There is a new way to use Adobe^R products which may make the high price of software less of an issue for those on a budget. Adobe's Creative Cloud has much to offer for a monthly subscription. Your Creative Cloud^TM membership has file storage, device synching and file sharing features that can be great for designers who need to share files with their design team and clients. Along with the Creative Cloud (previously Creative Suite) software which you can download onto your computer and use for the duration of your membership, you will also have first access to the newest additions to the software.

Publishing your projects has become a very complicated process with the variety of target end users including desktop, mobile and web. With Creative Cloud, you will get Adobe Business Catalyst for hosting and publishing up to five websites and the use of the Adobe Typekit^R designer fonts. For publishing to the iPad and other mobile devices, you have the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition.

Software included in the Creative Cloud - more to come:

• Acrobat Pro - PDFs
• Audition - audio
• Muse - websites
• Premiere Pro CS6 - video
• Scout - Flash games
• After Effects - effects and motion graphics
• Behance - sharing site
• Bridge - centralize assets
• Business Catalyst - websites
• Creative Cloud Desktop App - desktop panel to access CC software
• Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition - create and publish apps
• Dreamweaver - websites and apps
• Edge Animate - interactive animated web content
• Edge Code - HTML, CSS, JS
• Edge Inspect - preview web or mobile device
• Edge Reflow - responsive websites
• Exchange Panel - Adobe Exchange
• Edge Web Fonts - Adobe fonts
• ExtendScript Toolkit - scripting for apps
• Extension Manager
• Fireworks - vector graphics
• Flash Builder Premium - Flash IDE
• Flash Professional - animation and video
• Gaming SDK - ActionScript games
• Ideas - vector sketching
• Illustrator - 64 bit vector graphics
• InCopy - collaboration
• InDesign - layout and design for print, mobile and web
• Kuler - color themes
• Lightroom - photography
• PhoneGap Build - mobile apps
• Photoshop Extended - 2D and 3D digital art and video
• Photoshop Touch - mobile app for Photoshop
• Prelude - video logging
• Prosite - professional portfolio
• SpeedGrade - film editing
• Story Plus - collaborate
• Typekit - fonts

If you'd like to test the waters of Creative Cloud, you can get a free membership which includes 2GB of storage, device synching, file sharing and 30-day trial versions of the Adobe software. The new Creative Cloud desktop app panel (Mac OS 10.6 or Windows 7) or Adobe Application Manager (older OS) makes downloading and updating your apps easy.

*Adobe provided a copy of this software to me for review purposes.

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