Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium [OLD VERSION]

by Adobe

Product Features

• The ideal solution for creating pages for print, designing pages for the web and mobile devices, editing photos, and creating illustrations
• Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design
• Enjoy a unified, integrated design experience with new self-adjusting panels and other shared interface elements for maximum productivity
• Combines full new versions of Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional
• Combines all-new versions of essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000NDICIQ
• Item model number: 29500007
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 27, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,237 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for producing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content--all in a unified, intuitive design environment.

From exploring design concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the tightly integrated tools in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real--in print, on the web, and on mobile devices.

Deliver Innovative Ideas in Print, Web, and Mobile Design

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment.

Design with essential tools
Let your ideas take flight with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, which equips you to craft your best creative work more easily and efficiently than ever before. From thinking through concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the intuitive tools in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium lets you stay true to your creative intent without making compromises along the way.

Keep your ideas flowing
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium lets you slip into the creative zone and stay there by offering tight integration and shared features that enable you to move fluidly between tasks. Easily move assets between components to avoid awkward workarounds. Import Adobe Photoshop Extended and Illustrator artwork into Adobe Flash, for example, or paste Photoshop images into Adobe Dreamweaver. Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge, coordinate with team members using Adobe Version Cue, and host real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect--all from within Creative Suite 3 Design Premium.

Design for today...and tomorrow
Prepare content for a wide range of media, from print pieces to interactive websites to mobile devices, using integrated tools to produce industry-standard output. Depend on reliable Adobe PDF workflows for print production, move from print design to web design by exporting XHTML from Adobe InDesign to Dreamweaver, and enable efficient developer workflows as you create cutting-edge interactive experiences. From pages to pixels, Design Premium lets you design for tomorrow as well as today.

Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing

Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation

Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout

Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design

Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development

Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows

Audience benefit

Design professionals
Express your ideas in virtually any medium, from paper to pixels, using intuitive tools that help you stay true to your creative intent. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing, combining all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for designing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content in a unified design environment. Design Premium also offers visual asset management, effective file management for collaborative creative teams, mobile content previewing, and access to services such as Adobe Stock Photos* for royalty-free imagery and Adobe Acrobat Connect* for web conferencing. With Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, you can create beautiful, engaging content, collaborate effectively, and equip yourself for new business opportunities with tools that let you design for tomorrow as well as today.

Print professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software offers print professionals industry-standard tools for design and production. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium combines full new versions of Adobe's leading design and production tools-- Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional--in a tightly integrated environment that offers productivity features for visual asset management, effective file management, mobile content previewing, and direct access to online services. Enjoy consistent print controls, shared color settings, and shared PDF export presets across Design Premium components, and generate reliable output using support for high-end Adobe PDF workflows, including PDF/X. Preflight |PDF files using Acrobat, which now offers automated file correction, and automate workflows using JDF. Even improve communication with customers using real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect.* Creative Suite 3 Design Premium gives you the most trusted tools for the job, helping you realize smooth production processes--and diversify your services.

IT professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software enables creative teams to realize their ideas more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Built on industry standards to provide long-term compatibility, Creative Suite 3 Design Premium can be deployed across networks, is extensible and scriptable, and can be tailored to meet a variety of specialized design and publishing needs. Design Premium combines full new versions of Adobe's essential design tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional--with Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, Adobe Stock Photos*, and Adobe Acrobat Connect* for improved collaboration and productivity in creative workgroups. Offering a single installer and serial number for easy installation and backed by the quality and reliability Adobe is known for, Creative Suite 3 Design Premium meets the needs of your creative team.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

Top New Benefits of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

All-new versions of essential creative tools
Experience the ultimate creative toolset with Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout, Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing, Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation, Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design, Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development, and Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows.

Unprecedented integration
Use native files more easily than ever in different design workflows: Import Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, and copy Photoshop files into Dreamweaver. And enjoy a unified, integrated design experience with new self-adjusting panels and other shared interface elements.

Powerful design workflows
Bring your most visionary ideas to life in print, on the web, and on mobile devices. Automatically find and fix errors before printing high-quality pages using InDesign and Acrobat. Export InDesign layouts as XHTML to use in web designs in Dreamweaver. Easily create graphics in Flash using the Adobe-standard Pen tool. And test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central.

Support for the latest Mac and Windows systems
Get the most out of Creative Suite 3 Design Premium on Intel based Mac systems and Microsoft Windows Vista computers. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC based Mac and Windows XP systems as well.

New dimensions in digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Select image regions more intuitively, apply filters nondestructively, manipulate 3D images, and create accurate composites of images with similar content using Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Inspired vector graphics creation in Adobe Illustrator CS3
Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color in Illustrator CS3. Select and align points and edit paths more easily than ever before, and easily incorporate vector graphics into print, web and interactive, and mobile designs.

Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3
Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing.

Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Easily organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; nondestructive batch-editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files; playback of Flash files; and direct access to useful services such as Adobe Stock Photos.*

Stronger designer-developer workflows
Import layered Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, animate them, and export them automatically in the ActionScript 3.0 language to hand off to developers. Use new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages, and collaborate with developers to produce interactive web experiences using the Spry framework for Ajax.

Integrated support for mobile design
Produce compelling mobile graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop Extended, add interactivity in Flash, and code pages for mobile display in Dreamweaver. Then preview and test your designs using mobile device profiles in Adobe Device Central CS3.

Additional Features

Industry-leading image editing and illustration
Experience unrivaled image editing and compositing, and even perform advanced image analysis, using Photoshop CS3 Extended. Produce inspired vector graphics with Illustrator CS3, which lets you interactively explore, apply, and control color. And work seamlessly between the two components with native file format support.

Designer-developer workflows
Import layered Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, animate them, and export them automatically in the ActionScript 3.0 language to hand off to developers. Use new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages, and collaborate with developers to produce interactive web experiences using the Spry framework for Ajax.

Adobe PDF print workflows
Use widely available Adobe PDF to create reliable and consistent final output, streamline print production--including automatically fixing mistakes before they get to press--and automate workflows using JDF.

Support for PDF/X standard
Create reliable, press-ready layouts using ISO- and ANSI-standard PDF/X, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 (draft), and PDF/A.

Powerful JDF workflows
Automatically convert InDesign files to Adobe PDF and preflight and validate them against the targeted output intent (including number of pages, page size, and more) using enhanced JDF workflows.

Shared PDF presets
Use built-in Adobe PDF export presets--or create custom presets--in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to generate consistent Adobe PDF files for electronic review or final output.

Streamlined print production
Preflight Adobe PDF files in Acrobat 8 Professional and fix problems before they get to press. Automatically correct hairlines, downsample image resolution, flatten transparency, and more.

Automation through scripting
Speed routine tasks and automate processes within and across components of the software by writing scripts in JavaScript, AppleScript, Microsoft Visual Basic, and the ExtendScript toolkit.

Efficient and easy-to-manage deployment
Easily deploy Design Premium using a single installer and serial number, and track, manage, and accurately allocate Adobe software assets using Adobe License Manager.

* Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe Stock Photos and Acrobat Connect, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees. For details, visit www.adobe.com.

Adobe Creative Suite 3: What's in Each Edition?

	ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3 EDITIONS
	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	WEB STANDARD	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
Adobe Photoshop CS3 extended
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe illustrator CS3
Adobe indesign CS3
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Contribute CS3
Adobe Fireworks CS3
Adobe After effects CS3 Professional
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Adobe Soundbooth CS3
Adobe encore CS3
Adobe onlocation					*
Adobe ultra CS3					*
	ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND SERVICES IN ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3
Adobe bridge CS3
Adobe version Cue CS3
Adobe device Central CS3
Adobe dynamic link
Adobe Stock Photos
Adobe Acrobat Connect

* Adobe Ultra runs on Microsoft Windows only. For Macintosh users, Adobe OnLocation requires Bootcamp and Windows (purchased separately), or a separate Windows-based computer.

Product Description

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for producing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content -- all in a unified, intuitive design environment. It's productive, intuitive, and tightly integrated environment with everything you need to design content for tomorrow as well as today. Import layered Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, animate them and export in ActionScript 3.0 for developers Preview and test your designs using mobile device profiles in Adobe Device Central CS3 Easily organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3 Use InDesign for direct access to Adobe Stock Photos Export InDesign layouts as XHTML to use in web designs in Dreamweaver

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Products Trapped Behind Flawed Adobe Installer/Licensing Software on Vista Home Premium/McAfee Anti-Virus, July 28, 2007

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FPGA (Soquel, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

[UPDATED: Successfully Installed after One Week of Failed Attempts!]

The following are my experiences using Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Design Premium on a Windows Vista Home Premium laptop. Your experience may vary. Hopefully, the hints about anti-virus below will save you time.

These issues may also affect the following other products.

* Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard
* Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard
* Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium

I've been using and installing PC software for some 20+ years, ranging from commodity consumer programs to complex engineering packages. Installing the he Adobe Creative Suite package was challenging, at least for me on Vista. I suspect that the problem actually resides in Adobe's new anti-piracy licensing software. Adobe is certainly within its rights to protect their generally high-quality software. Unfortunately, it's apparently so secure that even paying customers have trouble using it!

I spent more time attempting to install the software than I paid for it! After trolling the various self-support sites, digging through Windows event files, and sumbitting a web support case (fortunately, Adobe's support team is generally quite good), it now works! In my case, I had to completely (and I mean _completely_) disable the McAfee anti-virus software on my machine. Adobe actually recommended that I completely uninstall my anti-virus program before attempting the installation, but fortunately McAfee allows you to temporarily disable itself. There is scant mention of any of these issues in the documents that come with the product or on the Adobe support pages.


Don't trust just my review on this. Please see some of the other comments on Adobe's own support forum site and other negative reviews on the web. Just search for "adobe cs3 install problems" and "adobe forums".

The Adobe products themselves are excellent, mostly best-in-class. Now that I have the product successfully installed, I would raise my rating to a '3', solely for the flawed installation process. Once installed, the programs work very well.

NOTE: Generating PDF from Word 2007 is different than for previous versions. You must now "Save As" and select PDF. There is also a XPS/PDF tool available directly from Windows that is very fast and generally produces good PDF. However, I encountered a number of problems with broken links after apply document security or watermarking on the Microsoft-generated PDF or optimizing the file size. PDF saved using the Adobe PDF writer took significantly longer to generate, but they worked flawlessly after apply security and watermarking. I'm chalking this up to the relative novelty of Vista.

By the way, be sure to select Help --> Check for Updates after installing the Adobe software. You will be udpated from Acrobat 8.0 to 8.1, which appears crucial for Office 2007.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing package, December 27, 2007

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Vidar Lund - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I read the reviews about the installation issues and turned off my virus protection just in case, had no issues what-so-ever with the installation or the internet activation.

I'm running the package on a 3 year old laptop with Windows XP. Was worried that 512 Meg RAM would be too little but things are running smooth (but of course I cannot run many things simultaneously).

I'm very impressed with the products offered in this package, it covers all my design needs and more. I'm new to many of the included products but don't find them as intimidating as some people claim. The package has many advanced features but that does not mean that it is complicated or difficult to use, the most common tools are easy to find.

If you need a professional design studio package, don't even think about buying anything else than this.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good programs...when they work!, September 17, 2007

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amguen "amguen" (somewhere in the middle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

Like the others here I have had horrible problems with this software. Initially we spent 7 full days installing. Once we finally got the install done (and I wish I'd had the guy with the McAfee problem talking to me when I started: same fix) it worked for about a week. Now Dreamweaver will not open, and I have hundreds of SideBySide errors on my computer. I have googled the problem and it seems others are having the issue but no one has a solution. When I e-mailed technical service I got a brief reply telling me to reinstall....it didn't look like they even took the time to look and see if it was a legitimate problem.

Best advice....don't buy it.