“A Costly and Time-Consuming Affair!!!”

Category: Review on Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium

Posted by: 1-Aug

Strengths: Integration among similar interfaces, feature-rich

Weaknesses: lacks video editing, long installation time, hard to learn and control resources

The Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium version for Windows is targeted at the print and Web page designers, animators, and graphics professionals. This software incorporates almost every possible tool one could imagine to editing digital images layouts for print and the Web. Some of the very important tools include Dreamweaver and Fireworks for dynamic Web design, the updated InDesign for print and Flash for animation, in addition to Photoshop and Illustrator for pixel and vector graphics.

The Creative Suite 4 from Adobe offers a flawless work experience by integrating the interfaces of all the applications. The user can now shift seamlessly among work space layouts by making use of the preset styles that feature in the cleverly designed pull down menus. However, there are few major drawbacks that come with the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium version.

The first and foremost disappointing factor is that the installation is such a pain and requires a long time. It will take close to two hours to install this software on Windows XP or Vista machines. The worst thing is that you will have to close all browsers and Microsoft Office applications for theinstallation to start. So, you will have to waste two hours doing nothing till it installs. On top of it, you cannot install this in all systems. The software requires that you use a Windows XP SP2 or Vista, with a 2GHz-or-faster processor. Overall, it is a very costly and a time-consuming affair.