Photoshop CS3 Download
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just for Mac? what are the differences between CS 2 and 3?
I'm on this! You think it'll stop working after a certain period of time? I'm still using Photoshop Elements 2.0. Probably bought that 5 years ago... 
You need to have a valid CS2 license in order to use it.
CS3 is great, I have been using it since the beginning of Dec or so. The beta has a few issues (cursors not rendering properly) , but the layout options, bridge and a few other things in cs3 make it worth the download. Being a universal app makes it worth the price of admission for intel mac users all by itself.
Bollocks.
does it have to be CS2? I have a CS1 license...
I think the biggest improvement is it's written for the Intel Macs. I run CS2 on mine, but I'm hoping for a speed increase.
Yeah, Adobe says it's only for CS2 users.
side note: funny thing is, essentially, newer photoshops are all about efficiency increases.
I could pretty much do everything with early versions of Photoshop that the newer versions can do... just not as fast.
Is there a feature that y'all found that simply couldn't be done years ago?
I could pretty much do everything with early versions of Photoshop that the newer versions can do... just not as fast.
Is there a feature that y'all found that simply couldn't be done years ago?
CS3 ads plenty of new features that will be of interest to photographers (maybe not so much graphic designers).
Raw handling (many new adjustments), asset management (through an actually useful bridge) and a few new tools once actually in photoshop proper make it a huge step forward for guys who use it and work extensively with RAW.
The new layout options for pallettes and the toolbar, while not revolutionary, is something a lot of people in both fields have been asking for for sometime.
May 4th, 2007 unless someone finds a hack, but that would be illegal and wrong.
Hey that's cool to hear. I'll have to check it out this evening.
It's a beta with issues, it isn't worth the trouble.
Photoshop is the only beta software I will get excited about, but download cancelled.
Thanks Fraser!
grrrr...
since you already use Capture One for RAW and iView for management, does CS 3 offer any improvements to where it's better?
Well photoshop offers MANY more adjustments when it comes to RAW stuff, but only on an individual basis. I use it when I am doing studio stuff and working on an image at a time and have to correct for lens distortion and the like. It is much more powerful in this area, and CS3 offers even more adjustments, as well as more precise adjustments that were already there. I will enjoy using it to adjust studio work and one off stuff when it is out for real. Anything that has to be really precise gets the photoshop treatment. Same goes for anything with a distinct problem, barrel distortion, color caste fringing etc.
Right now having badly rendered cursors make it near unuseable for production work. Ie: a brush of 30px still renders half the time as a 1 px brush...so you have no idea how much of an area you are effecting.
Bridge is actually useful now, and has a MUCH cleaner interface than before. It also works at a speed that is quite a bit snappier than it's prior glacial timetable.
To be honest, I grabbed it for the Universal binary update (which is why they released it for mac so quickly btw - there is no CS2 binary update and peopele were starting to get peeved as it wasn't too quick under rosetta).