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Adobe Creative 6 and Creative Cloud

by Graham Needham (BH) on 2nd May 2012

Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 6 aka CS6 which upgrades many individual applications:

Photoshop
Photoshop Extended
Illustrator
InDesign
Flash Professional
Flash Builder Premium
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Audition
SpeedGrade
Prelude
Encore
Bridge
Media Encoder

They have also announced the Adobe Creative Cloud. Creative Cloud is basically a subscription service that while you pay for it allows you to download and install all 14 Creative Suite applications (see the list above) plus Acrobat, Muse and Edge. In addition you get a cloud based storage area for your documents, a collaborative area for workgroup based documents, free updates plus free upgrades to any new application version that comes out. Adobe has posted a Creative Cloud FAQ.

There are four main Creative Suite packages:

Design Standard

Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Acrobat
Bridge
Media Encoder

Design & Web Premium

Photoshop Extended
Illustrator
InDesign
Acrobat
Flash Professional
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Bridge
Media Encoder

Production Premium

Photoshop Extended
Illustrator
Flash Professional
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Audition
SpeedGrade
Prelude
Encore
Bridge
Media Encoder

Master Collection

Photoshop Extended
Illustrator
InDesign
Acrobat
Flash Professional
Flash Builder Premium
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Audition
SpeedGrade
Prelude
Encore
Bridge
Media Encoder

As always there are a many different ways of purchasing the Creative Suite and individual applications so we provide you with a simple list in this blog post.

Purchasing Creative Suite 6 in the United Kingdom

Here are the different ways of purchasing CS6:

Full product via download (only available from the Adobe online store - Flash required)
Upgrade via download (only available from the Adobe online store - Flash required)
Software Subscription (only the following applications)

Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Flash Professional
Dreamweaver
Adobe Premiere Pro
After Effects
Audition
SpeedGrade

Creative Cloud Subscription (all applications)
Volume licensing (Commercial, Education and Government options)

Blog Post Author = Graham Needham (BH)
Blog Post Created On = 2nd May 2012
Blog Post Last Revised = 25th January 2018 12:32
Blog Post URL = https://www.macstrategy.com/blog_post.php?12

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