CS6 Master Collection / Buying guide
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CS4 Master Collection
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CS5 Master Collection
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CS5.5 Master Collection
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CS6 Master Collection
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| Adobe Photoshop® Extended | ||||
| Content-Aware image retouching tools |
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| Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine* |
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| Simplified 3D design* |
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| New and reengineered design tools |
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| Accelerated, nondestructive image cropping |
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| Reflections and draggable shadows for 3D* |
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| Auto-save and recovery |
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| Background Save |
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| Easy alignment in 3D* |
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| Intuitive video creation |
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| Photographic blur effects on images |
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| Intelligent auto-corrections for images |
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| Scripted Patterns |
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| Painting and drawing improvements |
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| Revolutionary erodible brushes |
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| Enhanced creative freedom on the go |
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| Content-Aware Fill |
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| Breakthrough image editing |
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| Smooth image navigation |
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| Adobe Illustrator® | ||||
| Adobe Mercury Performance System |
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| Efficient, customizable interface |
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| Seamless vector pattern creation |
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| Powerful image tracing engine |
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| Gradients applied to strokes |
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| Innovative vector drawing and painting |
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| Beautiful strokes with variable widths |
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| Crisp graphics with pixel grid alignment |
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| Multiple artboards |
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| Adobe InDesign® | ||||
| Liquid Layout |
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| Alternate Layout |
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| PDF forms |
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| Linked content |
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| Content Collector tools |
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| Access to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite† |
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| Digital Publishing Suite desktop tools |
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| Enhanced eBook authoring |
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| Interactive documents and presentations |
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| Fast object selection and transformation |
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| Adobe Acrobat® Pro | ||||
| Action Wizard |
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| Adobe Dreamweaver® | ||||
| Blazing-fast FTP performance |
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| Fluid Grid Layout |
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| jQuery Mobile and Adobe PhoneGap™ updates |
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| Adobe Business Catalyst® integration |
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| Pure CSS3 transitions |
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| Enhanced Multiscreen Preview panel |
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| Robust jQuery support |
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| Smart Objects in Dreamweaver |
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| Multiscreen Preview panel |
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| Adobe Flash® Professional | ||||
| Sprite sheet generation |
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| HTML5 support |
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| Support for Adobe AIR® 3.1 and Flash Player 11.2 |
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| Support for more mobile platforms and devices |
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| Comprehensive reach of the Flash Platform |
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| Mobile platform and device support |
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| Object-based animation |
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| Adobe Fireworks® | ||||
| Common Library of mobile assets and components |
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| CSS3 support |
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| Adobe Flash Builder® Premium | ||||
| Single-codebase mobile applications |
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| Developing for mobile |
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| Smooth designer-developer workflows |
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| Adobe Premiere® Pro | ||||
| Expanded multicam editing |
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| Dynamic timeline trimming |
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| Warp Stabilizer effect |
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| Adjustment layers |
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| Streamlined intuitive user interface |
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| Fluid editing |
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| New format support |
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| More efficient video workflow |
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| Adobe Mercury Playback Engine |
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| File-based workflows in video production |
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| Best-of-breed video editing and effects tools |
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| Adobe After Effects® | ||||
| 3D camera tracker |
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| Fully ray-traced, extruded text and shapes |
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| Adobe Illustrator integration |
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| Variable mask feathering |
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| Rolling shutter removal |
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| Global Performance Cache |
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| Warp Stabilizer |
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| Advanced audio-for-video editing |
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| Roto Brush |
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| File-based workflows in video production |
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| Best-of-breed video editing and effects tools |
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| Project intelligence with XMP metadata support |
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| Adobe Audition® | ||||
| Faster, more precise editing |
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| Real-time clip stretching |
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| Advanced audio-for-video editing |
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| Adobe SpeedGrade™ | ||||
| GPU-assisted Lumetri™ Deep Color Engine |
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| Powerful layer-based color grading |
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| Real-time performance |
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* Photoshop Extended 3D features and some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows® XP.
† A Digital Publishing Suite account is required to access certain features and services that integrate with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.
