illustrator while preserving the structure and interactivity you added in Flash Catalyst
Work faster with everyday tools in Illustrator CS5. Draw behind, disregarding stacking order, and draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask.
Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in a single file, organized and named the way you want, using the enhancements to Multiple Artboards in Illustrator CS5.
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Flash Catalyst is a professional interaction design tool for graphic and web designers who want to rapidly create expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code.