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Review: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium
5/30/2007
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Illustrator CS3 also adds a few other enhancements worth noting, including the new Control panel, a Crop Area tool, and Isolation mode.
The Control panel is context-sensitive, displaying relevant parameters and options based on the currently selected tool or object.
The Crop Area tool provides you with an easy way to crop a document either interactively or using preset crop parameters (based on paper size, output medium, etc.).
Isolation mode allows you, essentially, to prevent objects that you don't want to edit from being edited accidentally. To use this feature, you double-click on a group of objects, and all other objects become uneditable. You can then leave Isolation mode by double-clicking elsewhere on the canvas.
Final Assessment
For most creative users, the new features in Photoshop CS3 Extended and the addition of Dreamweaver and Flash Professional will be enough of a justification to upgrade to the Design Premium Edition. But the performance benefits, particularly for users of Intel-based Macs, will make this upgrade mandatory. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Edition is a tight, well thought out, performance- and feature-rich addition to any creative user's tool chest. We give it an overall A rating for features, performance, and value.
Creative Suite 3 Design premium Edition is available for Mac OS X (Intel- and PowerPC-based) and Windows XP/Vista. It includes InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional. It retails for $1,799. Education and volume license pricing are also available.
K-12 licensing for the Design Premium Edition provides 500 seats for a single site, including teacher home use rights and home use on student computers that are owned or leased by the school, for $7,499.
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