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What Do All of the Adobe Programs Do?
Austin Krause | October 2, 2012 in How-To
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Adobe creates a lot of programs, many of which I found myself unfamiliar with until recently.
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programs Adobe develops. Heres a quick guide to understanding each of Adobes software
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In the 6th iteration of the Adobe Creative Suite (thats where the CS comes from), there are 16
programs. In addition to the Creative Suite, there are several other suites and enterprise
products. For times sake, Ill just focus on the primary 16.
Photoshop CS6 Extended Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

Illustrator CS6 After Effects CS6
InDesign CS6 Adobe Audition CS6
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InDesign does page layouts. It allows you to produce and preview documents for magazines,
both in print and online across mobile and desktop platforms. It offers more precision with
typography than Photoshop, but less in the graphics department. InDesign is made for
publishing. Ideally, projects rendered are newspapers, posters, and other marketing material. The
way InDesign works allows content producers to quickly piece together the layouts for multipage
magazines and documents. InDesign operates seamlessly with the rest of the Adobe suite, to
enhance creative ability. The latest version incorporates interactive HTML within documents to
allow web publishing.
Overall, if you need to create a layout for something with a lot of text and graphics, InDesign is
just about the best software out there for it.
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What is Adobe Illustrator?
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Illustrator is the Photoshop of vector art, also known as resolution-independent graphics. By
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Raster vs. Vector
The fundamental difference between the two is that vector has less detail but can be resized
larger in nitely without loss of quality. Vector is also comprised of lines, curves, and geometric
data. In contrast, raster graphics are composed of individual pixels. Illustrator is typically used to
create logos and graphics for business cards, infographics, clipart, and icons. Because vectors
are not size dependent, a design could be used on a small card but then scaled to the size of a
billboard without a loss in quality. Another thing to note is that vector can easily be converted to
raster, but it is a one-way transfer as raster cannot be converted back without di culty.
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What is Adobe Bridge?
Bridge handles asset management. Or in other words, it is an organizer for photos and designs
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within the Adobe Creative Suite. It also comes with the standalone version of Photoshop. Bridge
is used for batch le utility functions,
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The way I explain Dreamweaver to most of my friends, is that it is a graphical version of

Notepad++. It highlights syntax and shows you a rough preview of what your code will look like
at the same time. Many of its tools automatically generate the necessary code when using the
visual side of the program. There isnt much else to it, except that it integrates with the rest of the
Adobe suite and supports the following languages:
ActionScript, ASP, C#, CSS, ColdFusion, EDML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, HTML, Java, JavaScript,
PHP, VB, VBScript, and WML
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What is Adobe Fireworks?
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Fireworks is a fascinating creature. Like Illustrator, it works primarily with vector graphics
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with some marginal bitmap editing available. But, Fireworks is oriented for weband mobile
applicationdevelopment. Fireworks can make just about any graphic interactive, and it
allows you to create both wireframes and object behaviors. With that said, it is geared more
towards developers and less towards artists. But, there are examples of artists who use
Fireworks almost exclusively, such as The Oatmeal webcomics. And artist Jose Rivera uses
Fireworks almost exclusively for all of his work found here.
Overall it is a useful program to have in any graphic artists arsenal. Even though it lacks
some of the vector editing capabilities of Illustrator, Fireworks can create brilliant user
interfaces, websites, and interactive websites in a vector or bitmap format.
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Prelude is a video tool for the cut-and-edit guy before sending off the footage to the
production team. If you have hours of footage to go through, it will take forever to do it in
Premier. That is where Prelude comes in to save the day. Prelude can log videos, tag,
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transcode, and search through footage quickly. If theres a particular scene or shot that you
need to nd, Prelude can nd it almost instantly. Prelude isnt for editing; it is for screening
clips and organizing them.
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What is Adobe After A ects?
After Affects has been the leading program in the video compositing industry since the 90s.
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It is used for adding visual effects to videos or animations. After Affects can also be used to
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using After Affects how to add lightning strikes, glowing eyes, and lightsabers to their
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After Affects packs some of the most powerful editing tools available for video, such as the
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in minutes vs. hours of manual frame-by-frame editing. All of these features make this
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program speci cally hardware intensive, so be sure to have at least 8GB of ram and a ton of
CPU power before trying to use it.
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After Affects can do a lot, and even though it is easily overshadowed by programs like Flame
and Smoke Advanced, it wont burn a $60,000 hole in your pocket like the latter.
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Premier Pro is used to edit and cut video tracks, and then export them in the desired format.
The project panel allows you to grab individual clips and add them to a timeline to create a
movie. Titles can be added, elements from the rest of the Adobe suite can be added, and
color corrections can be applied. It wasnt until recently that Premiere started to receive a lot
of attention. It was with version CS5.5 that the Mercury Playback Engine was re ned, which
allowed faster performance that takes advantage of GPU-acceleration and multi-core

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Photoshop is the go-to image editing and manipulation software used by almost everyone in
the industry. Photoshop excels in working with raster (bitmap) graphics and is capable of
producing highly detailed compositions. While originally intended to be a photo manipulation
program, Photoshop has been taken up by digital painters and design professionals in both
the classroom and workplace.
Recent versions have brought in functionality for working with 3D designs, though the
program still primarily garnishes the most respect for its photo manipulation and post-
production ability.
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What is Adobe Flash?

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You know those funny animations and web games you play on Facebook and other sites?
Many of them were designed using Flash. Flash can be used to create a cartoon, comic, an
interactive interface, or even a game. Although since the introduction of HTML5, it has been
losing support, Flash is still currently used everywhere on the web. In particular, Flash has
recently been used to create a multitude media players such as the default video player
run by YouTube.
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What is Adobe Audition?
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What is Adobe SpeedGrade?
SpeedGrade is for color grading images. At rst glance, this doesnt sound like much. But,
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correctly applied color can add depth, emotion, and character to a picture and videos. When
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In the image above, color grading was applied using multiple layers and a separate mask for
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Encore is a DVD and Blu-ray disc authoring package for professional producers that comes
as part of Adobe Premiere. Encore can create DVD menus that can be edited in Photoshop
using layers. Encore can also produce video in multiple formats, regardless of the original.
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Flash Builder is based on Eclipse to create a development environment that increases

e ciency in deployment for mobile and desktop web applications. Primarily it is functional
for creating rich internet applications across multiple platforms, but mainly Flash. The code
can be modi ed using a graphical interface or in plain MXML and ActionScript.
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Acrobat X is used for creating robust PDF les. It lets you set backgrounds, foregrounds, and
isolate or resize individual pages. It even goes as far as to allow you to add video, audio, and
interactivity to PDF documents.
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What is Adobe Media Encoder?
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Media Encoder lets you save media for almost any screen or device. It supports multiple
formats, including FLV, F4vV, and H.264. Media can simultaneously be saved in multiple
outputs for optimal playback on a variation of resolutions and devices. Cue points can be
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added to playback to trigger presentation speci c actions. Video can also be resized or
cropped within Media Encoder. Metadata editing is supported in the most recent version and
will pass information to the rest of the Adobe suite.
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james dean October 3, 2012 at 11:57 pm #
Great article Austin, I never knew what some of these programs were used for. Which ones
do you use the most?
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Ive been into Photoshop since the 90s. I use it at least a few times every week for
complex graphic design.
I also like Fireworks for throwing together quick web interfaces, but most of my web work is
done in Notepad++ unless Im building something big from scratch.
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Personally, I use photoshop the most. And reader.
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Im fond of Adobe Illustrator. And you?
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mbk28 October 21, 2012 at 1:34 am #
I use most of them, it will be more easy to say witch one I dont use
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anonymous October 21, 2012 at 1:46 am #
Why is there a picture of photoshop at ash?
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GOOD EYE!! Thankyou!
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In the paragraph that rst explains about Adobe FLASH, theres a photo/graphic of a
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Great article. Will you being doing an update to include the apps that have been dropped
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Victoria Quade September 1, 2014 at 2:57 pm #
Short, sweet and informative. Just what I needed to give me an overview without any hype.
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John February 7, 2015 at 7:37 am #
As Victoria said, Short, sweet and informative. Ive been racking my brain trying to
learn many Adobe programs, and while their tutorials are great I really just needed a cheat
sheet like this to put programs and their main functions into laymans terms. THANK YOU!
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Lauren August 18, 2015 at 9:25 am #
Thanks! This was super helpful!
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just trying to gure out what programs to cover in the course. This helped a lot. Thank you.
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Im trying to build a How to sort of document. Im wondering if Indesign might be best or possibly
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Adobe Acrobat X Pro, which I havent used yet, but its peaked my interest. My other option is
building a member only site with links to each document.
So the bases is a check list for authors that cover step for how the publishing process works, how
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to market their book, how to do PR, etc. Each check out item would link them to a step by step
document of what they needed to do to be able to check that item o their list. I have some
webinars, slide video, pdf documents, word documents, etc. basically this has been pieced together
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over the years by di erent people in the organization, and instead of sending each author the
documents separately, I want to combine and clean up things into an easy to follow academy of
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My concern is some of these authors arent going to have Adobe software other than your typical
reader etc. So I need to make sure they will be able to open it and use it easily without having to
have any special software.
Indesign I know I can pdf the nal project but the webinars and slide videos would have to be
converted to print layouts.
What program do you think would work best for what Im wanting and allow them to use it easily?
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Jeremy November 14, 2015 at 2:48 pm #
Austin,
Thanks for the summary. I just got the suite and needed an explanation of what all the programs
did.
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Amb Bitrus Lawrence January 20, 2016 at 1:41 am #
Wow! This post makes a lot of sense to me. I always ask myself which program chew before the
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other cause theres just too many of them. At last I now know which to chew before the other after
seeing this post. Thanks alot.
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Great article!
I work in the lm industry and use Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat extensively everyday. They
work beautifully together and so I recently signed up for the CC Creative Suite. Was curious to
know the functions of some of the other programs as the more ive learned about Photoshop and
Illustrator, the more I know they have speci c uses that are best suited to di erent aspects of your
work ow.
I can already see that ill be able to use InDesign, AfterE ects and possibly Fireworks in the very
near future with an eye for Premiere and Audition down the road.
Thanks for all the awesome information!
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Deana May 16, 2017 at 8:17 pm #
GREAT article! Thanks so much for the brief explanations. Ive been searching all over
trying to wade through all the Adobe programs. This will help me decide what to sign up for in the
cloud, which I hate the thought of renting and at their mercy to continue debugging new versions. I
appreciate this help!
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