The Bottom Line
Creative Suite 4 Design Premium is perfect for the designer who works in both print and Web design.
Pros
- Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Photoshop for Web design
- InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat for print design
Cons
- No support for multimedia outside Flash
Description
- Includes InDesign, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat.
- Dreamweaver provides text and WYSIWYG editing of Web pages
- Edit graphics in Photoshop, Fireworks, or Illustrator and animate them in Flash
- Work with print documents in InDesign and Acrobat.
Guide Review - Adobe CS4 Design Premium
If you are a graphic artist and then a Web designer you should consider Creative Suite Design Premium. Unlike Design Standard which doesn't include Dreamweaver, Design Premium gives you InDesign, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, SoundBooth, and Acrobat. Because it includes Dreamweaver it includes all the power you need to build Web pages. But Web designers who focus more on multimedia (graphics and sound) and less on the purely HTML aspects of the job will appreciate this suite for the extra graphic features included in it.
Score: 591.5
Reviewed: 4 March 2009
