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Adobe ships Adobe Creative Suite

updated 10:00 am EST, Mon October 27, 2003


Adobe today began shipping , which combines new full-version upgrades of the company's creative professional software: Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, and Adobe GoLive CS. It also incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and introduces the innovative Version Cue file version manager. Adobe said it would announce shipment of new full-version upgrades of its individual creative applications later this week (although at least one MacNN reader has received shipment notification of his Photoshop CS upgrade.) Upgrades to Adobe Creative Suite start at $550.

Photoshop CS, the successor to the highly popular Photoshop 7, will soon be available along with Illustrator CS, InDesign CS and GoLive CS. Adobe said it is now using "CS" to identify these new versions, in order to "better reflect the deep level of integration between its creative tools.



Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition integrates Adobe applications such as Photoshop CS with Adobe ImageReady CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS and GoLive CS--all brought together with Version Cue--and bundled with Acrobat 6.0 Professional.



Adobe Creative Suite is anchored by Version Cue, an innovative file management system that allows designers to increase productivity and meet tight deadlines. Whether designers, working alone or in teams, are looking for the most recent iteration of a file or for an older version, Version Cue enables users to visually scan image thumbnails in Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, and GoLive CS, or search metadata across version comments, keywords, author, date, and more.



A Standard Edition of Adobe Creative Suite also is available; it combines these same components, except for GoLive CS and Acrobat 6.0 Professional, to provide an advanced solution for print design and layout. Upgrades to the Premium Edition for Photoshop users are $750 (and $550 to the Standard Edition). Full versios are $1230 (Premium) and $1000 (Standard).


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    Ahead of schedule.

    I thought this wasn't going until end of November. But nonetheless, I don't have money for it now, and I won't have money for it then.

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    PS

    Normally I see several reasons to upgrade to the latest version of Photoshop. I can't say that I see any this time. Maybe the file browser if I had to choose one. I think that this may be the first PS upgrade that I skip.

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    I'll Pass Too

    Upgrade to CS? No Thanks...

    I'll give the package designers an "F" as well.

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    upgrade is good supposedl

    A new media guru who knows his stuff sent a review of this to the MacOSX-Talk mail list and said that there was a bunch of good stuff in it and it was really a good upgrade. He said PS7 was just a sidegrade to OS X, but this has lots of good new stuff. So make a detailed and in depth eval if you are in the media business, and don't listen to the pundit websites who are panning this. My acquaintance said that these guys are missing a lot of things and are basing their reviews on pre release versions that were not complete or fully functional.

    And no, I don't work for adobe and or anything.

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    Alright!!

    A new version of my favorite graphics software packages to pirate!

    Thanks Adobe!

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    could be

    worth it... photoshop does have a few things going for it that make it worth it for me... full 16 bit image support, RAW support (for formats that i don't think wored with the stand alone plug-in - like Leaf Mosaic files), NESTED LAYER SETS, (nested layer sets!)- those 2 things right there do it for me.. although maybe it should have been a .5 upgrade (like they did from 5.0 to 5.5). and MAYBE the customizeable keyboard shortcuts... i'll have to see about that one when I get my copy...

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    tisk, tisk, adobe...

    making your apps phone home... now you KNOW i'm just going to use netbarrier to block the IP...

    "the tighter your grip, the more starsystems will just slip through your fingers..."

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    re: upgrade is good suppo

    Do you have any links to any websites with a good summary of features and maybe a review of the final release? The nested layer sets and raw support are definitely pluses as well, but I'm still not completely convinced. I really haven't spent much time researching this upgrade. Normally I take a look at Adobe's site, I find a couple features that make me go "hmm... useful" and order it.

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    Netbararrier to block IP

    Netbararrier to block IP, how does that work? Can I tell my NAT router to do it for the whole office?

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    64 bit laptop first

    http://theregister.co.uk/content/54/33609.html

    Packard Bell is set to become the first major notebook vendor to offer a portable PC based on AMD's Athlon 64 chip.

    According the company's German web site, the EasyNote M3308 will contain an Athlon 64 3000+, along with 512MB of DDR SDRAM, a 60GB hard drive and a DVD-RW optical unit. The machine's 15.4in 1280 x 800 screen is powered by an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 chip with 64MB of dedicated graphics memory

    The M3308 offers six USB 2.0 ports, a 1394 connector, TV out, PC Card slot, a four-in-one memory card reader (SD, MMC, SmartMedia and Memory Stick), a 56Kbps modem and 10/100Mbps Ethernet for wired connectivity, and an integrated 802.11b card from wireless communications. The whole thing weighs 3.8kg (8.4lb) and the Lithium Ion battery yields a three-hour work time, the company claims.

    So far, the M3308 is only available in Germany, for $2826.

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