Adobe held a small event in Mumbai unveiling its latest Creative Suite 5 (CS5). The newest version concentrates on interactivity, performance and maximizing the created content to be deployed on a number of media and platforms. It includes a new app, Flash Catalyst that tends to allow designers to quickly transform their Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into interactive user experiences. The suite comes in five different editions – CS5 Master Collection including all the fifteen applications; CS5 Design Premium, CS5 Web Premium, CS5 Production Premium and CS5 Design Standard.
There are around 250 new features across the whole suite. To name a few, you’ll find better support for digital publishing in InDesign CS5; Refine Edge, Content-Aware Fill, Puppet Warp, Wet Paint in Photoshop CS5; Rotobrush in After Effects and more.
Adobe has also made sure that developers and designers try to achieve faster with utmost accuracy. Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are now 64-bit native applications, have Nvidia CUDA support etc.
The suite will ship from April 30 at US$2599 for Master Collection CS5, US$1899 for CS5 Design Premium, US$1799 for CS5 Web Premium, US$1699 for CS5 Production Premium and US$1299 for CS5 Design Standard. The Indian price of Master Collection will be around Rs. 135,000.
Adobe is hosting a webcast that will start at 9.30AM IST. Interested users can head over here.
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