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03/08/2007, 1:35am, EST

Thursday, March 8th

Adobe debuts Photoshop CS3 Extended

Adobe today announced that it will expand its digital imaging product line, offering two editions of Adobe Photoshop CS3. In addition to Photoshop CS3 software for designers and professional photographers, Adobe will also offer Photoshop CS3 Extended, a new edition of Photoshop which adds a new set of capabilities for integration of 3-D and motion graphics, image measurement and analysis. Photoshop CS3 Extended also simplifies the workflow for professionals in architecture, engineering, medical and science. Both Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended software, which will be the first versions of the software to run natively on Intel-based Macs, will be formally introduced on March 27, 2007 at Adobe's launch of Creative Suite 3 (CS3); the company promised to disclose further details at the event. Confirming earlier reports, the company clarified that Photoshop CS3 is expected to ship in Spring 2007, countering previous reports that indicated it would be available at the end of March. A public beta is available now.

"We never imagined that Photoshop would someday help make major motion pictures, let alone save lives," said John Loiacono, senior vice president of the Creative Solutions Business Unit 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."

Photoshop CS3 Extended is designed for film, video and multimedia professionals, and graphic and web designers, allowing them to leverage the Photoshop image-editing toolset and paint engine when editing 3D and motion-based content It can perform 3-D model visualization and texture editing, paint and clone over multiple video frames. In addition, animatiors can now render and incorporate rich 3-D content into their 2-D compositions. Graphic and web designers can create an animation from a series of images - such as time series data - and export it to a wide variety of formats, including QuickTime, MPEG-4 and Adobe Flash Video.

The new Extended edition also enables users to extract valuable quantitative and qualitative data from images. In addition to measurement and analysis tools, architects, medical professionals and scientists will enjoy increased support for specialized image formats so they can easily view, annotate, and edit images in their native format. Radiologists can closely monitor a patient's progress over time, scientific researchers can create animations from medical images for presentation purposes, and architects can make accurate measurements of objects in their 3-D images.

Last month, the company began shipping Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow software for professional photographers and earlier this month promised to deliver an online version of its Photoshop image editing application within six months.


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Great!
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03/08, 9:27am, EST
A $1000 version of Photoshop, bittorent here I come.
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tins...
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03/08, 9:33am, EST
You proudly proclaim yourself to be a petty thief. How pathetic.
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when an upgrade isn't
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03/08, 9:41am, EST
This is a pretty miserable move on the part of Adobe, a full upgrade and a less-than upgrade, a slap in the face to long-term licensed users and upgraders that makes the upgrade path steeper and more complicated (like the way the non-upgrade path from Creative Suite 2 standard to Creative Suite 2.3 Premium is the same as if you only had Photoshop 8.0), c'mon Adobe!!!
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...How about
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03/08, 9:47am, EST
GIMP? It's Photoshop's equal. Just ask any free-software geek out there.
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Upgrades...
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03/08, 9:53am, EST
... straight from the Adobe Store:

Upgrade from CS2 2.0 to 2.3 = $159.00

Upgrade from Photoshop to CS2 2.3 = $749.00

How is $159.00 the same as $749.00?
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subpop!
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03/08, 11:54am, EST
You're so right!

A product (Gimp) that has no support for CMYK, no support for RAW, doesn't allow the user to choose which RGB color space to edit in, and doesn't have a clue about color management is certainly Photoshop's equal!

I'm sure with another 5 minutes with Gimp I could find even more missing features with Gimp that demonstrate how it's an equal to Photoshop!

Equal? Puhleeze,,,,
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Photoshop and AE
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03/08, 12:17pm, EST
It seems like they have streamlined both Photoshop and AE's interface for ease of use. I welcome the 3D and motion graphics and this is the next step in interoperability between the two applications. I'm glad I don't have to take my pictures out of the application to make an animation. Question: Does anyone know if they are including Illustrators features too?
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The GIMP
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03/08, 1:03pm, EST
Sigh, it's an easy test: Anyone who claims GIMP is the equal of Photoshop merely, and unintentionally, proves that they are not sufficiently familiar with the feature set of last two versions (at least) of Photoshop.
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Equal...
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03/08, 2:50pm, EST
Maybe for those who think Photoshop Elements is the same as Photoshop, then yes, I can see how they could think Gimp is equal to Photoshop.
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...Elements?
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03/08, 3:29pm, EST
Actually, I wouldn't even give GIMP the credit that it's close to Photoshop Elements. Even Paint Shop Pro is seriously trumped by Elements (I think Graphic Converter is about as close as you can get to that one for free).

(by the way, for those who really couldn't see the sarcasm in my post - I was just beating the communists in the "free" software boat to the punch)
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