Adobe's Creative Suite 4 - What's New

Adobe announced Creative Suite CS4 on September 23th. The new release includes six editions ot Creative Suite 4, each combining tightly integrated, industry-leading components, and online services that enable designers to handle virtually any creative task (Design Premium, Design Standart, Web Premium, Web Standart, Production Premium and Master Collection).

Dreamweaver CS4

• Live View - view your web pages under real-world browser conditions while still retaining direct access to the code
• Related Files - manage the various files up to the modern web page efficiently
• Code Navigator - shows you all the code sources that affect your current selection
• CSS Best Practice - shows the styles for the current selection as well as all the applicable CSS rules
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript Framework - write javascript more quickly and accurately with improved support for JavaScript core objects and primitive data types
• HTML Data Sets - create your data in a standart HTML table, a series of div tags, or even an unordered list and then integrate that data into a dynamic table on the page with sortable columns, a master-detail layout, or other sophisticated displays
• Photoshop Smart Objects - drag and drop a PSD file into a Dreamwaver page to create an image Smart Object and more....

 

 

Photoshop CS4

 

• Enhanced masking feature - fade away the effect of a layer mask gradually revealing the parts that are hidden
• Real-time filters with no color depth restrictions - new Adobe technology Hydra allows filters to use graphics card power in image processing instead of the CPU
• Liquid resize feature - the new technology Seam Carving shrinks or erlarges a photo dispropotionally without stretching it
• Improved Dodge and Burn tools - lets results look less destructive and more natural
• Polished interface - adjustable Photoshop interface brightness like in Adobe Bridge with buttons and improved dialog boxes look
• Extended and enhanced color profile and management - Multichannel, Device-Link and Abstract color profiles to be added and more...

 

InDesign CS4

 

• Conditional Text - allows you to set conditions for display of text
• Flash interactivity and export - InDesign content can be exported directly or Flash SWF for immediate use online or on CD, or it can be exported into the new XFL interchange file format for import and refinement in Adobe Flash Proffesional CS4
• Animated page transitions 
• Cross-References - once a cross-reference is created, InDesign automatically updates it to reflect reflow and other copy changes
• Live Preflight - examines the entire document or a range of pages in real-time and reports instantly such errors as overset text, stroke weight issues, and the use of low resolution images
• Smart Text Reflow - add text without interrupting your creative procces, thanks to automatic addition of pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset
  
• Smart Guides and smart Spacing - turn aligning ans resizing objects into fluid process
• Spread rotation - allows you to temporarily turn your document in 90 degrees increment and more...
  

 

After Effects CS4

 

• Searchable Timelines and Projects plus easier nested composition navigation - included live search functions directly inside the Timeline and Projects panels
• Photoshop 3D layers import - allows you to place 3D objects on layers, paint them using the industry-standard tools in Photoshop, and render them along with the rest of your imagery
• Cartoon Effect - allows you to create new looks for your video or other anmated imagery, instantly applying the appearance of cel animation or watercolor paintings to live action or to computer-generated 3D imagery
• Independent keyframing of X,Y, and Z position plus other 3D compositing enhancements
• Rich media composition export form After Effects to Adobe Flash CS4 Proffesional
• Imagineer Systems' Mocha for Adobe After Effects for 2.5D planar motion tracking and more....

 

Fireworks CS4

 

• Improved performance and stability - boasts faster document opening and saving for files large and small, including those with a great number of pages, states, layers and symbols
• New user interface - shares a common interface with other Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web and Design components and maintain common workspace layouts and tools as you move smoothly between Fireworks and any other CS4 component
  
• CSS and images-based export - design complete web pages in the robust graphic environment of Fireworks, and then export web-standards complaint, CSS-based layouts - complete with external style sheets - all in one step
• PDF Export - export any range of pages in your Fireworks document with fidelity using a single command
• Adobe Text Engine - set type easily and intuitively; you can get the same elegant results whether you start from scratch or import text and more...
  

 

Flash CS4

 

• Object-based animation model - far more approachable for new users, while simultaneously providing advanced designers and developers far greater control of individual animation attributes
• 3D Transformations - you can animate 2D objects through 3D space with new easy-to-use 3D transformation tools, greatly extending creative possibilities
• Inverse kinematics with the Bones tools - with the new Bones tool, simply click and drag between separate symbols that you've already created
• Procedural modeling with the Deco tool - new addition that literally blossoms forth with symmetry and creativity as you turn any symbol into an instant design element
• Motion Editor Panel - experience granular, independent control over every keyframe parameter, including rotation, size, scale, position filters and more...

 

Illustrator CS4

 

• Multiple artboards - provide the most powerful way yet to organize projects with multiple pages or diverse outputs
• Transparency in gradients - transparency within a gradient simplifies creating interaction between layers and enables easy mixing and knockouts
• Blob brush tool - generates a clean, filled, vector shape while you sketch, even when stroke overlap, merging your paths naturally into a single object that's easily selected and edited
• Integration and delivery - enables export of editable,workable content for web, interactive, and RIA projects
• In-panel appearance editing and more...

 

Premiere Pro CS4

 

• Next generation tapeless camera support - designed to exploit the full power inherent in tapeless workflows; direct-to-disk recording eliminates the time-consuming capture-from-tape, media-ingest phase of post-production
• Batch encoding - automating the process of creating multiple encoded versions of your source files and Adobe Premiere Pro sequences
• Improved Adobe integration - flexible photoshop layer options; support for photoshop files with video; support for Photoshop blending modes; dynamic links to encore; copy and paste text between Adobe applications
• Enhanced editing efficiency - powerful management of projects, sequences, and clips; superior editing control; timesaving editing enhancements; precise audio control; robust timecode display
• Project intelligence with new XMP metadata support and more...

 

Soundbooth CS4

 

• Multitrack support - assembles all the elements of a complex soundtrack into a final audio mixdown
• New Adobe Sound Document - enables nondestructive audio editing, so you can always return to the original source file
• Automatic volume matching - corrects the different volume levels; matches the volume of multiple clips to each other or to a single reference volume level
• Volume keyframing - ajusts the volume of your dialogue and sound-effects tracks or adjusts the volume of your audio over time
• MP3 compression preview - preview the sound quality at whatever bit rate you select and see the consequent file size before saving and more ...
  

 

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