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Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta

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After countless months of waiting, Adobe has finally announced that it will be releasing a Beta of the new Photoshop CS3 on Friday, December 15th. As expected, the release is a universal application, meaning that it will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Adobe stated that this is an exciting time for the Mac and that Adobe wanted to help smooth out the transition to Intel-based Macs with a preview release of Photoshop CS3. Adobe gives us more info about the new Photoshop Beta.

Packed with new features, Photoshop CS3 beta also includes a pre-release version of a major upgrade to Adobe Bridge, as well as a preview release of the all-new Adobe Device Central. Photoshop customers can use Adobe Device Central to design, preview, and test compelling mobile content, created specifically for smaller screens. This new tool, integrated in the Photoshop CS3 beta, simplifies and accelerates the creation of mobile content through a preview environment and built-in device profiles.

 

To utilize Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, customers require a serial number from either Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Creative Suite® 2, Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio, Adobe Design Bundle, Adobe Web Bundle or Adobe Video Bundle. Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta is available in English only. Customers who have a valid serial number for all other language versions of qualifying Adobe products can download the software. Without a serial number, users can still download Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, with the product expiring after two days. Customers must register online with Adobe or have an existing Adobe.com membership account to access the software.

The System Requirements for Mac are OS X 10.4.8 or 10.5, a 1GHz G4 or G5, or an Intel-based Mac with 512 MB of RAM or more. Adobe will also be releasing a version for Windows XP.

 

Update: The Photoshop CS3 beta has been released. You can download it here.

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Infamous

A licensed copy of Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite 2, Production Studio, Adobe Web Bundle, or Adobe Video Bundle is required to use this technology beyond a two-day trial period.

 

Means anybody can use for 2 days without owning any Adobe product...

 

BTW I'm all excited about this. I'm hoping for OpenGL zooming in final. Started 800KB/s, now getting 300KB/s, it's slower every minute. Will be a mess in a few hours in the morning.

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John the Geek
A licensed copy of Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite 2, Production Studio, Adobe Web Bundle, or Adobe Video Bundle is required to use this technology beyond a two-day trial period.

 

Means anybody can use for 2 days without owning any Adobe product...

 

Even a valid SN isn't enough, it requires activation after that. So Pirated SNs will eventually stop activating and those people will get stuck with a 2-day demo.

 

On the plus side, letting people use it for two days is a great way to get people to try it out.

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John the Geek

Photoshop is:

 

A) Adobe's flagship product.

 

B) The most requested UB from Adobe/Macromedia.

 

C) The reason many people aren't buying CS2.

 

So, I kinda expected this to be the first. It instills a lot of faith in Adobe from an audience that has really been in doubt and I think that's the only purpose it serves. I hope we'll see more betas of other products too... but I wouldn't hold your breath. This just achieved their main objective without letting ALL of the new secrets/features out. Who knows. they aren't Apple, so they just might post them all as betas.

 

I think this build is phenomenal so far, but time will tell. The tacky icon is an eyesore, but the new tweaks and the speed boost make it worth it.

 

=)

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John the Geek
photoshop_cs3_error.png

 

oh {censored}... not even possible to launch :)

 

 

Well looks like it does not work on Hackintosh...

 

 

I installed it and cant get it to work !!!!!!!

 

Give an error and quits !!!!!!!!!!

 

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I see a trend. What does the error report say?

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kuruu
This is the crash reports say:

 

Crash.rtf ( 30.78k ) Number of downloads: 2

 

 

there's a few interesting things in there... trusted, secure stuff. activation... is adobe trying to stop the hackintoshes?

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ceynox

Well, i started with a Goatsce 10.4.6 iso and then upgraded with the JaS 10.4.8 Reseed...

I updated to the Semthex Beta8 and it's just working flawless... :tomato:

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kuruu

ok, finally installed and all works except stupid ppc plugins. grrr!

 

see my sig for system specs. I'm using a manual install with semthex beta8 and SMBIOS

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suleiman

those of you that have it working, are you using licensed copies of CS2 or pirated copies? I don't work for apple I'm just curious about the security checks in place.

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