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Adobe Photoshop 8.0 due for winter 2003 release

Posted by Michael Stanclift on 03 January 2003 - 20:39 · 12 comments & 1703 views

Thanks to default1206 and fdiaz2day in BPN for the heads up.

The next major upgrade to Adobe's industry-leading graphics editing software, Photoshop, is set to ship in the fourth quarter of 2003. This year will see the release of Photoshop 8.0, code-named "Dark Matter," and ImageReady 8.0, code-named "Taconite." ImageReady will remain a standalone application.

With this forthcoming release, Adobe is targeting the video and digital photography markets. However, its feature set is still subject to change. The Mac OS X version of the new Photoshop will require v10.2, Jaguar.

Specific updates will include: NTSC/PAL/HD preview choices to compliment the existing CMYK Preview, a Histogram palette, nested layer sets, and text on a path. Photoshop 8 will also include "filter layers," allowing for non-destructive image editing and manipulations, similar to Adobe After Effects' adjustment layers.

News source: ExtremeTech

The upgrade will also have tweaked 16-bit support, improved ability to work with non-square pixels, and significantly optimized and cleaned-up code on both the Mac and Windows side. Sources also noted that Adobe is working to leverage its PDF tools and functionality into just about all of its applications, across-the-board.

Additionally, nearly every other Adobe application is also set for an upgrade in the latter half of this year. This includes Illustrator, After Effects 6, and InDesign 3. In the case of InDesign 3, code-named "Dragontail," the release is specifically targeted for August or September. Dragontail is currently at or near pre-release build number 201.

San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe declined to comment on the report.

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#1 Posted by Solarix on 03 Jan 2003 - 20:42: oh yay i get t wait a year, should wait to tell us the news about this in like september so we dont have to wait so long

#2 Posted by wtmcgee on 03 Jan 2003 - 20:44: that's kind of fast. i expected a .5 update before they went a whole version again....

#3 Posted by MadDog on 03 Jan 2003 - 20:57: Great... guess they've decided to hold off on the plug-in to read RAW image files until they can make you pay for yet another upgrade.

#4 Posted by akuma on 03 Jan 2003 - 21:13: since adobe declines to comment, how can this even be posted as news, where's the source? I would expect a .5 release also before a jump to a .0

#5 Posted by CoCoLUS on 03 Jan 2003 - 21:46: they just want to overtake corel with their version number (7 vs. 11)

(1 reply) #6 Posted by JediXAngel on 04 Jan 2003 - 00:18: Well, Adobe has to realize they have to drop the price A LOT!!! I CAN'T afford it! They probably don't care I have A JOB, so that isn't the issue. The issue is $200 is ridiculous for a software. They could at least pack in A LOT of plug-ins.

#7 Posted by V_F on 04 Jan 2003 - 00:33: ugh thats cheap then JediXAngel in uk amazon and dabs want £528, $600 for full thing, £126 i think for upgrade itself

(2 replies) #8 Posted by Wickedkitten on 04 Jan 2003 - 01:09: good christ, if you cant afford it then use paint shop pro and stop bitching. Photoshop isn't aimed at you anyways and the people that actually need it can obviously buy it or get it through other means.

#9 Posted by Zelpus on 04 Jan 2003 - 07:30: That layer for filters seems like a nice addon but they need to add more vector stuff in ps8 though

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