This upgrade version of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection will install only if you are a licensed user of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection.

Tell your story from start to finish with one comprehensive offering. Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection software enables you to design and develop amazing work, collaborate effectively, and deliver virtually anywhere.

• Extend your creative reach: Craft a corporate identity using Illustrator CS5 to engage your audience online. Use new Flash Catalyst CS5 to make it part of an expressive, interactive interface without writing code.
• Design and deliver immersive experiences: Use Flash Professional CS5 to engage your audience with microsites and casual games that present your designs consistently across desktops, browsers, and mobile devices.
• Take your story to any screen: Enhance HD video productions with high-resolution imagery from Photoshop CS5 Extended. Add intricate effects using After Effects CS5, and edit dramatically faster in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection includes:

• Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended -- Discover new dimensions in digital imaging
• Adobe Illustrator CS5 -- Explore new paths with the essential vector tool
• Adobe InDesign CS5 -- Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro -- Deliver revolutionary digital documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF
• Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 -- Create expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code
• Adobe Flash Professional CS5 -- Create and deliver rich interactive content
• Adobe Flash Builder 4 -- Develop cross-platform rich Internet applications
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 -- Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications
• Adobe Fireworks CS5 -- Rapidly prototype and design for any device
• Adobe Contribute CS5 -- Simplify website management
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 -- Bring high-performance editing to next-generation storytelling
• Adobe After Effects CS5 -- Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard
• Adobe Soundbooth CS5 -- Create and edit audio with ease
• Adobe Encore CS5 -- Deliver virtually anywhere
• Adobe OnLocation CS5 -- Shoot better and faster with powerful production tools

FEATURES
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection software delivers a comprehensive toolset for designing across media. Explore exciting enhancements that include new ways to create interactive content, breakthrough performance, and integration with new Adobe CS Live online services to boost productivity. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.

Design without boundaries
Discover extraordinary new design tools and groundbreaking ways to extend your creative reach using one comprehensive offering -- the ultimate design environment for virtually any medium.

• Interactive design without writing code
  Design sophisticated interactive content and create functional interfaces in new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 without writing code. Transform your unique vision into compelling online experiences and deliver perfect project files to developers.
• Innovative vector drawing and painting
  Quickly and accurately represent depth and distance using new perspective tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5. Precisely control stroke width, arrowheads, and dashes. And use the new Bristle Brush to draw with the expressive quality of watercolors, oils, and pastels, but with the scalability of vectors.
• Interactive documents and presentations
  Create memorable documents and presentations complete with interactivity, motion, sound, and video in Adobe InDesign CS5. Enhance page layouts with rich media using new motion presets for easy animation creation. Take advantage of support for FLV and MP3 audio file import to engage and excite your audiences.
• Extraordinary image editing
  Use the Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to explore lifelike, naturally textured painting. Add dimension to your imagery with 3D extrusions using Adobe Repoussé technology, and make precise image selections more quickly and easily with new Truer Edge selection technology.
• Comprehensive reach of the Flash Platform
  Realize your vision online with the capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform. Use Flash Catalyst CS5 to design interactive content without writing code, Adobe Flash Professional CS5 to create free-form, expressive content, and Adobe Flash Builder 4 to develop rich Internet applications.
• Tapeless workflows in video production
  Work natively with pristine tapeless footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and Adobe After Effects CS5. Edit tapeless media formats using industry-leading tapeless workflows to keep from wasting valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping.

Work swiftly and with precision
Work faster with extremely high-resolution images, fluidly edit complex projects for video and motion graphics, and do more in less time with a wealth of productivity enhancements.

• Industry-leading performance enhancements
  Work up to ten times faster with very large images in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended and more fluidly on HD projects in Adobe After Effects CS5 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 thanks to native 64-bit support. New GPU-acceleration quickens work in Photoshop, the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine speeds up effects processing and rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro, and Dynamic Link is now dramatically faster.
• Expressive motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects
  Rotoscope in a fraction of the time with the revolutionary new Roto Brush in Adobe After Effects CS5. Isolating moving foreground elements from their backgrounds with automatic transparency is now dramatically faster.
• Crisp graphics for web, interactive, and mobile delivery
  Create clean, sharp artwork that aligns accurately -- and automatically -- on the pixel grid in Adobe Illustrator CS5, eliminating fuzzy graphics for the web or mobile devices.
• Support for evolving web trends
  Create dynamic websites more easily using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with full support for the leading content management frameworks, including Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress.
• Truer Edge selection technology
  Get better masking results in less time when selecting even the trickiest image elements, like hair, in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Truer Edge provides amazing edge detection and selection quality when using the Quick Selection tool.
• Type enhancements for the web
  Create sophisticated typography for the web with support for bidirectional and vertical text, flowable text layouts, and support for more than 30 writing systems including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and more in Adobe Flash Professional CS5.

Streamline critical processes
Speed up design reviews, streamline website testing in multiple browsers, collaborate on script development and content authoring, and more with new CS Live online services.

• Online feedback with Adobe CS Review
  Streamline your creative reviews from within Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, and InDesign CS5 using Adobe CS Review, part of CS Live online services. CS Review provides easy-to-use annotation tools and commenting viewed in the context of your design.
• Adobe Story integration for script collaboration
  Accelerate media creation with Adobe Story, part of CS Live online services. Streamline the flow of script data into pre-production, production, and post-production to create more engaging experiences.
• Adobe BrowserLab integration for web testing
  Preview websites on multiple browsers and operating systems directly from Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 using new BrowserLab, part of CS Live online services. Avoid buying costly test hardware and maintaining testing labs.
• Acrobat.com integration
  Enhance communication around the globe using Acrobat.com, part of CS Live online services. Convert files to PDF, store and share files, create documents and presentations online, collaborate, host meetings, and more.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor (Intel Core2 Duo or AMD Phenom II recommended); Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom II required for Adobe Premiere Pro
• Processor with 64-bit support required for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
• 64-bit edition of Windows Vista or Windows 7 required for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
• 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
• 24.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x900 display (1280x1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit the Adobe Premiere Pro system requirements page for the latest list of supported cards
• Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop Extended require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM
• 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
• Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape for SD/HD workflows
• OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
• Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
• Java Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features
• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files and to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6.3; 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-based storage devices)
• 1280x900 display (1280x1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit the Adobe Premiere Pro system requirements page for the latest list of supported cards
• Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
• Core Audio-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
• Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features
• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files and to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

*This product may allow you to extend its functionality by accessing certain features that are hosted online, including CS Live online services ("Online Services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The Online Services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages, and/or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the Online Services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Online Privacy Policy, and access to some services may require user registration. Some Online Services, including services that are initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees and require a separate subscription.