Adobe CS6 Master Collection 6 MAC Student and Teacher Edition

SOFTWARE

DESIGN & MULTIMEDIA

GRAPHICS & PUBLISHING

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What's new in Master Collection CS 6?

Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Master Collection software is the ultimate design environment for realizing your creative vision. Use industry-leading tools with unlimited creative possibilities, precision, and power to capture and develop your ideas. Deliver for print, the web, tablets, smartphones, and the silver screen. Build standards-based websites and mobile applications, design for the latest platforms and devices, and work with pristine-quality video in native formats. Intuitive interfaces and blazing-fast performance allow swift work on your most complex projects. Create amazing interaction, tell stories, and inspire your audiences with complete experiences that go anywhere. And it’s all yours, for one great price.

Be a classroom standout, a creative visionary, and a hot prospect in the job market with Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Student and Teacher Edition software. Turn your smartphone snapshots and videos into wildly cool artwork or YouTube™ productions. CreateHTML5 websites for your garage band, posters for your club or team, or killer apps and games for mobile devices and tablets like iPad. Show your financial genius, too, by taking advantage of student discounts at up to 80% off.

Features

	Discover new dimensions in digital imaging: Get state-of-the-art imaging magic, amazing creative options, and blazingly fast performance with Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 Extended software, the digital imaging standard preferred for its powerful 2D and 3D editing, compositing, painting, and effects capabilities.
	Vector graphics that work across media: Create compelling graphics with Adobe Illustrator® CS6, the industry standard for vector drawing. Experiment freely and design efficiently with powerful tools for drawing, color, creative effects, and typography.
	Standards-based web authoring: Design and publish compelling websites and apps for smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS6. Quickly build CSS3-based layouts, use industry-standard HTML5, preview on multiple devices, and more.
	Engaging page layout for print: Generate stunning page layouts in Adobe InDesign® CS6 with precise control over typography, built-in creative tools, and an intuitive workflow. Print reliably with less risk of error.
	Efficient, fluid video editing: Take advantage of powerful, flexible nonlinear video editing in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS6 to tell your most compelling stories. Edit virtually any type of media in native formats, from video shot on a phone to 5K and beyond.
	Groundbreaking motion graphics in After Effects: Deliver cinematic visual effects in Adobe After Effects CS6. Tap into the power of 3D camera tracking to create photo-realism along with 3D modeling, fast rotoscoping, stabilizing tools, advanced lens blurs, and more.
	Access to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite: Access Adobe Digital Publishing Suite2 from within InDesign to publish engaging digital documents for a range of tablet devices. New Single Edition now available for publishing to iPad.
	Elegant eBook authoring: Create engaging eBooks with refined typography and images that resize to fit any screen with InDesign CS6. Add video and audio for apps that support HTML5 video and audio tags and take advantage of EPUB3 support.
	Adobe PDF file creation, editing, and delivery in Acrobat® Pro: Create and distribute polished documents reliably with Adobe Acrobat X Pro. Package layouts, drawings, images, animation, video, audio, and other files in a single PDF Portfolio.
	Responsive interactive experiences with Flash® Professional: Deliver immersive experiences across multiple runtimes that present consistently across virtually any platform or device using the industry standard for interactive authoring.
	Audio-for-video editing: Record, edit, mix, master, and sweeten audio using Adobe Audition® CS6. Roundtrip edit with Adobe Premiere Pro, or use OMF and XML to speed up project exchange with Avid Pro Tools and other NLEs.
	Optimized graphics for web and mobile in Fireworks: Quickly create optimized vector and raster graphics for websites, mobile devices, tablets, kiosks, and interactive displays using Adobe Fireworks CS6. Easily design and rapidly prototype complete web pages.
	Single-codebase mobile applications: Rapidly develop cross-platform web, desktop, and mobile applications using Adobe Flash Builder® 4.6 Premium. Leverage a common Flex or ActionScript® codebase to write for Android,™ BlackBerry,® and iOS.
	Native 64-bit performance: Enjoy 64-bit performance in Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other components.
	Mercury Graphics Engine: See near-instant results when editing with key tools such as Liquify and Puppet Warp. The new Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.
	Mercury Performance System in Illustrator: Work with precision, speed, and rock-solid stability on large, complex files due to native 64-bit support on Mac OS and Windows.® Enjoy RAM and overall performance optimization.
	Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro: Get amazing performance from the 64-bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine on desktops and laptops, GPU optional. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 adds support for MacBook Pro OpenCL-based GPUs and NVIDIA® Maximus™ dual-GPU configurations.
	Global Performance Cache in After Effects: Create more in less time with unprecedented 64-bit performance. This revolution "under the hood" takes full advantage of the power in your computer’s hardware.
	Timesaving integration with Dynamic Link: Eliminate intermediate rendering as you refine assets shared between After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, Adobe SpeedGrade,™ and Adobe Encore® using Adobe Dynamic Link.
	Integration with other Adobe tools and services: Enjoy direct integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite,2 Adobe Creative Cloud,4 and Adobe Touch Apps5 within core components of Master Collection.

Tech Specs

	System Requirments:
	Mac OS
	Multicore Intel® processor with 64-bit support
	Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
	4GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
	15.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
	Additional disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files; 10GB recommended
	1280x900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680x1050 display required and second professionally calibrated viewing display recommended for Adobe® Speedgrade™
	OpenGL 2.0–capable system
	DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
	Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6
	Eclipse™ 3.7 Cocoa version (for plug-in installation of Adobe Flash® Builder®; the following distributions are supported: Eclipse IDE for Java EE and Java Developers, Eclipse Classic, Eclipse for PHP Developers
	QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for QuickTime features, multimedia, and HTML5 media playback
	Optional: Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere® Pro
	Optional: Adobe-certified GPU for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer in Adobe After Effects®
	Optional: Tangent CP200 family or Tangent Wave control surface for Speedgrade
	Optional: 7200 RPM hard drive (multiple fast disk drives, preferably RAID 0 configured, recommended) for video products
	This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.Phone activation is not available.