Adobe CS4 Design Premium Upgrade from CS3 for Mac

This Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Upgrade for Mac requires Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, achieving typographic finesse, creating stunning digital images and vector graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity within a single, unified creative environment.

New CS4 Features:

• Rich interactive documents: Build rich content using Adobe Flash technology and create engaging PDF documents that include professional typography and top-quality page design.
• Rich interactive content and versatile print design combined: Enjoy native support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations, and applications in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader software. PDF files have never been so lively and compelling.
• Creative possibilities: interactive design tools. Enrich your projects with advanced video and audio capabilities.
• Collaboration across workflows: Enjoy timesaving integration among Adobe Creative Suite components with common tools and interfaces, and easily exchange assets between components with powerful new file formats.
• Control of your content: Enable your clients to make updates to web pages directly from the browser. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.
• Adobe Community Help: Access the power of an online search engine from within Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth, product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities.
• Adobe Kuler: Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community, accessible from the new Kuler panel in some Creative Suite 4 components, the Kuler website, and the Kuler Adobe AIR application. Browse and search for thousands of themes, download directly into your Swatches panel, and even upload your own themes to share.
• Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com: Sign up for Acrobat.com, a set of online services you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the ability to access one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, from within many Creative Suite 4 components, you can meet live over the web and share your screen with up to two online guests for no charge.

Enhanced Features:

• Latest and greatest design tools: Discover new levels of creative opportunity and efficiency with all-new versions of professional Adobe tools for print, web, interactive, and mobile design.
• Common user interface: Come up to speed quickly with the help of the consistent interface across all of the creative tools.
• Exceptional integration: Work more productively than ever thanks to the exceptional integration of the tools in Creative Suite 4 Design Standard. Easily exchange native file formats to streamline content creation across design disciplines.
• Support for industry standards and best practices: Take advantage of the professional output options you need for every design discipline, from print to web to mobile. Adobe's ongoing focus on open standards means your work can easily go wherever you want.
• Support for the latest Mac OS and Windows systems: Experience the ultimate in performance by running Design Standard natively on Intel based Macs and computers running Microsoft Windows Vista. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC based Macs and Windows XP systems, as well.
• Efficient installation and management: Simplify installation and software management using a single installer and serial number. Install all components at once, or install only those you most need now, and add more components later (one user per license).
• Creative possibilities: Create stunning designs in Adobe InDesign CS4 using tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects, and placed images.
• Productivity that flows: Move between tasks naturally and efficiently for fast, productive page layout in a flexible design environment.
• Persuasive content: Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences using logical, condensed steps and advanced features such as automatic page addition and deletion.
• Access to full editing power: Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop CS4 offers with a more intuitive user interface and features that put you in control.
• More efficient way to work: Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.
• 3D and motion-based editing: Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.
• Precise image analysis: Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.
• Powerful creative tools: Explore multiple design options and generate intricate graphics using robust creative features in Adobe Illustrator CS4. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely and quickly achieve just the look you want.
• Smooth and efficient workflow: Accomplish more and stay in the groove by working directly on the artboard. Interact with tools and options more easily and complete your projects efficiently using a wealth of innovative, timesaving features and shortcuts.
• Delivery virtually anywhere: Move easily between Illustrator and other Creative Suite 4 components while confidently delivering graphics for print, interactive experiences, video, mobile, and motion effects. Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity among the tools, work across Creative Suite components is virtually seamless.
• Convenient, effective collaboration online: Help ensure that colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same page at the same time with the new ability to conavigate documents, to provide clarity and enhance discussion.
• Unparalleled PDF workflows for professional creative production: Prepare high-quality, press-ready PDF files for print production workflows faster and more intuitively with enhanced preflight and automatic correction features. Intelligent, automatic Overprint Preview helps ensure that overlapping elements will print correctly.
• Easy and efficient design: Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Flash CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.
• Delivery for a wide reach: Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices.The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR runtime, are right at your fingertips.
• Next-generation web experiences: Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.
• Support for best practices: Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.
• Prototyping at the next level: Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Fireworks CS4. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.
• Smooth collaboration: Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Creative Suite 4 components, including Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4.
• Designing for many platforms: Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, or Adobe Flash or Flex software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready, export standards-compliant CSS to Dreamweaver. Create HTML-based AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.
• Mobile content testing: Simplify the production of innovative and compelling content for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices with Adobe Device Central CS4. Save time by automating testing and simulating the network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated library of device profiles.
• Delivery of engaging experiences: Create mobile projects to manage assets, target device profiles, and export tasks in one central location. Record content as it plays and send high-quality movie clips to pitch ideas more easily to clients. Thanks to intelligent integration with Creative Suite 4 components, Device Central CS4 helps creative professionals and mobile developers deliver engaging experiences to millions of mobile subscribers.

Includes:

• InDesign CS4
• Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Illustrator CS4
• Flash CS4 Professional
• Dreamweaver CS4
• Fireworks CS4
• Acrobat 9 Pro
• Adobe Bridge CS4
• Adobe Device Central CS4
• Version Cue CS4