Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard
Overview
What's new in Design Standard?
Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Design Standard software enables lightning-fast creativity thanks to massive performance boosts in both Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator®. Tackle new design projects such as video editing with Photoshop and designing for iPads and other tablets with Adobe InDesign®. And speed up repetitive print production tasks with dozens of timesaving enhancements.
See the top new features in CS6 Design Standard
Work faster thanks to performance boosts in Photoshop and Illustrator. Save time on tedious production tasks with dozens of enhancements, and use InDesign to craft highly designed eBooks or publications for iPad and other tablets.
Explore what you can create
Deliver exceptional results with the ultimate toolkit for print design and digital publishing. Edit digital images, create vector graphics, and lay out pages for print, eBooks, and iPad publications.
See what you've been missing if you skipped CS5
Catch up on hundreds of new and enhanced features in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign that let you efficiently create and deliver your best work ever.
What's inside:
Features
Express your wildest ideas at lightning speed with Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard software. Work blazingly fast on complex files in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.Use familiar tools in Adobe InDesign for greater control and efficiency for page layout and preparation for high-quality print production. Go beyond print to craft media-rich publications for iPad and other tablet devices.
Retouching magic in Photoshop
Retouch images with astonishing ease and precision. Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the sample area Content-Aware will use to magically create your patch.
Retouch images with astonishing ease and precision. Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the sample area Content-Aware will use to magically create your patch.
Adobe Mercury Performance System in Illustrator
Work blazingly fast — even with processing-intensive effects such as blurs, glows, and drop shadows that used to slow you down. Access all the RAM on your system thanks to native 64-bit support on both Mac OS and Windows®.
Multiple layout versions in one InDesign file
Efficiently manage multiple layouts based on a single set of content. Use Alternate Layout to create multiple versions in one document. Use Liquid Layout to automate layout resizing based on page size.
Content linking across InDesign documents
Link content that appears in multiple InDesign documents so that changes made to parent text or objects are applied automatically to all linked children objects. Save time and avoid hassles when making last-minute changes.
Astonishing performance in Photoshop
Experience blazing-fast interactions when editing with key tools such as Crop, Transform, Liquify, and Puppet Warp. The Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented speed and responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.
Easy pattern creation in Illustrator
Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with repeating patterns that can be edited at any time.
Video editing in Photoshop
Edit video in Photoshop to include in your digital publishing projects. Quickly combine clips and stills using transitions, audio, and effects, such as pan and zoom.
Faster design tasks in Photoshop
Finesse details quickly with new and reengineered tools. Apply type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.
Image Trace in Illustrator
Convert raster images to editable vectors with a completely new tracing engine. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable results without dealing with complex controls.
Gradients on strokes in Illustrator
Apply gradients to your strokes — along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself — all with complete control over gradient placement and opacity.
PDF forms in InDesign
Use InDesign to add form fields to a layout. Include standard elements such as text fields, radio buttons, and checkboxes, and export the form as a PDF file for online publishing.
All-new Crop tool in Photoshop
Crop images fast and precisely using the hardware-accelerated, nondestructive Crop tool. Manipulate your images on canvas and see the adjustments live.
Blur Gallery in Photoshop
Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points.
Improved auto-corrections in Photoshop
Enhance your images with improved Auto Curves, Levels, and Brightness/Contrast controls. Intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched images is built in to provide a better starting point for making adjustments.
Background Save in Photoshop
Protect against losing your work during unexpected shutdowns. Auto-save your edits without interrupting your progress, and keep working while saving even the largest Photoshop files in the background.
Scripted Patterns in Photoshop
Generate geometric pattern fills more easily with new Scripted Patterns.
Drawing enhancements in Photoshop
Draw more naturally and efficiently using airbrush tips, drawing tips that wear down as you work, an Oil Painting filter, and painting presets and brush enhancements.
Preset sharing in Photoshop
Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers.
Dozens of time-savers in Photoshop
Experience more than 50 creativity and productivity boosts directly requested by users.
Small, high-impact enhancements in InDesign
Take advantage of over a dozen enhancements — including page-specific PPI, split window views, a recently used fonts list, and persistent text frame fitting options— to help you fly through production tasks without compromising quality.
Enhanced user interface in Illustrator
Perform daily tasks such as editing layer names and selecting fonts in fewer steps. Keep the focus on your artwork with an adjustable-brightness "dark UI".
Integration with other Adobe tools and services
Enjoy integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite,† Adobe Creative Cloud™, and Adobe Touch Apps within individual components of Design Standard.§
System requirements
Windows
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
- Microsoft Windows XP* with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
- 1GB of RAM (3GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2GB of RAM (8GB recommended) for 64 bit
- 8.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 256MB of VRAM
- OpenGL 2.0capable system
- DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs
- Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files
- This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services. Phone activation is not available.
