Adobe CS5 Master Collection

ADOBE System has unveiled its Creative Suite 5 Master Collection, which provides a comprehensive suite of design tools for the creative industry.
The Creative Suite 5 Master Collection consists of 15 applications including Flash Catalyst, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash Professional, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver.
Flash Catalyst is the new application to join the Master Collection. According to Adobe, the application allows designers to quickly create interactive content without writing code.
There are more than 250 new features that have been integrated into the Creative Suite 5 Master Collection, the company added.
For example, in Photoshop, the content-aware fill feature let users to remove a picture element from background.
This element will be replaced by pixels by matching the lightning, tone, etc of the background picture. The end result is that the picture looks as if the element has ever existed.
Another feature is Refine Edge, which accurately detects and masks the trickest type of edges such as hair. The puppet wrap feature, on the other hand, lets users to reposition any picture element such as straightening a bent arm into a photo accurately.
Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are also now native 64-bit applications on both Mac and Windows.
In Premiere Pro, the nVidia GPU-accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine allows users to open projects faster, refine effects rich high-definition sequences in real time and play back complex projects without rendering.
Additionally flash Professional allows designers and developers to create, test and deliver wed content across a wide range of mobile platforms and devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, smartbooks.
As for Dreamweaver, the app supports popular content management systems such as drupal, Joomla! and wordPress, thus allowing designers to get accurate views of dynamic wed content from within the product.
The Creative Suite 5 Master Collection cost about RM10,100 and can be ordered online or via Adobe's authorised distributors. It's scheduled to be available here by middle of next month.