Adobe Announces New Photoshop, Illustrator, and Creative Suite

Adobe has announced the all new Adobe Creative Suite including new full-version upgrades of Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, and Adobe GoLive CS. The suite also incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and introduces the Version Cue file version manager.

New Feature Highlights of Adobe Photoshop CS with ImageReady CS

• Improved file browser with better searching, metadata editing, and batch sharing
• Color scheme matching
• Histogram palette monitors changes to your image
• Shadow/highlight correction
• Text on a path and text within shapes
• Digital camera RAW file support
• Expanded 16-bit support
• Save design variations as layer comps
• Export animations as Macromedia Flash (SWF) from ImageReady
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts

Adobe Photoshop CS Product Information

New Feature Highlights of Adobe Illustrator CS

• New text composition controls
• Enhanced PDF creation
• Layer support in PDF files
• Faster performance when opening, saving, printing, and displaying artwork
• Faster copying and pasting
• 3D shapes and type effects
• Expanded print settings including fit to page and print preview
• Better Microsoft Office integration
• Save As Templates for reusable designs
• 200 professionally designed templates
• 100 OpenType fonts
• Free clip art and stock photos
• Free quick-start training video

Adobe Illustrator CS Product Information

Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Creative Suite Premium edition combines:

• Adobe Photoshop CS
• Adobe Illustrator CS
• Adobe InDesign CS
• Adobe GoLive CS
• Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional
• Version Cue

Adobe Creative Suite Standard edition combines:

• Adobe Photoshop CS
• Adobe Illustrator CS
• Adobe InDesign CS
• Version Cue

Adobe Creative Suite Product Information

Pricing and Availability
The CS product line will be available for Mac OS X 10.2.4, Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, and Windows XP Professional and Home Edition, in the fourth (calendar) quarter of 2003 to customers in the United States and Canada. Upgrade pricing for the individual products is slightly up from the last version.

• Adobe Photoshop CS will be available for an estimated street price of US$649. Registered users of any previous version of Adobe Photoshop can upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS for an estimated street price of US$169.
• Estimated street price for the full version of Illustrator CS will be US$499 for all platforms. Registered users of any version of Adobe Illustrator can upgrade to Illustrator CS for US$169. Users of CorelDraw or Macromedia FreeHand can purchase Adobe Illustrator CS for the Adobe Store price of US$349.
• Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition is US$1229 and $999 for the Standard Edition. Any customer that currently has a copy of Photoshop (purchased as a standalone product or part of an Adobe Collection) on their system, can upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition for an estimated street price of $749, or the Standard Edition for $549.

- Adapted from Adobe Press Releases

Also see:
- Photoshop Upgrade Tips and Hints
- Photoshop CS Sneak Previews
- Illustrator CS Sneak Previews