Adobe Applications

Icons of the core CS6 applications

Icons of the core CS6 applications

• The following are brief description of the core applications in the various Adobe Creative Suite editions. Each edition may come with all or subset of these apps.
• Adobe Acrobat creates edits and manages documents in Portable Document Format (PDF).
• AdobeAfter Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems. It is often used in film and video post-production.
• Adobe Audition is a digital audio editor. It has more editing features than its sibling, Adobe Sound booth.
• Adobe Bridge is an image organizer and digital asset management app. It features limited integration with other Adobe apps but has no editing capabilities of its own.
• Adobe Contribute is an HTML editor and a content management system. It allows a wide variety of people within an organization to update web pages.
• Adobe Device Central helps preview and test web pages, raster image and digital video content for mobile devices.
• Adobe Dreamweaver is an HTML editor geared towards professional web development.
• Adobe Dynamic Link integrates After Effects with Premiere Pro and with Encore, allowing files to be transferred between the two without retendering.
• Adobe Encore is a specialized transcending app; it converts the output of Adobe Premiere and Adobe after Effects to a format suitable for DVD and Blue-ray players. Files are automatically transcended to MPEG-2 or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video and Dolby Digital audio. DVD and Blue-ray menus can be created and edited in Adobe Photoshop using layering techniques.
• Adobe Fireworks is a discontinued raster graphics editor for web designers. It could create interactive contents (e.g. buttons that change shape when the mouse cursor is hovered on) and animations.
• Adobe Flash Professional (now Adobe Animate as part of Creative Cloud), a multimedia authoring program used to create web apps, flash games, films and mobile widgets in the eponymous Adobe Flash format. Its features included a scripting language called Action Script and bi-directional streaming of digital audio and video.
• Adobe Flash Catalyst, an interaction design tool that allows users to transform Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks artwork into interactive Adobe Flash projects without writing code. Flash Catalyst was discontinued in 2012 (CS 5.5) and not included in CS 6.
• Adobe Flash Builder, formerly Adobe Flex Builder, is an integrated development environment (IDE) built on the Eclipse platform meant for developing rich Internet applications and cross-platform desktop applications in the Adobe Flash format.
• Adobe Go Live is a discontinued HTML editor geared towards professional web development. It was discontinued in favor of Adobe Dreamweaver.
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• Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics illustration and design tool.
• Adobe Image Ready is a discontinued raster graphics editor for web designers. It was discontinued in favor of Fireworks.
• Adobe in Design is a desktop publishing application.
• Adobe Media Encoder is a general-purpose transcending app.
• Adobe On Location is a direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software.
• Adobe Prelude is a tool for importing (ingesting), reviewing, and logging tapeless media.
• Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor. A large portion of its features are geared towards editing and retouching digital photographs. However, it is also capable of editing digital video frames, rendering text, 3D modeling and developing contents for web.
• Adobe Premiere Pro is a real-time, timeline-based video editing app. Premiere is optimized for working on computers with more than one CPU, graphic cards and computer monitors. Its supports the contemporary digital camera and capture card feeds, as well as their file formats, as input.
• Adobe Sound booth is digital audio editor. It has fewer capabilities than its sibling, Adobe Audition.
• Adobe Speed Grade is a color grading app that integrates with Adobe Premiere
• Adobe Story is a screenwriting, production scheduling and reporting app.
• Adobe Ultra is a discontinued chrome key compositing app; it removes the background of video usually recorded on a blue or green screen and combines it with another video background. Adobe Ultra is only available in CS3 package. It is later incorporated into Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Visual Communicator. Later versions Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects have built-in chrome key compositing features.
• Adobe Version Cue is a revision control system for maintaining multiple revisions of works among teams.
• Applications in the Creative Suite family were capable of accessing a stock photography service called Adobe Stock Photos before the service was discontinued in 2008. In 2015, after acquiring micro stock company Fostoria, Adobe once again launched a stock photography service called Adobe Stock along with its Creative Cloud service.

Editions.

• Adobe sold Creative Suite applications in several different combinations called "editions", these included:
• Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 family of products intended for professional print, web, interactive and mobile designers.
• Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 family of products intended for professional web designers and developers.
• Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 family of products intended for professional rich media and video post-production experts who create projects for film, video, broadcast, web, DVD, Blue-ray Disc, and mobile devices.
• Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection contains applications from all of the above editions
• Adobe Flash Catalyst, Adobe Contribute, Adobe on Location, and Adobe Device Central, previously available in CS5.5, have been dropped from the CS6 line-up. Adobe Prelude and Adobe Encore are not released as standalone products. Adobe Encore is available as part of Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe In Copy, a word processing application that integrates with Adobe In Design, is also part of the Creative Suite family, but is not included in any CS6 edition.
• In March 2013, it was reported that Adobe will no longer sell boxed copies of the Creative Suite software, instead offering digital downloads and monthly subscriptions.