Adobe Creative Suite
This heavy-duty software package for digital designers is the first to blend Adobe's famed Photoshop and other tools with interactive design apps formerly made by Macromedia. We're reviewing the lineup: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Premiere, AfterEffects, the new Production Premium video suite, and Adobe's Web and Design packages geared for Internet and print designers. Bookmark this page for ongoing news, reviews, and videos.
CNET editors' Adobe Creative Suite reviews
Adobe CS4 suites:
Master Collection | Design Premium | Web Premium | Web Standard | Production Premium
Adobe CS4 expands the integration among more than a dozen design applications. Read what the five suites have in store for users.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 | CS4 Extended
Photoshop CS4 offers 64-bit support for Windows while expanding options for 3D imaging and more.
Adobe Acrobat 9
Adobe enables users of Acrobat to embed video and animation, while enhancing forms creation and security for business users.
Adobe After Effects CS4
It's easier to find assets within this updated post-production video tool, which expands integration with other CS4 software including Premiere and Flash.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
This WYSIWYG Web site editor offers more tricks for taming dynamic code.
Adobe Fireworks CS4
This design prototyping tool offers Smart Guides and enhanced integration among the CS4 applications.
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
A new object-based tweening approach to animation sets Flash CS4 apart from its predecessors.
Adobe Illustrator CS4
With multiple ArtBoards, Illustrator finally lets you work with several open pages at once.
Adobe Soundbooth CS4
Translating spoken audio to a searchable, digital text transcript is one of Soundbooth's novel new features.
Features
Fastest Photoshop laptops
Photoshop CS4 supports 64-bit Windows and uses the muscle of your graphics card. These notebook PCs are likely to step up to the task. Read more
September 23, 2008CS4 alternative: Apple iLife '08
Apple iLife '08 is a fine, affordable media-editing suite that should keep beginners and hobbyists happy when managing pictures, videos, songs, and podcasts, but those seeking to fine-tune movies should look elsewhere. Read more
Making movies: Apple Final Cut Studio vs. Adobe CS3
We spotlight heavy-duty film-editing packages from Apple and Adobe. Which one is ready for Hollywood? Read more
August 1, 2007Web 2.0 design
Web 2.0 design is about building services that are clean, simple, fast, and interactive. Designers who get this are making sites that are leagues ahead of those from the previous generation. Read more
August 1, 2007Web design duel: Dreamweaver CS3 vs. Expression Web
We pit veteran Adobe Dreamweaver against Microsoft's upstart ExpressionWeb. Read more
May 29, 2007Feedback
Pictures
Photos: Adobe Creative Suite 4
Take a stroll through the key features that tie together Adobe's professional design and editing applications.
Photos: Flash CS4
As it reinvents its animation model, Flash CS4 introduces tools for making cool creative effects.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
This WYSIWYG Web site editor offers new shortcuts for working with dynamic code.
Adobe Premiere CS4
This film editor can manage and produce video in the latest formats as well as for the Web and mobile devices.
Adobe After Effects CS4
New creative effects and workflow enhancements mark the update to this profession post-production video software.
Adobe Creative Suite 3
Highlights of what Adobe introduced in the 2007 release of Creative Suite.
Downloads
Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta
Dressed up in much fancier duds, and facing little competition for high-end image-editing software, the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta is for the serious enthusiast only.
Download nowPaint.NET
If you just want to retouch images a bit, Photoshop is overkill. Check out Paint.NET, an open-source freeware editor with all the essential tools, including those for cropping, rotating, resizing, adjusting colors, and creating collages.
The GIMP 2.2.13
The volunteer developers of The GIMP have been working hard to develop a polished, user-friendly, and freely distributed image editor.
Inkscape 0.45
A free, open-source, vectorized image-creator? You mean, like Adobe Illustrator, but smaller and at no cost? Could it be?
KompoZer 0.7.7 beta
If you dislike that achy, bloated feeling that other HTML editors can give your computer, KompoZer may be the freeware cure you're looking for.
Microsoft Expression Web 1.0
Microsoft Expression Web gives you all the tools you'll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them.
Synfig Studio 0.61.05
Installing this app is not for the faint-of-heart or casual users. It requires four different installer files, Gtk+, Gtkmm, Synfig Core, and Synfig Studio.
Audacity 1.2.6
With so many audio editors out there, finding the right tool for the job can be tricky. The multiplatform, open-source editor Audacity has leaped to the top of our list with its clean interface, excellent features, and support for 32-bit floating-point audio.
Scribus 1.3.3.8
What it lacks in pretty design, Scribus more than makes up for with a full complement of useful features that compare very favorably against more expensive competition.
Jahshaka 2.0 RC3
If you're looking for a free program with the video and audio editing capabilities of professional-level software, Jahshaka should be tops on your list.
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