Adobe Creative Suite
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Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a discontinued software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems.
Developer(s) | ==Versions 1–1.6 (Illustrator 88)===
Development of Adobe Illustrator for the Apple Macintosh began in 1985[1] (shipping in January 1987) as Adobe's second software product after PostScript. Adobe co-founder and CEO John Warnock created Illustrator in late 1986 to automate many of the manual tasks utilized by his wife, Marva, a graphic designer. It used lines and bézier curves to render infinitely scalable graphics.[2][3] Illustrator was released in early 1987,[4] and became a commercialization of Adobe's in-house font development software and PostScript file format. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is primarily geared toward digital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration, while Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. Early magazine advertisements (featured in graphic design trade magazines such as Communication Arts) referred to the product as "the Adobe Illustrator". Illustrator 88, the product name for version 1.7,[5] was released in 1988 and introduced many new tools and features.[6] Byte in 1989 listed Illustrator 88 as among the "Distinction" winners of the Byte Awards, stating that with it Adobe had "pulled ahead" of previously industry-dominant competitor Aldus FreeHand.[7] Early versions of the software did not support working in preview mode and users needed to have two windows open on their desktop in order to have a live preview of their work. One window would show the work in progress and the other window would show a preview of the work in progress. = Adobe Systems |
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Initial release | September 29, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-09-29) |
Final release | Creative Suite 6
/ May 7, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-05-07) |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, OS X |
Platform | IA-32 (limited), PowerPC (limited), x86-64 |
Successor | Adobe Creative Cloud |
Type | Digital media creation and editing |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www |
The last of the Creative Suite versions, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6), was launched at a release event on April 23, 2012, and released on May 7, 2012.[8] CS6 was the last of the Adobe design tools to be physically shipped as boxed software as future releases and updates would be delivered via download only.
On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that CS6 would be the last version of the Creative Suite,[9][10][11] and that future versions of their creative software would only be available via their Adobe Creative Cloud subscription model. Adobe also announced that it would continue to support CS6 and would provide bug fixes and security updates through the next major upgrades of both Mac and Windows operating systems (as of 2013).[12] The Creative Suite packages were pulled from Adobe's online store in 2013,[13] but were still available on their website until January 2017.[14]