Design and deliver across media

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection software delivers a comprehensive creative toolset for designing across media. Explore lifelike natural painting, drawing in perspective, powerful 3D, and interactive experience design. Breakthrough performance gains accelerate image processing, rotoscoping, compositing, video editing, and more. And now integration with new Adobe CS Live online services further enhances your productivity. From start to finish, tell your story with Master Collection.


Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection combines: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, Adobe Flash Professional CS5, Adobe Flash Builder 4, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Fireworks CS5, Adobe Contribute CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5, Adobe Soundbooth CS5, Adobe OnLocation CS5, Adobe Encore CS5

Tell your story from start to finish with one comprehensive offering. Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection software enables you to design and develop amazing work, collaborate effectively, and deliver virtually anywhere.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection, you can:

Extend your creative reach - Craft a corporate identity using Illustrator CS5 to engage your audience online. Use new Flash Catalyst CS5 to make it part of an expressive, interactive interface without writing code.

Design and deliver immersive experiences - Use Flash Professional CS5 to engage your audience with microsites and casual games that present your designs consistently across desktops, browsers, and mobile devices.

Take your story to any screen - Enhance HD video productions with high-resolution imagery from Photoshop CS5 Extended. Add intricate effects using After Effects CS5, and edit dramatically faster in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.

Top new features in Creative Suite 5 Master Collection

Interactive design without writing code

Design sophisticated interactive content and create functional interfaces in new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 without writing code. Transform your unique vision into compelling online experiences and deliver perfect project files to developers.

Extraordinary image editing

Use the Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to explore lifelike, naturally textured painting. Add dimension to your imagery with 3D extrusions using Adobe Repoussé technology, and make precise image selections more quickly and easily with new Truer Edge selection technology.

Innovative vector drawing and painting

Quickly and accurately represent depth and distance using new perspective tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5. Precisely control stroke width, arrowheads, and dashes. And use the new Bristle Brush to draw with the expressive quality of watercolors, oils, and pastels, but with the scalability of vectors.

Comprehensive reach of the Flash Platform

Realize your vision online with the capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform. Use Flash Catalyst CS5 to design interactive content without writing code, Adobe Flash Professional CS5 to create free-form, expressive content, and Adobe Flash Builder 4 to develop rich Internet applications.

Interactive documents and presentations

Create memorable documents and presentations complete with interactivity, motion, sound, and video in Adobe InDesign CS5. Enhance page layouts with rich media using new motion presets for easy animation creation. Take advantage of support for FLV and MP3 audio file import to engage and excite your audiences.

Tapeless workflows in video production

Work natively with pristine tapeless footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and Adobe After Effects CS5. Edit tapeless media formats using industry-leading tapeless workflows to keep from wasting valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping.

Industry-leading performance enhancements

Work up to ten times faster with very large images in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended and more fluidly on HD projects in Adobe After Effects CS5 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 thanks to native 64-bit support. New GPU-acceleration quickens work in Photoshop, the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine speeds up effects processing and rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro, and Dynamic Link is now dramatically faster.

Support for evolving web trends

Create dynamic websites more easily using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with full support for the leading content management frameworks, including Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress.

Truer Edge selection technology

Get better masking results in less time when selecting even the trickiest image elements, like hair, in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Truer Edge provides amazing edge detection and selection quality when using the Quick Selection tool.

Expressive motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects

Rotoscope in a fraction of the time with the revolutionary new Roto Brush in Adobe After Effects CS5. Isolating moving foreground elements from their backgrounds with automatic transparency is now dramatically faster.

Crisp graphics for web, interactive, and mobile delivery

Create clean, sharp artwork that aligns accurately - and automatically - on the pixel grid in Adobe Illustrator CS5, eliminating fuzzy graphics for the web or mobile devices.

Type enhancements for the web

Create sophisticated typography for the web with support for bidirectional and vertical text, flowable text layouts, and support for more than 30 writing systems including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and more in Adobe Flash Professional CS5.

Online feedback with Adobe CS Review

Streamline your creative reviews from within Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, and InDesign CS5 using Adobe CS Review, part of CS Live online services. CS Review provides easy-to-use annotation tools and commenting viewed in the context of your design.

Adobe BrowserLab integration for web testing

Preview websites on multiple browsers and operating systems directly from Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 using new BrowserLab, part of CS Live online services. Avoid buying costly test hardware and maintaining testing labs.

Adobe Story integration for script collaboration

Accelerate media creation with Adobe Story, part of CS Live online services. Streamline the flow of script data into pre-production, production, and post-production to create more engaging experiences.

Acrobat.com integration

Enhance communication around the globe using Acrobat.com, part of CS Live online services. Convert files to PDF, store and share files, create documents and presentations online, collaborate, host meetings, and more.


Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection

Interactive design without writing code - Design sophisticated interactive content and create functional interfaces in new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 without writing code. Transform your unique vision into compelling online experiences using Flash Catalyst, and deliver virtually perfect project files to developers who use Adobe Flash Builder to add functionality and integration with servers and services.

Extraordinary image creation and editing - Use the Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to explore lifelike, naturally textured painting. Add dimension to your imagery with 3D extrusions using Adobe Repoussé technology, and make precise image selections more quickly and easily with new Truer Edge selection technology.

Innovative vector drawing and painting - Quickly and accurately represent depth and distance using new perspective tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5. You can now precisely control stroke width, arrowheads, and dashes. And use the new Bristle Brush to draw with the expressive quality of watercolors, oils, and pastels, but with the scalability and editability of vectors.

Industry-leading performance enhancements - Work faster thanks to multiple performance gains. New GPU acceleration in Photoshop CS5 Extended enables quick image cropping, color picking, and brushwork. Work faster in high resolution due to native 64-bit support in Photoshop, Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. The new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine speeds up effects processing and rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Dynamic Link is now dramatically faster.

Integration with new Adobe CS Live online services - Accelerate time-consuming activities and collaborate widely thanks to integration with new Adobe CS Live online services that include Adobe CS Review for design feedback, Adobe BrowserLab to accurately test websites, Adobe Story for script development, and Acrobat. com to enhance communication around the globe.

Expressive motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects - Isolate moving foreground elements quickly in After Effects CS5 using the revolutionary new Adobe Roto Brush tool. Speed up compositing with variablewidth mask feathering and new trackable masks. And start animating instantly using the new Auto-Animate button that automatically sets your starting keyframe to the current time.

Interactive documents and presentations - Create memorable documents and presentations complete with interactivity, motion, sound, and video in Adobe InDesign CS5. Enhance page layouts with rich media using new motion presets for easy animation creation. Take advantage of support for FLV and MP3 audio file import to engage and excite your audiences.

Support for evolving web trends - Design and develop complex websites with exciting new enhancements to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Create dynamic websites more easily using Dreamweaver with full support for the leading content management frameworks, including Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress.

Immersive interactive design and delivery - Fluidly animate complex jointed objects and create print-quality interactive typography in Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Add personality to your inverse kinematic motion with Spring, a new Bones tool attribute. New text capabilities include advanced styling controls. And new XML support provides tighter integration with other Adobe products.

Subtle changes, big differences - Do more in less time with a wealth of productivity enhancements that streamline everyday tasks. Your favorite tools keep getting better with features such as Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5, the Shape Builder tool in Illustrator CS5, and variably sized master pages in InDesign CS5.


System Requirements

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6.3; Mac OS X v10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro
• 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
• 26.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x900 display (1280x1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit the Adobe Premiere Pro system requirements page for the latest list of supported cards
• Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
• Core Audio-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
• Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features
• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files and to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services