Adobe CS4 unveiled « Icrontic Tech

The webcast for the announcement of the next version of Adobe’s sensationally popular Creative Suite series is underway. The newest version, dubbed Adobe Creative Suite 4, includes refreshes to Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, After Effects, Dreamweaver and Flash. Boasting enhanced inter-program communication, a slew of new features and workflow enhancement, the CS4 series will undoubtedly be hugely popular.

While customers can continue to individually purchase full versions of 13 Adobe products, they also revealed details regarding four product bundles:

Design Premium

Priced at $1799 MSRP, this package 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

Web Premium

Priced at $1699 MSRP, this package includes:

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

Production Premium

Priced at $1699, this package includes:

After Effects CS4
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Photoshop CS4 Extended
Flash CS4 Professional
Illustrator CS4
Soundbooth CS4
Adobe OnLocation CS4
Encore CS4
Adobe Bridge CS4
Adobe Device Central CS4
Dynamic Link

Master Collection

Priced at $2499, this package includes:

InDesign CS4
Photoshop CS4 Extended
Illustrator CS4
Acrobat 9 Pro
Flash CS4 Professional
Dreamweaver CS4
Fireworks CS4
Contribute CS4
After Effects CS4
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Soundbooth CS4
Adobe OnLocation CS4
Encore CS4
Adobe Bridge CS4
Adobe Device Central CS4
Dynamic Link
Version Cue CS4

Adobe also announced but did not disclose the details of a tiered pricing scheme which will allow the owners of existing Creative Suite products to upgrade for a reduced rate. The firm also released PDFs which detailed the enhancements to the six applications headlining CS4:

Adobe Photoshop CS4

Adobe Premiere CS4

Adobe Illustrator CS4

Adobe After Effects CS4

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Adobe Flash CS

7 Comments:

RADA

23 Sep '08, 2:10 pm
..and hugely expensive... wallet=
PurplezArctic

25 Sep '08, 1:10 am
Holy ****. That's a lot of dough.

*Pza hugs GIMP a little tighter*
Thrax

25 Sep '08, 1:18 am
The GIMP is not a real replacement for Photoshop.
Buddy J

25 Sep '08, 4:36 am
One could say it's a gimped version of Photoshop.
PurplezArctic

27 Sep '08, 4:26 am
I never implied it as a replacement. A little taken out of context.

Anyway, I completely agree. In the professional industry, PS and the whole suite is assumed to be used for it's category of software. However, at my consumer level, it gets things done.
RADA

28 Sep '08, 3:00 pm

Quoting PurplezArctic

Holy ****. That's a lot of dough.

*Pza hugs GIMP a little tighter*

Yup, found the CS4 Master Collection on journeyed.com with a Student/Educator price of ONLY $999.98!!

The Standard Edition is over $490...

I'll stick with my CS2, still does more than I need it to...
Nomad

2 Oct '08, 4:38 pm
CS4 is actually fairly cheap if you consider the amount of time and effort it goes to produce such a well-polished piece of software. It does what you need it to better than anything else on the market.