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thorsten wulff Says:

Great, can’t wait for tomorrow
;)

Posted on December 14, 2006

Just Wondering Says:

Why not users of Photoshop Elements? It would be a great opportunity for users of PSE to try out the full version. As someone who uses PSE, I would be interested.

Posted on December 14, 2006

Jon Sanser Says:

Glad someone has a watch.

Posted on December 14, 2006

Luke Says:

So pumped for this release. I really really really hope that the speed issues of CS2 have been addressed and we can count on a nice, snappy application with adequate system specs.

Posted on December 14, 2006

EJB Says:

Since I do a lot of bulk corrections for archiving at work (newspapers) I can’t wait to see if there is a major speed bump on my G5.

Posted on December 14, 2006

Jimmy Says:

Hey, check out NAPP’s CS3 Resource Center:
http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs3
movies, interviews, etc - awesome!

Posted on December 14, 2006

Tessara B. Says:

Adobe is the new Microsoft. After a few years of dwindling quality, it’s apparent that Adobe’s only true motivation anymore is the bottom line. Why oh why won’t Apple or someone release a true alternative? Photoshop is tired, and although it keeps packing more and more bells and whistles, the overall workflow and approach to process needs to be revamped before we end up with nothing more than a menubar stacked with 100 items a piece along with 10 submenus under each. Adobe is bordering on the bloated failures of Alias’s flagship (now Autodesk’s) Maya. modo 202 proves that Luxology “get’s it”, maybe they should throw their hat in the ring. Unfortunately they are busy adding further features to modo in order to eventually round it off to a full-fledged suite. The ole double-edged sword of the industry standard strikes again. Due to the fact that Photoshop is “what most everyone knows”, we’re stuck with the bloating fish that is PS until a talented and valiant disruptor rises to the calls.

And there’s no need to feel alone, Adobe’s putting it to the Mac-based Macromedia developers too since the acquisition. Developers smart enough not to infect their development environments and workflows with any beige-boxes have to wait a lot longer for many of the technologies made more immediately available to the herd; interestingly enough, some of which is based on platform-independent software frameworks like Eclipse. I know of Mac shops that have been turning clients away from Adobe solutions for more than a year now, and rightfully so. Just because Adobe treats Mac-based solutions providers as second-class citizens doesn’t mean that those businesses are going to turn around and do the same to their own customers. The trust has been broken; the trust has been demolished.

Let’s face it, when the largest portion of your bread and butter comes from the Win-based dozers, you’re app is going to turn out looking, feeling and smelling a lot like the cheap PC swill which so plagues Redmonds hoard of kool-aid drinking zombie-users.

Posted on December 14, 2006

wingrove Says:

so what will it cost? they’ll hook you in with the beta that there will be no going back from then hit you with the usually huge upgrade costs even for those of us that have only bought it this month?
anyone any clues on this?

Posted on December 14, 2006

Big J Says:

Anyone else think that the 64MB Graphics card requirement will be a turn off for a lot of Mac users?

Not a single PowerPC iBook or Mac Mini user will be able to run it?  Before the whole ‘Powerbook vs iBook’ debate, with the exception of Graphics card, what was the diff between an iBook and a Powerbook 12”?

2 of Apples most popular lines are locked out.... hmmm....

Posted on December 15, 2006

CJ Says:

Hate to tell ya Big J, but 64 MB video cards are really below today’s standard requirements. I would even go as far as saying that 128 MB might be a reasonable minimum requirement. Perhaps it’s time for an upgrade =)

Posted on December 15, 2006

Big J Says:

Got one!

Got meself a MacBook Pro....  Just the rest of my colleagues have 2GHz G5 towers, but they have portable iBooks....  So they can’t edit images on the road if they upgrade.... Considering they’re less than a year old, it is a big boo boo on Apples part.....

Posted on December 15, 2006

CJ Says:

Wingrove:

“Adobe says the beta will expire soon after the formal release of Photoshop in Spring 2007. Final pricing is yet to be determined, however Photoshop CS2 currently is offered at $649 full version, $169 upgrade.”

Also, to the individual(s) claiming Adobe has “lost their edge” and other companies should step up. As someone in the industry who uses both CS2 AND Autocad 2007 (running Windows Vista on a slave drive on my Mac Pro), I have to disagree. Photoshop especially is an amazing program and Autocad is industry standard. AutoCAD is such a complex and versatile program, I have yet to meet any architects or industrial designers who have fully mastered the program. Both CS2 and AutoDesk/AutoCAD are deservingly top notch IMHO.

Posted on December 15, 2006

Tessara B. Says:

IMHO AutoCAD is the “Industry Standard” in a manner more along the lines of Photoshop, meaning the notion pertains much more to “the norm” than it does to any semblance of exceptional quality. “Regular” as in Joe. As a visual effects supervisor I know that many visual effects artists rue the day AutoDesk acquired Alias (beholder of Maya, an “industry standard"), as now the stage is surely set for a future of, at best mediocrity; something Macromedia developers are facing now with Adobe.

While I agree that Photoshop is powerful, Adobe hasn’t exhibited any of their past cunning in recent years; upgrades revolve more around hardware updates with a dash of superficial tweaks than any strategic evolution paradigms providing more elegant workflow. The crafting, nurturing and inspiring innovation that once came out of Adobe has severly dwindled; just as their consisttency with Mac-based artisans (and now developers) has died. Just as Microsoft is the last place on earth most expect anything inventive or novel to stem from, so now has Adobe joined those ranks. The bottom line is so often the culprit of the exceptionally mundane and complacent.

Maybe to the more technical minded these applications are simply tools and nothing more. But for many an artist, they are more than that, which is why many prefer Macintosh. We spend a lot of our most prescious form of currency utilizing these “tools”; we spend a lot of the one thing you can never get back, time. And during a lot of that time, we also share our passion with these “tools”, so far be it from us to expect more, to demand more. If you glance at the tools carried by many Carpenters who love their work, you’ll likely notice that their belts and boxes are stocked with anything but your industry standard screwdriver. They don the tools worthy of becoming an extension of their hands, conduits for their artistic/creative intention.

If you’ve ever experienced significant evolutions in an application or suite’s paradigm evolution, you’d know that Adobe isn’t doing so. The aura surrounding the release of Adobe CS3 has all the excitement of the next Gillette razor; whoohoo, yet another blade. Before you know it we might start to see monickers as clever as the teams at Microsoft and Gillette give us, such as Ultimate, Turbo, Nitro or better yet, authenticity as real and visceral as “welcome to the social”.

Unfortunately progressive solutions are becoming lesser and lesser the norm for products coming out of Adobe. There is a big difference between using a tool because it’s the norm and using a tool because you are excited to do so; because it helps take your work to the next level. Treating smaller demographics as second-class citizens doesn’t help either, especially once it becomes apparent that it’s not a fluke as it happens consistently across professional lines. Just ask your friendly neighborhood Mac-based Flex developer about Flex Builder 2 and Flex DS and Charting; or the high-end Xserve hosting provider about Flash Media Server; and on and on.

Expecting more from “tools” may sound foreign to many a Windows based user as in my experience for many such people if it works, great, just need to get things done. In other words things are heavily weighted towards the goal. There’s a handful of us that find that the journey makes up 99% of life’s linear perspective, hence we desire beauty and inspiration in addition to productivity from our “tools”.

Posted on December 15, 2006

gbclyde Says:

What about all the faithful photoshop users who did not purchase CS2?  I’ve purchased every upgrade except CS2.  Can’t we get some slack on CS3???

Posted on December 17, 2006

art Says:

600+ megs, for only a 2 day trial? lamer

Posted on December 19, 2006