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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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NoMadMan

before posting false statements about what computer, app and kernel version it will work on, you at least have to have that system. Everything work fine on MBP 10.4.8 and also runs on P4 SSE2, 10.4.7, kernel 8.4.1. Thhe patch works well also. Don't know about PPC though.

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Colonel
before posting false statements about what computer, app and kernel version it will work on, you at least have to have that system. Everything work fine on MBP 10.4.8 and also runs on P4 SSE2, 10.4.7, kernel 8.4.1. Thhe patch works well also. Don't know about PPC though.

I was quoting the System Requirements straight from Adobe. I'm not trying to make any false statements.

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NoMadMan
I was quoting the System Requirements straight from Adobe. I'm not trying to make any false statements.

Na, that post wasn't intended towards you. I was referring to #124. I know exactly what you quoted and how you responded to Adobe's prereq.

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Takuro

It's running great for me. This thing is absolutely smokin' fast.

 

I can't believe the Photoshop CS3 Mac crack came way before the CS3 Windows crack.

 

That's irony for you...

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reghost

CS3 IS RETARDED FAST!!!!!!!

 

IT TOOK ME A MINUTE TO UNDERSTAND THE PATCH DIRECTIONS BUT I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT, MAN AND WHEN I DID!!!!! NOT EVEN 4 SECONDS TO START!!!! :) :) :D

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macmaniac

Just reporting that CS3[k'd] works fine on my PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz

 

I do have a CS3 cursor issue on my Hackintosh, must be related to kernel or kext.

 

Sorry about posting the hex edit, Hagar. I won't do it again. :)

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Takuro

Hey, does anybody else have a problem with Adobe Stock Photos? It doesn't do anything when I click on it.

 

I'm assuming that's just the way it is. I know the Adobe Help Center doesn't do anything. It leads to a bunch of help tutorials that haven't even been written yet. Adobe Bridge also interfaces with a lot of CS3 software which (obviously) isn't out yet, causing a few minor problems.

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KanadaKid

Just wanted to post my success, and give some stuff I found/made to you guys.

 

Firstly, I love how crazy fast CS3 opens, but hate how it looks.

 

Here http://www.macthemesforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=16778576 is a much better replacement icon.

 

I also decided to undertake making a better splash screen, to match this icon.

 

post-3435-1166347741_thumb.png

 

post-3435-1166347755_thumb.png

 

To use either of these, open Adobe Photoshop CS3.rsrc (Located in the Resource folder inside of the App) with ThemePark. Search for splash. Click on SplashArtBackground.png, and then drag either of these into the picture window. Choose resize image, save, and close ThemePark.

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kuruu
remove /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3.app/Contents/Resources/AMT/application.sif

 

you will have a surprise :)

 

 

i blindly followed you to find the surprise and was deeply disapointed when there wasn't one.

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maculas
remove /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3.app/Contents/Resources/AMT/application.sif

 

you will have a surprise ;)

 

 

And what's the surprise? I didn't expect Santa Claus to come out, but at least I wanted to see something deferent! :)

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asapreta

I´ve tested here in XP and OSX, and for benchmark I used the same ActionScript that do about 10 tests.

 

In both systems CS3 outperformed CS2. Very good.

 

The script is in the link. The tests are performed on the image attached.

To see how it performs, use the PS timming to see how many seconds are spent on each filter.

 

http://www.revistapcecia.com.br/downloads/...shop_pcecia.zip

 

 

My and friends tests, also CS2 shown: http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p128/as...ta/save-cs3.jpg

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John the Geek
remove /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3.app/Contents/Resources/AMT/application.sif

 

you will have a surprise :)

 

 

I don't know what it does either, but some poking around in it's separate XML file yielded some info:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<Configuration> 

<Other adobeCode="/adobe/bridgetalk/photoshop-10.0-en_us">
<Data key="BundleIdentifier">com.adobe.Photoshop</Data>
<Data key="SupportsESTK">true</Data>
<Data key="BridgeTalkVersion">2</Data>
<Data key="DisplayName">Adobe Photoshop CS3</Data>
<Data key="ExecutableBasename">Adobe Photoshop CS3</Data>
<Data key="Specifier">photoshop-10.0-en_us</Data>
</Other>

<Other adobeCode="License-GUID-Photoshop-CS3-Mac">
<Data key="ExpirationDate">2007/06/01</Data>
<Data key="DENY_BUY_STORE_URL">https://www.adobe.com/go/baphotoshopext</Data>
<Data key="STORE_URL">https://www.adobe.com/go/buy_photoshopext</Data>
<Data key="RegistrationURL">https://www.adobeereg.com/</Data>
<Data key="TrialSerialNumber">911997054054046111015838</Data>
<Data key="EPIC_APP_330">Photoshop CS3 Extended</Data>
<Data key="EPIC_APP_45">Photoshop CS3</Data>
<Data key="EPIC_APP">Photoshop</Data>
</Other>

<Payload adobeCode="{03405957-6289-490D-8C95-BC9EC8C5B4CD}">
<Data key="BridgeTalkCode">/adobe/bridgetalk/photoshop-10.0-en_us</Data>
<Data key="LicensingCode">License-GUID-Photoshop-CS3-Mac</Data>
<Data key="defaultAdobeCode">Photoshop-Installer-AdobeCode</Data>
</Payload>

</Configuration>

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Colonel
remove /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3.app/Contents/Resources/AMT/application.sif

 

you will have a surprise :)

 

This is a crack for the Windows version of CS3. You just need to remove the application.sif folder in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\AMT

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John the Geek
This is a crack for the Windows version of CS3. You just need to remove the application.sif folder in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\AMT

 

It applies to the Mac too... =)

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Takuro

So removing "Application.sif" is basically just an easier way to *cough* avoid certain trial countdowns. *cough*

 

I like the new interface a lot. I've noticed that OpenGL zooming is disabled for some reason in the beta. I heard the performance is even more amazing if it's enabled. Any way to do this?

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