Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta

2 day trial? You've got to be kidding me!

Well...my trial period for the Photoshop CS3 beta just expired, and it just so happens I don't have any software that qualifies me to receive an official Beta serial # to continue using the beta. I own CS1, but apparently that's not good enough for Adobe. Apparently I'm not good enough unless I paid for CS2. Ugh...whatever!

You know what the REALLY funny part is? I never even tried the software out! I installed it on Friday, and didn't get a chance to use it until today. Oh well...guess I'll never know if it's good enough to justify upgrading to CS2.

It online now - go get it (im 15% into the download)

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Fphotoshop

anon:

The moment you start throwing high dpi/large files at it the performance plummets. It is better than at the beginning, but far far slower than running in XP or even running through Parallels, only using one core.

yes... i should know.. currently downloading... all 684MB of UB goodness

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=208580926

Here is a podcast on CS3

anon:

i hate to say it, but you're the ass.

I use Photoshop on a daily basis (I'm a graphic designer and motion graphics artist) and while 10.4.8 saw noticeable improvement to the performance of Rosetta, Photoshop un my MBP is STILL dog slow for anything but the simplest of tasks. It's nowhere near as fast as when I run it on my Dual 2.7 G5.

In the future, I would suggest that you comment on things based on your own personal experience, instead of simply parroting Mac fanboy propaganda that you read on blogs or hear on podcasts. People like you make reasoned Mac apologists such as myself look bad.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE... release beta versions of the rest of the CS suite... PPC is KILLING my MacBook Pro productivity...

mBeat is an ass. The latest release of Rosetta is running nearly as good, and in some situations much faster, than Photoshop running natively on G5s.

Theres somethign that bothers me and ive been holding it back.... but no more i say! PS is great and all but really, there isnt a whole lot i need or want to do in it that i couldnt do with PS 6 or above. Yet everyone RAVES about PS and drools over its impending release, but really im not so concerned about PS i spend most of my time in Illustrator and in design and always anticipate the updates to these products more than photoshop. Although ive heard they are going to try to make the type engine more consistant with AI and ID which im looking forward to... not that i use type much in PS since you know - its essentially an image editor no matter how many features they insist on cramming in it. And it will remain as such in my work flow... relegated to nothing more than touch up, spot channels, masking, putting clipping paths on raster images, and lightweight compositing.

Same question as Fernando...