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Top reasons to upgrade to Creative Suite 4

Use a complete cross-media solution

New integration points and a multitude of workflow enhancements help students and faculty confidently work across products as they create engaging print, web, video, and mobile content.

Connect live with students, faculty, and community

Students, faculty, and experts can conduct live reviews of projects and class work. Completed work can be displayed in new, rich formats, including PDF Portfolios and interactive Adobe® Flash® technology–based presentations exported from Adobe InDesign® CS4.

Introduce professional workflows

Adobe Creative Suite® 4 software brings students closer to the application development process, helping them create rich application interfaces that are turned into functioning applications with the core design intact.

Access expert resources to enhance teaching and learning

The new Adobe Community Help online service gives educators and students access to a wide variety of information — from basic tips to more intricate help content to community-generated tutorials.

Work more easily with animation

New features make it easier to create 3D experiences and give animated characters lifelike motion. Enter a new realm of creativity by harnessing the power of object-based animation in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.

Design and develop more sophisticated websites

Students can produce advanced CSS layouts and build real Ajax applications — without having to use intricate coding. With the real-world experience of the new Live View feature in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4, designers can preview sites in multiple browsers at the same time, highlighting problem areas and accelerating troubleshooting.

Present work in media-rich PDF, DVD, and web portfolios

The new PDF Portfolio feature in Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro makes it easy for educators and students to combine rich interactive assets in a single portfolio for distribution within a class, school, or community — or for distribution to prospective employers. It's also easy to display work on DVD or the web.

Produce professional-caliber audio

With Adobe Soundbooth® CS4 — fully integrated into Creative Suite 4 — educators and students get multitrack recording capabilities, professional audio-editing features, and royalty-free scores and sound effects. Soundbooth makes it easy to create podcasts and audio enhancements for lectures and other presentations.

Create, design, and test content for mobile devices

New Adobe Device Central CS4 — included in Creative Suite 4 — helps students stay ahead of the curve on pushing video, movies created in Flash, and other interactive content to mobile devices.

Stay on the cutting edge of technology and industry standards

Creative Suite 4 is full of features that help everyone keep pace with rapidly evolving technology standards. Get consistent cross-browser compatibility, the latest web development tools, and features that help students understand code and how it works.

Move sites and applications from the web to the desktop

Students can explore the upper reaches of web development with the new Adobe AIR™ integration in Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks® CS4.

Take advantage of flexible licensing options

Creative Suite 4 solutions include volume licensing programs that help institutions make the most of their software budgets. Student licensing programs (for both higher education and K–12) let a participating institution's students and faculty purchase Creative Suite 4 at highly discounted prices. K–12 School Site Licenses enable affordable distribution of software across campus or throughout the district. All of the programs include options for acquiring certification licenses.

Use free curriculum sets to teach career skills

Adobe provides project-based curriculum guides developed specifically for teaching valuable career skills in design and print production, web design, and video design and production using Creative Suite 4. These projects, which together can provide enough content for a full-year course, have the seal of alignment to the ISTE National Technology Standards.

Validate skills through Adobe certification programs

Educators can earn added credentials and students can open new opportunities by becoming certified for entry-level and professional-level skills.