[Steve]

Company Also Previews Adobe Bridge and All-New Adobe Device Central

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Dec. 14, 2006 - Adobe Systems Incorporated

(Nasdaq:ADBE) will introduce a beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 software, the next release of the world standard in digital imaging, on Friday, December 15th. Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple's new Intel-based systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP and Windows Vista computers. The final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 is planned for Spring 2007. The software can be downloaded at: Adobe Labs - Homepage, in the early hours Pacific Standard Time on December 15.

Packed with new features, Photoshop CS3 beta also includes a pre-release version of a major upgrade to Adobe Bridge, as well as a preview release of the all-new Adobe Device Central. Photoshop customers can use Adobe Device Central to design, preview, and test compelling mobile content, created specifically for smaller screens. This new tool, integrated in the Photoshop CS3 beta, simplifies and accelerates the creation of mobile content through a preview environment and built-in device profiles.

"This is an exciting time for the Mac, and Adobe wanted to ease the move to new Intel-based systems with a preview release of Photoshop CS3," said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe. "We didn't want to leave Windows customers out of the party, so the beta is available to everyone in the creative industry's most passionate user community -- no matter what their platform choice.

We still have some surprises in store, but this beta gives customers an early chance to see the power of another great Photoshop release, optimized and tuned to run natively on the latest hardware and operating systems."

To utilize Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, customers require a serial number from either Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Creative Suite(r) 2, Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio, Adobe Design Bundle, Adobe Web Bundle or Adobe Video Bundle. Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta is available in English only. Customers who have a valid serial number for all other language versions of qualifying Adobe products can download the software. Without a serial number, users can still download Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, with the product expiring after two days. Customers must register online with Adobe or have an existing Adobe.com membership account to access the software.

In related previews of future technologies, Adobe has also released two new web tools as beta releases. Adobe CSS Advisor is a new web-based community site to easily identify and resolve browser compatibility issues. Web designers and developers can contribute their own issues, comment on existing issues, or become an editor to participate in driving the site's future. The site is accessible at: Adobe - CSS Advisor beta. Also introduced is a beta release of Adobe Spry framework for Ajax, a designer-focused solution for adding the interactive power of Ajax when developing rich, dynamic web-sites. Adobe Spry framework for Ajax is available at: Adobe - CSS Advisor beta.

System Requirements

For Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, recommended system requirements are as follows. For Macintosh: Mac OSX 10.4.8 or 10.5, 1 GHz PowerPC(r) G4 or
G5 processor, Intel based Macintosh. For Windows: Intel(r) Xeon(r) , Xeon Dual, Centrino(r) or Pentium(r) 4 processor, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, Microsoft Windows Vista. Both platforms require 512 MB RAM and a 1024x769 resolution screen. Photoshop CS3 beta will expire soon after the launch of Photoshop CS3 in Spring 2007.
Details on final pricing, system requirements and availability have yet to be determined.

[P-E]

Has the announcement about the Beta download been removed from the Adobe website?

Forgot the time difference

Downloading now

[P-E]

Anyone else downloaded?

I've downloaded and got my serial number but only had chance to have a quick look.

I like the look of it.......it loads up quicker and the new curves box is interesting.

[danpen]

Some nice UI changes, changed how the tools dock etc. Seems a bit quicker for a number of actions, on my system when scrolling round a large image it's definitely snappier.

New curves box looks nice, raw converter has many more options, not sure if this is good or bad as I always like the simplicity of the old one and seemed to get pretty good results from it.

[VikingPhotography]

CS3 might break my desire for Lightroom, since the new versions of Bridge and Camera RAW bring a lot of what Lightroom offered to the table.

I certainly like the new UI of CS3 and it overall seems a little quicker off the mark; I've yet to delve into the new features but it seems like I'll definitely be upgrading to CS3 when it comes onstream

My hope is that Lightroom will be a small, efficient app well suited to use on my laptop for editorial/photojournalism & wiring to agencies, whilst CS3 will retain all the power that I need for a desktop app for commercial and social (wedding/portrait) work that is less time sensitive.

(fingers crossed that Adobe will build in direct FTP support into Lightroom)

[j sotelo]

Originally Posted by VikingPhotography

(fingers crossed that Adobe will build in direct FTP support into Lightroom)

Not sure what you meant but lightroom has FTP Server.....

[P-E]

Just noticed whenever I have an image/images open in CS3......click back to my RAW converter........then forward another image to CS3, the images already loaded have their tabs hidden under the main window tab making it impossibe to grab them and move

The top image and the one below were already loaded in to CS3 and now have their tabs hidden



I have to click fit window to bring them down again.

[Steve]

That would seriously annoy me

[j sotelo]

P-E did you try going under

1.- window
2.- reset palette locations

to tell you the truth I dont know why but that worked for me...maybe it fixed its self but thats all i did reset the palettet locations...

[P-E]

I will give that a go next time j sotelo

I did manage to get the pictures down from under the tab by clicking 'fit screen'.