Adobe Creative Suites Premium 1.1 [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• An integrated design environment featuring the industry's foremost design tools
• In-depth tips, expert tricks, and comprehensive design resources
• Intuitive file finding, smooth workflow, and common interface and toolset
• Single installer--control what you install and when you install it
• Cross-media publishing--create content for both print and the Web

Product Details

Product Manual [107kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 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: B0000DBN6M
• Item model number: 28040177
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 29, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,450 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #3 in Software > Web Development > Internet Utilities > Electronic Publishing
  • #5 in Software > Web Development > Professional Development
  • #9 in Software > Web Development > Web Page Editors > WYSIWYG
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Adobe Creative Suite is an integrated design environment that combines the most complete upgrade in Adobe's history--featuring full, new versions of the tools you rely on most for image editing, illustration, page layout, and cross-media output--with innovative file-management features, a smooth Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) workflow, and comprehensive design resources. Create and publish content for print and the Web faster and more easily than ever before--all at an outstanding value. Adobe integration makes it possible. The Adobe Creative Suite makes it affordable.

The Adobe Creative Suite Premium edition combines full versions of Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, Adobe GoLive CS, and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional software with innovative Version Cue file management features, a smooth Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) workflow, and valuable training resources.

ADOBE Creative Suite Features:

• Complete design integration: experience unmatched integration with full new versions of the industry's leading and most trusted professional creative applications.
• A complete toolset: use a complete set of the industry's foremost design tools--built to work together and priced affordably.
• Design and training resources: get the most from your software with in-depth tips, expert tricks, and comprehensive design resources.
• Intuitive file finding: use Version Cue to find files quickly by viewing thumbnails or search on robust metadata such as description, keywords, author, copyright, and file type.
• Smooth workflow: boost your productivity with time-saving integration and a smooth Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) workflow.
• Common interface and toolset: come up to speed quickly and work efficiently using common commands, tools, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts.
• Single installer: Control what you install and when you install it. Get the functionality most suited to your needs or install everything at once to ensure that the right tool is always there when you need it.
• Expanded support options: Receive 90 days of complimentary support and then take advantage of Adobe Studio resources or extended Expert Support options.
• Cross-media publishing: position yourself for the future and take your skills to the next level by creating content for both print and the Web.
• Upgrade ease: minimize frustrating incompatibilities and enjoy the convenience of upgrading your Adobe toolset all at once.

Features for Cross-Media Publishers:

• A complete toolset: use a complete set of the industry's foremost design tools--built to work together and priced affordably.
• Native file-format support: create layouts in a snap by placing native Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files directly in Adobe InDesign.
• Design and training resources: get the most from your software with in-depth tips, expert tricks, and comprehensive design resources.
• Reliable printing: preview transparency flattening and color separations to ensure accurate print results; preflight Adobe PDF files to reduce late-stage errors.
• Cross-media publishing: position yourself for the future and take your skills to the next level by creating content for both print and the Web.

Features for Web Designers:

• A complete toolset: use a complete set of the industry's foremost design tools--built to work together and priced affordably.
• Native file-format support: create layouts in a snap by placing native Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files directly in Adobe GoLive.
• Streamlined Web project reviews: accelerate Web project reviews by converting sites into fully linked Adobe PDF files, scaled to the appropriate size in GoLive.
• Automated Web production: update image files in batches with improved integration between GoLive and Adobe ImageReady.
• Local file serving: serve projects locally from your desktop and provide access to networked team members without additional hardware.

Product Description

The Adobe Creative Suite is an integrated design environment that combines the most complete upgrade in Adobe's history--featuring full, new versions of the tools you rely on most for image editing, illustration, page layout, and cross-media output--with innovative file-management features, a smooth Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) workflow, and comprehensive design resources. Create and publish content for print and the Web faster and more easily than ever before--all at an outstanding value. Adobe integration makes it possible. The Adobe Creative Suite makes it affordable.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Designers Need the Apps and the Price is Good, January 1, 2004

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A.Trendl HungarianBookstore.com "What should ... (Glen Ellyn, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Creative Suites Premium 1.1 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Everything is in here. All of the design apps are on two installer CDs. Any designer -- whether web or print -- has at least a few of the applications in this suite. You only need to decide if the price is right, and if your current upgrades would make the purchase worthwhile.

Buying this suite is the equivalent of a corporate employee owning Microsoft Office. Adobe's name now equals design software. Knowing Adobe's product line is simply required knowledge. Print houses will accept and produce your files without problems, and multiplatform file transfer can be completed with minimum processing time.

For me, I was using a dated version of Illustrator, PageMaker 6.5, Photoshop Elements. The additional programs and new versions of what I had made the purchase a no-brainer. I also primarily use Dreamweaver, but learning GoLive will help me as I meet with clients. Outside of InDesign and GoLive, every application here is the industry standard, and those two programs are strongly coming into their own.

To explain the virtues of each individual application is not necessary. You know the benefits of Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, and GoLive. InDesign might be new to some of the veterans, but it is beyond a replacement for the inferior PageMaker, and is a force of its own.

With the quality increase of InDesign, designers are now able to choose something besides Quark for their page layout application. Including InDesign here made the purchase for me easy. I have no reason now to piecemeal together my software base.

Each application has all of the features that they have when independently purchased.

I fully recommend "Adobe Creative Suites Premium." Designers need these apps, and so your decision is only about price and value.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All the goodies from Adobe, together for the first time!, December 16, 2003

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Manny Hernandez "@askmanny" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Creative Suites Premium 1.1 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Adobe has taken a dual bold (and brilliant) step: they've bundled all their key applications into a single suite (very appropriately baptized the Creative Suite -CS) and they've opened up a very straightforward upgrade path that leverages on their established Photoshop user base: essentially, you can upgrade for a very affordable price to the entire suite, if you have ANY full version of Adobe (no matter how old!)

As for improvements, the best component to be included in this suite is called Version Cue, and is nothing short of a a basic version of an asset management/check-in/check-out component which allows multiple users of the same assets to not step on each other's toes by blocking write access to an asset currently being used by another user. Something that's been around for ages in the software arena, but to which the design world is becoming used to lately.

In terms of specific apps, Photoshop CS (forget the numbers from this point on, think "CS") comes back with an improved File Browser, with very nice features such as the ability for users to add keywords to the files, PhotoMerge (which will allow you to seamlessly put together two or more pictures that were shot "side by side" as in a landscape picture of a city, for instance), and a number of great features that will make the application friendlier to photographers. Among the photographers' goodies comes embedded support for the Camera Raw file format (previously only available through a paid plug-in) and MatchColor to allow you to apply the color of one image to another. Those that scan multiple prints at once are up for a great surprise: the Cop and Straighten feature which does just that... as unbelievable as it sounds, it crops all the scanned pictures and rotate them so as to make them perfectly straight, eliminating the guesswork and the rework from this tedious process.

Illustrator CS for the most part underwent an important "behind the scenes" overhaul, making it a faster app than before. But also, there's a new and highly appreciated 3D Effects feature that borrowed its strengths from Adobe Dimension, allowing you (among other things) to extrude and bevel an object to project otherwise flat or one-dimensional objects in 3 dimensions: Illustrators will just LOVE this!

InDesign CS is perhaps the application that benefited most from the upgrade, bringing a load of useful and highly expected features. I'd like to stress ONE feature, though, that blew me away... two words: NESTED STYLES. If you have suffered through the painful process of laying out a document where more than two styles are required in a particular content block, you will shed tears of joy when you see this at work! You are bound to also find very handy the enhanced table features such as automated running headers and footers for tables that run across multiple linked text frames. Printers (people in the printing industry) are also going to be happy (or so Adobe wants) with the features that have been included in InDesign CS for them.

As for GoLive CS, I've not been much of a user of this application, I admit, so I won't comment on it as much, but what I've read about it is that the upgrade for it was mostly focused on enhancing the interface.

Finally, bundled with the Creative Suite comes the previously released Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional. This product deserves a lengthy and detailed review, one which I will write for it shortly.

All in all, I am VERY happy with the new Creative Suite and I highly encourage anyone in the design industry to take the plunge into it. It will be very much worth your time and it will pay off for itself in no time with the increased productivity!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adobe continues to rule, November 20, 2004

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Photoguy (Indianapolis, Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Creative Suites Premium 1.1 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Before purchasing this package, I read several of the reviews and was scared silly by the warnings. Fortunately, I didn't have any problems loading it and haven't experienced problems using any of the programs. I should add that I am on a Windows XP platform.

The Creative Suite has incorporated several changes in all of the programs, but they remain familiar enough to get through them if you've used the previous versions. The video tour is great even if all of the possibilities seem overwhelming at first. Photoshop is still the industry standard for image manipulation and the new version has some goodies that makes it indispensable. Coupled with new features for Illustrator and InDesign, the Creative Suite package is a great tool for those of us who work as graphic designers or photographers.

Finally, InDesign is very easy to use and offers more features than Quark. Although I love Quark, I wonder if this will be its doom? I hope not, but change is inevitable.