Adobe Creative Suite Design Standard

"Create outstanding print design, even under the tightest deadlines."
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard software enables lightning-fast creativity thanks to massive performance boosts in both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Tackle new design projects such as video editing with Photoshop and designing for iPads and other tablets with Adobe InDesign. And speed up repetitive print production tasks with dozens of timesaving enhancements.

Work with lightning-fast creativity in Photoshop and Illustrator
Discover a host of high-performance drawing, painting, pattern, and image manipulation tools in Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard software designed to expand your creative freedom. Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 have been redesigned to let you work faster than ever before.

Astonishing performance in Photoshop
Experience blazing-fast interactions when editing with key tools such as Crop, Transform, Liquify, and Puppet Warp. The Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers unprecedented speed and responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.*

Faster design tasks in Photoshop
Finesse details quickly with new and reengineered tools. Apply type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.

Adobe Mercury Performance System in Illustrator
Work blazingly fast — even with processing-intensive effects such as blurs, glows, and drop shadows that used to slow you down. Access all the RAM on your system thanks to native 64-bit support on both Mac OS and Windows.

Easy pattern creation in Illustrator
Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with repeating patterns that can be edited at any time.

Image Trace in Illustrator
Convert raster images to editable vectors with a completely new tracing engine. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable results without dealing with complex controls.

Gradients on strokes in Illustrator
Apply gradients to your strokes — along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself — all with complete control over gradient placement and opacity.

Blur Gallery in Photoshop
Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points.

Realistic painting effects in Photoshop
Paint with lifelike brushstrokes to create expressive images. Blend a photo's colors, use bristle properties such as shape, length, and stiffness, or define multiple colors on a single brush and blend them into your canvas.