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Photoshop CS3 Beta

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:20 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Anyone else downloaded and tried this? I'm amazed how much faster than CS2 (and even Elements 4.0) it runs on the Mac purely because it's not using Rosetta. Until now I was still using GIMP over X11 because opening Photoshop in Rosetta was griding everything else to a halt on the Mac Mini.

Installed the windows version earlier for the graphic-artist in our house and that seems to run loads faster than CS2 as well, although I've not done any scientific comparisons. I'll definitely be purchasing this when they release it :D (I wonder if my boss will buy it for me for "work puposes"?)

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:18 pm
by Ollie Saunders
A friend showed me a UTube video of the photo montaging (is that right?) capabilities of CS3 amongst other things. I have to say it did look very impressive. And OMG they actually improved the interface! From the name "CS3" I was kinda expecting another release where the splash screen changes but not much else.

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:21 am
by JayBird
Yeah, CS3 on the Mac is loads better now it is written for the Intel machines.

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:06 am
by seodevhead
Check out the PS CS3 videos at NAPP ( http://www.photoshopuser.com ). They pretty much cover all the newest goodies of the edition. I really like that you can open JPG's in camera RAW now... that is simply awesome. While PS CS3 doesn't blow my socks off... I can't wait to see what Adobe has in store for Illustrator CS3. There are some serious things still wrong with the current version.

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:12 am
by Ollie Saunders
Like when you do a load of work and the whole thing craps up and ole has to come to the rescue with his older version :D

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:08 am
by seodevhead
ole wrote:Like when you do a load of work and the whole thing craps up and ole has to come to the rescue with his older version :D
Hahaha... exactly. :wink:

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:46 am
by kaszu
I love its new layout (should i say "tabs"?), at last i don't have a mess on my screen. And load time was about 50% faster than CS.
My trial period is about to end and can't wait until it will be released.
Does anyone know what will be the price for PS CS3?

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:53 am
by pickle
*grumble* *grumble*.
Stupid Adobe requiring SP2...
Stupid work not having stupid SP2 on stupid machines...

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:14 am
by GeertDD
This thing is fast. I installed it on my mac. Absolutely great. A huge leap forward.

Aside from the speed advantage, I absolutely love two things: firstly the unified user interface and secondly smart filters.

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:01 am
by Grim...
Is there any way I can get the beta if I don't have CS2 (which I don't)?

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:33 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Grim... wrote:Is there any way I can get the beta if I don't have CS2 (which I don't)?
Yes, extremely easily, but illegally - so not discussed here.

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:15 am
by DeathsMessenger
-EDIT- :p i already got my warning.

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:29 am
by Grim...
DeathsMessenger wrote:-edited as above
No, seriously - we don't discuss that sort of thing here.

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:36 am
by DeathsMessenger
ok i'll try not to get my self banned by doing that again. >.<