Macworld Adobe Photoshop CS3 Preview

We just told you about the pending release of a public beta for Photoshop CS3 this Friday. Well the good folks over at Macworld magazine have scored a bit of a coup. They have a video preview of the new release which includes an interview with Photoshop senior product manager John Nack. He says, among other things, that getting Intel native code in Mac users hands was the driving force behind this public beta (though one must observe that public betas seem to have become something like standard policy over at Adobe considering the Lightroom and Soundbooth betas). Also in the video are teasers of new features like "Auto-Align Layers" that seems to allow very quick and easy combining of separate images. They also have a "First Look" with even more information.

In any case, here's something to amuse you Photoshop junkies until the release, and finally proof that Adobe still has some love for the Mac.

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Source: http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mwvodcast/2006/12/mwvodcast2…

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We just told you about the pending release of a public beta for Photoshop CS3 this Friday. Well the good folks over at Macworld...

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Kappy

Must be a Cal Bears fan!!! The football player in the demo, #9, is the great Nate Longshore, QB for the 2006 Bears. GO BEARS!!!

December 15 2006 at 12:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jay B

I don't think education serial numbers work either.... :-(

December 15 2006 at 11:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Frank Lloyd Wright

Will there be any improvements to the Web Photo Gallery tool? It is so close to being useful.

December 15 2006 at 11:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Edward C

Wondering if tuaw editors have any links to review/preview comment to photoshop CS3.

I am not a professional user but from the video it seems those features showed alone are well worth the upgrade and save TONS of time when editing Photos :) ( Not to mention UB )

December 15 2006 at 11:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I wonder why they call it public beta.. It's not public enough for me at least..

December 15 2006 at 10:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rutger

Looks great! some really cool new features.

December 15 2006 at 10:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Paul

I downloaded it. Got a new CS3 serial number by plugging my CS2 serial number into the web page but the CS3 serial number does not work. I suspect it is because my CS2 serial number if from a Windows version but I have switched to a Mac. So, I guess I'm out of luck. :(

December 15 2006 at 9:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

imack

DL'ed and installed. And it screams! The interface changes seem good, it's easier/faster to swap between palettes while still keeping them minimized. Large files open fast! Fast as in < 1 sec. on a 55mb layer-bonanza file which would take close to 60 sec. in CS2.

Only bug I've encountered so far is that the x position for the crosshair was off by 12px for a little while.

December 15 2006 at 8:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

marc cardwell

i have to go change my pants now. thanks for the heads up on this video.

marc

December 15 2006 at 8:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luis

You can already download the beta using the following link: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Fphotoshop

I'm currently installing it.

December 15 2006 at 7:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply