Customer Reviews

Adobe Creative Suite Premium 1.3 [Old Version]

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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!

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.