Adobe CS5 is Here
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While the official launch event doesn’t start until 8am PT on Monday, Adobe is starting to release new information about the latest update to their family of product. Monday is going to be a big day for them.
Among their Creative Suite products, I use primarily Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat Professional in connection with my photography. All three are getting upgraded to a new version. I’m actually pretty excited, because new features in those three products are changing the game for digital artists. I usually wait a few months before upgrading, but I may make the plundge sooner with this version.
Like many bloggers and photographers, I was invited to review the new version of Photoshop before it launched, but with my busy scheduled in the past few weeks, I did not get a chance to do it properly. Instead, I invite you to make a jump and read the initial thoughts of my buddy Thomas Hawk who did play with Photoshop CS5 and shared his initial thoughts about the pruduct here.
Make the jump for the official press release from Adobe.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Adobe Unveils Creative Suite 5 Product Family
Breakthrough Interactive Design Tools Maximize Impact of Creative Content and Digital Marketing Campaigns Across Media and Devices
SAN JOSE, Calif., — April 12, 2010 — Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 product family, a breakthrough release of the industry-leading Web, design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Focusing on interactivity, performance and maximizing the impact of digital content and marketing campaigns, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full-version upgrades of flagship creative tools while delivering significant workflow enhancements to designers and developers. Featuring integration with online content and digital marketing measurement and optimization capabilities for the first time, Creative Suite 5 products include access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and analyze information generated by Web sites and other sources. Additionally, a brand new component, Adobe Flash® Catalyst™, joins the Creative Suite, ushering in the ability to design interactive content without writing code and improve the collaborative process between designer and developer.
The Adobe CS5 product family also enables the creation of content and applications for the much-anticipated releases of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR® 2, which are optimized for high performance on mobile screens and designed to take advantage of native device capabilities for a richer, more immersive user experience.
Product Family
This release line-up includes the following Creative Suite 5 editions:
· Creative Suite 5 Master Collection (see separate release)
· Creative Suite 5 Design Premium (see separate release)
· Creative Suite 5 Design Standard
· Creative Suite 5 Web Premium (see separate release)
· Creative Suite 5 Production Premium (see separate release)
Also included are 15 point products, associated technologies and integration with new Adobe CS Live services: (CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time.)*
· Photoshop® CS5 (see separate release)
· Illustrator® CS5 (see separate release)
· InDesign® CS5 (see separate release)
· Flash Catalyst CS5 (see separate release)
· Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5 (see separate release)
New Features
· Truer Edge technology in Photoshop CS5 Extended offers improved edge detecting technology and masking results in less time. Photoshop CS5 Extended also lets users remove an image element and immediately replace the missing pixels with Content-Aware Fill.
· InDesign CS5 powers the transition to digital publishing with new interactive documents and enhanced eReader device support.
· Native 64-bit support in Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects enables customers to work more fluidly on high resolution projects.
· New Text Layout Framework in Flash Professional CS5 provides professional-level typography capabilities with functions like kerning, ligatures, tracking, leading, threaded text block and multiple columns.
· New stroke options in Illustrator CS5 allow users to create strokes of variable widths and precisely adjust the width at any point along the stroke.
· The NVIDIA® GPU accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine allows Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 users to open projects faster, refine effects-rich HD sequences in real time and play back complex projects without rendering.
· The new Roto Brush tool in After Effects helps users save time by isolating moving foreground elements in a fraction of the normal time.
· Dreamweaver CS5 now supports popular content management systems Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress, allowing designers to get accurate views of dynamic Web content from within Dreamweaver.