Adobe Announces CS5
Today is the official Adobe CS5 launch event, and there are plenty of things to get the creative community excited. The web has been a buzz the past month as Adobe started releasing sneak peeks of features via social media sites. The most talked about feature has been Content Aware Fill inside of Photoshop CS5. The hype surrounding that feature has been GINORMOUS with speculation the feature was a stunt. Now we know it’s here, and let me tell you it’s going to be a game changer. In fact, the entire suite has much to offer aspiring creatives.
Here are some highlights from the launch event:
- Native 64-bit processing Mac & PC
- Introduction of Flash Catalyst bridging the gap between designers & developers
- Omniture for business analytics
- CS Review for online collaboration
- New stroke options in Illustrator
- Dreamweaver supports content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal & Joomla
- Flash development port to the iPhone* (which looks to be blocked by Apple’s change to SDK)
- Animation & interactive elements for InDesign
- Automated roto-scoping with After Effects
- HDR, Noise Reduction & Lens Correction for Photoshop (I already mentioned Content Aware Fill)
- and too many features to list in a single blog post
CS5 will be offered in five different suite configurations:
| Design Premium | Web Premium | Production Premium | Master Collection | Design Standard |
| $1,899 | $1,799 | $1,699 | $2,599 | $1,299 |
Upgrades start from $499.
To see all the new features coming with CS5 jump over to AdobeTV. To get your Photoshop fix in, visit the NAPP learning center. You can also join me and other Photoshop Nuts over at TipSquirrel where we’ll have our own take on CS5 the next two weeks.
