Adobe CS4..The best Multimedia Editing suite ever

Adobe offers Creative suite professional software in five flavors. Among them, the Master Collection offers professionals the most jam-packed digital toolbox.The release of Adobe Creative Suite 3 in 2007 was the first to incorporate former Macromedia products, such as Flash. With Creative Suite 4, Adobe has unified the interfaces of all the applications for a more seamless experience. There are applications for concocting and editing digital pixel and vector graphics, print layouts, video, audio, web pages, Web pages, and animation, and then repurposing that content for mobile devices. Those who don't need the whole shebang might consider suites that cost less, such as Web Premium or Standard for Web design, Design Premium or Standard with tools for printed media, or Production Premium for film production.Its a product highly recommended only for professionals.


The packages in which the Adobe CS 4 will be available are:
1)Adobe CS 4 Master Collection
2)Adobe CS 4 Design Premium
3)Adobe CS 4 Design Standard
4)Adobe CS 4 Web Premium
5)Adobe CS 4 Web Standard
6)Adobe CS 4 Production Premium

Minimum Requirements: Users of Windows XP SP2 or Vista must have a processor of at least 2GHz, or 3.4GHz for working with high-definition video. Photoshop now natively supports 64-bit Vista, while Premiere, After Effects, Soundbooth, Encore, and OnLocation are certified for 64-bit Vista.

The various applications offered in Adobe CS 4 are:
a)Adobe Acrobat 9 professional
b)After Effects CS 4
c)Contribute CS 4
d)Dreamweaver CS 4
e)Fireworks CS 4
f)Flash CS 4
g)Illustrator CS 4 professional
h)InDesign CS 4
i)Photoshop CS 4
j)Priemiere Pro CS 4
k)Sound Booth CS 4




Cons :
The costly, heavy-duty applications take long to install, are hard to learn, and hog resources; personal tech support can exceed the price of some applications; some apps, such as Photoshop, offer few compelling reasons for most users to upgrade.

Pros :
The dozen applications in the Adobe CS4 Master Collection sport streamlined interfaces and integration for designing and editing images, Web pages, mobile sites, desktop apps, animation, film, and print layouts, and support the latest digital formats.