Adobe has announced that Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Design and Web editions have started to ship out.
Adobe’s Creative Suite Production and Master Collection are not yet shipping as they await final releases of Adobe After Effects CS3 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Both After Effects and Premiere Pro were released as public betas today from Adobe Labs website and can be downloaded now.
Apple has today announced that the release of MacOS X 10.5 Leopard will be delayed until October due to the development of iPhone.
iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS® X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
Details have now been leaked about the upcoming release of Adobe’s Creative Suite packages.
CS3 Design Standard/Premium
This package is aimed at “print and publishing professionals”, the basic standard bundle is going to include InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional. The Premium edition will add Flash CS3 Professional and Dreamweaver CS3, and exchange the standard version of Photoshop for Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Adobe has confirmed that it will launch Adobe Creative Suite 3 on March 27th at a special event in New York.
The long-awaited suite of creative tools is expected to kick-start Mac Pro sales, and will be the first release of CS3 that is optimised to run natively on Intel-based Macs.
So yeah, as the title says, the CS3 Beta of Photoshop came out today from Adobe Labs, and I am liking what I have seen so far just from giving it a test run. I have an Intel iMac, so I was quite excited to have a Universal Binary version of Photoshop.
It runs a hell of lot faster then CS2 running in Rosetta. My only complaint right now is the new logo. Its just too plain and dull for a program like Photoshop. Its just a blue gradient box with the letters “Ps” on the inside. I don’t know if its the final version of it, but it is looking that way right now. Anyways, I’m still looking forward to when the final release of CS3 comes out, which is scheduled for sometime in Spring 2007.
