Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta
Adobe today announced the Friday morning release of a beta version of its extremely popular photo editing suite Adobe Photoshop. CS3 brings major enhancements to the Adobe Bridge file browsing system, as well as a new component named Adobe Device Central, which enables the easy creation of content for mobile devices such as cellular phones. The beta will only be available to users of Photoshop CS2 with a valid license key, and the Universal Binary will require a G4 (1GHz or higher), G5, or Intel processor with at least 512MB of RAM. The beta will presumably expire when the final version of the software is released in spring of next year. Check Adobe Labs tomorrow morning to download the beta.
[via MacTeens]
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Hjalti said 6:21PM on 12-14-2006
Best christmas present ever!
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Fernando said 6:33PM on 12-14-2006
What's with the weird javascript links?
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mBeat said 6:37PM on 12-14-2006
bout bleeding time. I could not take the slowdown that occurs when running rossetta photoshop any more!
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Simon said 8:28PM on 12-14-2006
Same question as Fernando...
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pixelslut said 4:50PM on 12-28-2006
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.
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anon said 7:06PM on 12-14-2006
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.
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kc! said 7:28PM on 12-14-2006
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE... release beta versions of the rest of the CS suite... PPC is KILLING my MacBook Pro productivity...
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allan_s said 8:03PM on 12-14-2006
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.
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Richard Harrington said 9:12PM on 12-14-2006
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=208580926
Here is a podcast on CS3
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hehehehe said 10:26PM on 12-14-2006
yes... i should know.. currently downloading... all 684MB of UB goodness
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Mark D. said 2:47AM on 12-15-2006
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.
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Peter Hansen said 2:58AM on 12-15-2006
It online now - go get it (im 15% into the download)
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Fphotoshop
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Richard said 3:08AM on 12-18-2006
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.
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