Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer’s dream toolkit for print, web and interactive, 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 designing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content. Design Premium offers a productive, intuitive, and tightly integrated environment with everything you need to design content for tomorrow as well as today.

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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software empowers students and faculty to express creative ideas using full-featured, industry-standard design tools for digital communication. With integrated toolsets for layout, image editing, and illustration, students and faculty can create professional-quality print materials, engaging websites, rich interactive experiences, and dynamic mobile content—all essential skills for future career success. Optimized for exceptional efficiency between components, Design Premium helps you to express ideas in more ways with greater speed and freedom than ever before.

Top reasons to buy 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
-Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows
-Adobe Bridge CS3, which also offers direct access to Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Stock Photos, Adobe Device Central CS3, and Adobe Acrobat Connect

Unparalleled integration— Use native files any way you need to: Open native Photoshop files in Illustrator, import them into InDesign layouts or Flash projects, and copy them into Dreamweaver. Open Illustrator files in Photoshop and import them into InDesign layouts and Flash projects. Open and edit Adobe PDF files in Illustrator and Photoshop, and place them in InDesign layouts.

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.

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.

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.

Fluid web workflows— Become more proficient at web and interactive design. Get up to speed quickly in Flash, which now features a more familiar Adobe-standard interface, an objectoriented drawing mode, and a Pen tool like the one in Illustrator. And jump-start web page designs using CSS layouts in Dreamweaver.

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.

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.*

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.

System requirements
Macintosh

PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor

Mac OS X v.10.4.8, Java Runtime Environment 1.5 required for Adobe Version Cue CS3 Server

1GB of RAM

6.3GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)

1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card

DVD-ROM drive

QuickTime 7.1.2 software required for multimedia features

Some 3D features in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended require an OpenGL 1.4 capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM

Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services