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Adobe Creative Suite Product Matrix

Current Version: CS6

Suite Editions
  • Design Standard
  • Design & Web Premium
  • Production Premium
  • Master Collection
  • Creative Cloud
Available for
  • Windows
  • Mac OS

Free Trial

Description

Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 software delivers a whole new experience for digital media creation, enabling you to work lightning fast and reach audiences wherever they may be. Now, for the first time, CS applications are also available through Adobe Creative Cloud™, giving you the flexibility to download and install them at any time. Plus, access additional applications, publishing services, and new products and features as they are released.

Updated: 27th April 2012

Creative Suite 6 Design Standard Design & Web Premium Production Premium Master Collection Creative Cloud
Photoshop Extended . Yes Yes Yes Yes
Photoshop Yes . . . .
Illustrator Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
InDesign Yes Yes . Yes Yes
Adobe Muse . . . . Yes
Acrobat Pro Yes Yes . Yes Yes
Flash Professional . Yes Yes Yes Yes
Flash Builder . . . Yes Yes
Dreamweaver . Yes . Yes Yes
Edge Preview . . . . Yes
Fireworks . Yes . Yes Yes
Premiere Pro . . Yes Yes Yes
After Effects . . Yes Yes Yes
Audition . . Yes Yes Yes
SpeedGrade . . Yes Yes Yes
Adobe Prelude . . Yes Yes Yes
Encore . . Yes Yes Yes
Bridge Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Encoder Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SERVICES
Device and PC sync . . . . Yes
Cloud Storage . . . . Yes
Business Catalyst . . . . Yes
Typekit . . . . Yes
Story Plus . . . . Yes

Technical

Windows

  • Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor with 64-bit support; Intel Core®2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II processor required for Adobe® Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, and Encore®; Intel Core i7 processor required for Adobe SpeedGrade™
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP* with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1; Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (64 bit) required for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore; Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 required for SpeedGrade
  • 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended) for 32 bit; 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended) for 64 bit
  • 14.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
  • Additional disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files (10GB recommended)
  • 1280x900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680x1050 display required, and second professionally calibrated viewing display recommended for SpeedGrade
  • DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
  • Dedicated GPU card required for SpeedGrade (for optimal performance in SpeedGrade and for GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: NVIDIA Quadro 4000, 5000, or 6000 or other Adobe-certified GPU card with at least 1GB of VRAM recommended); visit www.adobe.com/products/premiere/extend.html for supported cards
  • The 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.

Mac OS

  • Multicore Intel® processor with 64-bit support
  • Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6; Mac OS X v10.6 required for Adobe Flash Builder™ 4.5 Premium Edition and Flash Builder integration with Flash Catalyst® and Flash Professional; Mac OS X v10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro
  • 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
  • 26.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
  • 1280x900 display (1280x1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
  • DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
  • Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis*