From business card to billboard, annual report to packaging, CS5 Design Premium offers designers the complete toolset needed to quickly and reliably produce high-quality, unique, and visually compelling print designs.
State-of-the-art image editing
Use industry-standard Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to edit, enhance, and refine high-quality images for any print project.
Versatile, resolution-independent graphics
Create stand-out graphics that scale from business card to billboard with Adobe Illustrator CS5.
Dynamic PDF creation
Use Acrobat 9 Pro to create PDF documents and package layouts, drawings, images, animation, movies, audio, and other files in a single, dynamic PDF Portfolio.
Streamlined reviews
Maximize design time by streamlining reviews with Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service. Initiate shared reviews from within Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, and InDesign CS5. Invite others to comment with easy-to-use tools, and view their comments in the context of your design.
Integration with CS Live online services
Take advantage of integration with new Adobe CS Live online services* to accelerate time-consuming processes such as creative reviews, web page testing, and collaborative content authoring. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Performance on the latest operating systems
Take advantage of the power and performance of the latest Apple and Microsoft operating systems. Enjoy 64-bit support for faster image editing across platforms with Photoshop CS5 Extended.
Creative 3D possibilities
Quickly add depth and create unusual effects using 3D editing tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Create attention-getting 3D logos and artwork from text and shapes and edit, manipulate, and paint directly on 3D models.
High-quality page layout
Lay out, preflight, and produce stunning page layouts with Adobe InDesign CS5, an intuitive design environment that offers precise control over typography and built-in tools for creative effects.
Visual media management
Find files fast by browsing thumbnails instead of filenames with Adobe Bridge. Or browse thumbnails and place files from the Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop CS5 Extended and InDesign CS5.
Adobe Community Help
Find the answers you need, including in-depth, product-specific Help from Adobe and additional third-party expert content, all accessed from within your design software.
Consistent Adobe user interface
Work quickly and intuitively thanks to a consistent user interface across all CS5 Design Premium components. Enjoy a shorter learning curve and stay more focused on the art of design.
PDF preflight and correction
Reduce errors at the printer with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. Apply extensive preflight checks and easily fix issues form faulty hairlines to transparency handling, black conversion, spot color mapping, and more.
CS5 Design Premium enables designers to create standards-based websites with compelling graphics and interactive content.
What's new in CS5 Design Premium
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software gives you powerful new creative tools for crafting artwork that stands out. Finish work faster with feature-packed releases of Adobe Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, and InDesign. And extend the reach of your work by creating interactive content with new Adobe Flash Catalyst without writing code.
- Craft artwork that stands out
- Express your ideas faster
- Create interactivity without writing code
- Streamline critical processes
Craft artwork that stands out
Discover powerful new creative tools in Photoshop and Illustrator for crafting artwork that stands out in a wide range of media.
Realistic painting effects
Easily paint with lifelike brush strokes to create beautiful, expressive images in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Blend a photo's colors; use bristle properties such as shape, length, and stiffness; or define multiple colors on a single brush and blend them into the underlying colors on your canvas.
Fluid vector painting
Combine the expressiveness of painting with the editability and scalability of vectors. Paint freely with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes, controlling paint opacity and bristle characteristics such as shape, length, and stiffness, with Illustrator CS5.
Easy 3D extrusions
Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask with the Adobe Repouss feature in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate these designs, and then apply materials such as chrome, mud, and grass to achieve different looks.
System requirements
Windows
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
- 1GB of RAM or more recommended
- 9.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1280x800 display with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
- Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
- Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM
- DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs
- Java Runtime Environment 1.5 (32 bit) or 1.6
- QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
- Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
