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
