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Adobe Creative Suite 4

Last month, Adobe launched the Creative Suite 4 in the Philippines. I got a trial DVD of the Master Collection from their Singapore office this week and installed it on my machine for some quick testing.
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The installer is composed of 3 DVDs with a total disk requirement of 8.9GB when all 14 applications are installed. Adobe Acrobat 9 professional takes up 1.9GB. What’s weird though is that during installation, it required me to shut down Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live.


Adobe CS4 has been built to run more optimized in 64-bit and multiple-core processors. I have yet to re-install this collection in my Intel Q6600 running Windows Vista 64-bit. Will do additional tests when I’m done with that.

More than half of the softwares included here, I haven’t tried using ever. I’m only familiar with Premiere, PhotoShop and Dreamweaver from my old job many years ago. However, initial impression is that the apps are more integrated with each other so you can basically work on a single project and switch between the apps seemlessly.


The Adobe CS4 Master Collection includes 17 applications and services in all — PhotoShop CS4 Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, SoundBooth, Encore, OnLocation, Bridge, Version Cue, Dynamic Link and Device Central.

Price of the CS4 collection starts at $1,699 while the Adobe Master Collection tops at US$2,499.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

5 Responses

  1. Avatar for Dave Dave says:

    thanks for taking a pic of the packaging of these trial discs, I really needed that for reference

  2. Avatar for Alvin Alvin says:

    $2500 dollars for the Adobe CS4 Master Collection

    oh By the way here’s a bug i found on photoshop cs4 the brush cursor display is incomplete

    to fix this bug just update you video card driver
    mostly nvidia users encounters this bug so just go to nvidia’s site and updatew your driver

    this bug was present in the beta versions as well

  3. Avatar for Emben Emben says:

    waaa too expensive

  4. Avatar for sylv3rblade sylv3rblade says:

    Holy cow that’s a lot of applications. Umm wait.. lightroom isn’t included?

  5. Avatar for Gwapito.com Gwapito.com says:

    Any price information of each program: Dreameaver, Flash, Illustrator etc.

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