Adobe Creative Suite Premium 1.3 [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Create and publish content for print and the Web
• Includes Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive
• Also includes Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software
• Create reliable Adobe PDF files; streamline review cycles
• Innovative Version Cue helps you find files fast, track multiple versions of your files, and share your files for creative collaboration

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• 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: B0006J2PTO
• Item model number: 28040225
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,884 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #33 in Software > Graphics > 3-D
  • #91 in Software > Graphics > Illustration
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Adobe Creative Suite is a complete design environment that combines Adobe's leading professional tools--the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive software and new Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software--with innovative Version Cue file-management features to let you create and publish content for print and the Web faster, more easily, and more affordably than ever.

Create artwork smoothly

With the Adobe Creative Suite, you can create beautiful, detailed artwork for your clients and projects. Editing images, creating photo compositions, and drawing vector graphics has never been a more fluid and flexible process than in the integrated design environment of the Adobe Creative Suite.

Adobe Photoshop for image editing

• Create the highest quality images faster with Adobe Photoshop CS software, the powerful upgrade from Photoshop 7.0. Create the highest quality images faster with Adobe Photoshop CS software, the powerful upgrade from Photoshop 7.0.
• Easily manage your images with the improved File Browser, quickly share design variations with Layer Comps, and instantly improve contrast with Shadow/Highlight correction. Create the highest quality images faster with Adobe Photoshop CS software, the powerful upgrade from Photoshop 7.0.
• Perform more precise editing and retouching with expanded support for 16-bit images and monitor changes to your image in the Histogram palette, which dynamically updates as you make adjustments.

Adobe Illustrator for drawing and vector graphics

• Explore your creative vision and efficiently publish your artwork anywhere with Adobe Illustrator CS software, the industry-standard vector graphics tool.
• With powerful new 3D features, advanced typographical controls, and a host of groundbreaking new design tools, this powerful upgrade from Illustrator 10 delivers the performance you need to make the most of your creativity.
• Import Photoshop image compositions directly to Illustrator--or create drawings in Illustrator and import them directly into Photoshop if that's how you prefer to work.
• Create native Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files using settings and options consistent with Adobe Acrobat® Distiller software and get fast, consistent print results with features like Fit to Page, Print Preview, and support for Print settings.

Lay out print and Web pages easily

Import your native vector and bitmap artwork directly into InDesign CS software for sophisticated print layouts or into Adobe GoLive CS software for powerful Web pages. And thanks to support for such technologies as Adobe PDF and XML, you can easily output your pages to both print and the Web.

Adobe InDesign for page layout and design

• Adobe InDesign CS (now with Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack software) takes page design to a new level, combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with innovative cross-media support.
• Import native Photoshop files--including multitones and spot channels--into InDesign, where you can apply editable drop shadows, feathering, and other opacity settings to produce natural-looking transparent effects.
• Organize and control objects using document-wide layers to hide, show, lock, and reorder them as you work.
• Import, create, edit, and export XML documents, complete with structure and tags, in Adobe InDesign.

Adobe GoLive for Web layout

• Create professional Web sites more efficiently with Adobe GoLive CS.
• Save time by opening, editing, and placing native Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files within the GoLive environment.
• Visually author standards-compliant pages and check for support in different browsers and devices with the integrated CSS Editor. Use the Smart Object technology in GoLive to place Adobe PDF, Photoshop, Illustrator, and other native assets directly into Web pages.
• Import XML-based content packaged from InDesign to automatically prepare print pages for Web publishing.
• Automatically convert Web sites to fully linked and scaled Adobe PDF files in GoLive for streamlined project reviews.

Deliver with confidence

With the Adobe Creative Suite, you can deliver your final files efficiently and confidently. Built-in support for the Adobe PDF standard across the entire suite means you can create reliable Adobe PDF files, streamline review cycles, and prepare final files of the highest quality.

Adobe Acrobat Professional for review and comment

• Initiate online reviews so that recipients with Adobe Reader® 7.0 software can not only comment with the same tools found in Acrobat 7.0 Professional, but also evaluate files using Overprint Preview.
• Convert preflight reports into comments to share with clients.
• Use full-featured commenting tools and online or e-mail based reviews to speed design reviews.

Adobe Acrobat Professional for print production

• Correct issues that might compromise print quality without having to create a new Adobe PDF file. For example, flatten live transparency, fix hairline rules, and convert color to CMYK.
• Automate the preflight process using hot folders.
• Minimize prepress errors with new warnings for total ink coverage, rich black detection, and overprints.
• Control inks, including remapping spot colors, using the same Ink Manager found in InDesign CS software.
• Identify conditions that might affect print output using a simplified preflight interface with ready-to-use profiles.

Adobe Acrobat Professional for reliable documents

• Depend on industry leader Adobe Systems’ own Adobe PDF creation engine for the most reliable, full-featured Adobe PDF files from any source document.
• Produce press-ready Adobe PDF files easily with the new PDF Maker for Microsoft Publisher.
• Create Adobe PDF files more quickly from PDF Maker in Microsoft Office applications.

New Features

The Adobe Creative Suite brings together full versions of Adobe's latest print and Web publishing tools in a comprehensive design environment. In addition to the new features of each component product noted below, the Creative Suite offers integrated file-management and workflow benefits designed to let you focus on your creativity.

Adobe Photoshop: Image editing

Match Color command
Achieve a consistent look between package shots, fashion photos, and more by instantly matching the color scheme of one image to another.

Text on a path
Create eye-catching typography by placing text on paths or within shapes. Edit the text at any time, even in Adobe Illustrator.

Improved File Browser
Quickly preview, tag, and sort images; search and edit metadata and keywords; and automatically share batches of files from the improved File Browser.

Adobe Illustrator: Drawing and illustration

Advanced typographical controls
Set sophisticated-looking type with new text composition controls, character and paragraph styles, automatic smart quotes and ligatures, and more.

3D effects
Create custom 3D shapes and type treatments, add lighting, and wrap artwork around shapes for packaging mock-ups.

Adobe PDF layers support
Create separate layers in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files that can be displayed or hidden within Adobe Acrobat 6.0 to organize your work or to show different design

Adobe InDesign: Page layout

Separations Preview palette
Prevent printing errors by using the Separations Preview palette to preview plates, overprinting, ink limits, and more.

Story Editor
Edit and style text in the Story Editor, an integrated word processor that helps you more efficiently handle text spanning multiple frames.

Flexible workspace management
Take advantage of numerous workspace enhancements, such as the new Control palette and custom workspaces, to tailor your work environment to your needs.

Adobe GoLive: Web design

Smart Objects
Open, edit, and place Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files within the GoLive environment.

InDesign Package for GoLive
Use XML to transfer a print publication's text and image assets to GoLive.

Advanced Adobe PDF file integration
Create, view, and add links to Adobe PDF files directly within the GoLive environment.

Adobe Acrobat Professional: Client review and print output

Ensure reliable print output
Identify and address conditions that might affect print output using enhanced preflight tools, and use new previews to minimize surprises at the printer.

Collaborate effectively with colleagues
Initiate online reviews so that recipients with Adobe Reader 7.0 software can not only comment with the same tools found in Acrobat 7.0 Professional, but also evaluate files using Overprint Preview.

Create dependable Adobe PDF files
Produce press-ready Adobe PDF files easily with the new PDF Maker for Microsoft Publisher, and enjoy faster creation performance in Acrobat 7.0 Professional from any source document.

Adhere to industry standards
Generate industry-standard PDF/X-compliant files for advertising as well as Adobe PDF files that comply with the new Job Definition Format (JDF) specification to streamline back-end processes.

Version Cue

An exclusive feature of the Adobe Creative Suite, Version Cue helps you find files fast, track multiple versions of your files, and share your files for creative collaboration.

Find files fast

• With Version Cue, your files are at your fingertips.
• Search for files by the comments you've applied to them, or use robust metadata, such as keywords, file descriptions, author, copyright, and file type.
• Save time and preview large files without opening them.

Track your edits

• Say good-bye to awkward file names like "brochure_1," "brochure_2," or even "brochure_final_final.psd."
• With Version Cue, all versions of a file are tracked in one dialog box. You can even revert or save back to previous versions--all from within the familiar environments of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive software.

Share with confidence

• Ideal for creative teams, Version Cue manages your project with multiuser controls that prevent files from being accidentally overwritten. And because Version Cue tracks the status of every file for you, you don't have to check out or reserve a file when you want to edit it.
• Add Version Cue comments to your files and your team will have the most current project information, ensuring the most efficient, productive workflow.
• Run Version Cue from your own desktop to provide access to your files for team members. Or run Version Cue on a separate machine. The choice is yours.
• Advanced administration options let you manage security options, back up projects, create projects by importing files from a folder, delete old versions of a file in a batch, and more.

Product Description

Adobe Creative Suite Premium combines the best Digital design tools with the very best in File management. It offers a complete design environment, with Professional layout & design tools for better printing and Web publishing. It features full versions of popular Adobe design & publishing tools in an intuitive design environment: Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, GoLive CS and Acrobat 7 Professional. Take advantage of GoLive CS' powerful graphics, site management and collaboration tools Version Cue technology finds files quickly by viewing thumbnails or searching on metadata like description, keywords, author, copyright, and file type Includes design guide and multiple training resources

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than CS2, this collection is everything a designer needs!, January 31, 2006

By 

Scott Carmichael (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Creative Suite Premium 1.3 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Forget the overhyped and clunky Creative Suite 2 - the first Creative Suite (released in 2003) is STILL the best collection of apps for serious graphic designers.

Photoshop CS simply can't be beat - and this is the last version of Photoshop that doesn't have strange things happening to your Layers palette or the placement and options of your tools around the screen.

Illustrator CS is amazing as the typography features have been improved substantially over version 10. With the new 3D feature even untrained 3D-wannabee artists can try to make their designs *pop* off the page more using it!

Indesign is no longer the buggy, dodgy mess that it used to be. Now a reliable and intuitive page playout program, there is no reason for you to ever start up Quark again.

Golive is still the finest WYSIWYG HTML editor on the market, and is far simpler to use than Macromedia (er, Adobe now) Dreamweaver. Unlike Golive CS2, this version does NOT take forever to start up.

Acrobat 6.0 Pro is also included in the bundle, but as many actual users of it know, there's not a whole lot to it. It's good to have with the rest of the programs but hardly a big selling point. And Version Cue? Nice to play with, but not too essential to productivity.

Finally, the best thing about the original Creative Suite over CS2 is the LACK of Adobe Bridge. That horrible app is a resource hog and takes the place of Photoshop's old file browser. People should avoid CS2 if only because of that programming abomination.

So there it is folks - an overview of the best software collection ever released....Adobe's Creative Suite!

1.0 out of 5 stars A Little Disappointed, March 13, 2011

By 

Ginger Rechtzigel - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Adobe Creative Suite Premium 1.3 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I was a little disappointed when I discovered that the software version I bought was for a Mac operating system.
I have a PC. I am out sixty-some dollars and cannot resell this software because it was flagged for piracy through eBay. Fun stuff.