Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium - 5 Features You Don't Want to Miss

By Chris Finders

Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium includes all-new versions of many popular Adobe products, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Professional, and others. With Creative Suite 3 now available, we've decided to give readers a quick rundown of the most exciting new features that make this product a must-have for creative professionals worldwide.

Adobe InDesign CS3: Enjoy transparency and other fancy creative effects

The brand-new InDesign CS3 now sports Photoshop effects which you can effortlessly apply right within the InDesign software. For instance, you can now place an image in an InDesign frame, and apply a gradient feather. You can experiment with the image inside the frame until the gradient and the image look precisely as you want them.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: New Quick Selection tools for ultra-precise and fast selection

Before Quick Selection tool came to be, creative professionals had to arduously outline a region for precise selection. With Quick Selection tool, you can loosely paint an area, and then easily and quickly shrink or enlarge the selection as needed. Tremendously useful, and a huge time-saver.

Illustrator CS3: Now with Live Color feature

Live Color is, without doubt, one of the most exciting new features in Illustrator CS3. With Live Color, you can now save cool color groups to Swatches, then preview changes live as you apply specific colors to your digital artwork. Illustrator also allows you to reduce the number of colors, or remap the colors in your artwork the smart way using the parameters you define. Very useful for testing alternative color schemes for corporate logos, or any other graphics.

Dreamweaver CS3: Take advantage of brand-new CSS layouts

Dreamweaver CS3 now includes several dozen solid, cross-browser compatible CSS layouts, including 1-, 2-, and 3-column structures. Both fixed width and "liquid" designs are readily available, complete with extensive documentation and comments to dramatically reduce the learning curve. This feature makes it easy to quickly get on top of new Web standards.

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional: New Shared Reviews feature

The new Shared Reviews feature in Acrobat 8 Pro makes it easy to get faster feedback and approvals for document reviews. This feature lets all reviewers see the comments of others -- in real time. Comments are instantly retrieved from a remote server, a Microsoft SharePoint portal, or a network folder.

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