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Next-generation web experiences

Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4. 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.

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.

Rich interactive content development with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Easy and efficient design

Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.

New creative possibilities

Extend the limits of creative possibility with powerful new drawing, animation, and 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.

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.

New dimensions in digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended

Access to full editing power

Take advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.

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.

Inspired vector graphics creation with Adobe Illustrator CS4

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.

Web prototyping and image editing with Adobe Fireworks CS4

Prototyping at the next level

Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Adobe 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, 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 CS4. Create HTML-based AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.

PDF file creation and collaboration with Acrobat 9 Pro

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.

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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.

Audio creation and editing with Adobe Soundbooth CS4

Intuitive, task-based tools

Take command of audio for your film, video, or rich media project. Task-based tools help you clean up recordings, polish voice-overs, customize music and sound effects, and much more. High-quality production becomes more efficient with Adobe Soundbooth® CS4, without sacrificing creative control.

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Select from dozens of Soundbooth Scores, adjust the intensity of your soundtrack to suit the mood, and create audio using thousands of sound effects available via Resource Central (Internet connection required).

Tighter integration

Work on audio in Adobe After Effects® CS4, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4, or Flash CS4 Professional more efficiently than ever with the Edit in Soundbooth option that lets you edit your audio files directly in Soundbooth.

Enhanced audio editing

Tackle everyday audio editing and cleanup with the power of nondestructive editing. Quickly and easily heal sound; remove pops, clicks, and other unwanted noises; and match volume levels.

Flexible web publishing with Adobe Contribute CS4

Delegation of work while retaining control

Delegate content publishing to content owners without compromising the integrity of your websites. Define and enforce custom publishing workflows to meet your organization's review and approval requirements for published content.

User engagement

Empower end users to quickly and easily publish content to static and dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG authoring. Give users the choice of editing websites directly from their favorite browsers or composing and publishing web content from within Microsoft Office applications. Enable easy collaboration between users in the content publishing process.

Compatible and affordable tool

Publish to the web in almost any computing environment thanks to compatibility with existing web and IT infrastructures and cross-platform interoperability. Adobe Contribute® CS4 is affordable and works on Intel® and PowerPC® based Macs and on Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista® systems.