National Association of Photoshop Professionals CS3 Blowout

Well if, like me, you thought Macworld had something going on with their preview which we mentioned earlier, then prepared to be blown away by the National Association of Photoshop Professional's CS3 Beta Preview Learning Center. This site rocks, with tons of videos, FAQs, tips [some free, some paid]. There's also this choice tidbit from NAPP's eligibility FAQ: "If you don't own Photoshop CS2 then you can download and try the Photoshop CS3 beta for 2 days. Essentially, you have a 2-day grace period before you have to activate the software." This is seemingly confirmed on Adobe's download page which states: "A licensed copy of Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite 2, Production Studio, Adobe Web Bundle, or Adobe Video Bundle is required to use this technology beyond a two-day trial period." (I'm trying to download right now, but strangely Adobe's site is really slow today. Wonder why?). One question though: can't the National Association of Photoshop Professionals come up with a cooler looking logo?

Thanks Larry Becker.

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Source: http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs3/index.html

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Brian

Ahh, you need to visit http://www.adobe.com/go/photoshopcs3beta_serialnumber and input your CS2 serial to get a valid CS3 beta serial number. (Helps to read instructions.)

December 15 2006 at 8:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian

Strange, I put in my CS2 (Upgrade) serial number and it flagged it as invalid. Does it require a "new" CS2 install?

December 15 2006 at 7:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kevin

I think the period is actually 30-days.

December 15 2006 at 6:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jamus

Is this the first time Adobe has used forced activation on their Mac software? The PC titles have been plagued by it for a while now and I hate to see it happen to the Mac ones as well.

December 15 2006 at 4:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Harrison

If you're interested, I've posted some screenshots of the beta via this link: http://digg.com/design/Screenshots_of_NEW_Photoshop_CS3_Beta

(Sorry it's not of the Mac version.)

December 15 2006 at 3:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

systemsboy

I can confirm the two-day trial. I can also say that this new version looks really cool so far. Looks to be the first really worthwhile PS update in some time. I can say all this 'cause I downloaded it, installed it and played with it. It's pretty neat-o and so far lives up to the hype. I'm about to try it on my Intel, which is also cool in and of itself.

-systemsboy

December 15 2006 at 2:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brady J. Frey

Second the logo comment - but if you've ever been to the events, it's largely a lot of technical geekery in photoshop rather than design... but since they know the program, they think they know design too I assume:)

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