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New Adobe Creative Suite Announced

Today Adobe announced Creative Suite 5.5. This point upgrade is a significant change in the Creative Suite release cycle. Because technology is evolving so rapidly, Adobe has moved to point releases in order to get new features and functionality to market more quickly. Included in this release are a host of new features across the tooling platform that aim to speed development and enable cross-platform experiences.

Digital Publications

  • InDesign’s New Folio Producer tools and integration with the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite enables designers to produce immersive digital reading experiences for desktops, tablets and e-reading devices.

HTML5 and CSS3

  • Enhancements to Dreamweaver’s workflow and coding tools enable designers to more efficiently produce web sites and applications based on HTML5 and CSS3 specifications. New tooling features include: code hinting and code completion, an updated live view component, in-context prompts and updates to the CSS panel. In addition, Adobe Device Central CS5.5 emulates HTML 5 content on wide variety of supported devices, including Webkit, video, canvas and SVG.

Mobile Application Development

  • Flash Builder 4.5 allows developers to build standalone applications targeted at multiple platforms. The mobile-ready components included in the Flex framework, are optimized for performance and multi-touch input.

Rich Internet Applications

  • The Flex SDK 4.5 introduces a number of new Spark components, including Datagrid, Form and Image controls for web and desktop applications. The Spark components separate visuals from component logic, allowing for easier skinning and configuration.

Graphics and Animation

  • Adobe Repoussé in Photoshop Extended is a powerful new feature that allows designers to create 3D content based on the ancient Repoussé metalworking technique for embossing artwork on the surface of metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin and bronze.
  • Illustrator’s vector-based Bristle Brush produces lifelike brush strokes that can be edited as easily as if it had been created with the Pen or Pencil tool.
  • Photoshop’s new real-world brushes and paints help create more realistic painting effects with new ways to blend colors and bristle qualities. The new tools open the door for outstanding expressive effects, from enhancing photographic images in unusual ways to painting directly on blank canvas.

These features and more make CS5.5 an upgrade worth considering.

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