What's new in Design Standard?

Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Design Standard software enables lightning-fast creativity thanks to massive performance boosts in both Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator®. Tackle new design projects such as video editing with Photoshop and designing for iPads and other tablets with Adobe InDesign®. And speed up repetitive print production tasks with dozens of timesaving enhancements.

Work with lightning-fast creativity in Photoshop and Illustrator:

• Astonishing performance in Photoshop
• Faster design tasks in Photoshop
• Adobe Mercury Performance System in Illustrator
• Easy pattern creation in Illustrator
• Image Trace in Illustrator
• Gradients on strokes in Illustrator
• Blur Gallery in Photoshop
• Realistic painting effects in Photoshop
• Perspective drawing in Illustrator
• Puppet Warp in Photoshop

Create and manage multiple layouts from one set of content in InDesign:

• Alternate Layout in InDesign
• Liquid Layout in InDesign
• Content Collector tools in InDesign
• Content linking across InDesign documents

Produce video, apps, and more without learning new software:

• Tablet publications in InDesign
• Video editing in Photoshop
• eBook authoring in InDesign
• PDF forms in InDesign

Benefit from timesaving enhancements in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign:

• Content-Aware Patch in Photoshop
• All-new Crop tool in Photoshop
• Improved auto-corrections in Photoshop
• Background Save in Photoshop
• Scripted Patterns in Photoshop
• Preset sharing in Photoshop
• Dozens of time-savers in Photoshop
• Inline editing in panels in Illustrator
• Enhanced Color panel in Illustrator
• Split window in InDesign
• Recently used fonts in InDesign
• Smart text frame fitting in InDesign
• Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
• Efficient delivery of accessible documents
• Small, high-impact enhancements in InDesign
• Truer Edge selection in Photoshop
• Black-and-white conversion in Photoshop
• Content-Aware Scaling in Photoshop
• Smooth pan and zoom in Photoshop
• Faster effects processing in Illustrator
• Multiple artboards in Illustrator
• Beautiful strokes in Illustrator
• Shape Builder tool in Illustrator
• Blob Brush in Illustrator
• Drawing enhancements in Illustrator
• Gradients and transparency in Illustrator
• Bristle Brush in Illustrator
• Productivity enhancements in Illustrator
• Multiple page sizes in one InDesign file
• Live Preflight in InDesign
• Articles panel in InDesign
• Drag-and-drop support for anchored objects in InDesign
• Paragraphs that span or split columns
• Gap tool in InDesign
• Intuitive object selection and editing in InDesign

Integrate with other Adobe tools and services:

• Integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
• Integration with Adobe Touch Apps

• Adobe Photoshop CS6
• Adobe Illustrator CS6
• Adobe InDesign CS6
• Adobe Acrobat X Pro
• Adobe Bridge CS6
• Adobe Media Encoder CS6

Processor:

• Multicore Intel with 64-bit support

Operating System:

• Mac OS X v.10.6.8 or v.10.7

Hard Disk:

• 7 GB 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)

Memory:

• 2 GB RAM (8 GB Recommended)

Optical Drive:

• DVD-ROM compatible with dual-layer DVDs

Others:

• 1024x768 display (1280x800 Recommended) with 16-bit color and 256 MB of VRAM
• OpenGL 2.0-capable system
• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files

Note:

• This 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.