Adobe previews Photoshop CS3, announces CS 2.3
Adobe Systems earlier this month offered attendees at the Photoshop World conference proof that it is progressing swiftly in transitioning its Creative Suite line of software applications to Apple's new Intel Mac platform.
Adobe previews next-gen Photoshop
"During the Photoshop World keynote, Adobe's Sr. Vice President of Creative Solutions provided a quick look at Photoshop CS3, apparently running on an Intel-based Mac," PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote in a note to clients on Monday.
"While the presentation did not reveal any of the CS3 features, it provided evidence that the company has already successfully moved this core application to the Intel-Mac platform."
Photoshop CS3, code-named "Red Pill," is just one of several graphics and content creation applications due as part of CS3 in the spring of 2007. The new software suite will also combine software technologies from Macromedia Corp., which Adobe acquired for $3.4 billion last year.
The September Photoshop World attracted the highest attendance in the show's history, with approximately 3,000 attendees (up from 2,600 last year). "We believe the increased attendance at the event is another indication that the creative pro industry is strong," Munster wrote.
According to the analyst, 87 percent of the customers he spoke to during the conference said there is a greater than 50 percent likelihood they will buy the combined Adobe/Macromedia suite within 12 months of release. Meanwhile, 52 percent indicated there was a greater than 70 percent likelihood that they buy the product during the same timeframe.
Next year's Photoshop World is scheduled for April 4-6 at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass., suggesting a release of Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 may precede the conference.
Adobe announces Creative Suite 2.3
In related news, Adobe on Monday announced Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, the next version of its professional bundle of Adobe applications.
Version 2.3 will include its Acrobat 8 Professional software, the newly released version of its PDF workflow software. In addition to supporting industry-standard PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files, Acrobat 8 Professional now outputs PDF/X-4 for native transparency support, as well as PDF/A for long-term archiving.
Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also bundles Dreamweaver 8, the Web design and development tool acquired from Macromedia.
Adobe expects to ship Creative Suite 2.3 plus Dreamweaver 8 (in English, French, German, and Japanese) in the fourth quarter 2006. Estimated street prices will be $1200 for the full version of Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, $160 for an upgrade from Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium, and $550 for an upgrade from Creative Suite 1.x Premium and Standard.
Adobe previews next-gen Photoshop
"During the Photoshop World keynote, Adobe's Sr. Vice President of Creative Solutions provided a quick look at Photoshop CS3, apparently running on an Intel-based Mac," PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote in a note to clients on Monday.
"While the presentation did not reveal any of the CS3 features, it provided evidence that the company has already successfully moved this core application to the Intel-Mac platform."
Photoshop CS3, code-named "Red Pill," is just one of several graphics and content creation applications due as part of CS3 in the spring of 2007. The new software suite will also combine software technologies from Macromedia Corp., which Adobe acquired for $3.4 billion last year.
The September Photoshop World attracted the highest attendance in the show's history, with approximately 3,000 attendees (up from 2,600 last year). "We believe the increased attendance at the event is another indication that the creative pro industry is strong," Munster wrote.
According to the analyst, 87 percent of the customers he spoke to during the conference said there is a greater than 50 percent likelihood they will buy the combined Adobe/Macromedia suite within 12 months of release. Meanwhile, 52 percent indicated there was a greater than 70 percent likelihood that they buy the product during the same timeframe.
Next year's Photoshop World is scheduled for April 4-6 at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass., suggesting a release of Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 may precede the conference.
Adobe announces Creative Suite 2.3
In related news, Adobe on Monday announced Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, the next version of its professional bundle of Adobe applications.
Version 2.3 will include its Acrobat 8 Professional software, the newly released version of its PDF workflow software. In addition to supporting industry-standard PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files, Acrobat 8 Professional now outputs PDF/X-4 for native transparency support, as well as PDF/A for long-term archiving.
Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also bundles Dreamweaver 8, the Web design and development tool acquired from Macromedia.
Adobe expects to ship Creative Suite 2.3 plus Dreamweaver 8 (in English, French, German, and Japanese) in the fourth quarter 2006. Estimated street prices will be $1200 for the full version of Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, $160 for an upgrade from Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium, and $550 for an upgrade from Creative Suite 1.x Premium and Standard.
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'Meanwhile, 52 percent indicated there was a greater than 70 percent likelihood that they buy the product during the same timeframe.'
Silly analysts...
i love it
'Meanwhile, 52 percent indicated there was a greater than 70 percent likelihood that they buy the product during the same timeframe.'
Silly analysts...
I was just going to quote that. That line is just great.
And they'd better not demand that you be upgrading from a recent version: the REASON I have been waiting (with Adobe and Macromedia both) is for Universal versions.
Version 2.3 will include its Acrobat 8 Professional software, the newly released version of its PDF workflow software. In addition to supporting industry-standard PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files, Acrobat 8 Professional now outputs PDF/X-4 for native transparency support, as well as PDF/A for long-term archiving.
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Long term archival needs a special format? what the heck for? a PDF made with acrobat 2 can load in acrobat 7, thats the whole point of the pdf standard, why do we need a seperate offshoot as an "archival format"?
Long term archival needs a special format? what the heck for? a PDF made with acrobat 2 can load in acrobat 7, thats the whole point of the pdf standard, why do we need a seperate offshoot as an "archival format"?
Acrobat 2 documents can be loaded in Acrobat 7, but who's to say that Acrobat 7 documents will be able to load in Acrobat 12? The PDF format in Acrobat 2's day was very simple, but it's since evolved to support embedded audio and video, JavaScript, and other features that may not be well supported (if at all) in the years to come. The PDF/A format solves this problem, but it's not actually a new format. It's simply a restricted version of the PDF 1.4 format. For example, it disallows audio and video, it requires that fonts must be embedded and licensed for universal display, colorspaces must be specified in a device-independent manner, that sort of thing. If you make sure your PDFs meet the restrictions specified in the PDF/A standard, then your data should be viewable for decades to come.
More information
Version 2.3 will include its Acrobat 8 Professional software, the newly released version of its PDF workflow software.
Described in more detail at Adobe's product page.
Silly analysts...
'Tricks are for kids'
No word on the fate of Fireworks?
Adobe released a survey to users back in April to test reaction to various pricing structures and application bundles with CS3 after the whole Macromedia merger. They were listing "Adobe Fireworks 3" as part of the proposed CS3 Web Suite, along with Dreamweaver 9, Acrobat 8, Flash Pro 9, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Contribute 4. Unless they've changed their plans since then, Fireworks should be alive and well, used as a replacement for ImageReady.
Fireworks is so much better than Photoshop.
LOL
Where is that figure.
I get the distinct impression Adobe is in a corporate Ivory Tower and completely disconnected from its actual users. Talk to us Adobe! Prove otherwise.
LOL
Re: Fireworks vs PS
When it the specifics of web graphics, it stacks up rather heartily.
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If Adobe had any decency they'd release a public beta of CS3 Photoshop so we'd have something to use for the next eight months...
you will use a beta for pro work?
If you are on a tight deadline a crash wipeing out your work is the last thing that you want.