Adobe Unveils CS3 - Will You Take the Plunge?
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
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 $2,499."
As Photoshop is used by a lot of skinners here, do you plan to upgrade to CS3?Reply #2 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:38 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:57 AM
cant live without smart guides
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:15 PM
Running CS2 on XP pro
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:28 PM
Uhh,,No Comment...
Kidding Vstyler..LMAO..That one was just irrisitable, ya gotta admit...LOL
As for C3, Im actually saving up to buy another program that I am currently taking courses to learn..a recent topic prompted my decision, CS2 will be fine for the moment, besides, it may get a little cheaper as it ages....Or, it *will..
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:41 PM
SAD thing is I have read that Microsoft plans to drop support for XP in the near future...
As far as I know extended support for WindowsXP Home & Professional presently extends to 2014.
Link below goes to a catalogue of Windows products - takes your choice and get an overview of the support lifecycle.
WWW Link
Edit addition: Yep I will be investing in CS3, mainly because it's my first foray into Photoshop.
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:05 PM
I will be investing due to professional work producing documentation for a local company and our upgrading to Vista, so I will do the same for personal machines later this year.
Note - there are also versions called 'upsell', which have price points between an upgrade and a full version and will work with the upgrade key of the prerequisite versions (for people like me who upgraded to CS2 on top of PS 6 and Illustrator 8). These prices are about the same as the current full versions of CS2.
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Reply #12 Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:23 PM
The big thing for me in this release is 64-bit applications. Also, if you're fortunate enough to own a CS suite already, the cs3 Design Package upgrade is 600$ .. 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.
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Reply #14 Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:39 PM
Is it? I thought they where waiting with that until the next release or something..
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Reply #16 Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:08 PM
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.
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Reply #19 Friday, March 30, 2007 7:34 PM
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/
Reply #20 Friday, March 30, 2007 7:39 PM
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