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Software Adobe Creative Suite 3 Hits Store Shelves
Marcus Yam (Blog) - April 17, 2007 12:47 PM
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The latest Creative Suites from Adobe
Fruits of the Adobe-Macromedia merger appear today

Adobe Systems’ long-awaited Creative Suite 3 is hitting streets today, adding the CS3 moniker to popular creative applications – from both Adobe and the former Macromedia – Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Contribute. These new Adobe CS3 applications are available as Universal applications for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs and support both Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Web professionals can import native Photoshop and Illustrator files directly into Flash and Fireworks with full fidelity, which Adobe says is a first for its software. Furthermore, Creative Suite 3 is optimized for Intel-based Macintosh systems, something that was a sticking point for the previous version.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Web Standard are immediately available to customers in the North America. Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium edition is $1799, $1199 for Creative Suite 3 Design Standard edition, $1599 for Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and $999 for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard.

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hot
By yacoub on 4/17/2007 12:51:09 PM , Rating: 2
me want :)




RE: hot
By AnnihilatorX on 4/17/2007 12:54:30 PM , Rating: 2
Where's Student/Education Version


RE: hot
By mdbusa on 4/17/2007 9:15:23 PM , Rating: 2
student /education version? don't know--but you can get the "for poor asians version" for about 5 US$ here in bangkok.- Thats the full version


RE: hot
By tuteja1986 on 4/17/2007 11:45:39 PM , Rating: 2
I really like box art. Very attractive !!


RE: hot
By yacoub on 4/17/2007 12:55:26 PM , Rating: 5
btw, if you're wondering what the differences are between the suite versions, just mouse over the suite names in the black border menu above the hideous court jester on this page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/


RE: hot
By yacoub on 4/17/2007 12:56:47 PM , Rating: 4
They've also added a comparison chart when you click on Compare Editions in the thin black border below the hideous court jester on the same page.

This is better than a week ago when I was first checking out CS3 and the site didn't have a clear way to compare the different versions. :)


RE: hot
By Pessimism on 4/18/2007 9:06:36 AM , Rating: 2
CAN'T SLEEP, CLOWN'L EAT ME!
CAN'T SLEEP, CLOWN'L EAT ME!


64 bit yet?
By smilingcrow on 4/17/2007 3:21:43 PM , Rating: 2
Have they included a 64 bit version for Windows (XP/Vista) this time around? Worthwhile I would imagine.




RE: 64 bit yet?
By lufoxe on 4/17/2007 3:42:10 PM , Rating: 2
it's due out when nvidia readies their 64bit SLI drivers


RE: 64 bit yet?
By kpb on 4/17/2007 3:45:15 PM , Rating: 2
no 64bit versions yet


RE: 64 bit yet?
By bernardl on 4/17/2007 10:17:00 PM , Rating: 2
It is very disapointing, but there is no 64 bits support yet.

They are claiming that the value is limited and blaming it also on the lack of clean 64 bits support on Mac OS10.4.

Regards,
Bernard


RE: 64 bit yet?
By Oregonian2 on 4/18/2007 2:03:21 PM , Rating: 2
So why not just release a 64-bit version on Windows first and follow on the Mac whenever Apple gets 64-bit things to work properly in their OS?


wow
By Moishe on 4/17/2007 2:04:26 PM , Rating: 2
expensive! but I guess if you make a living doing that you might actually be able to make that money back in a couple days of work :)




RE: wow
By creathir on 4/17/2007 4:27:43 PM , Rating: 2
It really is not as much as you think it is. Each of the products on their own fetch $500+, and the core products (Ill., Photoshop, Flash, Premiere) fetch $800+ on their own. This is an INVALUABLE suite of tools that most those of us in the design business could not get along without.

- Creathir


RE: wow
By gus6464 on 4/17/2007 4:59:11 PM , Rating: 2
My wife has been using Photoshop CS3 beta until now and says it is actually a very good improvement over CS2. Plus the fact that it now runs a lot faster on her Macbook Pro and Mac Pro.


RE: wow
By OAKside24 on 4/18/2007 2:59:16 AM , Rating: 2
<insert clever comment about file-sharing> The bloat of Adobe's software is killing me, but having tried many competitors I find Photoshop to have no equal and be worth a few headaches. Hope the same is true for CS3.


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