Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta

[iMeowbot]

Ermm... am I blind or stupid? Where is the download link? I dont even see a mention of CS3 on the Adobe site.

Somehow the download link was released to the wild before the Adobe Labs pages were set up. http://trials.adobe.com/pub/esd/labs/photoshopcs3/adobephotoshop_10_12-14-06.dmg (685 MB)

 

[TheSpaz]

Have you restarted it? Apparently it then says only two day trial. Might be worth not shutting it down and leave it running.

What if you set your clock back every 2 days? What if you deleted the preferences every 2 days? It's gotta get that time from somewhere.

 

[heehee]

My serial number won't work. It's a full version of CS2.

 

[LastZion]

great news. Photoshop in rosetta was starting to get to me.

 

[IrishMac]

I also think it sucks that CS1 people have bee cut out. We didn't go for CS2 here and decided to wait on CS3. My boss is a bit funny on ordering new software as he likes to "evaluate" before buying (I'm the only mac in the dept so having to order "special" software is a huge problem). Darn it I wanted to test PShop CS3 so that I can convience him to order the suite when it launchs.

Downloaded it anyway... 8mb/sec... not too shabby

 

[2ndPath]

What if you set your clock back every 2 days? What if you deleted the preferences every 2 days? It's gotta get that time from somewhere.

Well, I guess Adobe has a more sophisticated system than just storing the date in a preference file. They offer most of their software as a 30 day trial for download. So they certainly make it difficult to circumvent this time limit.

 

[bearbo]

is it just me or does some people have trouble downloading this?

edit i think it's just me

 

[crees!]

Photoshop CS3 Sneak Peek Video Podcast

Wow. Talk about a surprise (well, not really) seeing a link to podcasts from Rich Harrington. He was my "Photoshop" professor in college and then I worked for him at RHED Pixel for about a year. Going to check these out now!

 

[Virtualball]

Can someone confirm this? I doubt it's Cocoa. That would entail a complete rewrite of the App.

I can confirm this, and the installer is different then everyother one, it kinda pretends to be a normal installer...

 

[3282872]

Is it gone already??? Seriously? It's not there....

UPDATE
Never mind, I guess I needed to have an Adobe account in order to "see" it...

 

[CTYankee]

I was able to install all but Photoshop, but now the installer won't even launch.

G4 dual 867 MDD, 10.4.8, 1.75GB RAM...

 

[heehee]

No more beachball, this thing flies on ANYTHING, even opening 150 meg files with 50 layers. I might have to call Adobe to get them to get me a new CS2 serial number, mine don't work.

 

[TheSpaz]

Well, I guess Adobe has a more sophisticated system than just storing the date in a preference file. They offer most of their software as a 30 day trial for download. So they certainly make it difficult to circumvent this time limit.

Then where would the time limit be stored? Would it be possible to uninstall the App and re-install it again to get more time out of it?

 

[Kid Red]

Rants-

PS-
Applying blending options expands the FX on each layer. Annoying as I then need to collapse after blending options. I often work on 30+ layers so to collapse every-time is EXTREMELY annoying. PS 7 did this, PS C2 did not. A step back.

We lose the top tool bar. So on my 23" widescreen monitor I have a foot of empty blank space now and my side to side real estate is wasted. Why can't we have the old options to dock up top?

Still no way to have a smallish animation window. It's icon is twice that of the other icons and is such a space waster. Why can't is collapse like the other tools/windows?

File window has drop shadow, no other window does. It looks weird now because C3 looks like windows on the mac now and the drop shadow here but not there looks amateurish.


Bridge does not automatically open even tho it's selected.

Bridge renders a ton of thumbs blurry. Not sure why.

Other than the screen caps shown on what's new, there isn't much. Seems they touched up Bridge, touched up the UI, added a few new features that I mostly likely never need and coded it binary.

If this is close to final, I may hold off upgrading because I don't use this on an intel mac.

 

[TheSpaz]

Rants-

PS-
Applying blending options expands the FX on each layer. Annoying as I then need to collapse after blending options. I often work on 30+ layers so to collapse every-time is EXTREMELY annoying. PS 7 did this, PS C2 did not. A step back.

We lose the top tool bar. So on my 23" widescreen monitor I have a foot of empty blank space now and my side to side real estate is wasted. Why can't we have the old options to dock up top?

Still no way to have a smallish animation window. It's icon is twice that of the other icons and is such a space waster. Why can't is collapse like the other tools/windows?

File window has drop shadow, no other window does. It looks weird now because C3 looks like windows on the mac now and the drop shadow here but not there looks amateurish.


Bridge does not automatically open even tho it's selected.

Bridge renders a ton of thumbs blurry. Not sure why.

Other than the screen caps shown on what's new, there isn't much. Seems they touched up Bridge, touched up the UI, added a few new features that I mostly likely never need and coded it binary.

If this is close to final, I may hold off upgrading because I don't use this on an intel mac.

It's a beta.... and I think they had to re-code the whole thing to make it Universal Binary and now it's a Cocoa App which means no more old crappy classic code in it.... so there's gonna be some things they missed.

 

[Kid Red]

No image ready. Not sure if that is getting axed.

Bridge looks more and more like a hacked skin. Rough jagged edges. Dark greys with Aqua folders, scroll bars just don't look right. MAybe it's to go with 10.5's dark theme UI?

 

[AppliedVisual]

Then where would the time limit be stored? Would it be possible to uninstall the App and re-install it again to get more time out of it?

I'm sure it's possible somehow, just need to find where PS stores the appropriate info. On Windows, a new 30 day trial can be started by uninstalling and completely removing PS and then you have to dig through the system registry <shudder> and remove about 6 entries -- 2 or 3 of which often appear to be randomly placed and arbitrarily named. Then you can reinstall. It's a real PITA. ...Now, don't know if they have updated changed this with CS2 or CS3. And have never tried it on OSX...

 

[freeny]

Somehow the download link was released to the wild before the Adobe Labs pages were set up. http://trials.adobe.com/pub/esd/labs/photoshopcs3/adobephotoshop_10_12-14-06.dmg (685 MB)

still cant find it...

 

[jimN]

Rants-

Well don't tell us, email adobe. This is a beta after all so I'm sure that feedback is expected and welcomed.

People are quick to complain to others but seem less than keen to address the problem themselves. Especially when the problem happens to occur in free BETA software.

 

[iMeowbot]

still cant find it...

Okay, maybe you need to log in then.

 

[skiphunt]

did we just get suckered?

I didn't see CS3 on the Adobe site, but one of the other alternate links HERE in this thread worked. I had to enter my CS2 serial to download, etc. It installed on my MacBookPro Core 2... but not everything works... says it didn't install some files or when I try to lauch links it says they aren't there. Some of the functionality is there though.

It won't install on my G5 DP 2Ghz machine. Says I have to quite "TWAINBridge" first.. but I don't have anything running called that.

So, I went to the Adobe Lab to try and re-download the installer.. and it's still not there. I'm logged in to.

Then I go to dpreview.com and someone says the legit installer isn't even available for DL yet and that some are passing off "malware" installers. Did I just get suckered into giving out my SN to some jacka$$ pawning off a fake version of the CS3? If so, how do I clean this crap off my machine until the "real" version is available?

 

[heehee]

Then I go to dpreview.com and someone says the legit installer isn't even available for DL yet and that some are passing off "malware" installers. Did I just get suckered into giving out my SN to some jacka$$ pawning off a fake version of the CS3? If so, how do I clean this crap off my machine until the "real" version is available?

I'm pretty sure it's the real download since it's straight from Adobe.com. They just dont have a link from the homepage or any other page yet.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_photoshop

 

[Kid Red]

It's a beta.... and I think they had to re-code the whole thing to make it Universal Binary and now it's a Cocoa App which means no more old crappy classic code in it.... so there's gonna be some things they missed.

Well don't tell us, email adobe. This is a beta after all so I'm sure that feedback is expected and welcomed.

People are quick to complain to others but seem less than keen to address the problem themselves. Especially when the problem happens to occur in free BETA software.

What's their email? I have no issue sending them feedback and have before (was an Apple seeder as well, so I guess I 'complain' very well)

I'm quick to 'complain' as you see my critiquing of issues that affect me negatively and I've 'complained' to Adobe's web forums since v7 and my threads always seem to fade into oblivion rather quietly so I stopped.

 

[Kid Red]

Be careful, installing bridge will open all images in C3, even if you open Bridge C2, it will open images in C3. I guess I'll have to drag my images to C2 or uninstall PS C3. Seems to be defaulting to opening everything in C3. Retared.

 

[alexeismertin]

Downloaded & installed on my 12" ibook without any problems, launches fine & I love the new layout. I tried out the quick select & exposure - love it. Can't wait for the final release so I can get a MB/MBP.