The newest generation of Adobe’s Creative Suite, Adobe CS4, was announced today. The new software has a lot of great new features. Here is a list of a few of the top new features:
Photoshop
1. Revolutionary 3D painting and composition tools
2. Improved 3D object editing
3. Content-aware scaling
Illustrator
1. Multiple artboards of different sizes in one document
2. Blob Brush Tool
3. New Gradient Tools
InDesign
1. Live preflighting tools for editing
2. Conditional text
3. Easy Flash export for interactive documents
Flash
1. Easy individual object-based animation
2. 3D transformation tools
3. Motion presets for quick animations
4. Bones tool for animating linked objects
Dreamweaver
1. Easy “Live View” editing mode
2. Code hinting for productivity
Fireworks
1. AIR authoring for easy exporting to HTML, CSS, MXML, and SWF
2. Workspace and tools upgrades
Soundbooth
1. Multitrack support
2. New file format for integration with other programs
3. Automatic volume correction
4. Speech recognition and speech search tools
Premiere
1. End-to-end metadata workflow
2. Speech recognition and speech search tools
3. New editing tools for efficiency
4. Enhanced SWF output
After Effects
1. Live Photoshop 3D layers import
2. Improved mobile authoring
3. Video cartoon effect
Contribute
1. Collaborative publishing
2. In-browser editing and dynamic web editing
That is a pretty long list, and that’s not everything. CS4 is only available for preorder, but it will be out for purchase soon.
Go to Adobe to preorder or check out some more of the new features.
You can also go to AdobeTV to watch the new product tours.
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