Further to our recent story claiming the 28th March date set for the Adobe launch presentation would not be the shipping date of the product, we can now confirm that Amazon have listed their estimated release date for the product as 1st July. I can only hope that this date will change after the Adobe CS3 launch event in 2 days, but we can only wait and see.
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Adobe announced their ‘colour wheel’ branding scheme for their CS3 products’ icons in December 2006, with the icons colour coded and each application assigned a two letter representation. As seen below:
Now Amazon have released the Box-shots for the CS3 product range. These can be found here:
MacWorld claim that the 28th March event - widely reported as the launch date for Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 - will now just be an exhibition of the different software’s features, with the fully fledged launch coming ‘late spring’ (whenever that is!).
Stay tuned for more information as we aim to find out the real agenda.
With Adobe claiming that they are preparing ‘the biggest launch in Adobe’s history’ we have to be intrigued what new products will be launched. This sort of early spring time was the estimated release time for Photoshop CS3, but it remains to be seen what other products will be launched on this date… new Illustrator presumably but their is possibilities of After Effects, Premiere Pro etc. I do not know how likely it would be for Adobe to replenish their whole creative suite on one day; we’re not all made of money! But it is interesting none the less.
Adobe claim that there will be a live webcast to showcase the launch,, whether there will be a huge event (hopefully in London!) to celebrate the launch and the video will be footage of that, or they just mean it will be huge in that there will be lots of products launched, I am unsure, I am pretty excited though!
There had been a few rumours of this flying around for over a year now, but now Adobe have finally confirmed: there will be two versions of Photoshop CS3 available at launch:
- Photoshop CS3 Standard
- Photoshop CS3 Extended
They have outlined the demographic groups that they are targeting with these releases as follows:
Standard is designed for:
- Photographers
- Graphic designers
- Web designers
- Print service providers
and Extended will target:
- Film, video, and multimedia professionals
- Graphic and web designers using 3D and motion
- Manufacturing professionals
- Medical professionals
- Architects and engineers (AEC professionals)
- Scientific researchers
The features of Extended sound very interesting. They have followed the lead of Macromedia Flash 8 which has a Standard and Professional edition. Photoshop CS3 Extended will have all the features of Standard, plus 3D and MOTION support! Sounds like we’re looking at an incorporation of After Effects and Premier features into Photoshop in much the same way that Photoshop CS3 integrates features from ImageReady, After Effects already includes some Photoshop-esque features so this would not be a surprise. They have stated the main features will be the ability to paint over frames of footage and to be able to edit and incorperate 3D footage in standard 2D projects.
There will also be some new analysis, measurement and counting tools for standard images. I am not too sure what this could be describing but they will no doubt help the work-flow of designers.
Source: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ps_psext_info.html
