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December 1, 2008

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Deliver Innovative Ideas in Print, Web, and Mobile Design

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment.

Design with essential tools
Let your ideas take flight with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, which equips you to craft your best creative work more easily and efficiently than ever before. From thinking through concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the intuitive tools in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium lets you stay true to your creative intent without making compromises along the way.

Keep your ideas flowing
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium lets you slip into the creative zone and stay there by offering tight integration and shared features that enable you to move fluidly between tasks. Easily move assets between components to avoid awkward workarounds. Import Adobe Photoshop Extended and Illustrator artwork into Adobe Flash, for example, or paste Photoshop images into Adobe Dreamweaver. Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge, coordinate with team members using Adobe Version Cue, and host real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect--all from within Creative Suite 3 Design Premium.

Design for today...and tomorrow
Prepare content for a wide range of media, from print pieces to interactive websites to mobile devices, using integrated tools to produce industry-standard output. Depend on reliable Adobe PDF workflows for print production, move from print design to web design by exporting XHTML from Adobe InDesign to Dreamweaver, and enable efficient developer workflows as you create cutting-edge interactive experiences. From pages to pixels, Design Premium lets you design for tomorrow as well as today.

Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing

Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation

Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout

Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design

Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development

Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows

Audience benefit

Design professionals
Express your ideas in virtually any medium, from paper to pixels, using intuitive tools that help you stay true to your creative intent. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing, combining all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for designing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content in a unified design environment. Design Premium also offers visual asset management, effective file management for collaborative creative teams, mobile content previewing, and access to services such as Adobe Stock Photos* for royalty-free imagery and Adobe Acrobat Connect* for web conferencing. With Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, you can create beautiful, engaging content, collaborate effectively, and equip yourself for new business opportunities with tools that let you design for tomorrow as well as today.

Print professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software offers print professionals industry-standard tools for design and production. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium combines full new versions of Adobe's leading design and production tools-- Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional--in a tightly integrated environment that offers productivity features for visual asset management, effective file management, mobile content previewing, and direct access to online services. Enjoy consistent print controls, shared color settings, and shared PDF export presets across Design Premium components, and generate reliable output using support for high-end Adobe PDF workflows, including PDF/X. Preflight |PDF files using Acrobat, which now offers automated file correction, and automate workflows using JDF. Even improve communication with customers using real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect.* Creative Suite 3 Design Premium gives you the most trusted tools for the job, helping you realize smooth production processes--and diversify your services.

IT professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software enables creative teams to realize their ideas more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Built on industry standards to provide long-term compatibility, Creative Suite 3 Design Premium can be deployed across networks, is extensible and scriptable, and can be tailored to meet a variety of specialized design and publishing needs. Design Premium combines full new versions of Adobe's essential design tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional--with Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, Adobe Stock Photos*, and Adobe Acrobat Connect* for improved collaboration and productivity in creative workgroups. Offering a single installer and serial number for easy installation and backed by the quality and reliability Adobe is known for, Creative Suite 3 Design Premium meets the needs of your creative team.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

Coordinate with team members using Adobe Version Cue

Host real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect

Top New Benefits of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

All-new versions of essential creative tools
Experience the ultimate creative toolset with Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout, Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing, Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation, Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design, Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development, and Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF workflows.

Unprecedented integration
Use native files more easily than ever in different design workflows: Import Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, and copy Photoshop files into Dreamweaver. And enjoy a unified, integrated design experience with new self-adjusting panels and other shared interface elements.

Powerful design workflows
Bring your most visionary ideas to life in print, on the web, and on mobile devices. Automatically find and fix errors before printing high-quality pages using InDesign and Acrobat. Export InDesign layouts as XHTML to use in web designs in Dreamweaver. Easily create graphics in Flash using the Adobe-standard Pen tool. And test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central.

Support for the latest Mac and Windows systems
Get the most out of Creative Suite 3 Design Premium on Intel based Mac systems and Microsoft Windows Vista computers. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC based Mac and Windows XP systems as well.

New dimensions in digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Select image regions more intuitively, apply filters nondestructively, manipulate 3D images, and create accurate composites of images with similar content using Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Inspired vector graphics creation in Adobe Illustrator CS3
Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color in Illustrator CS3. Select and align points and edit paths more easily than ever before, and easily incorporate vector graphics into print, web and interactive, and mobile designs.

Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3
Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing.

Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Easily organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; nondestructive batch-editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files; playback of Flash files; and direct access to useful services such as Adobe Stock Photos.*

Stronger designer-developer workflows
Import layered Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, animate them, and export them automatically in the ActionScript 3.0 language to hand off to developers. Use new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages, and collaborate with developers to produce interactive web experiences using the Spry framework for Ajax.

Integrated support for mobile design
Produce compelling mobile graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop Extended, add interactivity in Flash, and code pages for mobile display in Dreamweaver. Then preview and test your designs using mobile device profiles in Adobe Device Central CS3.

Additional Features

Industry-leading image editing and illustration
Experience unrivaled image editing and compositing, and even perform advanced image analysis, using Photoshop CS3 Extended. Produce inspired vector graphics with Illustrator CS3, which lets you interactively explore, apply, and control color. And work seamlessly between the two components with native file format support.

Designer-developer workflows
Import layered Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash, animate them, and export them automatically in the ActionScript 3.0 language to hand off to developers. Use new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages, and collaborate with developers to produce interactive web experiences using the Spry framework for Ajax.

Adobe PDF print workflows
Use widely available Adobe PDF to create reliable and consistent final output, streamline print production--including automatically fixing mistakes before they get to press--and automate workflows using JDF.

Support for PDF/X standard
Create reliable, press-ready layouts using ISO- and ANSI-standard PDF/X, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 (draft), and PDF/A.

Powerful JDF workflows
Automatically convert InDesign files to Adobe PDF and preflight and validate them against the targeted output intent (including number of pages, page size, and more) using enhanced JDF workflows.

Shared PDF presets
Use built-in Adobe PDF export presets--or create custom presets--in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to generate consistent Adobe PDF files for electronic review or final output.

Streamlined print production
Preflight Adobe PDF files in Acrobat 8 Professional and fix problems before they get to press. Automatically correct hairlines, downsample image resolution, flatten transparency, and more.

Automation through scripting
Speed routine tasks and automate processes within and across components of the software by writing scripts in JavaScript, AppleScript, Microsoft Visual Basic, and the ExtendScript toolkit.

Efficient and easy-to-manage deployment
Easily deploy Design Premium using a single installer and serial number, and track, manage, and accurately allocate Adobe software assets using Adobe License Manager.

* Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe Stock Photos and Acrobat Connect, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees. For details, visit www.adobe.com.

Adobe Creative Suite 3: What's in Each Edition?

	ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3 EDITIONS
	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	WEB STANDARD	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
Adobe Photoshop CS3 extended
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe illustrator CS3
Adobe indesign CS3
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Contribute CS3
Adobe Fireworks CS3
Adobe After effects CS3 Professional
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Adobe Soundbooth CS3
Adobe encore CS3
Adobe onlocation					*
Adobe ultra CS3					*
	ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND SERVICES IN ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3
Adobe bridge CS3
Adobe version Cue CS3
Adobe device Central CS3
Adobe dynamic link
Adobe Stock Photos
Adobe Acrobat Connect

* Adobe Ultra runs on Microsoft Windows only. For Macintosh users, Adobe OnLocation requires Bootcamp and Windows (purchased separately), or a separate Windows-based computer.

Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Super products, but the licensing is a surprise May 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

All products are superb. e,g the Workspace feature in Photoshop is a dream, it opens preselected floating windows that relate to the type of tasks you are performing.

But the licensing is draconian. I thought I was buying a product bundle that I can install on different machines. But it turns out that you need to install all products in the suite on the same machine.This needs to be very clearly declared in all promotional materials for this suite so people like me can make better purchase decisions.

4 out of 5 stars

Incredible software, less than incredible company April 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The CS3 software is, as previous Adobe releases have been, great. Very great potential for creating and altering your own work, easy to use once you got your head around it, and with good interconnectivity.

However, there are a couple of problems, as one reviewer also points out. Firstly this software is rather pricy and quite greedy memory wise, which is a bit of a bother. Secondly, as the same reviewer also remarks on, installing and uninstalling these products can quite quickly turn into a proper nightmare finding small obscure files in obscure places on your harddrive and risking your entire hard disk in the process. Thirdly, and this is connected with my second point, Adobe dosen't seem to care about anything but themselves. Their obsession with anti piracy implementations becomes a weight around the paying users ankles, and, as far as I know, dosen't slow down the pirates. Their customer service is unfriendly at best, and their greed second to none (this is sort of expensive software).

In the end though, I wouldn't recommend any other software because this is the best out there, but it would be nice with an alternative. If only for the sake of shaking up the people at Adobe.

5 out of 5 stars

Great package, great price December 25, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is a must-have package for creative professionals. Amazon offers this suite at the most competitive price I know of.

3 out of 5 stars

Bloatware CS3 November 27, 2007
18 out of 18 found this review helpful

As a Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign user since the very start Adobe has it easy. They have made the dominant series of software for so long it is a given that they should continue their regime.

The problem is they have gotten insane with power. Without anyone to check them, the price grows along with the absurd use of memory.

Examples:
- Adobe used the worst installation process ever created by man and made a quick joy of using new programs into a day or two slog through hell. If there ever was a reason to pirate software, this punishing of paid users is definitely it.

- You can't throw this application away. You need to find a hidden program in your computer to uninstall it first, then trash.

- If you accidently trash it you need to run a script that they provide. The problem is this script (which isn't exactly simple) could erase you hard drive. Have fun!

- If you decide that you'd just like to reinstall after trashing you can't. You need to use the script. A bit of DRM will not allow this to be installed, thus forcing you to potentially destroy your computer so they can avoid possible piracy.

- Bridge while in concept is nice, is in functionality, less then useless.

- Stock Photos? See above.

- And Acrobat is the crown jewel of uselessness. It is so bloated and unintuitive it makes me wish Adobe had some real competition. When every other program can open a PDF faster then the company who created the file type you know there is an issue here.

- Updates are welcome. Auto-updates are even nicer. That is until you learn the hard way that auto-updates delete preferences and color-palettes. So behind the scenes you are about to lose all of your work randomly. Sweet.

- The improvements to all other applications are fairly minor outside some solid GUI tweaks

My main complaint here is that the much touted connected community of applications still doesn't work. Transferring from one application to another is meant to be seamless and quick, but it is still a chore. These are not streamlined apps nor are they speedy workhorses - they are stuck in between and set to make very few power users happy. Even less for first time folk.

On the plus side, the intel boosts are wonderful. And the rewritten InDesign makes me love that I switched from Quark so long ago. The new Flash is nice, and it integrates the best of all, but Actionscript 3 is a major step backwards in my opnion. It is far too code oriented for designers, and almost useless to coders.

But in total, if you have a version of any of these apps on your computer this simply isn't worth your money or your time.

5 out of 5 stars

Love it. November 4, 2007
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

Great product. I use CS3 every day and I'm still learning better ways to use it. I rely on Illustrator and Photoshop for most of my work, but I'm also using InDesign.