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The Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud will go on sale this week as the technology and creative communities begin discussing the new products. Through platforms such as Usenet, consumers are awaiting reviews from other users as they post their own, sparking a discussion of the new products not foreign to the newsgroups. Usenet has traditionally been an excellent forum for discussing new computer and technology products.

Adobe Creative Suite 6

The new Adobe CS6 features upgrades to several popular products including Photoshop, Photoshop Extended, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Flash Professional, Audition, and Fireworks. Bridge and Encore—companion apps—also got an upgrade, and the CS6 package also features a couple of newcomers in Prelude and SpeedGrade.

One package, Design Standard, includes Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat X Pro for graphic designers; it comes with a price tag of $1,299 and upgrades of $299. Design and Web Premium, designed for print and web designers, includes Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat X Pro; it costs $1,899 with upgrades at $399. The Production Premium package, which is designed for videographers, includes Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Flash Professional, Illustrator, and Photoshop Extended; it costs $1,899 and upgrades are at $399. Each software product is also sold individually. A Master Collection includes all but the standard Photoshop, and runs $2,599; Flash Builder 4 is only available with the Master Collection.

Creative Cloud

The Creative Cloud includes all of the CS6 software packages, and allows for the delivery of the content creation tools, syncing and storing to or from the cloud, publishing websites, apps, and other publications, and updates for software packages. It will be available for a monthly fee of $50/month for the annual membership, or $75/month for a month-to-month membership. A promotional offer of $30/month is available for customers using CS3/4/5/5.5 packages.

The cloud subscription comes with certain unique products, too. The HTML 5 animation program, Edge Preview; the website development software, Muse 1.0; the content management system to work with Muse, Business Catalyst; a Web font tool, TypeKit; and Adobe Creative Cloud Connection, which allows syncing and storage of files with 20GB of space to create websites are all included. The Touch suite of apps are also included.