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Adobe Design Standard CS3 Upsell from InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, for Macintosh
Mfr. Part: 19300093 SKU: ABDS3CUSM
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Description
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard software is the indispensable toolkit for professional design and print production, offering all-new versions of essential tools for page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows. Take your designs from concept to completion with Adobe CS 3 Design Standard, which helps you create and print your best work. From sketching concepts to finessing production details, you can create beautiful, sophisticated designs with CS Design Standard.
Take advantage of new creative effects and finer transparency controls in Adobe InDesign software; explore, apply, and control color variations using the new Live Color environment in Adobe Illustrator software; and apply new nondestructive Smart Filters in Adobe Photoshop software. Design Standard helps you express your best ideas more easily and efficiently than ever before.
Adobe CS 3 Design Standard lets you slip into the creative zone and stay there by offering tight integration and shared productivity features that enable you to move fluidly between tasks. Easily share assets among components-double-click an asset in an InDesign layout to quickly open it in Photoshop or Illustrator, for example, or use Smart Objects to nondestructively edit Illustrator artwork in Photoshop.
Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge, manage workgroup files with Adobe Version Cue, and shop for royalty-free images using Adobe Stock Photos-all from within Design Standard. Enjoy rock-solid, streamlined print production using Creative Suite 3 Design Standard. Generate predictable printed output with features such as synchronized color settings and shared PDF presets.
Help minimize errors by using output previews before you print, and exert fine control over output using consistent, comprehensive, professional printing options. Streamline prepress using Adobe Acrobat software to preflight and correct Adobe PDF files and to automate workflows with JDF. With Design Standard, you can reliably print beautiful content with the utmost efficiency. |
Features
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Experience a highly productive creative toolkit with Adobe InDesign CS3 for professional page layout, Adobe Photoshop CS3 for unrivaled image editing, Adobe Illustrator CS3 for inspired vector graphics creation, and Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional for efficient Adobe PDF workflows. |
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Unprecedented integration for exceptional productivity: Enjoy a consistent design experience across InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop with shared interface elements such as self-adjusting panels that dock out of your way when not in use. |
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Support for the latest Macintosh systems: Get the most out of Adobe Creative Suite Design Standard on Intel based Macintosh systems computers. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC based Macintosh. |
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Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3: Explore more creative possibilities & experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing. |
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Powerful color and printing capabilities: Print Photoshop composites, Illustrator artwork, and InDesign layouts with confidence thanks to robust color options, consistent color settings, and professional output controls for high-quality printing. |
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Exceptional native file format support: Open Photoshop images in Illustrator and Illustrator artwork in Photoshop, and place both types of native files, as well as Adobe PDF files, in InDesign layouts. Streamline your design and production processes in myriad ways using native file format support. |
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Reliable Adobe PDF workflows: Use Adobe PDF to create reliable and consistent final output, streamline print production - including automatically fixing mistakes found during preflight - and automate processes using JDF. |
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Cross-media publishing: Contribute your assets to other, cross-media workflows. Hand off Photoshop image comps for use in web prototyping, preview Illustrator artwork as it might appear on a mobile device, and export InDesign layouts as XHTML for use by colleagues in web page layouts. |
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Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3: Efficiently organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; nondestructive batch-editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files. |
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Shared features and services: Work more efficiently using a host of shared features and services, including Adobe Stock Photos for purchasing royalty-free images; Acrobat Connect for hosting web-based, interactive meetings; and Version Cue CS3 for workgroup file management. |
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Finer transparency controls: Adjust the transparency and blending modes globally on entire objects, or independently on strokes, fills, and content. |
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Creative effects: Apply new visual effects, such as inner glow or bevel and emboss, using an interface that's consistent with Adobe Photoshop software to specify offset, angle, and other options. Apply effects independently on an object's stroke, fill, and content. |
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Gradient feathers: Create beautiful effects by applying masks that contain gradients so the objects fade into the background. Customize options such as gradient angles and fade rates, all within Adobe InDesign CS3. |
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Multi-file Place: Speed up document creation by importing multiple files at once from within InDesign or by dragging them in from the desktop or Adobe Bridge CS3. Preview selected files as you place them in any order or location in your layout. |
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Productivity enhancements: Perform a variety of tasks more efficiently using new and enhanced productivity features, including Placed InDesign Files, Quick Apply, and faster frame fitting. |
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Professional typographic controls: Compose beautiful typography using professional controls including the Paragraph Composer, OpenType fonts, drop caps, glyphs, and optical kerning and margin alignment. |
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Comprehensive styles: Create consistent designs and speed up production by saving text, graphic, and frame-level attributes as styles for text, objects, and tables. Efficiently apply and globally update object, paragraph, character, table, and cell styles; organize styles in groups. |
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Full-featured tables: Create richly formatted tables. Import tab-delimited text files and styled Microsoft Word or Excel tables, or build tables in InDesign. Apply a wide variety of formatting options manually or using table and cell styles. |
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Smart text handling: Control your text with intelligent text-handling features, including the ability to import styled text from Microsoft Word files, apply complex wraps around objects, and comprehensively replace fonts. |
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Robust long-document support: Maintain consistency and streamline the production of long documents using advanced bullets and numbering, running headers and footers, and synchronized master pages. |
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Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools: Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool. |
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Smart Filters: Add, adjust, and remove filters from an image without having to resave the image or start over to preserve quality. Nondestructive Smart Filters allow you to visualize changes without altering original pixel data. |
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Advanced compositing: Automatically align multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly. |
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Enhanced Vanishing Point: Take perspective-based editing to a new level with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which lets you create multiple planes in an image; connect them at any angle; and then wrap graphics, text, and images around them to create packaging mock-ups and more. |
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Better raw-image processing: Process raw images with increased speed and superior conversion quality using the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, which now adds support for JPEG and TIFF formats, new tools including Fill Light and Dust Busting, compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software. |
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Flexible layers: Composite images, text, and effects on hundreds of layers for extraordinarily sophisticated results. Organize layers with up to five levels of nesting, and save them in different combinations as layer comps. |
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Color-correction enhancements: Take advantage of precision color correction made faster and easier. Brightness/Contrast now provides better results from the same intuitive interface, and enhanced Curves controls let you make automatic adjustments with included presets. |
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Rich painting and drawing toolset: Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools. |
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Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support: Create and edit 32-bit images, and combine multiple exposures into a single, 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene - from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. |
Specifications
| Processor Required | PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor |
| Operating System Required | Apple Mac OS X v.10.4.8, Java Runtime Environment 1.5 required for Adobe Version Cue CS3 Server |
| Memory Required | 1 GB of RAM |
| Hard Drive Space Required | 6.3 GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation) |
| Graphics Card Required | 1,024 x 768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card |
| Optical Drive Type Required | DVD-ROM drive |
| Other Hardware/Software Required | QuickTime 7.1.2 software required for multimedia features, Internet or phone connection required for product activation, Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services |
| Languages Available | Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, French (Canadian), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (North American), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian |
| Upsell From | InDesign 2.0, CS, CS2, or CS3
Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, or CS3
Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, or CS3 |
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