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What is Creative Suite 3 Master Collection?

Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection features highly integrated, exceptionally productive tools for designing content across media.

Design professionals — Break out of the print box. Get the tools you need for print design and production as well as tools to expand your skills — and your business — into web, interactive, mobile, and even video design and production.

Web design professionals — Stay on the edge. Create more compelling and dynamic websites by incorporating high-quality motion graphics and video in your designs, and move beyond the web to design print, video, and mobile content.

Film and video professionals — Tell compelling stories in virtually any medium. Showcase your work in high-quality, standards-based output, promote your work in print and on the web, and increase production values on ever-shrinking budgets.

Top features of individual componentsAdobe InDesign CS3

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

Adobe Illustrator CS3

Adobe Acrobat® 8 Professional

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Adobe Fireworks CS3

Adobe Contribute® CS3

Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3

Adobe Soundbooth CS3

Adobe Encore CS3

Special features and technologiesAdobe Bridge CS3

Adobe Version Cue® CS3

Adobe Device Central CS3

Adobe Stock Photos

Adobe Acrobat Connect™

Adobe Dynamic Link CS3

Adobe OnLocation™ CS3 (Windows only)

Adobe Ultra® CS3 (Windows only)
 

» Review Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment.

InDesign CS3

Photoshop CS3 Extended

Illustrator CS3

Flash CS3 Professional

Dreamweaver CS3

Acrobat 8 Professional

Adobe Bridge CS3

Version Cue CS3

Adobe Device Central CS3

Adobe Stock Photos

Acrobat Connect

Top features
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, and Acrobat® 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows.

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 Macintosh and Windows systems
Get the most out of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Design Premium on Intel® based Macintosh systems and Microsoft® Windows Vista™ computers. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC® based Macintosh 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 object-oriented 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 as ActionScript 3.0 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 SWF and FLV 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.

» Review Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Web Premium software is a complete solution for creating interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, mobile device content, and other digital experiences. Get everything you need to prototype your project, design assets, build web experiences, and efficiently maintain and update con

Dreamweaver CS3

Flash CS3 Professional

Photoshop CS3 Extended

Illustrator CS3

Fireworks CS3

Acrobat 8 Professional

Contribute CS3

Adobe Bridge CS3

Version Cue CS3

Adobe Device Central CS3

Adobe Stock Photos

Acrobat Connect

Top features
Best of the best
Get the newest versions of the award-winning tools, integrated workflows, and valuable utilities used to prototype, design, develop, and maintain websites, applications, interactive experiences, and mobile device content.

Powerful integration
Fluidly move assets across Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Extended, Illustrator® CS3, Flash® CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver® CS3, and Fireworks® CS3 software. Use Adobe Version Cue® CS3, Adobe Bridge CS3, and Adobe Stock Photos to manage assets. Prepare content for mobile devices with Adobe Device Central CS3.

Streaming and progressive FLV
Create and edit streaming and progressive FLV content for playback through the ubiquitious Adobe Flash Player. Comprehensive video creation and delivery tools include a standalone video encoder, alpha channel support, a high-quality video codec, embedded cue points, video import support, QuickTime import, closed-captioning, and more.

Engaging interactivity
Incorporate rich interactivity into your projects. Whether it's Ajax interactivity in web page elements, streaming interactive broadcasts, or an interactive multiuser collaboration application, Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Web Premium has everything you need to draft and deploy your interactive vision on the web.

Latest technologies and standards
Keep pace with evolving technologies and standards. Design with HTML and CSS; integrate with development technologies like XHTML, XML, Adobe ColdFusion®, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, and PHP; test content across browsers and operating systems; and prepare for the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

ActionScript 3.0 development
Go farther with ActionScript™ 3.0, the high-performance, object-oriented programming language for Adobe Flash Player. Explore a whole new world of customization using the rich language, API, libraries, and expansive community support services.

Best practices
Easily apply best practices of web design and development. Create consistent CSS-based designs with CSS layout and visualization tools. Drag and drop an XML feed onto a web page. Use the industry’s first integrated tool for Section 508 and WCAG Priority 2 checkpoints.

Mobile content authoring
Use Adobe Device Central CS3 to design, develop, preview, and test content for a wide range of mobile and consumer devices. Easily show your work in numerous mobile device skins through built-in and regularly updated device profiles.

Macintosh or Windows
Pick your platform. Creative Suite 3 Web Premium is available for Mac OS — including Intel® based Macintosh computers — Windows® XP, and Windows Vista™. Design in your preferred platform, and then deliver across platforms with consistent results.

Reliability and innovation
Whether you’re adding interactive video, migrating to CSS, conforming to accessibility regulations, preparing for IPv6 conversion, or experimenting with mobile content, Creative Suite 3 Web Premium lets you work well today and grow for tomorrow.

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