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• Design across media using a comprehensive, integrated creative environment; Work deeply in one discipline, such as print, web, video, or audio, and then move your skills and content to another medium efficiently
• Create eye-catching vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS4, produce powerful images in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, and lay out visually rich documents for print and digital delivery in InDesign; showcase design work in dynamic PDF Portfolios
• Prototype and create leading-edge digital experiences, including interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, and mobile device content, using Adobe Fireworks CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Flash, and many other tools in Master Collection
• Work with a highly efficient pre- and post-production toolset to do video and audio editing, still and motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive media design, and then deliver for film, broadcast, and DVD as well as Blu-ray Disc and mobile authoring
• Use the indispensable tools in Photoshop Extended more efficiently: Pan and zoom on images smoothly, rotate canvas to any angle, and resize images without distortion using new Content-Aware Scaling; paint, composite, and animate 3D models
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| 7.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Height:
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| 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 9 reviews |
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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 The Big One from Adobe (great deal for media students!!)Jan 19, 2009
By Mr. Ben
"ctsamurai"
Adobe has made a push in recent years to integrate all of their creative programs into an enormous suite of high powered tools that you can use in combination to create broad accessible content.
In one box you get some creative powertools: (among many others) Premiere, After Affects, Flash, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and of course, Photoshop. There are many other programs that I didn't necessarily have interest in, but they are handy to have in a pinch plus they will give me something to build more skill in.
This is a true professional suite of programs, and whats great about this is that there are enough similarities between the programs that you'll be able to understand the layouts between the programs with relative ease.
Two warnings: This is overkill, chances are you only really want a few of the programs (in my case Photoshop, Premiere, After Affects and Dreamweaver) but if you have three Adobe products on your "wishlist" then you might want to consider the whole shebangabang of the Master Collection since the other programs are then kind of a bonus and will give you something to work on.
The other warning (coming from someone who got this with the amazing academic/student discount) is that you better have a strong system to run Premiere, After Affects and the other video/Premiere related programs. I definitely need a memory upgrade(and ideally a new computer!) to accommodate that behemoth.
But finally, I would say, while four figures is a high price for software you are getting a tremendous package and if you are able to qualify for an academic discount you should jump on this. Adobe's price is around a fifth the price of the retail version. As a student who is trying to develop marketable skills this is a package that will make you a master.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Just Not Worth ItFeb 03, 2010
By Jeff
"Jeff"
I've been an Adobe (and Macromedia) user for a long time (since Illustrator 4, Photoshop 4, Dreamweaver 4, and when InDesign was called PageMaker), and I've never seen a more useless "upgrade" in a version of their products.
I did have some install issues like a lot of other people, but was able to fix them on my own (good thing, because their outsourced phone support is not what it used to be and a waste of time). My poor rating is because of the product itself. The "new" features are either bits and pieces of other products, or they are useless (such as the CSS Advisor which links to a site where everyone asks questions and no one answers, or the 3D effects in Photoshop, After Effects, and Flash without the inclusion of a 3D model creation program).
While you are able to customize the menus and palettes to a large degree, it is difficult and oft-times confusing for people who are used to where things used to be in the program. New users may be able to get used to it, but they are also cramped, non-intuitive, and, at times, simply don't work.
Creative Suite 3, released a mere 16 months before this version, was great. You do have to wonder: how much work went into this program after the company had massive layoffs yet released a new version a little over a year later?
I would recommend Creative Suite 3 for it's ease of use and general overall stability, but this CS4 gets a D- from me.
Hope this helps someone.
26 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 Criminal Business PracticesFeb 02, 2009
By Kurt A. Toelken
Do not buy any ADOBE product. After paying thousands of dollars for this product and using it for four months, one day all packages came up with an error message that my "license has expired". I bought this. I found that ADOBE, who offers no phone support at all, had a post on their support website that this known problem could be fixed through one of four very involved procedures. I tried all four of them. It took me most of a day and none worked. I logged a case with the email support who wrote back 3 weeks later asking "have you tried the procedures on our website?". Obviously they never even bothered to read my case. I had stated quite clearly that I had tried all of them. I then tried un-installing and re-installing the software. The re-install failed. No explanation given.
Great software. No support at all. Criminal business practices. Do not buy from these people.
Great Product; Amazing Value.Dec 09, 2011
By joedetroitmi
I was leary at first of investing the cost required of the Master Collection, in any source but Adobe itself. The fact that I was purchasing from Amazon though provided some solace and ultimately proved worth it in the end. CS 4 MC is an amazing product, thanks to Amazon I didn't have to survive on ramen that week.
Creative Suite 4Mar 21, 2011
By Harold M.
After waiting for some time I finally had to get amazon involved to get my money back. I never did get the oppertunity to use it.
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