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For video professionals, the available suite includes:
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium: This includes Adobe After Effects CS3
Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe Soundbooth CS3, and Adobe Encore CS3, along
with the other design packages.
The Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection includes just about everything, except the kitchen sink.
We cover all the programs found in the Design Premium version throughout this book, but although we get
a little into Web development, we don’t cover the video products at all. In addition to the programs, you
also get more than 100 OpenType faces with the Creative Suite editions.
Each of the programs is an upgrade from previous CS2 versions of the software along with the new version
of Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Systems intends to upgrade the products in tandem for future versions.
Therefore, you can be confident that the next upgrade of a program like Photoshop CS3 will also include
upgrades to Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, and DreamweaverCS3.
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge, shown in Figure 1.1, is an updated executable application introduced in the Creative Suite
version 2. If you launch Photoshop CS3 and become alarmed when you no longer find Photoshop’s File
Browser, worry not. The Photoshop File Browser has been eliminated and replaced by a new more powerful
type of file browser called Adobe Bridge. With Adobe Bridge, you can view document thumbnail previews
for all Adobe applications as well as many non-Adobe applications.
FIGURE 1.1
The Adobe Bridge is the central navigation tool for all CS3 applications.
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