Adobe Creative Suite 4 - Master Collection

Express your creative vision in more media smoothly and efficiently with groundbreaking new features and enhancements in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, such as the revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling in Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended, rich interactive document export from Adobe InDesign® CS4, dramatically simpler animation controls in Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional, and support for next-generation tapeless workflows in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4 and Adobe OnLocation™ CS4.

Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing.

Adobe InDesign CS4 breaks down the barriers between online and offline publishing. Create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime and interactive PDF documents. Enhance designs by using tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control over graphics, typography, colour, transparency, effects and placed images.

Discover new dimensions in digital imaging.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended not only delivers all the features of Photoshop CS4, but also enables you to work with 3D imagery, motion-based content and do an advanced image analysis. Take greater advantage of everything that Adobe Photoshop Extended offers with a more intuitive user interface and non-destructive editing freedom - helping you to achieve the highest-quality results.

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 creates a comprehensive vector graphics environment with new transparency in gradients and multiple artboards that helps you to find more efficient ways to design. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely - helping you to push your own creative boundaries.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for design, web and print professionals.

Tightly integrated into four editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro enables you to create richly expressive PDF documents, collaborate more effectively with clients and colleagues and confidently prepare files for high-end print production. Enjoy full support for Adobe Flash technology that enables reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations and applications in Adobe Acrobat and Reader®. PDF documents have never been so engaging.

Create and deliver rich interactive content.

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional creates an industry-leading environment for creating engaging interactive experiences. Deliver content rich designs to audiences across platforms and devices. Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Flash CS4 Professional. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.

Design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications.

Build world-class websites and applications with one of the industry's leading web authoring tools. Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is ideal for web designers, web developers and visual designers. Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF and dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.

Rapidly create prototypes and design for the web.

Adobe Fireworks® CS4 allows you to create prototypes for websites and application interfaces quickly and easily. Create and optimise images for the web more quickly and accurately than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CSUse the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Creative Suite 4 components, including Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4.

Simplify web content management.

Adobe Contribute CS4 enables you and your team to collaboratively author, review and publish web content while maintaining site integrity - without learning HTML. It also empowers you to quickly and easily publish content to static and dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG authoring. You also have a wide choice of editing websites directly from your favourite browsers, or you can compose and publish web content from within Microsoft Office applications. Design, preview and test engaging mobile content.

Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard.

With Adobe After Effects CS4, you can create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with flexible tools that help save you time and deliver unparalleled creative power. Achieve creative control over virtually every element of your production in the highly responsive 2D and 3D compositing and animation environment of Adobe After Effects® CSCreate text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative new motion graphics.

Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device.

Tell your story with maximum impact using Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4 software, the start-to-finish video production solution that includes Adobe OnLocation CS4 and Encore CS4 software.

Create and edit audio with ease.

Adobe Soundbooth CS4 gives web designers, video editors and other creative professionals the right tools to create and polish audio, customise music, add sound effects and do much more. Learn how to master audio for your film, video or rich media project. Task-based tools help you to clean up recordings, polish voice-overs, and customise music and sound effects. High-quality production becomes more efficient with Adobe Soundbooth CS4, without sacrificing creative control.

Shoot better and faster with powerful production tools.

Adobe OnLocation™ CS4 software offers a powerful, direct-to-disk recording and monitoring solution for Windows® and Intel® based Mac OS systems. Use fast, efficient logging tools during recording in Adobe OnLocation™ CS4 to add metadata that increases productivity at every stage in the production process. Record DV, HDV and DVCPRO HD footage directly to hard disk, while Adobe OnLocation CS4 automatically detects and flags problems in your footage to help you avoid reshoots. Use the Shot List and Metadata panel to add important scene and camera information in XMP format metadata. Then use that metadata to manage your projects with greater efficiency from post-production through delivery.

Deliver virtually anywhere.

Adobe Encore® CS4 is a rich set of creative tools for DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring as well as SWF file export to the web.

Manage media visually.

Adobe Bridge CS4 is a powerful, easy-to-use media manager that allows you to easily organise, browse, locate and view creative assets. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4 and in most of Adobe's professional creative applications, Bridge provides centralised access to project files and global settings, plus XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.

Design, preview and test engaging mobile content.

With Adobe Device Central CS4, you can produce innovative and compelling content for mobile phones and other consumer electronics devices. Save time by automating testing and simulating the network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated library of device profiles. Create mobile projects to manage assets, target device profiles and export options in one central location. Record content as it plays and easily send high-quality movie clips to pitch ideas more easily to clients. Thanks to the intelligent integration with Adobe Creative Suite 4 components, Adobe Device Central CS4 helps creative professionals and mobile developers deliver engaging experiences to millions of mobile subscribers.

Eliminate intermediate rendering with Adobe Dynamic Link.

Adobe Dynamic Link gives you tighter-than-ever integration when moving assets between Adobe After Effects® CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Soundbooth CS4 and Encore® CSAn integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and Master Collection, Dynamic Link enables you to work faster and stay in the creative flow by eliminating intermediate rendering when you make changes to assets - whether you're editing a sequence of clips in Adobe Premiere Pro, changing a composition in After Effects, refining a project in Encore, or sweetening audio in Soundbooth.

Streamline file management for creative projects.

Creative teams can now work more efficiently using Adobe Version Cue CS4, the server-based file management system that is included with Adobe Creative Suite 4. With Version Cue CS4 and the new Adobe Drive, you can manage shared project files centrally, work in parallel with others using an intuitive version control system and track a file's status with comments. You can also use Adobe Bridge to find files visually, search for XMP metadata and host Adobe PDF reviews. Version Cue is tightly integrated with specific Creative Suite 4 components - helping creative workgroups to manage shared project files easily, without leaving the design environment.