Adobe Creative Suite 3 coming soon

Jared Atchison 21 Feb, 2007 at 2:27am ET Article published in Tech

Adobe Creative Suite 3 should be released soon with full “Mactel” support.

Get ready, ~~pirates~~ photographers start your engines. According to a Merrill Lynch analyst Adobe will likely start shipping the long-awaited Creative Suite 3 as early as the end of March.

The graphics and photographer community has been waiting eagerly for the release of CS3, which will be the first version to natively support the new Intel line of Apple computers. Until now users have been forced to run CS2 in emulation mode that is considerably slower.

Creative Suite 3 brings many updates but perhaps the biggest updates are to Photoshop. Photoshop CS3 promises to pack a punch for the advanced user with updates to the interface, image handling, printing, and more.

Comments

21 Feb 2007 ~ 9:51am airbornflght are you kidding me? I've only had CS2 for a year now. How much is this going to cost me to upgrade? :bigggrin:
21 Feb 2007 ~ 10:01am primesuspect Dammit! We JUST BOUGHT 2.3 like a month ago!
21 Feb 2007 ~ 11:53am airbornflght Adobe seriously better reduce the upgrade price for CS2 users.
21 Feb 2007 ~ 1:58pm jared yeah and all the new stuff in photoshop cs3 looks like the upgrade will be worth it too!
they have the timing rigged!

cheers
21 Feb 2007 ~ 4:41pm godzilla525 ARRRRRR!

(<— GIMP user. Yeah it's no Photoshop, but at least it isn't MS Paint.)
8 Mar 2007 ~ 12:24am AMobileGeek

Jay Vleeschhouwer, the analyst who wrote the report disclosing the release date, says he expects about six different CS3 product suites, and 14 individual products overall.

I am more interested in Adobe changes with the Macromedia studio, mainly Flash.
8 Mar 2007 ~ 1:47am Linc

AMobileGeek wrote:

I am more interested in Adobe changes with the Macromedia studio, mainly Flash.

Scott! About damn time! Welcome to the site, man.

Yeah, I'm a bit concerned about that as well. Most specifically, I want to know if they're going to turn them into single-platform buys. Macro has always sold dual Mac/PC discs, while Adobe kept them separate. I want to know which way the wind is blowing on that one - I can't afford a separate copy for my Mac
8 Mar 2007 ~ 5:50am DogSoldier Truthfully, I don't see anything that would drive me to upgrade.
8 Mar 2007 ~ 12:44pm RADA

primesuspect wrote:

Dammit! We JUST BOUGHT 2.3 like a month ago!

airbornflght wrote:

are you kidding me? I've only had CS2 for a year now. How much is this going to cost me to upgrade? :bigggrin:

*Insert "I'm with Stooopid" emoticon......:D

I'm in the same boat as you guys, only had CS2 installed for a year myself...

...knowing Adobe's previous track record, me thinks we will get a " CS2 users? We don't see any CS2 users... Pay full price please!" as a response.
8 Mar 2007 ~ 3:15pm AMobileGeek

General Keebler wrote:

Scott! About damn time! Welcome to the site, man.

I know, I know. I saw you had tetris in the arcade so I was like why not.

Quick article blurb about flash

Mike Downey then took stage and showed off the upcoming Illustrator import. This was the first time he showed this publicly as the Photoshop import has been showed at other conferences. Illustrator has also learned a couple tricks from Flash, so Illustrator will now get a symbol library just as in Flash - something designers has wished for a long time. Another great thing is that a 4 point circle from Illustrator will now also have 4 and not eight or seven points once imported to the Flash IDE. The Flash Pen tool also gets an overhaul and it will now behave just as in Illustrator with the same shortcuts and modifiers.

Another thing I don't understand is why Adobe is keeping fireworks.

I been using Photoshop CS3 about 3 months. Only thing I notice is that it loads faster, I enjoy the new interface, and some functions more efficient then cs2. If you can't spare the $150 to get an upgrade I would say wait and buy the new flash or illustrator.