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The Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection Software for Mac from Adobe includes all of the applications in Adobe's Creative Suite series. Because of this, the Master Collection is up to almost any creative task: photo retouching, video editing, web design, page layout, sound mixing, 3D animation, motion graphics, and much more.
All of the applications in the suite are designed to work together, unified by a common interface and Adobe's Bridge application. Bridge helps you share media across applications, allowing you to share media across all of the Design Premium applications in order to create a cohesive project.
The suite includes Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5.5, Acrobat X Pro, Flash Catalyst CS5.5, Flash Professional CS5.5, Flash Builder 4.5, Dreamweaver CS5.5, Fireworks CS5, Contribute CS5, Premiere Pro CS5.5, After Effects CS5.5, Audition CS5.5, OnLocation CS5.5, Encore CS5.5, Bridge CS5, Device Central CS5.5, and Dynamic Link.
To be eligible to use this upgrade, you must own one of the following: Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium, Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard, Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium, Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, Creative Suite 5 Design Premium, Creative Suite 5 Design Standard, Creative Suite 5 Web Premium, Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Creative Suite 4 Design Standard, Creative Suite 4 Web Premium, Creative Suite 4 Web Standard, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Creative Suite 3 Design Standard, Creative Suite 3 Web Premium, Creative Suite 3 Web Standard, Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, Creative Suite 2 Premium, Creative Suite 2 Standard, Production Studio Premium, Production Studio Standard, Design Bundle (Creative Suite 2 Premium and Macromedia Flash Professional 8), Web Bundle (Creative Suite 2 Premium and Macromedia Studio 8), Video Bundle (Production Studio Premium and Macromedia Flash Professional 8), Macromedia Studio 8
| System Requirements |
Computer: Multicore Intel Mac with 64-bit support Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6; 10.6 required for Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Premium Edition and Flash Builder integration with Flash Catalyst and Flash Professional; 10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro Memory: 2GB (4GB recommended) Hard Drive: 26.3GB (Additional free space required during installation; Cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices); 7200rpm hard drive required for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 required for editing uncompressed video formats Display: 1280 x 900 (1280 x 1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM; Some GPU-accelerated features in Photoshop require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0; Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Premiere Pro Hardware: Combo Drive or SuperDrive; Core Audio-compatible sound card; External Blu-ray burner required for creating Blu-ray disc media; Broadband Internet connection required for online services Software: Java Runtime Environment 1.6; Eclipse 3.6.1 Cocoa version required for plug-in installation; QuickTime 9 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features; Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files and to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files |
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Comments about Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection Software for Mac (Upgrade from CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5.x Suite):
With the eventual release of CS 6, Adobe is offering some sweet deals on CS 5.5. For example, my upgrade from Design Premium CS 3 was an INCREDIBLE price. If you take the per-package price and figure out what you upgrade and get in addition it is a fantastic bargain. Get it now....and get it ALL!!!
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Comments about Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection Software for Mac (Upgrade from CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5.x Suite):
Installed smoothly and contains a full package - did not need to install version to upgrade from first.
Super software for Graphic Design both on paper, web and handheld devices. All essentials included. Need a bit of getting used to, as there are quite some changes from CS3 to CS5.5.
Acrobat runs very different and the standard web-settings produces "lousy" pdf's compared to earlier version. All other upgrades: Nice!
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Comments about Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection Software for Mac (Upgrade from CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5.x Suite):
Since I do Video and Photography I basically rely upon Photoshop, Bridge and After Effects. I use FCP so I haven't tried Premiere but I feel that the core 3 programs that I use have been greatly enhanced going from CS3 to CS5.5. I wish the upgrade price was lower but I realize you're getting a lot of software. I'm not sure if I'll use all the programs to their full capacity but I'm anxious to try Blue Ray disk creation in Encore since this is impossible in DVD Studio Pro, so there's a lot to learn here but it's good to be able to apply all the lessons learned with Adobe products over the years.
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Comments about Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection Software for Mac (Upgrade from CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5.x Suite):
A lot of new tool features to the CS3/4 versions I'm working in now. Still getting used to some of the new features and differences in some of the tool upgrades. Be prepared for a demanding learning curve if upgrading if you've skipped an upgrade (or two ...) carve out some time to get into training. I'm looking forward to having this new toolbox at my command - Nice!
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