Public beta of Photoshop CS3

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In a first-ever event, Adobe is releasing a public beta of an upcoming version of Photoshop. A beta of Photoshop CS3 beta will be posted on the Adobe Labs web site on Friday, Dec. 15. The beta is available as a Universal Binary, so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. The final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 is planned for spring 2007.

The Photoshop CS3 beta is quite different from the Photoshop Lightroom beta, according to John Nack, Senior Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop. Adobe's effort here is to provide customers with a smooth transition to the new Mac and Windows platforms and not to significantly alter the feature set through open community feedback. While feedback is encouraged and useful to the team, the ability to make significant changes to the shipping version of Photoshop CS3 will be limited, he says.

"Adobe has never taken a major product and made it available in this way," Nack says. "It's a water shed event, but we want to show dedication to the Mac platform. Adobe has a long-standing commitment to the Mac community and this release is Adobe's way of delivering native performance to our Mac customers many months earlier than we otherwise could have done," Nack says. "Over the years, Photoshop has consistently done right by Mac customers, offering a free PowerPC? update for Photoshop 2.5 and a free G5 update for PS 7, even though new versions were right around the corner. Making the Photoshop CS3 Beta available to all of our Mac-based Photoshop CS2 users is a further proof of our commitment to the platform.Since a large portion of our customer base is on Windows, Adobe is simultaneously releasing a Windows version of the Photoshop CS3 beta to Windows XP and Vista users.>">

The Photoshop CS3 beta is available in English only but to Photoshop CS2 users worldwide. It's available to licensed users of either the Photoshop CS2 (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Creative Suite 2.x Standard or Premium (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Production Studio Standard and Premium (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Video Bundle (full, upgrade, and education) or Adobe Web Bundle (full, upgrade, and education). You'll need to provide your Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite, Production Studio or Bundle serial number in order to get a Photoshop CS3 beta serial number, enabling you to activate the Photoshop beta and use it beyond the two-day grace period

The minimum Mac system requirements are: a PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel-based Mac; Mac OS X 10.4.8; 320MB of RAM (512MB is recommended); 512 minimum of RAM if you are running Adobe Bridge as well; 64MB of video RAM; 1.5GB of available hard-disk space; an 1024?768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card; DVD-ROM drive; Internet or phone connection for product activation; and QuickTime 7 software for multimedia features.i>

The beta includes such new features as Non-destructive Smart Filters, a Quick Selection tool, Refine Edge, Automatic layer alignment and blending, Vanishing Point with multiple, adjustable angle perspective planes and Black and White conversion. Since it's a beta, Adobe won't be providing any technical support for the Photoshop CS3 beta. If you would like to exchange ideas with other customers using the beta, go to the Adobe Labs page for links, including the Photoshop CS3 beta forum, and John Nack's blog. If you have a question or want more information about mobile authoring in Photoshop software, visit Bill Perry's blog. Perry is manager of Adobe's developer relations for mobile and devices. If you have questions about Adobe Bridge, go to the Bridge team's blog. If you find a bug in the Photoshop CS3 beta, please file a bug report via the form on Adobe Labs.

Adobe doesn't plan any additional beta releases for Photoshop CS3 before the finished product is announced and ships. The CS3 beta will expire soon after the launch of Photoshop CS3 in spring 2007. Sorry, but there are no discount planned for Photoshop CS3 Beta users.

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Not for Windows? Who cares then :s?

Errm. The Mac community.

x2.

Obviously didn't read the article did you guys. :rolleyes:

Since a large portion of our customer base is on Windows, Adobe is simultaneously releasing a Windows version of the Photoshop CS3 beta to Windows XP and Vista users
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Ahh my bad...gonna say - they can't exactly not beta this to Windows Vista people. Cool :)

Sure they can, if they really wanted to. :p But they're giving ya'll a little treat.

I can't wait, and it's awesome that it won't expire until after CS3 is released! I get my full-speed Photoshop back. :D I can't wait to see how fast this is on my MacBook Pro. Also, non-destructive filters and adjustments! Looks like they're implementing something similar to Core Image. :happy:

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Uhggg... Photoshop CS3!!?!?!?! I'm still trying to figure out all the features of Photoshop 5.5!

We have a computer with CS2 suite licensed that I use occasionally. But other then that, I'm all for Paint.NET for my imaging needs. Guess that means I'm no graphic designer.

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You'll need to provide your Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite, Production Studio or Bundle serial number in order to get a Photoshop CS3 beta serial number, enabling you to activate the Photoshop beta and use it beyond the two-day grace period.

If you arent using CS2 then it's a no go for U

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If you arent using CS2 then it's a no go for U

hmm... I wonder about those people with less than legit serials :huh:

I hope to god Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro is no indicator of Adobe's current product stability because Acrobat 8 sucks monkey b***s...it's crashed on me easily 10 different times today. :angry:

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