Along with any top notch computer, you need top notch software to back it all up!

Well Adobe has entered the prelaunch of the much anticipated CS5 range. You can now Pre-Order the CS5 range from Adobe Special Offers And until the end of April, they are offering free shipping.

Over the next week or so i will be reviewing the big three, Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop individually and in detail. But for now here is a rundown of the features:

Dreamweaver CS5:

• CSS inspection – The updates to Dreamweavers CSS inspection in CS5 will allow you to Visually display the CSS box model in detail, and easily toggle CSS properties without reading code or needing to use a separate utility.
• Integration with Adobe BrowserLab – This powerful new feature will allow you to preview dynamic web pages and local content with multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison tools.
• PHP custom class code hinting – Another powerful new feature will allow you to display proper syntax for custom PHP functions to help you write code more accurately.
• CSS starter pages – This feature has been greatly updated, with prebuilt CSS setups making it much faster and easier to build your clients or yourself a top quality website.
• Integration with Business Catalyst – this will allow you to leverage integration between Dreamweaver and the Adobe Business Catalyst® service (available separately) to deliver powerful online businesses without programming.
• Subversion support – This will allow you to Manage site files more effectively in collaborative, version-controlled environments with enhanced support for Subversion® software.
• Site-specific code hinting – This will let you Benefit from code hinting on nonstandard files and directories in Dreamweaver such as wordpress and Joomla.
• Simple site setup – Set up websites faster than ever, even with multiple servers for staged or networked sites.

Photoshop CS5

• Design interactive content without writing code – Start with artwork created in Photoshop Extended, import it into Adobe Flash® Catalyst™, and deliver it as an interactive prototype or as finished content for viewing in Adobe Flash Player.
• Extraordinary painting effects – Achieve natural and realistic painting effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending; Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes; an onscreen color picker; and more.
• Content-Aware Fill – Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.
• Complex selections made easy – Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair, for refinements, compositing, or placing in layout. Eliminate background color around selection edges, and automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.
• Puppet Warp – Precisely warp or stretch graphics, text, or image elements to create unique new looks for your designs.
• Superior HDR imaging – Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Get better-than-ever results thanks to automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments, and even give single-exposure photos the look of HDR.
• Efficient Workflow – Enjoy productivity and creativity boosts thanks to dozens of features and enhancements requested by Photoshop users. Straighten images automatically, choose colors from an onscreen color picker, adjust the opacity of many layers at once, and more.
• Better media management – Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what you’re working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop Extended.
• 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé – Create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe Repoussé technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.
• State-of-the-art raw image processing – Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in to nondestructively remove image noise while preserving color and detail; add grain to make digital photos look more organic; enjoy more control when performing post-crop vignetting; and more.
• Enhanced 3D realism and rich materials – Enhance 3D objects and designs with easy shadow creation, image-based lights, and materials like glass and chrome. Explore with different focus points in your 3D scene by adjusting the range for depth of field.
• Faster performance across platforms – Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process very large images up to 10 times faster by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support. (Requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Mac OS, Microsoft® Windows® 7, or Windows Vista®. Actual performance varies depending on amount of RAM, driver types, and other factors.)

Flash CS5

• Text engine – Take complete control over your text with print-quality typography via the new Text Layout Framework.
• Code Snippets panel – Reduce the ActionScript® 3.0 learning curve and enable greater creativity by injecting prebuilt code into projects.
• ActionScript editor – Speed the development process with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion.
• Creative Suite integration – Enhance productivity when using Adobe Creative Suite® components such as Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, InDesign®, and Flash Builder™.
• Flash Builder integration – Use Flash Builder as your primary ActionScript editor for Flash Professional projects.
• Video improvements – Streamline video processes with on-stage video scrubbing and a new cue points property inspector.
• XML-based FLA source files – Manage and modify projects using source control systems and collaborate on files more easily.
• Wide content distribution – Publish content virtually anywhere, using Adobe AIR® for desktop applications and mobile platforms including the iPhone®*, or Adobe Flash Player for browser-based experiences.
• Spring for Bones – Create more realistic inverse kinematic effects with new motion attributes added to the Bones tool.
• Deco drawing tools – Add advanced animation effects with a new comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool.

So as you can see, adobe has been working very hard to bring you the very cutting edge in high quality software, it should be well worth the price tag.

Don’t forget to check out Adobe Special Offers and see what all the fuss is about for yourself.

I will be bringing you much more about these exciting products over the coming weeks.