The company has prepared six various versions of Creative Suite 3 focused on concrete categories of users. As the manager of group Adobe Creative Suite says, these categories unite developers of printed and publishing production, Web-designers and founders of video. The company has created the developed(unwrapped) package which includes all products.



He also has emphasized, that Adobe had generated crucial connections between tools of each of manufacturers, whose decisions were a part of packages to simplify graphics and applications creation which are meeting the requirements of the market where various formats of multimedia are united now. Besides Creative Suite Master Collection, it unites 12 new Adobe applications, representing the most universal environment for design and development of all aspects printed, on-line, mobile, interactive and a video production. Users also can stop their choice on any of 13 independent applications, including Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, InDesign CS3, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and After Effects CS3. Adobe had purchased Macromedia in December, 2005 . Up to this transaction both companies competed with each other in the market of graphic and web design tools though it was possible to gain the superiority for Macromedia. The incorporated company, to an essence, has no competitors in the specified area, though Microsoft expects to press a with a new package named Expression.

Creative Suite 3 for the first time can liquidate a difference between Adobe and Macromedia products, and also eliminates duplication of corresponding series of products. For example, now designers can import layers of the image created in Photoshop to Flash, and then immediatly work with the image, not uniting all layers in one full image before. The opportunity to import layers in Flash directly considerably saves time.

Adobe had replaced the product for Web-design GoLive by Dreamweaver as users have declared, that they prefer former Macromedia toolkit. However Adobe will still modernize GoLive as an independent product.

For mass-media designers Adobe had prepared Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Creative Suite 3 Design Standard. These packages can be considered as successors of existing version Adobe Creative Suite.

Design Premium includes new versions of following products: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Dreamweaver. It also includes Adobe Bridge, Adobe Acrobat Connect, Adobe Stock Photos, Adobe Version Cue and Adobe Device Central, new toolkit of emulation which allows designers to show how the applications for mobile devices will look like and work.

The standard version contains all same, except Dreamweaver and Flash. Only base version Photoshop is included in Creative 3 Design Standard, instead of expanded.

Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Creative Suite 3 Web Standard represent the packages intended for Web-designers, and it is possible to consider them as successors of former Macromedia Studio 8 product.

The product of the senior class unites Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Contribute, Adobe Photoshop Extended and Adobe Acrobat Professional. Standard version of a Web-package includes Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks and Contribute.

Creative Suite Product Premium it is intended for video and it is a version of Production Studio of following generation. Components of this package are Adobe After Effects Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Soundbooth, Adobe Encore, Adobe OnLocation (only for Windows) and Adobe Ultra. Besides listed above apps, this package contains Adobe Bridge, Adobe Acrobat Connect, Adobe Stock Photos, Adobe Device Central and Adobe Dynamic Link.

At last Adobe has developed the multipurpose package which had received name Creative Suite 3 Master Collection which unites all products of three packages of the senior class in one system. The most part of editions Adobe Creative Suite 3 are accessible for Macintosh with both PowerPC and Intel processors, and provide Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista support.