Adobe Creative Suite
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| developer | Adobe Inc. |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| Current version | Creative Suite 6 (May 7, 2012) |
| operating system | Windows , macOS |
| category | Creation and editing of digital media |
| License | proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
| Adobe Creative Suite | |
The Adobe Creative Suite [ əˌdoʊbi kɹiˈeɪt.ɪv swiːt ] is a program package of design, graphics and production software from the US company Adobe Inc. The first version came onto the market in September 2003 with updated versions of the individual programs.
The last version available for purchase was Creative Suite 6 (CS6) from May 2012, and sales were discontinued in January 2017. Newer versions of the individual programs are only offered as a subscription model via the Creative Cloud sales platform .
Applications
The independent programs in the collection each cover a specific area of application:
- Adobe Acrobat is responsible for Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). Adobe Acrobat Standard, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Adobe Acrobat Suite are used to create and edit PDF files. The Adobe Reader is a free program for viewing PDF files.
- Adobe After Effects is compositing and animation software . It can be used to combine film recordings with computer-generated images and effects.
- Adobe Audition is professional audio editor software for editing digital audio files.
- Adobe Bridge serves as the central program for all project files and file formats that are supported by the programs of the Creative Suite. A file preview that can be zoomed and scrolled as well as extensive administrative functions for metadata are provided.
- Adobe Contribute edits the content of a website. It enables multiple users within an organization to maintain websites without the need for web design skills.
- Adobe Device Central helps users preview Flash, bitmap, web, and video content on mobile devices. With the introduction of Creative Suite CS6, development and sales of Adobe Device Central were discontinued on April 23, 2012.
- Adobe Dreamweaver is an HTML editor consisting of a combination of a WYSIWYG editor with parallel source code editing .
- Adobe Dynamic Link controls how After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore and Audition work together.
- Adobe Encore is the authoring of DVDs and Blu-ray discs .
- Adobe Fireworks is a graphics program , the raster graphics and vector graphics can edit and create.
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Adobe Flash is a software family with the following components:
- Adobe Flash Professional
- Adobe Flash Catalyst
- Adobe Flash Builder , formerly Adobe Flex Builder
- Adobe Flash Player , a free application for playing Flash files (SWF).
- Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics program.
- Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing application.
- Adobe OnLocation enables filmmakers to save recordings directly to the hard drive and to monitor and control them in real time on the computer.
- Adobe Photoshop is an image editing program .
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is software for managing, optimizing and converting digital photos .
- Adobe Premiere Pro is a non-linear film and video editing program .
Editions
Adobe recently sold the Creative Suite applications in five different combinations, the so-called "editions":
- Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 product family for professional print, web and graphic designers.
- Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium is an edition of the product family for professional graphic and web designers and developers.
- Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium is an edition for professional developers who create content for film, video, web, and mobile.
- Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection includes all applications from the above editions
- Adobe Creative Cloud is a subscription-based edition of Adobe Creative Suite 6, which contains all the contents of the Master Collection and also provides other cloud services.
Adobe also offered so-called "Student and Teacher" editions of all of the above software packages. As of version CS5, commercial use of the discounted school and student editions is also permitted.
The following table compares the individual editions of Adobe Creative Suite 6:
| Adobe Creative Suite 6 | ||||||
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| Design standard | Design & Web Premium | Production Premium | Master Collection | Creative Cloud | ||
| Photoshop CS6 | Yes | |||||
| Photoshop CS6 Extended | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 | Yes | |||||
| Illustrator CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| InDesign CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| muse | Yes | |||||
| Acrobat X Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Flash Professional CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Flash Builder 4.6 Premium | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Dreamweaver CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Edge | Yes | |||||
| Fireworks CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Premiere Pro CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| After Effects CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Audition CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| SpeedGrade CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Prelude CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Encore CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Bridge CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Media Encoder CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| services | ||||||
| Device and PC sync | Yes | |||||
| Cloud storage | Yes | |||||
| Business Catalyst | Yes | |||||
| Typekit | Yes | |||||
| Story Plus | Yes | |||||
history
Adobe Creative Suite 2
The second edition of the Creative Suite published in April 2005 comprised the applications Photoshop CS2, Indesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, Golive CS2 and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional. At that time, the Version Cue CS2 design process manager was added, as was the Adobe Bridge file browser as a control center. The suite was available for Windows (32 bit) and MacOS (PowerPC).
In December 2012 the activation server was "deactivated due to a technical error." Customers are requested to use the latest versions of this software. If you still want to use the software, you have to download the programs and standard serial numbers as versions without activation from the Adobe website.
Adobe Creative Suite 3
On March 27, 2007, a new edition of the Creative Suite was announced. The versions are varied:
| Design standard | Design Premium | Web standard | Web Premium | Production Premium | Master Collection | |
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| InDesign CS3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Photoshop CS3 | Yes | |||||
| Photoshop CS3 Extended | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Illustrator CS3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Acrobat 8 Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Flash CS3 Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Dreamweaver CS3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Fireworks CS3 , Contribute CS3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| After Effects Professional CS3 , Premiere Pro CS3 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Ultra CS3 , Encore CS3 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Soundbooth CS3 , Dynamic Link , OnLocation CS3 | Yes | Yes |
All versions have in common: Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, Adobe Stock Photos (was discontinued on April 1, 2008), Adobe Acrobat Connect. Adobe Version Cue CS3 is only not included in Production Premium .
Adobe Creative Suite 4
On September 23, 2008 Adobe announced the Creative Suite 4, which has been available in Germany since mid-November 2008. The program packages have been changed slightly. Adobe has announced major progress in the cooperation of the various programs. In addition, the user interfaces have been standardized.
| Design Premium | Design standard | Web Premium | Web standard | Production Premium | Master Collection | |
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| InDesign CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Photoshop CS4 Extended | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Photoshop CS4 | Yes | |||||
| Illustrator CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Acrobat 9 Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Flash CS4 Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Dreamweaver CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Fireworks CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Contribute CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| After Effects CS4 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Premiere Pro CS4 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Soundbooth CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| OnLocation CS4 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Encore CS4 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Bridge CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Device Central CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Link | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Version Cue CS4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Adobe Creative Suite 5
On April 12, 2010 Adobe announced the Creative Suite 5. The "Web Standard" version was deleted. The packages, on the other hand, have hardly changed, but the price recommendations have been reduced significantly in some cases.
| Design Premium | Design standard | Web Premium | Production Premium | Master Collection | |
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| InDesign CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Photoshop CS5 Extended | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Photoshop CS5 | Yes | ||||
| Illustrator CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Acrobat 9 Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Flash Catalyst CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Flash Professional CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Flash Builder 4 Standard | Yes | Yes | |||
| Dreamweaver CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Fireworks CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Contribute CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Premiere Pro CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| After Effects CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Soundbooth CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| OnLocation CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Encore CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Bridge CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Device Central CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Link | Yes | Yes | |||
| CS Live | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5
On April 11, 2011 Adobe announced the Creative Suite 5.5. The most important innovation was a new license price model on a monthly rental basis. Soundbooth has been replaced by Adobe Audition CS5.5 in this release.
| Design Premium | Design standard | Web Premium | Production Premium | Master Collection | |
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| InDesign CS5.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Photoshop CS5 Extended | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Photoshop CS5 | Yes | ||||
| Illustrator CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Acrobat X Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Flash Catalyst CS5.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Flash Professional CS5.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Flash Builder 4 Standard | Yes | Yes | |||
| Dreamweaver CS5.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Fireworks CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Contribute CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Premiere Pro CS5.5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| After Effects CS5.5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Adobe Audition CS5.5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| OnLocation CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Encore CS5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Bridge CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Device Central CS5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Link | Yes | Yes | |||
| CS Live | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Adobe Creative Suite 6
The Adobe Creative Suite 6 could be pre-ordered from April 23, 2012 and was available from May 7th. Photoshop CS 6 could already be tested free of charge as a beta version. The trial period ended with the launch of Creative Suite 6. Users of Creative Suite 3 and 4 could use the normal upgrade packages until the end of 2012 to upgrade to Creative Suite 6. This right then lapsed and was only available from Creative Suite 5.0. Adobe announced this model as a temporary solution due to the change in the rhythm of the version releases. In the future, only the two previous versions, including intermediate versions such as CS 5.5, should be kept upgradeable. With the introduction of the Creative Suite CS6, Adobe started the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service, whose users receive full access to all functions of the Adobe Creative Suite CS6 for a monthly fee.
| Design Premium | Design standard | Web Premium | Production Premium | Master Collection | |
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| InDesign CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Photoshop CS6 Extended | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Photoshop CS6 | Yes | ||||
| Illustrator CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Acrobat X Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Yes | ||||
| Flash Professional CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Flash Builder 4.6 Premium | Yes | ||||
| Dreamweaver CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Fireworks CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Premiere Pro CS6 | Yes | Yes | |||
| After Effects CS6 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Adobe Audition CS6 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Encore CS6 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Bridge CS6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SpeedGrade CS6 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Prelude CS6 | Yes | Yes | |||
literature
- Thomas Kaltschmidt, Peter König, Andre Kramer, Florian Mihaljevic, Frank Puscher, Joachim Sauer: Now also in the cloud. Adobe introduces a new business model with Creative Suite 6. In: c't , No. 12, 2012, pp. 120-125.
Web links
- Website for the program package at Adobe Germany
- Various video trainings on the products from the Creative Suite
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adobe Creative Suite 6 is available now. adobe.com, accessed May 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Features from Creative Suite Master Collection and Design & Web Premium are now part of Creative Cloud. In: Adobe product website. Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, accessed April 22, 2017 .
- ↑ dpa, Rita Deutschbein: Photoshop & Co .: New Adobe software in the future only with subscription - no purchase of software and planning of first own devices. Telariff, May 7, 2013.
- ↑ Adobe Device Central - Retired Development and Sales effective April 23, 2012. adobe.com, accessed May 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Adobe Creative Cloud - Create now. adobe.com, accessed August 8, 2012 .
- ↑ Adobe Product Support: Error: Activation Server Unavailable | CS2 products or earlier, Acrobat 7 (accessed January 26, 2013)
- ↑ Adobe Creative Suite 5.5: Update for the multimedia package
- ↑ Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta. adobe.com, accessed April 16, 2012 .
- ↑ Adobe Creative Cloud. adobe.com, accessed May 15, 2012 .