Creative Cloud Team Blog

Great news – Creative Cloud is now available for teams and workgroups in companies of all sizes! A team membership includes all the applications and online services you get in a Creative Cloud individual membership, plus centralized license management, 100GB of cloud-based storage per user, and 2 expert service calls per user.

Managing and scaling your software investment is critical in today’s business economy. Creative Cloud for teams allows you to purchase centrally, and use license management tools to assign or add team members, whether inside or outside of your company. What’s more, if one of your team members leaves the company, or moves onto another project, you can simply re-assign their seat to someone else.

Creative Cloud for teams also lets you share files and collaborate closely with colleagues inside or outside of your organization. Get feedback on your latest project, add and view comments, and sync files seamlessly between devices, all while leveraging 100GB of storage per user. Lastly, for those of you looking to solve in-depth product or workflow questions, each member gets two one-on-one, deep-dive support sessions with Adobe product experts. This is above and beyond the free getting-started support offered with an individual membership.

Creative Cloud for teams is available today, and is rolling out gradually throughout our network of resellers worldwide. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Adobe Muse enables you to create and publish distinctive, professional HTML websites without writing code. And now, you can create unique tablet and smartphone versions of your websites using new mobile features available in an update to Adobe Muse.

This update is a direct response to customer demands for mobile device support. Mobile-friendly websites are vital for businesses today – IDC estimates that by 2015 more end users will access the Internet through a mobile device than a PC. Because of this, designers and their clients are realizing the need to provide an optimal viewing experience whether sites are viewed on a large monitor while sitting at a desk or on a smaller screen while on-the-go.

New features in Adobe Muse include:

• Mobile Layout Options: Select a tablet or smartphone layout in the planning stage, and define the site plan and master pages to create unique layouts for each.
• Mobile Content and Style Options: Design the content and style of each experience.
• Touch-Enabled Interactivity: Link phone numbers to automatically dial when tapped, email addresses to open an email client with the “To” address already filled in.
• Gesture-Enabled Widgets: Copy and paste Adobe Muse widgets in mobile layouts – site menu navigation, slideshows, page-swipes, and more will work automatically, with the touch of a finger.

Adobe Muse is available in Creative Cloud and you can download it here. If you already have Muse installed, just open the application and click “Install Now” on the updater screen to get these new features. For more information about Adobe Muse, go here.

We’re excited to be delivering over a dozen exciting new features today in Photoshop version 13.1 — exclusively for Creative Cloud members. Below are just few of the key enhancements:

• Smart Object support for Blur Gallery and Liquify: Enjoy the creative freedom to experience nondestructive editing with Blur Gallery and Liquify, now that both features offer Smart Object support.
• Powerful CSS support for web design: Quickly export CSS code for text and objects, and also import color codes from HTML and CSS files to your Color palette to help you design incredible websites.
• Conditional Actions: Speed up image processing by creating Conditional Actions. These commands use logic to automatically choose between different Actions based on rules that you establish.
• Retina display support: See more of the details in your images and in the Photoshop user interface when viewing on high-resolution displays, including the new Retina display available on MacBook Pro.*

To get these features, just open Photoshop, go to the main menu, choose Help > Updates. Or, download Photoshop for the first time from Creative Cloud.

For more information about additional features in Photoshop 13.1, visit the Photoshop.com blog, check out Adobe.com, or watch some videos about the new features on Adobe TV!

* Retina display support for Mac is available to all Adobe Photoshop CS6 customers today, including customers who are not Creative Cloud members.

Today we’re delighted to announce the release of the Adobe Game Developer Tools for all Creative Cloud members. You can now download and install our newest game developer tools directly within Creative Cloud, including Adobe Scout – a next-generation tool for advanced profiling of ActionScript-based content for desktop & mobile.

The Game Developer Tools also include the Game Developer SDK and the Flash C++ Compiler. You’ll get features that let you rapidly build, optimize, and deliver 2D & 3D web, mobile, and desktop games. The Flash C++ Compiler lets you deliver existing C/C++ code through the Flash Player so you can reach a wider audience. The Game Developer SDK lets you leverage a common ActionScript 3 codebase to access essential frameworks, samples, and extensions.

Adobe Game Developer Tools are available exclusively through Creative Cloud for all members. Get it now and GAME ON!

From the beginning, we promised that Creative Cloud members would always get the latest software upgrades at no extra charge. We’re excited to make this happen today with the release of Acrobat XI Pro. Members can go to the Apps page right now to download and install Adobe’s newest and most powerful collaboration solution.

You’ll get features that let you create forms in minutes, edit PDFs faster than ever with a range of new tools, and easily convert PDFs to Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Plus, there are many more features to explore in Acrobat XI… Read more on the Acrobat XI blog or watch this video to learn!

Not a member of Creative Cloud yet? Go here to learn about what we have to offer!

Great news for web designers and developers! Adobe Edge Tools & Services have just been added to your Creative Cloud membership. You can now use all of the Edge Tools & Services to design and develop for modern browsers and mobile devices–including Edge Animate, Edge Inspect (formerly called Shadow), Edge Web Fonts, PhoneGap Build, Typekit and a preview of Edge Code. By the end of the year we will also add a preview of Edge Reflow.

These tools and services will enable you to create beautiful, mobile-ready content and apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Combine one or many Adobe Edge Tools and Services along with existing tools and technologies to design, animate, code, package, and deliver your content and apps. Watch this video to learn more.

If you have a paid Creative Cloud membership, you now have access to all of these tools and services along with any future additions and updates we deliver. We’re also making the Edge Tools & Services available to everyone who is signed up for a free Creative Cloud membership. If you aren’t a paid member and want to try these tools, just sign up for a free membership . All you need is an Adobe ID.

One of the best things about being a Creative Cloud member is getting early access to exclusive features, like the three Illustrator features we announced last month. Today, we’re announcing six Dreamweaver features exclusively for Creative Cloud members and Dreamweaver subscribers. These features give you the ability to easily add HTML5 tags, audio, video and Adobe Edge Animate compositions to your projects, and quickly find files with real-time search results on Mac OS. To learn more, check out this video.

To get these features, just open Dreamweaver, go to the main menu, choose Help > Updates or download Dreamweaver for the first time here.

If you aren’t a Creative Cloud member, or are signed up for the free Creative Cloud membership and want access to these Dreamweaver features, you can become a paid member here. Current Creative Suite customers can join Creative Cloud and get 40% off their first year of membership, and pay just US$29.99 per month for the first 12 months. See if you qualify.

As a Creative Cloud member, you can now create, develop, and deliver iPad apps using the tools you’re already familiar with. Design brochures, personal portfolios, yearbooks, annual reports — and integrate interactive elements such as slideshows and image sequences — using our latest release: the Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition.

This new functionality comes as a plugin to InDesign, making it an approachable and intuitive solution that leverages your existing skills — so if you know print design, you already know how to create an iPad app. What’s even more exciting is that, as a Creative Cloud member, you get the exclusive benefit of being able to submit an unlimited number of iPad apps to the Apple App Store. If purchased separately, publishing each app costs US $395.

You can learn more by watching this overview video:

Here are some additional things you need to know, to get started:

• The DPS App Builder that comes with Digital Publishing Suite is a Mac-only application. Also, Apple requires that you use a Mac to submit your app to the Apple App Store.
• You need to update InDesign to access the Digital Publishing Suite desktop tools. To do this, open InDesign, go to the main menu, choose Help > Updates. To download InDesign for the first time, go here.
• You’ll need to register as an Apple Developer and pay the $99 annual fee in order to submit apps to the Apple App Store.
• You must be a paid member of Creative Cloud to access to Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition. If you are already a free member, you can upgrade here.

We created a step-by-step guide to publishing iPad apps to get you up and running. Be sure to check it out. If you aren’t a Creative Cloud member and want to access the guide, just sign up for a free membership here.

You can also see more videos on Adobe TV to help you get up to speed.