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 Touch Apps
• Integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

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

Processor:

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64

Operating System:

• Windows XP with Service Pack 3*
• Windows 7 with Service Pack 1

Hard Disk:

• 8.5 GB of available space for installation
• Additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)

Memory:

• 1 GB of RAM (3 GB Recommended) for 32-bit
• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB Recommended) for 64-bit

Optical Drive:

• DVD-ROM compatible with dual-layer DVDs

Others:

• 1024x768 display (1280x800 Recommended) with 16-bit color and 256MB 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

* Some GPU-enabled features in Adobe Photoshop are not supported on Windows XP