'Best-Sellers' Software for Educators, Creative, Business, Print & Photography Professionals, Web Designers, Web Developers and Graphic Designers
Acrobat 9 Pro | Photoshop CS4 | Photoshop Lightroom 2 | Dreamweaver CS4 | CS4 Design Premium
Are you a business professional in sales, marketing, finance, HR, legal, or an administrative assistant who manages projects and/or requires advanced collaboration and form capabilities? Are you a designer, art director, account manager, project manager, service providers, pre-press shop owner, print proprietor or a member of their pre-press or print staff? If so, the following best-selling Adobe software should be quite beneficial to you/your business:
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software helps business and creative professionals communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely with virtually anyone, anywhere. Purchase Acrobat 9 Pro Extended: Deliver the richest, most engaging PDF communications.
Key Features
Acrobat 9 Pro includes all the functionality of Acrobat 9 Standard plus the following capabilities:
- Unify a wide range of content in PDF files—Combine documents, drawings, e-mail, and spreadsheets in a single compressed PDF Portfolio. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your logo and that include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.
- Include rich media content in PDF files—Add videos and animations created with Adobe Flash® software to your PDF documents. With native support for Flash technology, no additional media player is necessary for playback.
- Include Adobe Reader® users—Enable users of free Adobe Reader software* to digitally sign documents and to participate in shared document reviews. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.
- Convert to PDF from technical applications—Take advantage of one-button PDF file creation from AutoCAD®, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project, which preserves document layers in Visio and AutoCAD and object data in Visio.†
- Permanently remove sensitive information—Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document. Inspect PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove it before distributing the files to others.
† Windows® only.
Are you a professional photographer, dedicated amateur photographer and/or graphic designer? If you are, Photoshop CS4 can save you time and money by allowing you to enjoy smoother rotation, panning and zooming. You can adjust images in half the time, bypass cropping and re-touching with intelligent Content Aware Scaling, and automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos to create seamless panoramas. If you're a photographer and educator you'll benefit from Photoshop Lightroom 2, as well!
Adobe Photoshop CS4 software provides improved access to its unrivaled power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.
Key Features
- Adjustments panel—Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.
- Masks panel—Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
- Enhanced auto-alignment of layers—Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.
- Enhanced auto-blending of images—Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
- Extended depth of field—Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point—with options to preserve tones and colors—into a single color-corrected image.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software helps today’s professional and amateur photographers spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens. Get your Adobe Photoshop Lightroom!
Key Features
- Enhance specific areas of a photo—Enjoy more flexible, accurate enhancements by targeting a specific area of a photo for dodging and burning.
- Quickly find any photo—Sort and filter large volumes of photos using powerful metadata filters to quickly find just the photo you want.
- Automatically import and process your way—Import and process large volumes of photos according to your customized settings. Easily rename files, organize them into folders, add metadata, and convert file formats for an entire shoot.
- Native 64-bit architecture—Utilize the advanced memory-handling capabilities on the latest Mac OS and Windows® systems.
- Expand your workspace—Add a second monitor and enjoy more room to work. Support for multiple monitors allows you to configure your workspace to manage image workflow and presentation more efficiently.
Build world-class websites and applications with one of the industry’s leading web authoring tools. Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software is ideal for web designers, web developers, visual designers and Adobe Creative Suite users.
Key Features
- An industry-leading tool—Build world-class websites with one of the industry’s leading web authoring tools. Manipulate pixel-level designs or craft complex code. Work the way you work best in the real-world environment of Live View.
- Cross-product integration—Leverage the intelligent integration and power of Dreamweaver CS4 and other Adobe tools, including Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional, Fireworks® CS4, Photoshop® CS4, and Adobe Device Central CS4 software, through direct communication and interaction across the product line.
- Comprehensive CSS support—Style your sites with the enhanced CSS implementation tools in Dreamweaver CS4. Define and modify CSS rules instantly in the Properties panel. Use the Related Files and Code Navigator features to find specific CSS rules.
- Integrated coding—Tap the power of built-in code hints for faster and cleaner coding in HTML; JavaScript; Ajax frameworks such as Spry, jQuery, and Prototype; and several server languages.
- Support for leading technologies—Design and code in a tool that supports most of the leading web development technologies, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion®, and ASP.
- FLV support—Integrate FLV files into any web page with point-and-click ease and standards-compliant coding. Design with your FLV videos playing in the new Live View.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for today's designer. Express yourself in exciting new ways and deliver rich creative experiences across print, web, and mobile media.
Key Features
- Ultimate design toolset—Design for print, web, and mobile devices in a powerful, integrated, and comprehensive creative environment. Plus, enjoy innovative services for collaborating, finding inspiration, and mastering design tools.
- Compelling vector graphics and digital images—Create eye-catching vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator® CS4 and powerful digital images in Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended. Deliver imaginative combinations of graphics and images in many media.
- Layout and production for print, web, and mobile—Use Adobe Fireworks® CS4 to prototype websites, Adobe InDesign® CS4 to create short and long documents for print or digital delivery, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4 for standards-based web production, and Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional to build engaging interactive experiences.
- Ideas in motion—In Flash CS4 Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps. Use Photoshop CS4 Extended to enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to the audio track. Incorporate animations and video in PDF, web, or mobile creations.
- Powerful 3D possibilities—Edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D content, and even paint directly on 3D models with Photoshop CS4 Extended. Wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes, and create 3D animations by controlling movement, camera position, and rendering.
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