These new tools are included in both the Production Premium and Master Collection suites.
In addition there are two new applications introduced: Prelude CS6, a video ingest and logging tool to help tag and transcode footage rapidly, and SpeedGrade CS6, a professional color grading system that brings state-of-the-art color science to your video productions. Acrobat and Flash Builder are included in the suites but remain the same versions as before. The CS5 tools not revisioned to CS6 are Flash Catalyst, Contribute (upgraded to new version 6.5 but sold standalone), OnLocation, and Device Central. Learn more about all the new features added to each of these applications in detail, with our special coverage.
Eazel is for finger painting, Colour Lava lets you mix colours on the iPad's screen and Nav lets you pick and choose functions from Photoshop's toolbars to display on the iPad's screen to make them quicker to select.Adobe has just unveiled Creative Suite 6 – and one of the upgrade questions people are asking is what’s new, what’s different, what’s changed in CS6 as compared to previous version(s)? Adobe calls it, “a killer release with hundreds of new capabilities rolling up four focus areas: application performance, enhanced user interface, efficient development for multiple devices, and making previously impossible things possible.” So our job here is to give you a quick “cheat sheet” on top new features, to help you decide about upgrading…ĬS6 updates almost all of the individual products from CS5, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash Pro, InDesign/InCopy, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Encore.
Examples include Eazel, Colour Lava, and Nav for the iPad. This SDK is designed to help programmers develop apps for touchscreen devices, which will then communicate with the Creative Suite applications over Wi-Fi. Photoshop, for image editing, and Illustrator, for vector-based graphic illustration, haven't changed, but Adobe has launched a new Touch Software Development Kit. The cheapest edition, Design Standard, is aimed at graphic designers and includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat Pro.
There are other packages such as Flash Catalyst, Bridge and Device Central, but we've focussed on the major elements in this review. The table here shows the differences between the editions. For this reason we're going to concentrate on Design Premium and Design Standard, which between them cover graphic and web design.
The Production Premium version contains Adobe Premiere Pro but has no InDesign, so is really designed for video production, while Web Premium contains professional applications to help with content delivery across different platforms.
To get every single package you'll need to buy the Master Collection, which is around £2,700 for the full version.