Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection Software for Windows (Upgrade from CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5.x Suite)

Create without Boundaries

Industry-Standard Image Editing

Make an impact with your images using Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, the digital imaging standard preferred by professionals worldwide for its powerful state-of-the-art editing, compositing, painting, and effects capabilities.

Vector Graphics That Work Across Media

Create compelling graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS5, the vector-drawing environment used by design professionals worldwide. Experiment freely and design efficiently with powerful tools for drawing, color, creative effects, and typography.

High-Quality Layout and Production for Print

Generate stunning page layouts quickly and efficiently in InDesign CS5.5 with precise control over typography, built-in creative tools, and an intuitive workflow. Take your designs to print reliably with less risk of error.

PDF Portfolios in Acrobat Pro

Assemble layouts, drawings, images, video, audio, and other files into a single dynamic PDF Portfolio. Customize the PDF Portfolio interface using professionally designed templates and interactive navigation.

Best-of-Breed Video Editing and Effects Tools

Work efficiently and with maximum creativity using the best video editing and effects workflow on the market. Deliver reliably for broadcast, film, or online experiences with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, After Effects CS5.5, and more.

Rich Interactive Content with Flash Professional

Work with an animation model that makes Flash Professional easier to learn for new users, adds efficiency for proficient users, and provides even greater control for creating immersive interactive experiences.

Professional Audio Production

Design sound at a professional level with cross-platform Adobe Audition CS5.5. Record, mix, edit, and master with tools that match the creativity and impact of your video and motion graphics.

Premium Tools for Flex Developers

Use Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Premium Edition to make the most of your Flex framework. Profilers, network monitoring, automated testing, and more can help you rapidly develop rich interactive content.

Extraordinary Image Editing

Use the Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips in Photoshop CS5 Extended to explore lifelike, naturally textured painting. Add dimension to your imagery with 3D extrusions using Adobe Repoussé technology, and make precise image selections with Truer Edge technology.

Innovative Vector Drawing and Painting

Quickly and accurately represent depth and distance using perspective tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5. Use the Bristle Brush to draw with the expressive quality of watercolors, oils, and pastels, but with the scalability of vectors.

File-Based Workflows in Video Production

Work natively with pristine file-based footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Adobe After Effects CS5.5. Edit file-based media formats using industry-leading workflows to save valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping.

Interactive Documents and Presentations

Create memorable documents and presentations with interactivity, motion, sound, and video in InDesign CS5.5. Enhance layouts with rich media using motion presets and support for FLV and MP3 audio file import to engage your audiences.

Blob Brush Tool in Illustrator

Sketch with a brush that generates a single clean vector shape, even when strokes overlap. Draw naturally using the Blob Brush tool together with the Eraser and Smooth tools.

Content-Aware Scaling in Photoshop Extended

Use the revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without cropping and retouching.

Beautiful Strokes with Variable Widths

Dynamically create and edit strokes in Adobe Illustrator CS5 that have infinitely adjustable widths. Precisely position and scale arrowheads and dashes, and finely control the scaling of art brushes along a path.

Photoshop Smart Objects in Dreamweaver

Insert any Photoshop PSD document in Dreamweaver to create an image Smart Object tightly linked to the source file. Make changes to the source image, and then update your image in Dreamweaver without opening Photoshop.

Live View in Dreamweaver

Design your web pages under real-world browser conditions with Live View in Dreamweaver -- while still retaining direct access to the code. Changes to the code are instantly reflected in the rendered display.

Enhanced Creative Freedom on the Go

Take your creativity beyond the desktop. Use mobile devices like the iPad with Adobe Ideas sketching software and additional companion apps as they become available for Photoshop CS5 Extended.

3D, Motion, and Compositing

Produce engaging video experiences by leveraging innovative 3D workflows -- enhanced editing, animation, and compositing -- all with a unified user interface that makes moving between components fluid and intuitive.

Efficient Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro

Take advantage of scalable and flexible nonlinear video-editing capabilities to tell your most compelling stories. Native support for tapeless workflows, batch encoding in the background, and numerous enhancements help make editing more efficient.

Comprehensive Reach of the Flash Platform

Realize your vision online with the capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform. Use Flash Catalyst CS5.5 to design interactive content without writing code, Flash Professional CS5.5 to create ultra-expressive content, and Flash Builder 4.5 Premium to develop rich Internet applications.

Optimized Graphics for the Web and Devices

Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs. Design and prototype complete web pages and then export them as CSS-standard HTML, complete with external style sheets.

Work Efficiently and with Precision

Content-Aware Fill

Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.

Video Workflow Efficiency with Dynamic Link

Save time on video projects thanks to roundtrip editing and Adobe Dynamic Link, which eliminates intermediate rendering as you refine assets between After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Encore.

Fast Object Selection and Transformation

Select an object in InDesign CS5.5 and perform transformations with ease. Efficiency-optimizing tools and on-object controls speed up and simplify repetitive, everyday layout tasks.

Smooth Designer-Developer Workflows

Work in parallel on the same Flex based project using Flash Catalyst CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 Premium. Designers can make creative edits while developers manipulate code, and files flow easily back and forth for a fast, smooth workflow.

Mercury Playback Engine and 64-bit Performance

Work fluidly with high-resolution video footage thanks to the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, which speeds up effects processing and rendering. Plus, work smoothly with very large images in Photoshop Extended thanks to 64-bit support and GPU acceleration.

Action Wizard in Acrobat Pro

Automate routine, multistep PDF tasks more easily in Adobe Acrobat X Pro. The Action Wizard guides you through creating an Action, which is an automated sequence of steps that can be applied to a single PDF or batches of files.

Robust jQuery Support

Build rich content for a variety of devices with support for the jQuery Mobile framework in Dreamweaver CS5.5. Take advantage of mobile templates, contextual code hinting, and the ability to quickly insert objects into a design.

Truer Edge Selection Technology

Get better masking results in less time when selecting even the trickiest image elements, like hair, in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Truer Edge provides amazing edge detection and selection quality when using the Quick Selection tool.

Roto Brush

Rotoscope in a fraction of the time with the revolutionary Roto Brush in After Effects CS5.5. Isolating moving foreground elements from their backgrounds with automatic transparency is dramatically fast.

Multiple Artboards in Illustrator

Create files containing up to 100 artboards of varying sizes and display them how you want - overlapping, side by side, or stacked. Save, export, and print artboards independently or together. Save a range of artboards as a multipage PDF file.

Support for Evolving Web Trends

Create dynamic websites easily using Dreamweaver CS5.5 with full support for the leading content management frameworks, including Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress.

Type Enhancements for the Web

Create sophisticated typography for the web with support for bidirectional and vertical text, flowable text layouts, and support for more than 30 writing systems including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and more in Flash Professional CS5.5.

Smooth Image Navigation in Photoshop Extended

Navigate gracefully to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Just click to turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle -- no more tilting your head while painting and drawing.

Object-Based Animation in Flash Professional

With object-based animation in Flash Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps.

Smart Objects in Dreamweaver

Insert any Photoshop PSD document in Dreamweaver to create an image Smart Object tightly linked to the source file. Make changes to the source image and update your image in Dreamweaver without opening Photoshop.

Project Intelligence with XMP Metadata Support

Take advantage of the efficiency of XMP metadata. For example, Speech Search technology in Adobe Premiere Pro uses metadata to enable spoken words to become searchable, making it easy to find particular clips and making video assets searchable.

InDesign Export for Flash Professional

Export InDesign documents to the XFL format and open them in Flash Professional with the visual fidelity of your original layout maintained.

Object-Based Animation in Flash Professional

With object-based animation in Flash Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps.

Customizable Links Panel in InDesign

Find, sort, and manage all of your document's placed files in the customizable Links panel. View attributes that are most critical to your workflow, such as scale, rotation, and resolution.

Deliver to Multiple Screens

Elegant eBook Authoring in InDesign

Create engaging eBooks with refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. A smooth EPUB workflow helps minimize dependence on developers. Design eBooks with video and audio for applications and browsers that support HTML5 video and audio tags.

Folio Producer Tools in InDesign

Create engaging digital magazines, newspapers, and retail catalogs that incorporate eye-catching elements such as 360° object rotation and image panoramas for a wide variety of tablet devices. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for further production and distribution.

Multiscreen Preview Panel

View website designs as they would appear across screens of desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions within a single, easy-to-use panel in Dreamweaver CS5.5. Handle custom media queries and efficiently manage multiple CSS files.

Mobile Platform and Device Support

Create content in Flash Professional CS5.5 optimized for delivery across a wide variety of devices with support for the Flash Player 10.2 and Adobe AIR 2.6 runtimes -- and for platforms including Android, BlackBerry, webOS, and Adobe Digital Home.

Crisp Graphics for Web, Interactive, and Mobile

Create clean, sharp artwork that aligns accurately -- and automatically -- on the pixel grid in Illustrator CS5, eliminating fuzzy graphics for the web or mobile devices.

Flash Builder 4.5 for Developing for Mobile

Rapidly develop cross-platform web, desktop, and mobile applications, leverage a common Flex and/or ActionScript codebase to write apps for Android, iOS, and BlackBerry, while sharing code from web and desktop apps with Flash Builder 4.5 Premium Edition.

Streamline Productivity

Advanced Motion Graphics and Effects

Be productive with advanced features in After Effects CS5.5. Searchable timelines and projects, expanded 3D compositing options, motion tracking with mocha for After Effects, and numerous interface efficiencies streamline almost everything you do.

Integration with Adobe BrowserLab

Ensure the accuracy and integrity of your web designs across browsers by using integration with BrowserLab, part of CS Live online services. From within Dreamweaver CS5.5 you can easily find layout differences, active links, and more.

Integration with Adobe CS Review

Streamline creative reviews using integration with CS Review, part of CS Live online services. From within your favorite tools, include vector art, images, page layouts, and video sequences in a single online review that's easy to use and invites fast, targeted feedback.

Adobe Story Integration for Script Collaboration

Accelerate media creation with Adobe Story, part of CS Live online services. Streamline the flow of script data into pre-production, production, and post-production to create more engaging experiences.

Adobe OnLocation for Shooting Direct to Disk

Get the benefit of a tapeless workflow without a tapeless camera. With cross-platform Adobe OnLocation, footage is automatically digitized and captured to disk as you shoot.

Acrobat.com Integration

Enhance communication around the globe using Acrobat.com, part of CS Live online services. Convert files to PDF, store and share files, create documents and presentations online, collaborate, host meetings, and more.

Enhanced Preflighting in Acrobat

Control costs and reduce errors more effectively. Provide preflighting instructions and custom PDF export presets. Automatically validate files and easily fix issues from faulty hairlines to transparency handling.

Live Preflight in InDesign

Preflight while you design. Continuous preflighting alerts you to potential production problems in real time so you can quickly navigate to a problem, fix it directly in layout, and keep working.