Features
Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, achieving typographic finesse, creating stunning digital images and vector graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity within a single, unified creative environment. Read about some of the top new features you'll find in each component of Design Premium.
- Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS4
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Live Preflight new
Preflight while you design. Continuous preflighting alerts you to potential production problems in real time so you can quickly navigate to a problem, fix it directly in layout, and keep working.
Customizable Links panel new
Find, sort, and manage all of your document's placed files in the customizable Links panel. View attributes that are most critical to your workflow such as scale, rotation, and resolution.
Conditional text new
Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.
Smart Guides new
Quickly align, space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides. The guides, object dimensions, rotation angles, and x and y coordinates appear dynamically so you can quickly snap an object's edge or its vertical or horizontal center to another object or page edge in the layout.
- New dimensions in digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
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Revolutionary 3D painting and compositing new
Now paint directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes, convert gradient maps to 3D objects, add depth to layers and text, get print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine, and enjoy exporting to supported common 3D formats.
Adjustments panel new
Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.
Masks panel new
Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
Fluid canvas rotation new
Now just click to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any desired angle — no more tilting your head in the middle of painting and drawing.
- Inspired vector graphics creation with Adobe Illustrator CS4
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Multiple artboards new
Create files containing up to 100 artboards of varying sizes and display them any way you want — overlapping, side by side, or stacked. Save, export, and print artboards independently or together. Save a selected range or all artboards as a multipage PDF file.
Transparency in gradients new
Define the opacity of any individual color stop in a gradient. Reveal underlying objects and images, and create rich color and texture mixes using multiple layers, knockouts, and cover-up fades.
In-panel appearance editing new
Edit object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to open fill, stroke, or effects panels. Work with shared attributes and control display for faster rendering.
Refined graphic styles enhanced
Combine styles for unique effects and increased efficiency, and apply styles without disturbing an object's existing appearance. Enjoy new thumbnail previews and an expanded library of prebuilt styles.
- Rich interactive content development with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
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Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool new
Create chain-like animation effects with a series of linked objects or quickly distort a single shape using the new Bones tool.
Motion editor new
Experience detailed control over keyframe parameters, including rotation, size, scale, position, filters, and more, using the new motion editor. Refine easing control with graphical displays similar to those in Adobe After Effects® software.
3D transformation new
Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate along the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformation to any object.
Motion presets new
Jump-start your project with prebuilt animations that can be applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create and save your own. Share presets with others to save animation time.
- Professional website design with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
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Live View new
Design your web pages under real-world browser conditions with the new Live View — while still retaining direct access to the code. Changes to the code are instantly reflected in the rendered display.
New user interface new
Work faster and smarter across Creative Suite 4 components with a shared user interface design. Toggle quickly from one work environment to the next with the workspace switcher.
Photoshop Smart Objects new
Insert any Photoshop PSD document in Dreamweaver to create an image Smart Object tightly linked to the source file. Make changes to the source image, and update your image in Dreamweaver without opening Photoshop.
Adobe InContext Editing (Free preview)*
Design your pages in Dreamweaver so end users can edit their web pages without help from you or additional software using the Adobe InContext Editing online service. As a Dreamweaver designer, you can limit changes to specific pages, distinct regions, and even custom formatting options.
See top new features for Dreamweaver® CS4
- Web prototyping and image editing with Adobe Fireworks CS4
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CSS export new
Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, complete with external style sheets, in one step. Integrate foreground and background graphics with new slice types.
PDF export
Generate high-fidelity, protected PDF documents from your Fireworks comps for client communication. Help safeguard your designs with password protection — passwords can be created for viewing and other tasks such as printing, copying, and commenting.
Customizable and reusable assets enhanced
Jump-start your design process with the Common Library, a repository of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations frequently used in web and software applications, interfaces, and websites. Expand your collection with your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design.
New user interface new
Easily switch from other Creative Suite 4 components — such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash Professional — thanks to a universal user interface design.
- PDF file creation and collaboration with Acrobat 9 Pro
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Package documents in dynamic PDF Portfolios new
Assemble layouts, drawings, images, video, audio, and other files into a single dynamic PDF Portfolio with files preserved in their original formats or as PDFs. Customize the PDF Portfolio interface using professionally designed templates and interactive navigation based on Flash technology. Add your own brand elements, define the sequence in which documents are presented, and include descriptions of each document.
Embed content created in Adobe Flash new
Enrich your PDF documents with embedded video, audio, and widgets created in Flash Professional that are natively viewable with Adobe Acrobat® 9 and Adobe Reader® 9 software. Combine the security and convenience of portable Adobe PDF files with the rich appeal of high-impact media.
View how elements interact with Overprint Preview new
Easily and reliably preview how overlapping elements will display and print using intelligent Overprint Preview in Acrobat 9 Pro or Reader 9. Both products detect whether a selected page contains overlapping elements and then toggle Overprint Preview on or off accordingly.
- Visual media management with Adobe Bridge CS4
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Faster performance
Experience faster performance from starting up Bridge CS4 to browsing your assets. For example, set an option to display embedded previews in camera raw images to speed up their display.
Task-based workspaces
Quickly access task-based workspaces at the top of the Bridge CS4 window to move efficiently among common tasks, such as previewing assets, looking at images in a light table, assigning metadata, preparing output, and more.
- Mobile design and testing with Adobe Device Central CS4
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Dynamically updated online library of device profiles new
Access the latest device profiles through the dynamically updated online device library, which contains more than 450 Adobe Flash Lite™ supported devices. Browse, search, and sort device profiles; directly compare multiple devices along several dimensions; and create custom sets of devices for quick project access.
Smart testing environment
Easily preview and test the appearance, performance, and behavior of mobile content right on the desktop. Simulate various display conditions, such as backlight timeout and sunlight reflections, in the context of mobile device skins to better tune designs for real-world conditions.
- Online services
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Adobe Community Help new
Access the power of an online search engine from within Creative Suite 4, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth, product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities.
Adobe Kuler new
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler™. Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community, accessible from the new Kuler panel in some Creative Suite 4 components, the Kuler website, and the Kuler Adobe AIR® application. Browse and search for thousands of themes, download directly into your Swatches panel, and even upload your own themes to share.
Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com new
Sign up for Acrobat.com, a set of online services you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the ability to access one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, from within many Creative Suite 4 components, you can meet live over the web and share your screen with up to two online guests for no charge.
Adobe InContext Editing
Offer your colleagues, clients, or end users an easier way to make edits to web copy without impacting the design integrity of your web pages — and without help from you or additional software on their computers.
