RSSAdobe to Debut Photoshop 'Extended'
By Nate Mook | Published March 8, 2007, 1:08 PM
Although it won't officially announce Creative Suite 3 until March 27, Adobe said Thursday that it will deliver not one, but two editions of Photoshop CS3, the company's tool for professional graphic and Web designers.
The standard Photoshop CS3, which has been available in beta for Macintosh users since December, will be joined by Photoshop CS3 Extended. The new edition brings integration of 3-D and motion graphics, image measurement and analysis. It also adds new workflow capabilities designed for professionals in architecture, engineering, medical and science.
Using Photoshop Extended, film experts can build 3-D models and edit textures within video frames, while animators can embed 3-D objects into 2-D compositions. Web designers will be able to create animations from static images that can be exported into both QuickTime, MPEG-4 and Flash Video.
But the new product will go beyond just design. Users will be able to extract quantitative and qualitative data from images using Photoshop CS3 Extended. This functionality has been specifically targeted at the medical and science industries, which can use Photoshop to monitor patients and create animations of medical images.
"We never imagined that Photoshop would someday help make major motion pictures, let alone save lives," said John Loiacono, senior vice president at Adobe. "Whether it's a video producer texture editing the backdrop of a movie or a researcher counting hundreds of cancer cells, diverse industries are already relying on the professional standard in digital imaging."
Adobe will detail pricing and packaging details of Creative Suite 3 on March 27, and says it will ship the final product this spring. Both Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended will be available for Windows and as a Universal Binary for Mac OS X.
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|I like the ideal, where is the white paper on this.
The way of "Open Source" and letting people have a say.
http://www.apple-tv-converter.net/news
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|"The standard Photoshop CS3, which has been available in beta for Macintosh users since December"
The beta is available for Windows too, btw.
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|How about releasing a "Home" version? I'd love to be able to use Photoshop at home, but @ $600+ a wack, it's just not going to go in the budget.
I don't know what they could strip down, but there has to be something. PaintShop is nice, but now that Corel owns it, it's become a beast. I bet the people that own Corel are the same folks that own Computer Associates. Used to be that anytime CA bought anything, it was the death knell for that product.
Oh well, guess I just have to stick with my PSP 9. :)
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|Doh, what's Photoshop Elements then (now on version 5) if not a "Home" version?
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|That shows about how well their marketing has worked...
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|who needs PS elements when there is googles picasa2 for free? i love this software! and even that it is free it is still loads better/userfriendly/intuitive then PSelements, LOL!
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|You guys should also check out Paint .NET as a good Photoshop substitute:
http://fileforum.betanew...l/PaintNET/1096481993/1
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|Agreed. Paint.NET is AMAZING, but I wouldn't really call it a Photoshop substitute. It's only a substitute if you don't use 90% of Photoshop's features anyway, which most "home" users probably wouldn't.
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|I love paint .net its free and AWESOME.
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|I won't call Paint.NET a Photoshop substitute. It only has like 1% of Photoshop's features.
But, Paint.NET is an awesome program in its own right. It also demonstrates that .NET applications can be almost indistinguishable from C++ applications.
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|Is that a joke?
Picasa is completely different to PS Elements, it's a photo album with retouching features added, not a full graphics prog. (Not questioning it being good in it's own right).
Paint.Net or GIMP are free alternatives to PSE.
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|That's what I'm really looking for, I've poked around with Paint.NET, but never really gave it a chance. I'll have to do so now. I'm not a graphic artist (not even by a HUGE leap of the imagination - I've always said I can't draw a straight line with a ruler), but sometimes I like to goof around and pretend. :)
And sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do the work yourself, so I need something that can make me look like Picaso when I'm more like Picard (bald head included ).
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|nop, it is not joke.
i have PSE3 that came free with my scanner so i think i know what i'm talking about
PSE is nothing more then photo organizer with some retouching and simple editing features. althouhg it has more capabilities then picasa, i will give you that.
just to be on the safe side i read the feature list of PSE5 and while it sounds better conciderable portion of these feature i useless. plus it is all wrapped in IMO extremely poor and not easy to use GUI.
i'm not trying to bash adobe and if you like PSE by all means feel free to use it. but for me the screwed up interface and the xtra features are not worth the 100$ when i can have lean and mean picasa.
although the 100$ disadvantage can be easyly removed by accuring the software from alternative sources.
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|hehe. not quite.
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