The biggest announcement to come out of the annual Adobe MAX Conference last month was the unveiling of the Adobe Creative Cloud.
It is basically a membership-based program formed of three pillars: Creative Services, Creative Community, and Creative Applications.
The first is Creative Services, which are hosted services that you can use in your production work, in the delivery of your content.
This includes a font service like Typekit, which Adobe recently acquired, which enables the use and delivery of a broad foundry of cloud fonts across all of your work.
A second area is Digital Publishing, which enables publishing rich media to tablets via the cloud.
And the third category is Business Catalyst, which supports designing and operating websites for small businesses, with pre-built services for things like handling e-commerce, doing customer relationship management, and integrating with social networks.
The second pillar is Creative Community, which is for all creatives around the world and enables to connect more easily with other creatives – it’s a place to share, to communicate, and to inspire each other with your work and really collaborate as you’re working.
And lastly the third pillar is Creative Applications – and these are enabling you to create not only on personal computers, but also wherever you are with mobile devices, all connected through the Creative Cloud. This includes a whole new collection of Adobe touch apps to run on tablets and other mobile devices, including Proto, Kuler, Debut, Collage, Carousel, Ideas, and Photoshop Touch.
In addition, membership also includes access to all Adobe creative desktop products you know and love, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver and Premiere and InDesign, Lightroom, more. You can download and install any of these applications you choose as part of your membership, and these are all connected to Creative Cloud via desktop sync. They also interact with the touch apps, and you can move files between desktop and touch as you’re working.
Source: http://prodesigntools.com/what-is-the-adobe-creative-cloud.html
