Reviews and awards

Reviews

"If you rely on Adobe software for digital animation, then CS4 is worth the plunge, more so than CS3 was. Flash takes a big leap forward by slashing the steps required to build animation. Dreamweaver beefs up tools for CSS sites and feels more stable than its predecessors."
Lori Grunin and Elsa Wenzel
CNET 11/26/2008
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"With the acquisition of Macromedia Dreamweaver and Contribute, Adobe has staked its claim in the Web design and management world."
John Parsons, "Adobe Creative Suite 4: A Publisher’s Guide to the Galaxy," The Seybold Report,
October 9, 2008
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"Overall , this is a bold, beautiful, and solid release from Adobe. There is something for everyone to be excited about, and the workflow enhancements alone make this upgrade seriously worth thinking about."
Nick Sorbin, Renderosity,
September 29, 2008
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"Adobe Creative Suite 3 is the powerhouse from Adobe after the merger of Macromedia that revolutionizes design and development tools for virtually every creative workflow....

"Creative Suite 3 Web Premium is the complete set of essential tools if you are serious about bringing your creative vision to the web. It is the best value for both capability and price offering comprehensive interactive design and development for the web....

"...Web Premium offers full new releases of the industry's best tools for graphics creation, web design, rich media authoring, and web development....

"Let's face it. Budgets are tight, and good deals are hard to come by. But the Adobe Creative Suite 3 isn't just a good deal, it's a great one."
Roy Webb, In Magazine,
September 10, 2007
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"It has been difficult in the past to find a truly professional package, but with Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia and their subsequent release of CS3 that search is over. Not only is the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium a professional package, it provides a well-integrated set of tools that covers every aspect of the web development process."
Scott Garrigus, NewTechReview,
July 25, 2007
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"The key applications — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks — now work together more efficiently, and most creatives will welcome the numerous other enhancements....There's certainly room for improvement, but for the most part this appears to be a solid upgrade to an essential set of design tools."
Stephen Beale, HOW,
August 2007

"The new Adobe Creative Suite 3 collections recognize and are strengthened by a number of comments from consumers, improving on software that is already industry standard."
Kim Crowley, Digital Output,
June 2007
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