Lucidpress is a free online editor for making pamphlets, brochures, flyers, magazines, and more. Features include real-time collaboration, digital publishing, and easy sharing, all of which come in an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface. Upgrade to a professional account for increased storage space and access to additional templates.

Adobe Bridge is a media management application used for organizing, browsing, locating, and viewing creative assets. It was provided as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2, and is now in version CS5

Features:

Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software (except for the standalone version of Adobe Acrobat 8)

Extensible through use of Javascript

Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. Adobe Creative Suite products, including Illustrator, have recently moved to a subscription based service model. Adobe Illustrator CS6 was the last version released on disk. Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud is now available starting at $19.99/month.

Features of Adobe Illustrator CC include:

Use powerful creative tools

Boost productivity

Deliver virtually anywhere

Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software

Raster and type-in vector format support

Mobile and tablet suport

Cloud storage

InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. The latest version, InDesign CS5.5 , is the twelfth generation in the product line.

Features:

Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software

Dynamic cross-reference support that updates content when moved within a document

Spread rotation

Smart guides (Quickly align space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides.)

Conditional text (Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.)

Smart Text Reflow (Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference.)

Live Preflight

Paletton (a.k.a. Color Scheme Designer 4) presents the user with a color wheel and several color scheme styles:

Mono

Complement

Triad

Tetrad

Free style

By moving arrows around the color wheel, users can look at and compare different color palettes suitable for web design, logos, etc. A preview option is available for checking what the color scheme would look like as part of a light or dark website.