Adobe Unveils CS3 - Will You Take the Plunge?
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
Adobe has finally unveiled Creative Suite 3, which includes tools for print designers, multimedia editors and web designers. I was disappointed to read earlier that Adobe will not support CS2 on Windows Vista. Although Adobe claims there are only minor "issues" with CS2 on Vista, I have read many reports of people just not being able to productively use some of their CS2 applications on Vista.
I have Photoshop CS2 and really did not want to upgrade because CS2 has everything I need, and spending $200 for an upgrade was not something I planned to do just to run Photoshop on Vista.
I have Photoshop CS2 and really did not want to upgrade because CS2 has everything I need, and spending $200 for an upgrade was not something I planned to do just to run Photoshop on Vista.
The estimated price for Creative Suite 3 Design Standard is $1,199 and for the Design Premium version, $1,799. The Web-oriented editions cost $999 for Web Standard and $1,599 for Web Premium.
The CS3 Production Premium is $1,699. And the Master Collection, the most comprehensive package, is $2,499."
As Photoshop is used by a lot of skinners here, do you plan to upgrade to CS3?
Murex
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:38 AM
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:38 AM
Can't see any reason to upgrade to Vista or CS3. XP works just fine for me. Besides using Stardock products let's me Have almost the same things I could have in Vista as far as the Candy goes. SAD thing is I have read that Microsoft plans to drop support for XP in the near future... SP3 What happened to ????
vStyler
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:57 AM
cant live without smart guides
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:57 AM
still on version 7.0 sorry
cant live without smart guides
brewman
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:15 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:15 PM
No plans here to upgrade to CS3.
Running CS2 on XP pro
Running CS2 on XP pro
Double Zero
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:28 PM
Uhh,,No Comment...
Kidding Vstyler..LMAO..That one was just irrisitable, ya gotta admit...LOL
As for C3, Im actually saving up to buy another program that I am currently taking courses to learn..a recent topic prompted my decision, CS2 will be fine for the moment, besides, it may get a little cheaper as it ages....Or, it *will..
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:28 PM
cant live without smart guides
Uhh,,No Comment...
Kidding Vstyler..LMAO..That one was just irrisitable, ya gotta admit...LOL
As for C3, Im actually saving up to buy another program that I am currently taking courses to learn..a recent topic prompted my decision, CS2 will be fine for the moment, besides, it may get a little cheaper as it ages....Or, it *will..
Alternate Setting
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:41 PM
SAD thing is I have read that Microsoft plans to drop support for XP in the near future...
As far as I know extended support for WindowsXP Home & Professional presently extends to 2014.
Link below goes to a catalogue of Windows products - takes your choice and get an overview of the support lifecycle.
WWW Link
Edit addition: Yep I will be investing in CS3, mainly because it's my first foray into Photoshop.
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:41 PM
SAD thing is I have read that Microsoft plans to drop support for XP in the near future...
As far as I know extended support for WindowsXP Home & Professional presently extends to 2014.
Link below goes to a catalogue of Windows products - takes your choice and get an overview of the support lifecycle.
WWW Link
Edit addition: Yep I will be investing in CS3, mainly because it's my first foray into Photoshop.
Corky_O
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:05 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:05 PM
I will be investing due to professional work producing documentation for a local company and our upgrading to Vista, so I will do the same for personal machines later this year.
Note - there are also versions called 'upsell', which have price points between an upgrade and a full version and will work with the upgrade key of the prerequisite versions (for people like me who upgraded to CS2 on top of PS 6 and Illustrator 8). These prices are about the same as the current full versions of CS2.
REDstyler
Reply #10 Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:40 AM
Reply #10 Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:40 AM
I'm not a skinner, but I use PS 7 and CS for graphics designing, I have all the tools I need there, don't actually need more. Besides I'm not planning to upgrade to Vista anytime soon either if it doesn't support lower versions that PSCS3. 
thomassen
Reply #11 Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:09 PM
Reply #11 Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:09 PM
I'd have to get it. The quirks in CS2 on Vista is too annoying and I don't want to boot into XP just to overcome them.
DesignCaddy
Reply #12 Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:23 PM
Reply #12 Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:23 PM
The CS3 packages really aren't going to give benefit to the casual photoeditor / image maker, but if you're using an old suite, pre CS, i think its worth moving up to, or at least upgrading from photoshop 7 to photoshop cs3. Layers have become much more powerful, with tools for cloning and mapping. Also, there is better than ever compatibility between OS platforms.. i move back and forth flawlessly.
The big thing for me in this release is 64-bit applications. Also, if you're fortunate enough to own a CS suite already, the cs3 Design Package upgrade is 600$ .. thats 600$ for photoshop, illustrator, acrobat, indesign, DREAMWEAVER, and FLASH! Presently the highest cs2 package had golive.. whoopdy do. i'm still using old versions of dreamweaver and flash and could never afford to buy both adobe and macromedia apps separately.
I'm excited. Can't afford it yet but im still excited.
The big thing for me in this release is 64-bit applications. Also, if you're fortunate enough to own a CS suite already, the cs3 Design Package upgrade is 600$ .. thats 600$ for photoshop, illustrator, acrobat, indesign, DREAMWEAVER, and FLASH! Presently the highest cs2 package had golive.. whoopdy do. i'm still using old versions of dreamweaver and flash and could never afford to buy both adobe and macromedia apps separately.
I'm excited. Can't afford it yet but im still excited.
Lantec
Reply #13 Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:42 PM
Reply #13 Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:42 PM
As far as computer graphics, I can't say that I'm creating anything that requires more than I get from Paintshop Pro. For photography I purchased Adobe LightRoom and grappled with this same question until I did. See This Thread
thomassen
Reply #14 Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:39 PM
Is it? I thought they where waiting with that until the next release or something..
Reply #14 Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:39 PM
The big thing for me in this release is 64-bit applications.
Is it? I thought they where waiting with that until the next release or something..
Nimbin
Reply #15 Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:53 PM
Reply #15 Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:53 PM
not planning to upgrade to CS3 anytime soon, same as i have no plans to upgrade to VISTA anytime soon, i use CS2 on Windows XP and i am very happy with that, maybe after a while and i see more and more reviews and the first batch of updates become avaliable i may change my mind, but until then ......... 
Adamness
Reply #16 Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:08 PM
Reply #16 Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:08 PM
Looking at the improvements to Illustrator, it seems they fixed everything that I found frustrating about it. Hopefully I can get the Design Premium suite, otherwise I'll just go for the Illustrator upgrade.
When Macromedia was bought by Adobe, I thought it would just crap up all the programs, but it seems they just made them have better cross compatibility. Colors should remain consistent between programs, which was a big issue in previous version of Macromedia and Adobe apps. Can't wait to try all the new stuff out.
When Macromedia was bought by Adobe, I thought it would just crap up all the programs, but it seems they just made them have better cross compatibility. Colors should remain consistent between programs, which was a big issue in previous version of Macromedia and Adobe apps. Can't wait to try all the new stuff out.
Jafo
Reply #17 Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:18 PM
Reply #17 Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:18 PM
I get by with PSP6 and PS Elements .....simple mind...simple needs...
Corky_O
Reply #19 Friday, March 30, 2007 7:34 PM
Reply #19 Friday, March 30, 2007 7:34 PM
Just to make sure, CS3 will run on XP...right?
Based on the system requirements for the 'Master Collection' - which includes all of the major programs of CS3 - you should be fine running on XP.
Here is the link: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/mastercollection/systemreqs/
unclerob
Reply #20 Friday, March 30, 2007 7:39 PM
Reply #20 Friday, March 30, 2007 7:39 PM
Murex, Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream support for Windows XP well into 2009 (and extended support will continue into 2014), XP SP3 is slated to be released early 2008 - it's release was delay so that it didn't take attention away from Vista's release. I don't see a service pack 4 for XP happening after that although you will probably see a Rollup Update after XP SP3 similar to what we saw after Windows 2000 SP4 was released.
You will probably also see Microsoft release newer operating systems in shorter time frames, Vista was something like 5 years in the making, expect another M$ operating system to be released within the next 2 - 3 years.
Vista's new gui is nice looking (that's just my opinion, I release some think it's not that great) but that's not enough of a reason for people to switch over. After the first vista service pack, Vista will become more mainstream.
I can't see myself upgrading to PS CS3, I have enough troubles using CS2 - don't know if I would want to give myself a bigger migraine with CS3. Truth be told, I'm a big fan of Macromedia's Fireworks app (I use version MX 2004 myself). If Adobe makes photoshop as easy to use as fireworks currently is and maybe then I'll consider the upgrade.
You will probably also see Microsoft release newer operating systems in shorter time frames, Vista was something like 5 years in the making, expect another M$ operating system to be released within the next 2 - 3 years.
Vista's new gui is nice looking (that's just my opinion, I release some think it's not that great) but that's not enough of a reason for people to switch over. After the first vista service pack, Vista will become more mainstream.
I can't see myself upgrading to PS CS3, I have enough troubles using CS2 - don't know if I would want to give myself a bigger migraine with CS3. Truth be told, I'm a big fan of Macromedia's Fireworks app (I use version MX 2004 myself). If Adobe makes photoshop as easy to use as fireworks currently is and maybe then I'll consider the upgrade.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:10 AM