RSSAdobe Unveils Creative Suite 3
By Ed Oswald | Published March 27, 2007, 11:48 AM
Calling it the largest software release in the company's 25-year history, Adobe on Tuesday took the wraps off Creative Suite 3, an impressive catalog of 13 standalone applications available in six different configurations.
Adobe's latest release answers the call of many of its users who use the Mac OS X platform by making CS3 a Universal Binary - meaning it is compatible with Apple computers utilizing an Intel processor. In addition, the suite will take advantage of Windows Vista as well.
Five configurations will be available for a variety of uses, including Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Design Standard editions; Web Premium and Web Standard editions; and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium.
A sixth configuration called Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection would include 12 of the applications in a single package, spanning Adobe's offerings across print, Web, interactive, mobile, video and film.
None of these packages will come cheap: Adobe CS3 Web Premium will set a user back $1,599 USD while Production Premium will retail for $1,699 USD. Higher yet is Design Premium at $1,799 USD, while the Master Collection carries a $2,499 USD price tag - more than twice the cost of today's typical PC.
"This release reflects the powerful integration between Adobe and Macromedia and how our products bridge the gap between designers and developers," Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said.
In addition to the standard packages, Adobe will also make the individual applications available for purchase, it said.
CS3 Design Premium and Standard as well as Web Premium and Standard will begin shipping next month, with the rest shipping in the third quarter of this year.
"Calling it the largest software release in the company's 25-year history ...."
Yeah, well Adobe are no strangers to bloat, so that's probably true quite literally.
I sometimes get the feeling that perhaps they're on a mission to break some world record for the slowest loading application ever.
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|Design Suite Premium - $1, 800
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And I can tell you for a fact there is no 'u' in Colour in the accompanying documentation, so what exactly are we Brits paying this tremendous markup for?
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|Because we get screwed by everyone over here.
Just take a trip to New York, buy it over there, and you've still saved yourself money.
May as well get an iPod while you're there.
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|Hooray! They're keeping Fireworks alive, and introducing proper scaling.
And Dreamweaver sounds like a reasonable improvement.
All the other non-Macromedia stuff is far too expensive.
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|God bless teh s.
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|Why hasn't anyone banned this guy for trying to spread viruses?
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|THE most pirated software on the planet! Congratulations Adobe.
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|I thought Windows was the most pirated software...
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|Windows is an OS :)
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|an OS is software ...
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|I've always been a fan of ULEAD http://www.ulead.com and their Photo Impact product, always under $100 USD and does everything that Adobe PhotoShop does.
http://www.coffeecup.com their software is great, you get your bang for the buck and it's far less expensive than Adobe.
Adobe is okay, nothing special but with a loaded bank account.
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|For 99% of us, the cheaper adobe alternatives are all we need for our purposes. That is true, but not knowing the 6 zillion features and usability options that Photoshop has doesn't mean they don't exist. Ulead, Paint Shop and Gimp are miles behind for the corporate graphic design crowd. Not even close.
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|Now thats how you do business :D
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|http://www.adobe.com/pro.../features/?promoid=RWWM
Has anyone even looked over the features yet? Very nice stuff.
I love how they integrated everything together and not to mention the UI intuitiveness. They really hit the mobile device stuff even though I do not produce for such. Some of the new features they've added in just about all of their apps are really cool.
I think it will be a pretty major release. Not the largest but damn good enough.
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|This isn't much of a release is it? I thought release meant the software became available. This stuff won't be available for several more weeks at the earliest.
There's nothing much new here that we don't already know.
So much for Adobe "Calling it the largest software release in the company's 25-year history." A non-event really.
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|This was an "unveiling" - the release will be significant.
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|Holy crap that Master Collection sounds so nice...
Also I wonder if Adobe software is inflated anyway by piracy setbacks - I mean Photoshop is the pinnacle "example" of software that everyone from Little Sally and Aunt Aida has probably "tried". It's big with students anyway.
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|it is, they have been feeling the sting of piracy bad so they have to mark up their products so they don't lose too much money, its really sad, thats why I don't like piracy too much. products which people spend alot of money to create, shouldn't be exploited for free.
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|Hey!, don't you dare dis our beloved Aunt Aida ... She probably thought that keygen.exe was just another funny name for solitaire ....
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|"None of these packages will come cheap"
That's a "Congrats Capt. Obvious" comment if there ever was one! I expected no less than overly high prices.
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