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Adobe kicked off its annual MAX conference in Los Angeles over the weekend, and MacLife.com was in attendance for the keynote address introducing the next generation of the company’s creative applications.
Since late 2003, Adobe has maintained a nearly bi-annual schedule of assembling its creative Mac and Windows software into various bundles known as Creative Suite, with the most recent CS6 edition launched last April.
Adobe now plans to break from this decade-long tradition with the announcement Monday of all-new Creative Cloud (“CC”) editions of its 15 most popular software titles, available exclusively for subscribers of its annual or month-to-month service.
Combining photography, video, design, and web applications with the cloud, the new CC product branding promises to eliminate past worries about having the latest version of your favorite software.
Thanks to Creative Cloud’s new integrated menu bar software, Mac and Windows users will be able install or update applications from the very same place they move documents to the cloud, network with others via Behance, or sync new cloud-enabled fonts, colors, and settings.
At the core of its latest Creative Cloud offering are new CC editions of key applications: Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, Flash Pro CC, Dreamweaver CC, Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, Audition CC, SpeedGrade CC, Prelude CC, Adobe Muse CC, Adobe Edge Animate CC, Adobe Bridge CC and Adobe Media Encoder CC; also appearing for the first time ever as part of Creative Cloud is the InDesign companion, InCopy CC. The new versions will be available worldwide starting June 17.
Stay tuned for a quick run-through of key new features in the forthcoming new version of Adobe Creative Cloud, as well as additional Adobe MAX coverage straight from the conference floor.
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