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The Adobe Creative Suite is one of the most widely used software suites for design and development. Creative Suite 4 is Adobe’s most recent iteration of the series and it brings some radical changes. The largest change in CS4 is the move toward higher efficiency with many new features and changes to the workflow. There are also 13 releases today of each of the individual Adobe products (although this number includes Photoshop CS4 Extended).

Creative Suite now has even tighter integration of Adobe programs, enabling better design across different media. Photoshop CS4 also has content-aware scaling which can recompose (like taking out that annoying person who tried to sneak into the side of the group picture) an image as it is resized. Flash CS4 will also make animations easier by allowing tweens to be applied to objects instead of just keyframes.

The price starts at $1699 for the Web Premium and Production Premium editions, $1799 for the Design Premium, and $2499 for the Master Collection.

[PhotoshopNews]

Adobe has just announced Creative Suite 4.

There are 6 different versions of CS4:
Design Premium: $1,799
Design Standard: $1,399
Web Premium: $1,699
Web Standard: $999
Production Premium: $1,699
Master Collection: $2,499

Creative Suite 4 rolls out a lot of new changes that increases the integration between the different Adobe products as well as makes everything easier even for a beginner. Dreamweaver now has Photoshop smart objects which can change with the source file as well as a new feature called “Live View” in which you can make changes to your web page under real world browsing conditions. Gradients are now easier than ever to use in Illustrator, with the ability to control the opacity of any color stop in a gradient as well as on the fly changes to shape and angle of the gradient. Adobe Flash has H.264 support, the ability to add metadata to SWF files, and object based animation which applies tweens to objects instead of key frames. With so many new features, I can’t wait to get my hands on the new Creative Suite.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 is expected to be released sometime in October.