Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, interactive, and mobile design

Discover powerful new creative tools for expressing your ideas and crafting artwork that stands out. Finish your work faster, with numerous enhancements to the tools you use every day. Extend the reach of your designs to new media without writing code. Streamline creative reviews and other essential but time-consuming tasks.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium combines: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, Adobe Flash Professional CS5, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Fireworks CS5, Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

Additional components: Adobe Bridge CS5, Adobe Device Central CS5

As a designer, your job is to create content with impact - content that attracts, informs, inspires, and persuades. Often, this means coming up with solutions that no one has ever seen before - including you. With Design Premium, you can translate even your outrageous ideas into reality, moving smoothly and efficiently across multiple media.

Take advantage of Flash Catalyst CS5 to design interactive content without ever writing a line of code. Bring page layouts to life by adding sound and motion in InDesign. Create expressive artwork with groundbreaking painting tools in Photoshop Extended and Illustrator. Polish off routine tasks more quickly, from masking images in Photoshop Extended to finessing strokes in Illustrator to fine-tuning layouts in InDesign.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software combines Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Professional CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Fireworks CS5, and Acrobat 9 Pro as well as Adobe Bridge CS5, Device Central CS5, and integration with new Adobe CS Live online services.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium, you can:

Explore new creative realms. Break fresh creative ground with innovative tools. Achieve beautiful painterly effects using lifelike brush strokes in Photoshop Extended and expressive vector-painting brushes in Illustrator. Use 3D extrusion tools in Photoshop Extended to create eye-catching artwork for print layouts, animations, or immersive environments.

Express your ideas faster. Turn your ideas into reality more quickly and intuitively than ever before. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator, and intuitive object-selection features in InDesign.

Extend the reach of your designs to new media without writing code. Deliver your work onscreen to connect with more people in more ways. Use new Flash Catalyst CS5 to transform Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content and navigation elements for web pages and user interfaces without writing code. Or use InDesign to easily add impact to page layouts and presentations by incorporating hyperlinks, buttons, page transitions, video, and sound. Publish book layouts in eBook reading format with high fidelity to your original design.

Maximize your design time by streamlining critical non-design tasks. Accelerate essentialbut time-consuming tasks such as creative reviews with new Adobe CS Live online services, which integrate with components of Design Premium. Use Adobe CS Review to initiate an immediate online shared review from within Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, or InDesign. Hold a meeting online and share your screen by accessing ConnectNow, a web conferencing service in Acrobat.com, with a single click from your design software. Also preview web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems with Adobe BrowserLab, another new CS Live online service.


Who uses Design Premium?

Graphic designers use Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium to design content for a wide range of media, including print, web, interactive, and mobile devices.

Graphic designers are versatile professionals who apply their visual communication skills to a rapidly expanding variety of projects. Over the last 15 years, with the explosion of new forms of media from the Internet to the mobile phone, designers have faced tremendous pressure to continually learn new software and design techniques in order to produce work that stands out. Design Premium eases these challenges by providing a set of integrated tools for editing images, creating vector graphics, laying out print and web pages, crafting interactive designs, delivering content for mobile devices, and more.

Designers also face obstacles to preserving the integrity of their designs when they need to collaborate with technical colleagues such as developers. Communicating design intent to web, interactive, and application developers can be challenging - designers and developers speak different languages, and important nuances of designers vision can be lost in translation. Design Premium enables designers to express their vision directly using robust tools that draw on their existing skills and dont require them to conquer code. Now designers can preserve the quality and integrity of their designs much further into the development process, handing off content without fear that the final result will be very different from what they envisioned. And for some types of projects, designers can even finish the work themselves.


Top new benefits in Design Premium

Realistic painting effects with Photoshop CS5 Extended

New tools enable you to paint in much the same way you would using real-world brushes and paints. With a new Mixer Brush tool, new bristle qualities, and new ways to blend colors, Photoshop CS5 Extended offers virtually endless possibilities for creating outstanding expressive effects, from enhancing photographic images in unusual ways to painting directly on a blank canvas.

Use the Mixer Brush tool to fill a single brush with multiple paint colors, and then blend the paint colors with the underlying canvas colors to achieve results that rival traditional painting media. Or use a dry brush to blend a photographs colors and produce beautiful painterly results. Fine-tune your work by controlling how wet the canvas is, whether and how quickly the brush refills or cleans after each brush stroke, and the mixing proportions of paint color to canvas color. Photoshop CS5 also provides unprecedented control over brush qualities such as shape, length, thickness, stiffness, and angle. For example, you can specify a round, curved brush tip with long, fine, flexible bristles, or a flat, blunt brush tip with short, thick, stiff bristles. Use the Live Tip Preview to view a dynamic representation of the brush tip as you paint, and save your favorite brush tips for future use.

Whether or not youve ever wielded a real-world paintbrush and mixed watercolors, acrylics, or oils, youll appreciate the promise of painting freely and naturally in Photoshop CS5.

Fluid vector painting with Illustrator CS5

You dont have to sacrifice the editability and scalability of vectors in order to enjoy the expressiveness of painting. Paint freely in Illustrator CS5 with the vector-based Bristle Brush to produce lifelike brush strokes. Create a new Bristle Brush, choosing from ten brush shapes ranging from round point to flat fan. Then use settings for size, bristle length, bristle density, bristle thickness, paint opacity, and stiffness to fashion exactly the brush you want. A preview window shows you how the Bristle Brush and its brush stroke will look. Each brush stroke creates a path that can be edited just as easily as if it had been created with the Pen or Pencil tool in Illustrator. Get the most out of the Bristle Brush using a tablet with a Wacom 6D Art pen, which responds automatically to pressure, bearing, tilt, and rotation.

With the Bristle Brush, you can enjoy the flexibility of vectors along with the feel and appearance of painting in natural media.

Easy 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Repoussé is an ancient metalworking technique for embossing artwork on the surface of metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, and bronze. Inspired by this technique, Photoshop Extended offers a powerful new Repoussé feature for creating eye-catching 3D artwork.

In Photoshop, start with a 2D element such as a text layer, selection, path, or layer mask, and then choose 3D > Repoussé. The 2D path is converted into a 3D object or “mesh” that you can extrude and then manipulate in a variety of ways. For example, you can control how far the object extrudes and whether it curves, bends, or twists. You can also apply a bevel to both the front and back surfaces of the extruded object and inflate a surface so that it appears as a smooth, curved surface. Additional settings let you apply materials such as brick, brushed steel, fabric, rusty metal, stucco, and wood. 3D-axis and rotation tools allow you to examine the 3D object from different angles as you work.

Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop Extended

Photoshop CS5 Extended takes the time and frustration out of making precise image selections and masks, providing you a faster way to extract subjects from their backgrounds and create realistic composites. New intelligent selection technology offers better edge detection and faster, more accurate masking for complex subjects, such as hair. Automatic color decontamination helps you eliminate background color around the edges of a selection, resulting in more seamless compositions when placing extracted subjects on new backgrounds.

Experienced Photoshop users know that getting a perfect selection requires continually modifying your selection technique to respond to the varying characteristics of an edge - for example, one method for hair and another for the edge of a building. With new adaptive selection-edge modification controls in Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can produce highly accurate masks and selections faster and more simply than before. Smart Radius automatically matches the best selection approach with the subjects changing edge characteristics, and extra view modes assist you in previewing the quality of your selections. The Refine Radius and Erase Refinements tools customize your masks and selections as you make them. These tools, in combination with the color decontamination settings, help eliminate any residual background color from around the edges of your selections.

All these enhancements, along with edge adjustments such as smoothness, feathering, and contrast, enable you to quickly produce selections and masks with incredible accuracy and control.

Beautiful strokes with Illustrator CS5

Whether youre designing a complex infographic or a simple icon, finessing the details of strokes is an essential task. Illustrator CS5 includes several powerful features that make working with strokes more precise and flexible.

Simplified object selection and editing in InDesign

Aligning pictures in a grid, tweaking the white space between objects in a layout - finicky adjustments like these take time. InDesign offers several elegant features for performing common repetitive, time-consuming layout tasks precisely and quickly. Whether youre designing a document that will be printed, viewed onscreen, or both, everything from aligning and distributing objects to adjusting corner effects is faster and easier in InDesign CS5.

More efficient CSS-based design with Dreamweaver CS5

If youre an aspiring or novice web designer who prefers designing pages to writing code, youll appreciate CSS Inspect. CSS Inspect lets you lay out web pages based on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) more easily - without diving into code or using additional software. For designers who are new to web design or who want to deepen their knowledge of CSS, CSS Inspect makes it much easier to learn about and work with CSS-based web pages.

Interactive Content with Flash Catalyst

New from Adobe and built specifically for designers, Flash Catalyst enables you to create interactive content without writing code. With Flash Catalyst, you can take advantage of the expressiveness of Flash technology and the ubiquity of Flash Player to deliver compelling interactivity, video, and audio to computers around the world.

Superior text layout and typography in Flash Professional CS5

Now your typography can look as good onscreen as in print with a new text engine in Flash Professional that preserves the type you create in InDesign. When you hand off InDesign CS5 pages to Flash Professional CS5, the text flows into threaded text frames, making it easy to do last-minute edits.

Simplified mobile-content design with Fireworks CS5 and Device Central CS5

Easily experiment with designing for mobile devices. Integration between Fireworks and Device Central makes it easy to set up a Fireworks project and preview it in Device Central. In Device Central, choose File > New Document In Fireworks, select a target device, and then click Create. Fireworks then creates a new project with the correct pixel dimensions of the target devices display. Use the visual prototyping tools in Fireworks to craft your mobile content, and then choose File > Preview In Device Central to emulate your content using the updated online library of device profiles. When youve perfected your prototype, hand it off for development in Flash Professional or Dreamweaver.

Accelerated reviews through integration with Adobe CS Review

Enjoy faster, more efficient creative reviews with CS Review, a new Adobe CS Live online service that integrates with components of CS5 Design Premium. Initiate shared reviews with just a few clicks from within Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign - simply click Access CS Live in the Application bar to open the CS Review panel. Then create a new review, add your layout or artwork, and invite colleagues or clients to view it online. They receive an email invitation with a link - one click and they see the document displayed in their web browser.

Web-page preview with Adobe BrowserLab

If youve done even a little web design, you know how challenging it can be to predict how a web page will appear in different browsers and operating systems. Until now, the best way to preview web content required buying costly hardware, installing multiple browsers, and maintaining testing labs. In addition, opening and comparing pages in multiple browsers on multiple machines is tedious and time-consuming.


Top reasons to Upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium

Realistic painting effects in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended - Easily paint with lifelike brush strokes to create beautiful, expressive images. Blend a photos colors; use bristle properties such as shape, length, and stiffness; or define multiple colors on a single brush and blend them into the underlying colors on your canvas.

Fluid vector painting with Adobe Illustrator CS5 - Combine the expressiveness of painting with the editability and scalability of vectors. Paint freely with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes, controlling paint opacity and bristle characteristics such as shape, length, and stiffness.

Easy 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended - Create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then apply materials such as chrome, mud, and grass to achieve different looks.

Truer edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 Extended - Produce highly accurate masks and make selections faster and more easily than ever before with powerful new controls for refining selection edges in Photoshop CS5. Even the trickiest image elements, such as hair and foliage, can be masked quickly and accurately to produce realistic composite images.

Beautiful strokes with Illustrator CS5 - Avoid time-consuming workarounds by using convenient width handles to adjust stroke width interactively. Precisely size and position arrowheads, and align dashes symmetrically. Control stretch at any point when scaling art brushes on a path, and see how strokes join intelligently at corners.

Simplified object selection and editing in Adobe InDesign CS5 - Save time by performing exacting layout tasks efficiently. Manipulate frames and frame content without switching tools. Dynamically adjust white space between objects to reposition page items. Use on-object controls to modify frame corners directly in the layout.

Multiple page sizes in a single InDesign file - Streamline design and production for projects with multiple pages sizes, such as brand identity, marketing collateral, and complex magazine folds. Include different page sizes in a single document and intelligently apply the same master page to different-sized layouts.

More efficient CSS-based designs with CSS Inspection in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 - Easily view the box model properties of an element, quickly make adjustments in the CSS panel, and see the results rendered in real time.

Crisp graphics for web, interactive, and mobile delivery in Illustrator CS5 - Create resolution-independent vector graphics that appear crisp in Adobe Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash Professional - and on virtually any screen.

Convenient asset handling with Adobe Mini Bridge - Access all your creative assets within the context of what youre working on. Use a customizable panel in Photoshop CS5 Extended and InDesign CS5 to sort and filter files, and then drag them directly into your document.

Interactive content creation without writing code using new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 - Start with artwork created in Photoshop or Illustrator and use Flash Catalyst to transform it into high-quality interactive content for web pages, user interfaces, and applications. Flash Catalyst lets you define buttons, scroll bars, sliders, page transitions, video players, and more - without touching a line of code.

Dynamic digital document creation with InDesign CS5 - Add attention-grabbing interactivity, animation, movies, and sound to your digital documents and presentations. Use enhanced tools, motion presets for easy animation, and support for importing FLV and MP3 audio files. Export to the SWF file format for playback in Adobe Flash Player software.

Enhanced eBook document design with InDesign CS5 - Create compelling eBooks with enhanced support for the EPUB file format. Author eBooks that can be read on a variety of devices such as the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble nook, and mobile phones or on personal computers using Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. Enjoy more consistent text and image placement, more accurate translation of page breaks, and support for text and table formatting.

Superior typography in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 - Make sure your typography looks as good onscreen as in print - preserve high-quality typography when handing off layouts from InDesign to Flash Professional. A new text engine in Flash Professional supports text styling, text layout control, multiple columns, and more.

Simplified mobile content design with Adobe Fireworks CS5 and Adobe Device Central CS5 - Easily experiment with designing for mobile devices. Use Device Central and Fireworks to quickly set up a project with the correct specifications, design visually in Fireworks, preview your design in Device Central, and then hand off your prototype for development in Flash Professional or Dreamweaver.

Streamlined reviews through integration with Adobe CS Review - Maximize your design time by streamlining review processes with CS Review, one of the CS Live online services. Initiate shared reviews from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Invite colleagues and clients to comment with easy-to-use annotation tools, and then view their comments in the context of your design.

Live online meetings with Adobe ConnectNow - Choose File > Share My Screen from your design software to initiate a web conferencing session in which you can quickly share ideas and discuss details of a project with others - all online. A feature of Acrobat.com, one of the CS Live online services, ConnectNow is accessible from your web browser.

Web page preview through integration with Adobe BrowserLab -  Through integration with Browserlab, a CS Live online service efficiently previews web pages on multiple browsers and operating systems. Save time and money by eliminating the need to buy costly testing hardware, install multiple browsers, and maintain testing labs.