CS6 Design Standard / Buying guide
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CS4 Design Standard
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CS6 Design Standard
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| Adobe Photoshop® | ||||
| Content-Aware Move |
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| Content-Aware Patch |
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| Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine* |
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| Intuitive video creation |
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| New and reengineered design tools |
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| All-new Crop tool |
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| New Blur Gallery |
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| Improved auto-corrections |
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| Auto-save and Background Save |
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| Scripted Patterns |
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| Painting and drawing enhancements (erodible brushes, enhanced airbrush tips, brush rotation, and painting presets) |
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| Preset migration and sharing |
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| Truer Edge selection technology |
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| Selection and mask refinement tools |
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| Content-Aware Fill |
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| Realistic painting effects with Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips |
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| Puppet Warp |
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| 64-bit support |
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| Content-Aware Scaling |
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| Smooth panning and zooming |
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| Fluid canvas rotation |
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| Adobe Illustrator® | ||||
| Adobe Mercury Performance System |
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| Pattern creation |
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| Image Trace |
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| Gradients on strokes |
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| Faster processing for blurs, drop shadows, and glows |
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| Customizable user interface |
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| Fluid vector painting |
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| Variable-width strokes |
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| Improved control of arrowheads and dashed lines |
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| Perspective drawing |
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| Shape Builder tool |
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| Alignment to Pixel Grid |
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| Resolution-independent effects |
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| Multiple artboards |
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| Blob Brush tool |
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| On-object gradient controls |
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| In-panel appearance editing |
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| Color-blind workspace |
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| Separations Preview |
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| Support for bleeds |
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| Adobe InDesign® | ||||
| Alternate Layout |
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| PDF forms within InDesign |
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| Liquid Layout |
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| Linked content |
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| Content Collector tools |
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| HTML5 export to .folio and EPUB3 with interactivity† |
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| Folio Producer tools for authoring content for Adobe Digital Publishing Suite‡ |
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| Enhanced eBook authoring† |
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| Improved tagged PDF support for accessibility |
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| Linked text |
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| Drag and drop of anchored objects |
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| Multiple page sizes in a single document |
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| Simplified object selection |
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| Gap tool |
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| Live Corner effects |
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| Grid place |
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| Live captions |
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| Track Text Changes |
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| Paragraphs that span or split columns |
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| Balanced Columns |
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| Document-installed fonts |
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| PDF export in background |
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| Live Preflight |
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| Customizable links panel |
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| Conditional text |
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| Smart Guides |
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| Proportional place |
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| Cross-references |
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| Advanced bullets and numbering |
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| Adobe Acrobat® Pro | ||||
| Action Wizard |
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| Quick Tools |
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| Optimized viewing mode |
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| More robust preflight checks and fixes |
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| Object inspector |
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| Enhanced color conversion |
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| Intelligent Overprint Preview |
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| PDF Portfolios |
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Some GPU-enabled features in Photoshop CS6 are not supported on Microsoft® Windows® XP.
InDesign uses EPUB3 and HTML5 code to create eBooks with audio, video, and other advanced features. EPUB3 and HTML5 presentation, media playback, and double-byte character support (for example, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) may not be supported by all devices, browsers, or EPUB readers.
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite requires a separate license and payment of associated fees. Learn more.
