Adobe Unveils Creative Suite 5

Adobe’s next generation design software is here!

True to their regular release cycles, Adobe Hong Kong kicked off the debut of Creative Suite 5 to the media yesterday in Hong Kong. The new CS5 is the upgrade for 2010 with new features to core software packages like Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign and more. Shipping at the end of April in Hong Kong there will be 5 editions to choose from.

One of the best things in Photoshop Cs4 was Content Aware Scale allowing you to elongate photos without distortion – so with CS5, Adobe continues on that theme with Content Aware Fill. So after making a selection in your image you can alllow Photoshop to fill in and area based on it’s surroundings.

A panorama photo can also use content aware fill to take out those weird white space areas your camera creates.

Puppet warp, which we were shown when Russell Brown was in HK back in November, is in fact part of CS5 and the demo of adding a “skeleton” to a flower and being able to distort it to how the designers wants it to be posed  was pretty cool.

Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop all have a new Mini-Bridge built into it for better finding of files on your computer.

And being Adobe they continue to promote and integrate Flash into the whole range of products. In InDesign can create Flash files for use on websites that incorpoete video and photos, without having to know Flash.You can create animations inside of InDesign with simple animation presets built in.They really want to turn print designers into web designers don’t they?

Strong additions of multimedia elements seems to be the gameplan for this CS5 version of InDesign as it now exports not only to Flash SWF files but also to PDF – Interactive PDF –  that is!

The 800-pound gorilla in the room – the recent changes to the iPhone’s SDK by Apple – was noticibly absent from the presentation and better left for the Adobe head office to determine – but even with Apple out of the picture there was no mention of being able to create for other mobile phone platforms which we see as a big missing piece to Adobe’s future.

On May 28th, 2010, Adobe Hong Kong will be having their ususal CS launch event for the public, this year at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium where they will bring in a team of CS5 experts from the Adobe home office to showcase some of the new features to Hong Kong’s digital artists and designers – Click here to sign up now!

For more videos than you can ever watch about CS5 head over to www.adobe.tv that showcases tons of new features, tip and tricks!