What is Creative Suite 3 Master Collection?

Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection features highly integrated, exceptionally productive tools for designing content across media.

Design professionals — Break out of the print box. Get the tools you need for print design and production as well as tools to expand your skills — and your business — into web, interactive, mobile, and even video design and production.

Web design professionals — Stay on the edge. Create more compelling and dynamic websites by incorporating high-quality motion graphics and video in your designs, and move beyond the web to design print, video, and mobile content.

Film and video professionals — Tell compelling stories in virtually any medium. Showcase your work in high-quality, standards-based output, promote your work in print and on the web, and increase production values on ever-shrinking budgets.

Features

The latest and greatest creative tools

Discover new levels of creative opportunity and efficiency with all-new versions of professional Adobe tools for print, web, interactive, film, video, and mobile design.

An amazing value

Expand your technical skills without breaking your budget. Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection software combines the best of the Design Premium, Web Premium, and Production Premium editions into one value-packed offering.

Highly efficient integration

Work more productively than ever thanks to the exceptional integration of the tools in Master Collection. Come up to speed quickly with the help of the consistent interface across many of the creative tools — including the new Adobe-standard interface in Flash® — and easily exchange native file formats to streamline content creation across design disciplines. Import layered Photoshop® files into Illustrator®, InDesign®, Fireworks®, Flash, After Effects®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, and Encore®, or copy and paste from Photoshop to Dreamweaver®. Export InDesign files as XHTML to jump-start web designs in Dreamweaver. Paint video layers in Photoshop CS3 Extended, and then export to a variety of video formats, including FLV, to incorporate into a website or an After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro project. And much more.

Easy collaboration between designers and developers

Produce rich, engaging content that can be freely deployed on the web and on a wide variety of mobile and other devices. Quickly copy motion to ActionScript™ 3.0 language to hand off to a developer working with Flash, or use scripts to automate tasks across components of the software. Master Collection offers robust features for producing and deploying cutting-edge content as well as improving efficiencies between designers and developers.

Complete creative freedom

Whether you need to produce printed brochures, compelling websites, rich interactive experiences, engaging mobile content, or stories told through motion and sound, find the perfect mode of expression for your ideas with Master Collection. You'll also find learning resources, CSS-based web page starting points, animation presets, and other support for quickly getting high-quality results in design disciplines you're just starting to explore.

Tools to help your business grow

Venture into new creative territory with Master Collection, which offers everything you need to excel in your core discipline as well as meet changing customer requirements and expand your creative business in new directions.

Streamlined cross-media publishing

Easily publish content to multiple media. Preview Photoshop, Flash, or Illustrator artwork for mobile devices using Device Central. Prepare audio in Soundbooth™, and then layer it over video in Adobe Premiere Pro — and export the result as FLV for use on a website. Repurpose InDesign layouts using XML, and export InDesign layouts as XHTML to open in Dreamweaver. Master Collection makes it easy to leverage your content for various final media.

Standards-based professional output

Master Collection meets your most rigorous output criteria, from high-quality print to high-definition video. It offers the professional output options you need for every design discipline, from print to web to video. Adobe's ongoing focus on open standards means your work can easily go wherever you want.

Support for the latest Mac and Windows systems

Experience the ultimate in performance by running Master Collection natively on Intel® based Macs and computers running Microsoft® Windows Vista™. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC® based Macs and Windows® XP systems, as well.

Efficient installation and management

Simplify installation and software management using a single installer and serial number. Install all components at once, or install only those you most need now, and add additional components later (one user per license).