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Product Information

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard software is the essential toolkit for print design and production. It combines industry-standard tools for editing digital images, creating vector graphics, and laying out top-quality print documents with elegant typography. Extend beyond print with dynamic eBooks and digital documents that marry interactivity with the quality of traditional print design.

What's included?

• Photoshop CS6
• Illustrator CS6
• InDesign CS6
• Acrobat X Pro
• Bridge CS6
• Media Encoder CS6.

Documents & Downloads

New Features

What's new in Creative Suite 6 Design Standard

• Retouching magic in Photoshop - Retouch images with astonishing ease and precision. Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the sample area Content-Aware will use to magically create your patch.
• Adobe Mercury Performance System in Illustrator - Work blazingly fast — even with processing-intensive effects such as blurs, glows, and drop shadows that used to slow you down. Access all the RAM on your system thanks to native 64-bit support on both Mac OS and Windows.
• Multiple layout versions in one InDesign file - Efficiently manage multiple layouts based on a single set of content. Use Alternate Layout to create multiple versions in one document. Use Liquid Layout to automate layout resizing based on page size.
• Content linking across InDesign documents - Link content that appears in multiple InDesign documents so that changes made to parent text or objects are applied automatically to all linked children objects. Save time and avoid hassles when making last-minute changes.
• Astonishing performance in Photoshop - Experience blazing-fast interactions when editing with key tools such as Crop, Transform, Liquify, and Puppet Warp. The Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented speed and responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.
• Easy pattern creation in Illustrator - Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with repeating patterns that can be edited at any time.
• Video editing in Photoshop - Edit video in Photoshop to include in your digital publishing projects. Quickly combine clips and stills using transitions, audio, and effects, such as pan and zoom.
• Faster design tasks in Photoshop - Finesse details quickly with new and reengineered tools. Apply type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
• Image Trace in Illustrator - Convert raster images to editable vectors with a completely new tracing engine. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable results without dealing with complex controls.
• Gradients on strokes in Illustrator - Apply gradients to your strokes — along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself — all with complete control over gradient placement and opacity.
• PDF forms in InDesign - Use InDesign to add form fields to a layout. Include standard elements such as text fields, radio buttons, and checkboxes, and export the form as a PDF file for online publishing.
• All-new Crop tool in Photoshop - Crop images fast and precisely using the hardware-accelerated, nondestructive Crop tool. Manipulate your images on canvas and see the adjustments live.
• Blur Gallery in Photoshop - Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points.
• Improved auto-corrections in Photoshop - Enhance your images with improved Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to provide a better starting point for making adjustments.
• Background Save in Photoshop - Protect against losing your work during unexpected shutdowns. Auto-save your edits without interrupting your progress, and keep working while saving even the largest Photoshop files in the background.
• Scripted Patterns in Photoshop - Generate geometric pattern fills more easily with new Scripted Patterns.
• Drawing enhancements in Photoshop - Draw more naturally and efficiently using airbrush tips, drawing tips that wear down as you work, an Oil Painting filter, and painting presets and brush enhancements.
• Preset sharing in Photoshop - Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers.
• Dozens of time-savers in Photoshop - Experience more than 50 creativity and productivity boosts directly requested by users.
• Small, high-impact enhancements in InDesign - Take advantage of over a dozen enhancements — including page-specific PPI, split window views, a recently used fonts list, and persistent text frame fitting options— to help you fly through production tasks without compromising quality.
• Enhanced user interface in Illustrator - Perform daily tasks such as editing layer names and selecting fonts in fewer steps. Keep the focus on your artwork with an adjustable-brightness 'dark UI'.
• Integration with other Adobe tools and services - Enjoy integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Adobe Touch Apps within individual components of Design Standard.

Note: Some Photoshop GPU-enabled features not supported on Windows XP.

Features

Key features in Design Standard

Breakthrough image editing in Photoshop

Deliver eye-catching results with the industry standard in digital imaging. Enjoy creative freedom and precise control when refining and compositing images, applying artistic effects, and painting with versatile brush tools.

Video editing in Photoshop

Edit video in Photoshop to include in your digital publishing projects. Quickly combine clips and stills using transitions, audio, and effects, such as pan and zoom.

Distinctive vector graphics in Illustrator

Create top-quality vector artwork for any project, from logos to illustrations for advertising, packaging, signage, and more. Use precise drawing tools and expressive natural brushes to create graphics that get noticed.

Professional page layout in InDesign

Lay out, preflight, and produce stunning page layouts with intuitive design software that offers precise control over typography and built-in tools for creative effects.

Tablet publications in InDesign

Use InDesign to create media-rich publications for iPad and other tablet devices. Add interactive elements such as pan and zoom, slide shows, audio, and video. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for distribution.

eBook authoring in InDesign

Create engaging eBooks with refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit any screen. Add video and audio for eBook mobile devices that support HTML5 video and audio tags, and take advantage of EPUB3 support.

Robust preflighting

Prepare files for hassle-free production for print and digital layouts by finding errors in InDesign with Live Preflight, or by using robust preflight checks and fixes in Adobe Acrobat X Pro.

Efficient delivery of accessible documents

Apply accessibility rules in InDesign — including tab and read-aloud order — and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat Pro.

PDF creation, editing, and delivery

Distribute layouts reliably using Acrobat X Pro to create simple PDF documents and package layouts, drawings, images, video, audio, and other files in a single polished PDF Portfolio.

Performance on newer operating systems

Take advantage of the full power and performance of newer Windows and Mac OS systems. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are 64-bit native for lightning-fast creativity and production.

Visual media browsing

Find files fast by browsing thumbnails instead of filenames with Adobe Bridge software. Or browse thumbnails and place files from the Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop and InDesign.

Integration with other Adobe tools and services

Enjoy integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Adobe Touch Apps within individual components of Design Standard.

System Req.

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
• Windows XP with SP3, Windows 7 with SP1
• 1GB RAM (3GB recommended) for 32-bit, 2GB RAM (8GB recommended) for 64-bit
• 8.5GB hard-disk space, additional free space required during installation
• 1024x768 (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 256MB VRAM
• OpenGL 2.0 capable system
• DVD-ROM drive
• Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files.

Mac

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7
• 2GB RAM (8GB recommended)
• 7GB hard-disk space, additional free space required during installation
• 1024x768 (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 256MB VRAM
• OpenGL 2.0 capable system
• DVD-ROM drive
• Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files.

Note: This product requires activation over the internet. Phone activation is not available.