Chapter 1. Introducing the Creative Suite
The Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium package is composed of several programs designed to work together to accomplish all your publishing needs for output to print, screen viewing, and Web hosting. Instead of marketing the individual program components of the Creative Suite, Adobe Systems has spent much of its marketing effort targeting the entire Creative Suite to design professionals.
This chapter offers a description of the Creative Suite programs and gives you an idea of how they work together. In this chapter, you learn about the purpose of each program and the relationship each program has with other members of the Creative Suite team. In addition, you receive a brief summary of new features contained in the latest releases of the individual programs.
Why Creative Suite?
Each program in the Creative Suite version 4 is an upgrade from the CS3 applications, and each is available for upgrades individually. So why is Adobe Systems spending so much marketing effort informing users about the benefits of the Creative Suite? And why talk about the Creative Suite as a single entity when users are likely to upgrade the individual software programs in their design studios? These may be the first questions on your mind as you see the advertising for Adobe imaging product upgrades.
The answer is that Creative Suite ...
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