ouch that's expensive! the box art is wicked cool: web, ps ext, ai, and flash are my favourites, totally would love to see those things printed out on giant canvas ... anyone ballsy enough to replicate them as wallpapers?
anyone using PS CS3 beta? has some really nice gui features as im sure they took a lot of cues from macromedia's flash interface a better workflow and worth the upgrade in my eyes.
Heard its a lot more efficient and less of a resource hog but I'm holding off until after beta to give er' a whirl as I hear the beta is also a bit buggy.
sticboy what you're looking at is the prices for the suites not the standalone apps, so it makes sense that they're going to charge a ridiculas chunk of cash for the, but keep in mind you're buying cs3 that you're more than likely going to use it to work, whcih means you'lll end up having it pay for its self in no time. I know I never regretted dropping 500$ on my copy of ps7.
fate0000 while I can't speak for the windows users, the mac version of cs3 is rock solid. even the new gui w/ its alpha trasndoens't slow it down. I found cs2 was stupidly slow becuase of rosetta.
I agree those box artworks are sweet. I love the idea of the colors blending together for the entire "collection" box.
I've been trying out CS3 beta by the way. Crashes often, but since it seems to save faster than the previous versions (encouraging me to hit ctrl+s more), not much of a problem. It's faster overall, I think. I see less of that progress bar window popup now (gradients don't take forever anymore, among other functions).
As for the prices: sure it's ~$1,100 for the "design standard" bundle (4 apps, incl. Photoshop), but if I remember right, Photoshop CS2 costs around $600.
yea tab and matrix are right. and old firm i worked for got nailed, for using a single copy bought through school. my wallet is still hurting from purchasing cs2
Yeh, I use CS3 beta, and it doesn't seem to be any faster (for me), or any better. The only difference I've found (the way I use it) is the menus that stick to the sides, and to each other. I find sticking them to the side is annoying, since it creates grey areas that aren't used and you can't see the piece through, so it's wasted area, so I just stick the ones I need together and detach them from the sides. Uses more RAM than CS2, for me.
for anyone who is using the cs3 beta and is complaining that cs3 is slow, has too many bugs or needs a lot more memory, remember that you're using a beta which means that all of the debuging info is still in the program which eats a massive amount of memory at times. when the final app is released is should be considerably faster and require much less memory that the beta does.
My father got me a free copy of cs3 though work, i was like thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis happy ^^
I got Photoshop CS3, DreamWeaver CS3, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3, & Lightroom & they all work great, but im only using photoshop cs3 alot rite now, still in the learning process
1.352,60 € for CS3 ... is that a lot or not? I'm useing all aplications every day (CS2) ... There must be some improvement since Adobe bought Macromedia ...
