| | |  | Desktop Publishing | Home » » Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Upgrade [Mac] [OLD VERSION] | | | | | | | Description: | | Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, achieving typographic finesse, creating stunning digital images and vector graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity within a single, unified creative environment. InDesign CS4 Photoshop CS4 Extended Illustrator CS4 Flash CS4 Professional Dreamweaver CS4 Fireworks CS4 Acrobat 9 Pro Adobe Bridge CS4 Adobe Device Central CS4 Version Cue CS4 | | | Features: | |
• Enjoy feature-packed new versions of your favorite design tools; plus, discover innovative online services for collaborating, finding inspiration, and mastering your design tools, and use Adobe Fireworks CS4 for fast website prototyping
• In Adobe InDesign CS4, easily manage placed files in the new, customizable Links panel; rotate the canvas in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended or the spread in InDesign; and combine multiple artboards in a single document in Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Build rich documents by exporting an InDesign layout and adding animation in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional; prototype websites by opening Photoshop or Illustrator mockups in Fireworks CS4, then embellish in Flash or publish in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• In Flash CS4 Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps. Use Photoshop CS4 Extended to enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to the audio track
• Edit and manipulate 3D content in a streamlined interface--paint directly on 3D models without leaving Photoshop CS4 Extended; wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes, and create 3D animations by controlling movement, camera position, and rendering
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17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
CS2 owners beware: This version only updates from CS3Dec 29, 2008
By L. Williams
CS4 has some great improvements from earlier versions of these apps. My biggest disappointment was that when the product was delivered I discovered that there are TWO versions of the upgrade: one that upgrades from CS3 and one that upgrades from CS2 or earlier or from the old Macromedia Studio products. I have CS2 and it refused to offer me a way to upgrade, giving me only the choice of filling in a CS3 serial number. After a huge amount of time on the phone with Adobe Customer Service, I finally got them to take back the version I ordered from Amazon.com and replace it with the correct updater for my situation.
The apps are terrific and all run natively on Apple's Intel processor machines. There will be a bit of a learning curve, figuring out where some of the familiar controls are (Adobe seems to delight in hiding some features that were in plain sight before). Over all, it's a great upgrade.
GoLive has been replaced by Dreamweaver, and I deeply regret its loss. Dreamweaver may be an excellent program, but I've been using GoLive for over 14 years. Now I'm forced to learn Dreamweaver, and I don't like the interface nearly as well. It still feels like a clunky Macromedia product. Hopefully Adobe will integrate its interface and make it more Adobe-like in CS5.
Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat are exceptional products. They are the basis for my graphic design workflow, and allow me to turn out world-class designs for print and web for my clients around the world. I've yet to learn how to use Flash and Fireworks, but I'll be getting a subscription to Lynda.com to learn them in due course.
One additional caveat: Epson doesn't make drivers for hardly any of their scanners that work with Photoshop CS4 yet. My Perfection 2450 scanner is now idle because Epson doesn't make a plug-in that even works with Photoshop CS3!! I'll be needing to find standalone scanning software--or try to find a new scanner that works within Photoshop CS4. Epson should really be more forthcoming with its driver updates, especially as so many people (tons of professional photographers) use Photoshop for retouching and compositing. What were they thinking?!!
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Adobe Creative Suite 4 - More like 3.5 . . .Feb 27, 2009
By Jamie Pritchett
"JP"
I have been designing with Adobe Products since they first created Illustrator back in the '90s. Generally, I've found the "Suite" upgrades to be worth while - especially considering the savings from buying the products separately.
I must say that this is the first time I wish I could have waited. Product reviews on the typical sites out there were all glowing, but my own experience has proven otherwise.
Not that this upgrade was particularly bad, it just didn't warrant the whole number upgrade. Most of what you're going to experience are interface changes. Some are for the better: the collapsible pallets really help in the ongoing battle for screen space for the work areas - Flash has some excellent new features that we can't really use until the new player (10) has more "reach". So for now, it's just a matter of learning the new techniques. I wish they would concentrate on making the programing of ActionScript more intuitive for designers - more component or "task" based instead of just heads down learning to program. The script assist feature is still baffling and the help system returns way too many results to be useful. I might suggest that instead of definitions and lists of functions, operators, syntax, etc. they might concentrate on specific tasks and how you DO things. I mean we don't program Postscript anymore, do we?
The new tabbed page style (throughout the suite) is inconsistent and the Mac version is "un-Mac" like - closing the window closes the program in Flash, but not in any other program?
Illustrator is just plain buggy. It's crashing on my machine. Perhaps the latest update will clean things up. Still not being able to "click through" illustrations (like the "command + click in InDesign, maybe?) is just plain silly and a time waster. Defunct Freehand still has a better implementation of multiple pages than Illustrator, even after many upgrades to Illustrator.
After some incredibly frustrating time with the program (careful if you have your layer pallets open and it's redrawing a gazzillion little icons of every tiny bit of your illustration and using all your CPU to do it) I finally pulled the file into old Freehand just to get the darn thing done. Interestingly, the same finished illustration in Freehand is 52k. In Illustrator? 1.1 MB. Wow. No wonder this thing is such a dog on my machine. They should say "it'll run on a G5, but don't have display set high, or your pallets all open or let your illustration get complicated. . . "
Photoshop no longer supports the multi-processor G5s plugin - it should be interesting to do some time trials on the new vs. Old. (Obviously Illustrator suffers from this issue as well.) I'm still looking for my $600 value in these programs.
I purchased this product mainly for the new features in Acrobat. The new Reader has the Flash Player built in and with the new Acrobat Pro you can embed banners and working flash content into your PDF files. Videos can now be viewed as part of a PDF without the need for an internet connection (great idea for "in-field" training with a laptop and no connection to the net). I've found these features to be clunky and spottily implemented, but manageable. And like in the new Flash features, all your users better have the new Reader and a fast, maintained machine to run it or all bets are off.
All said and done, I would recommend hanging onto your dollars and waiting for the next version upgrade, or your next COMPUTER upgrade, unless you need the particular new features they have created or are just dying for an integrated interface throughout your Adobe apps. If you're buying for the first time (but then you wouldn't be reading this review ;-) you might as well dive in. Hopefully it could only go up in usability from here. But if you can wait, I'd say wait.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
CS4 upgrade FOR CS3 users...Mar 10, 2009
By Julie H.
"Doting Mama"
PAY CLOSE ATTN!!!!!! Adobe has two version of this exact upgrade - one for current CS3 users and the rest of us upgrading from CS2 or other lower suites . . . . I upgraded from CS2 with this package - but had to go thru many processes with Adobe Cust. Svc to do it...... read everything and but the upgrade package designated SPECIFICALLY for the suite you are running right now!!!! It CAN be done - but much simpler if you buy the CORRECT version to start with!!!!!!
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 A Worthy UpgradeDec 20, 2008
By S. L. Patterson
"Early Adopter"
For a scant $593 (after Adobe's $200 instant rebate), I was able to upgrade CS3 versions of Photoshop and Illustrator (which would have run me $400 just for those) AND get Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, etc. It feels like Christmas.
This is the tightest UI integration than I've seen since Adobe purchased Macromedia.
Overall, I got a lot of useful apps for a decent price,and while I may not use them all, the ones I have mentioned, I certainly will.
The only fly in this ointment is the bloatware feel and the non-Mac-like install process. On two DVDs, the full install takes a HUGE amount of space (1.2GB for Adobe Acrobat alone!).
It's best to pick and choose which apps you will actually use rather than accept the defaults.
BTW, Adobe Bridge has become a new must-use app when Photoshopping! Keep it in your install selection.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Poor job, Adobe!Feb 05, 2009
By Raymond Brigleb
Very disappointing. The interface is so messed up. For instance, I'm working in Flash CS4, and there are no less than THREE types of scroll bars in ONE window. It's just insane. They seem to have added a bunch of features, as usual, but not bothered to fix many of the bugs from the past. They also seem to be rewriting these dinosaurs slowly in Air rather than the native GUI of the OS, which means they work all strange, more Windows-like than Mac, and the interface is terribly broken.
For a piece of software I spend my whole day doing design work in, it's agony. Shame on you, Adobe!
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