Adobe CS5.5 Design Standard Student and Teacher Edition

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard

Produce high-impact print designs and digital publications

Deliver exceptional print designs, freely expressing your wildest ideas at lightning speed--without ever sacrificing quality or precision. Extend beyond print by authoring dynamic presentations, eBooks, and digital magazines* that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print.

Preview interactive overlays--including panorama views, 360-degree rotation, scrolling and panning, and embedded websites--within the context of your publications. View larger.

In InDesign, you can map styles to HTML, EPUB, or PDF tags in the Export Tagging pane of the Paragraph Style Options and Character Style Options dialog boxes. View larger.

What is Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard?

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard software combines industry-standard tools for editing digital images, creating vector graphics, and laying out top-quality print documents with elegant typography. Plus, you can extend your ideas beyond print with dynamic presentations, eBooks, and digital magazines* that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print.

Key Features

Deliver high-impact print designs and digital publications using industry-standard software for editing digital images, creating eye-catching vector graphics, and laying out stunning pages that incorporate elegant typography. Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard software combines the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, and more. This comprehensive toolkit offers many features that let you freely express your wildest ideas without sacrificing quality, precision, or speed. Plus, now you can extend beyond print with dynamic presentations, beautifully designed eBooks, and immersive digital magazines* created through integration with the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print.

Top Reasons to Buy Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard

Breakthrough image editing in Adobe Photoshop--Create compelling digital images with Adobe Photoshop CS5 software, the industry standard in digital imaging. Use versatile brush tools to paint with realistic strokes, precise selection tools to make exacting refinements, and a wide range of workflow and performance enhancements to accelerate everyday tasks.

Impress a client or prospect with an easy-to-create, customized PDF Portfolio. View larger.

In the Acrobat Tools pane, the Action Wizard enables you to create new Actions and edit existing Actions. View larger.

Vector graphics for virtually any medium--Create distinctive vector artwork for a wide variety of projects, from logos and branding to illustrations for advertising, packaging, signage, and more. Adobe Illustrator CS5 software provides precise drawing tools and expressive natural brushes for creating eye-catching content.

Professional page layout and production for print--Lay out stunning pages quickly and efficiently in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 software with an intuitive design environment, precise typographic controls, built-in creative tools and effects, and robust preflight capabilities.

Folio Producer tools in Adobe InDesign--Create engaging digital magazines, newspapers, annual reports, manuals, and other documents that incorporate eye-catching elements such as 360-degree rotation and panoramas, all for playback on tablet devices, such as Apple iPad, RIM BlackBerry PlayBook, and a wide variety of Android tablets, including the Motorola Xoom. Upload them to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite* hosted solution for further production and distribution.

Elegant eBook authoring in InDesign**--Create engaging eBooks with refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. A smooth EPUB workflow lets you create compelling eBooks and helps minimize dependence on developers. Design eBooks with video and audio for eBook reader applications and browsers that support HTML5 video and audio tags.

Robust preflighting--Prepare files for hassle-free production by detecting errors in InDesign layouts with Live Preflight and in PDF files with robust preflight checks in Adobe Acrobat X Pro software.

Author accessible documents--Use features in InDesign CS5.5 and Acrobat X Pro that help you deliver publications that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 standards. Apply accessibility features in InDesign CS5.5, and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Acrobat X Pro.

The Edit Action dialog box allows you to drag steps into an Action, or sequence, that you can apply repeatedly in order to save time. View larger.

Adobe PDF creation, editing, and delivery--Distribute layouts more reliably using Acrobat X Pro to create simple PDF documents, and package layouts, drawings, images, animation, video, audio, and other files in a single, secure PDF Portfolio.

Visual media browsing--Find files fast by browsing thumbnails instead of filenames with Adobe Bridge. Or browse thumbnails and place files from the Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop CS5 and InDesign CS5.5.

Help when you need it--Find the best answers for your Adobe product questions with Adobe Community Help, an online service for instruction, inspiration, and support.

Consistent Adobe user interface--Work quickly and intuitively thanks to a consistent approach to the user interface across all Design Standard components.

Performance on newer operating systems--Take advantage of the power and performance of newer Apple and Microsoft operating systems so you can work more quickly. And Photoshop CS5 is 64-bit native, which means even faster image editing no matter which computer platform you use.

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5

Make an impact through print, video, and digital experiences for virtually any device and platform. With powerful new creative tools, enhanced performance, simple workflows, and support for cutting-edge standards like HTML5 and EPUB 3, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 software helps you create rich content for virtually any media. Whether you need to produce printed pages, create high-end video, or design and distribute engaging interactive content for the latest smartphones and tablets, Creative Suite 5.5 is ready to help you boost productivity and keep pace with your creative vision.

	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
	Design Professionals	Print Designers; Print Professionals	Web Designers; Web Developers; Interactive Designers	Web Professionals; Motion Graphics Artists; Broadcasters	Graphic Design Professionals; Web and Interactive Design Professionals; Video and Broadcast Professionals
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