Adobe CS4 Master Collection

The Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection is a software suite that contains a dozen of Adobe‘s premium design tools and a number of add-ons as well. For the consummate design and digital media professional, this will probably have most of what you need.

Let’s take a look at what’s in the box:

• Adobe InDesign® CS4
• Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended
• Adobe Illustrator® CS4
• Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro
• Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional
• Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4
• Adobe Fireworks® CS4
• Adobe Contribute® CS4
• Adobe After Effects® CS4
• Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4
• Adobe Soundbooth® CS4
• Adobe OnLocation™ CS4
• Adobe Encore® CS4
• Adobe Bridge CS4 (offers direct access to Version Cue® and Adobe® Device Central)
• Adobe Dynamic Link
• Adobe Media Player

The Adobe CS4 Master Collection is a good bunch of software for what it offers. At a pretty hefty price tag averaging out at around US$2000, this is targeted for those who are really serious in their design craft. The prohibitive pricing will probably keep the hobbyists away from this, but you have to remember that this is relatively much cheaper than buying each of these software piecemeal.

There are serious hardware considerations for these applications as well, again another reason why only the serious design geeks will even think of buying this. Dual-core procs are recommended, as well as all the RAM you can afford. For Blu-Ray authoring, you wiil of course need a Blu-ray drive. If your desktop system can’t take another optical drive, an external Blu-ray burner for your authoring needs may be required.

Again, if you are not serious about your craft, Mac PC Wiz does not recommend this for you. If you are a design God, then you most probably will need this. A couple of serious projects will probably cover for the cost of purchase, eh?