Adobe is a leader in multimedia and web designing software products. Adobe also offers tools for rich Internet applications development.
Adobe Photoshop is Raster Graphics Editing Software. This software was initially designed for the Photographers and now it is an essential tool for multimedia artist and designer. This Software is useful for Layout Designing, Image Editing and Image Manipulation.
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor. The main application of this software is to generate vector graphics from scratch these kinds of graphics are very much in demand in both Electronic media as well as in Print Media too. This Software is useful for creating Logos and Graphics.
Adobe InDesign is used for designing posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. Designers and graphics production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, print media and Interactive PDF.
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications" .Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images.
Adobe Dreamweaver is very good tool to design, develop and publish websites .Recent versions have incorporated support for web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP.
Adobe Premiere Pro is a real-time; timeline based video editing software application. Very powerful tool for non-linear video editing. This is good tool for video artist.
Adobe AfterEffects is primarily used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. After Effects allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation. This is good tool for visual effects artist.
Adobe Flex is a software development kit (SDK) for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. Flex applications can be written using Adobe Flash Builder or by using the freely available Flex compiler from Adobe.Developers write Object Oriented code using the ActionScript 3, MXML, and CSS languages.
For Graphic Designer
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
 
For Web Designing
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Dreamweaver
 
For Photographers
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Photoshop Element
• Adobe Photoshop Light Room
 
For 2D animation
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Flash
 
For Video Editing
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Adobe Aftereffects
 
For RIA Developer
• Adobe Flash with Action Script
• Adobe Flash Builder with Adobe Flex