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Redefine the extraordinary in web design and development
Create the full range of digital experiences, including interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, and mobile device content, with Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Web Premium. Technology advances empower you to work across disciplines — from graphic to web to interactive design — and give you more creative freedom than ever before to deliver exceptional online content.
- Professional website design with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
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Next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.
Support for best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.
Control of your content
Enable your clients to make updates to web pages directly from the browser. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.
- Rich interactive content development with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
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Easy and efficient design
Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.
New creative possibilities
Extend the limits of creative possibility with powerful new drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Enrich your projects with advanced video and audio capabilities.
Collaboration across workflows
Enjoy timesaving integration among Adobe Creative Suite components with common tools and interfaces, and easily exchange assets between components with powerful new file formats.
Delivery for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices.The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR™ runtime, are right at your fingertips.
- New dimensions in digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
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Access to full editing power
Take advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.
More efficient way to work
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.
3D and motion-based editing
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.
Precise image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.
- Inspired vector graphics creation with Adobe Illustrator CS4
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Powerful creative tools
Explore multiple design options and generate intricate graphics using robust creative features in Adobe Illustrator® CS4. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely and quickly achieve just the look you want.
Smooth and efficient workflow
Accomplish more and stay in the groove by working directly on the artboard. Interact with tools and options more easily and complete your projects efficiently using a wealth of innovative, timesaving features and shortcuts.
Delivery virtually anywhere
Move easily between Illustrator and other Creative Suite 4 components while confidently delivering graphics for print, interactive experiences, video, mobile, and motion effects. Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity among the tools, work across Creative Suite components is virtually seamless.
- Web prototyping and image editing with Adobe Fireworks CS4
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Prototyping at the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Adobe Fireworks® CS4. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.
Smooth collaboration
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Creative Suite 4 components, including Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4.
Designing for many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, Flash, or Flex® software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready, export standards-compliant CSS to Dreamweaver CS4. Create HTML-based AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.
- PDF file creation and collaboration with Acrobat 9 Pro
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Rich interactive content and versatile print design combined
Enjoy native support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations, and applications in Adobe Acrobat® and Adobe Reader® software. PDF files have never been so lively and compelling.
Convenient, effective collaboration online
Help ensure that colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same page at the same time with the new ability to conavigate documents, to provide clarity and enhance discussion.
Unparalleled PDF workflows for professional creative production
Prepare high-quality, press-ready PDF files for print production workflows faster and more intuitively with enhanced preflight and automatic correction features. Intelligent, automatic Overprint Preview helps ensure that overlapping elements will print correctly.
- Audio creation and editing with Adobe Soundbooth CS4
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Intuitive, task-based tools
Take command of audio for your film, video, or rich media project. Task-based tools help you clean up recordings, polish voice-overs, customize music and sound effects, and much more. High-quality production becomes more efficient with Adobe Soundbooth® CS4, without sacrificing creative control.
Ready-to-use audio assets
Select from dozens of Soundbooth Scores, adjust the intensity of your soundtrack to suit the mood, and create audio using thousands of sound effects available via Resource Central (Internet connection required).
Tighter integration
Work on audio in Adobe After Effects® CS4, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4, or Flash CS4 Professional more efficiently than ever with the Edit in Soundbooth option that lets you edit your audio files directly in Soundbooth.
Enhanced audio editing
Tackle everyday audio editing and cleanup with the power of nondestructive editing. Quickly and easily heal sound; remove pops, clicks, and other unwanted noises; and match volume levels.
- Flexible web publishing with Adobe Contribute CS4
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Delegation of work while retaining control
Delegate content publishing to content owners without compromising the integrity of your websites. Define and enforce custom publishing workflows to meet your organization's review and approval requirements for published content.
User engagement
Empower end users to quickly and easily publish content to static and dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG authoring. Give users the choice of editing websites directly from their favorite browsers or composing and publishing web content from within Microsoft Office applications. Enable easy collaboration between users in the content publishing process.
Compatible and affordable tool
Publish to the web in almost any computing environment thanks to compatibility with existing web and IT infrastructures and cross-platform interoperability. Adobe Contribute® CS4 is affordable and works on Intel® and PowerPC® based Macs and on Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista® systems.
Express yourself richly
Bring your creativity to life with technology advances that enhance your initial concepts with inspirational color choices and powerful graphic designer toolsets in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator CS4, and Fireworks CS4. Take your projects even further by making audio edits with visual feedback to keep you informed at every step using Adobe Soundbooth CS4.
- Next-generation web experiences
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Live View
Design your web pages under real-world browser conditions with the new Live View in Dreamweaver CS4 — while still retaining direct access to the code. Changes to the code are immediately reflected in the rendered display.
Related Files and Code Navigator
Manage the various files that make up today's web pages more efficiently in Dreamweaver CS4. Click any related file to see both its source in Code view and the parent page in Design view. The new Code Navigator feature shows you all the CSS source code that affects your current selection.
Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
Write JavaScript more quickly and accurately with improved support for JavaScript core objects and primitive data types. Put the extended coding functionality of Dreamweaver CS4 to work by incorporating popular JavaScript frameworks including jQuery, Prototype, and Spry.
CSS best practices
Implement CSS best practices without writing code. Create new CSS rules in the Property inspector and get clear, simple explanations of where each property fits in the cascade of styles.
HTML data sets
Integrate the power of dynamic data in your web pages without the learning curve of mastering databases or XML coding. Spry Data Sets recognize content in a simple HTML table as an interactive data source.
Adobe Photoshop Smart Objects
Insert any Photoshop PSD document in Dreamweaver to create an image Smart Object. Smart Objects are tightly linked to the source file. Make any changes to the source image and update your image in Dreamweaver without opening Photoshop.
Subversion integration
Use Subversion® software, an open source versioning control system integrated with Dreamweaver, for a more robust check-in/check-out experience. Update your site and check in modifications directly from within Dreamweaver.
Cutting-edge technologies coupled with industry standards
Work with the latest technologies to output standards-based websites and applications, whether you're working with client-side HTML/XHTML, CSS, and XML; server-side application languages like Adobe ColdFusion®, ASP, and PHP; or advanced JavaScript and Ajax.
ActionScript 3.0 development
Code more effectively with ActionScript® 3.0, the Adobe Flash Player runtime programming language. Leverage the extensive ActionScript 3.0 API, libraries, and community support to extend the reach and improve the performance of your applications.
Delivery for the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player
Continue to reach wide audiences around the world by delivering to the most popular media player on the Internet today.
- Faster, more expressive design tools
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
Enjoy greater precision, more intuitive selection, and smoother image navigation, along with comprehensive 3D painting and ray-trace rendering.
Adobe Illustrator CS4
Work faster and more efficiently with multiple artboards, live preview, robust gradient handling, and in-place editing.
Work across disciplines
Interact smoothly with your team to produce creative output across disciplines, without having to re-create assets. Effortlessly transition fixed graphics — from print or web design — to interactive movies. Build on wireframes and prototypes and convert them to standards-compliant HTML and CSS. Create rich application interfaces that developers can turn into functioning applications with the core design intact.
- Common, intuitive Adobe workspace
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New, standard user interface
Work faster and smarter across Creative Suite 4 components with a shared user interface design. Toggle quickly from one work environment to the next with the Workspace Switcher.
Consistent core functionality
Collaborate more smoothly with consistent core functionality, such as text handling, across Creative Suite 4 components, including Fireworks, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
Spring-loaded panels
Drag related content from one panel to another without first opening the receiving panel. For example, drag a swatch from the Swatches panel into the Color panel without opening it first. Easily collapse and expand panels for workspace flexibility.
Workspace Switcher
Customize your workspaces in Photoshop CS4 Extended and Illustrator CS4 to fit your tasks and then put them to use immediately through the new Workspace Switcher in Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4.
Application Bar
Use a new control button in the menu bar to quickly switch to a new workspace, modify the view of a document, perform a search, or quickly access elements such as Adobe Bridge CS4.
Tabbed documents
Manage and work across multiple documents with ease by quickly tabbing through open documents to find the one you need without having to maximize each document individually.
Right-click tool access
Switch tools quickly by right-clicking a tool in the Tools panel, which opens the flyout menu and instantly exposes tool alternatives.
- Interactive project design with Flash CS4 Professional
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Object-based animation
Gain complete control over individual animation attributes with object-based animation, which applies tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Easily make changes to motion with Bezier handles.
Motion paths
Experience granular control over object animation paths — Flash CS4 Professional now automatically generates motion paths that can be easily modified using familiar Bezier handles.
Motion presets
Jump-start your project with prebuilt animations that can be applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create and save your own. Share presets with others to save animation time.
Improved library
Work with assets more easily, thanks to an improved library that includes search capability and prioritization.
Vertical Property inspector
Take better advantage of wider displays and gain screen space with the new vertically displayed Property inspector.
Support for Adobe Pixel Bender
Easily apply custom filters and effects at runtime for real-time creative expression. Use the Adobe Pixel Bender™ Toolkit, included with Flash, to create unique filters, blends, and fills to produce compelling, on-demand visual effects for the Flash Player runtime. Your visual effects are now portable to multiple applications.
- Website and application prototyping with Fireworks CS4
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CSS-based export
Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, complete with external style sheets, in one step. Start with one of the six most common layouts and integrate foreground and background graphics with automatic margin and padding detection. Drop Fireworks rich symbols on your layouts to specify headings, links, and form properties for precise CSS control.
Adobe PDF file export
Generate high-fidelity, protected Adobe PDF documents from your Fireworks design comps for enhanced client communication. Help safeguard your designs with optional password protection — separate passwords are definable for viewing and other tasks such as printing, copying, and commenting.
Live Styles
Customize a Fireworks object or text with professionally designed styles or your own custom collection of styles. Update applied effects, colors, and text attributes for all instances of a style by modifying a single style source.
Workspace improvements
Quickly place Smart Guides on your canvas for swift, accurate positioning and measurement of guides and elements — the heads-up display lets you know where you are on the canvas as you drag guides in place. Edit symbols in place for precise symbol refinement in context with the rest of your design.
Optimization and scaling tools
Optimize graphics for virtually any delivery scenario with preview, cross-platform gamma preview, selective JPEG compression, and a wide range of export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols (in vector or bitmap) with 9-slice scaling. Combine 9-slice scaling with the Auto Shape Library to accelerate website and application prototyping.
Customizable and reusable assets
Jump-start your design process with the Common Library, a repository of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations frequently used in web and software applications, interfaces, and websites. Expand your collection with your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design.
Superb design tools
Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files. Apply lighting effects, shadow effects, styles, and blend modes, including seven new blend modes from Photoshop, to add depth and character to text and symbols.
- Content preview and testing for mobile devices using Adobe Device Central CS4
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Intelligent integration with Creative Suite 4 components
Streamline your mobile authoring workflow through tight integration between Adobe Device Central and other Creative Suite 4 components, including Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and After Effects CS4.
Dynamically updated library of device profiles
Access the latest device profiles available for use in Device Central CS4 through the dynamically updated online device library, which contains more than 450 Adobe Flash Lite™ enabled devices. Browse, search, and sort device profiles; directly compare multiple devices along several dimensions; and create custom sets of devices for quick project access.
Smart testing environment
Easily preview and test the appearance, performance, and behavior of mobile content right on the desktop. Simulate various display conditions, such as backlight timeout and sunlight reflections, in the context of mobile device skins to better tune designs for real-world conditions.
- Adobe AIR authoring support
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AIR prototypes with Fireworks CS4
Create your Adobe AIR prototype directly within Fireworks, ready to be deployed to HTML and CSS, Flex, or SWF. Easily convert your click-through mock-up.
Interactivity on the desktop
Deliver interactive experiences created with Flash CS4 Professional to the desktop with new capability to publish to the Adobe AIR runtime. Reach even more audiences across more devices — web, mobile, and now the desktop.
AIR and Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Create new HTML and JavaScript based Adobe AIR applications within Dreamweaver. Preview AIR applications without leaving Dreamweaver. Get your AIR application ready to deploy with AIR packaging and code-signing features.
- Broad, cross-platform support
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Flexibility in how you work
Take advantage of the latest advancements in hardware technology. Creative Suite 4 Web Premium is available for PowerPC and Intel based Macs as well as Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Design in your preferred system and then deliver across platforms with reliable, consistent, and high-performance results.
Find inspiration online
Fuel your creativity and optimize your collaborations with the new online communication options in Creative Suite 4 Web Premium. Share your ideas with co-workers and clients in real time using Adobe ConnectNow, the web-based meeting room service. Browse, create, and share harmonious color themes through new integration with the Adobe Kuler™ web-hosted application. Take advantage of Adobe Community Help for quick access to tool tips, Adobe Help content, and community-generated tutorials.
- Online services
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Adobe Community Help
Access the power of an online search engine from within Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth, product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities.
Adobe Kuler
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community, accessible from the new Kuler panel in some Creative Suite 4 components, the Kuler website, and the Kuler Adobe AIR application. Browse and search for thousands of themes, download directly into your Swatches panel, and even upload your own themes to share.
Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com
Sign up for Acrobat.com, a set of online services you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the ability to access one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, from within many Creative Suite 4 components, you can meet live over the web and share your screen with up to two online guests for no charge.
Adobe InContext Editing (Free preview)
Offer your colleagues, clients, or end users an easier way to make edits to web copy without impacting the design integrity of your web pages — and without help from you or additional software on their computers.
