On 4 Jan 2007, at 14:04, Jim Carwardine wrote:
With further research I discovered that they brought a beta version of
Photoshop out in December that was a free upgrade if had recently
bought the
CS2 version but that they want full price for the full CS3 version
when it
comes out regardless of when you bought CS2.
The CS3 beta is limited to 2 days if you don't have a CS2 licence,
and 30 days even if you *do* have a CS2 licence. So there's no free
upgrades involved with the beta anyway.
I could find no mention of the other apps in the suite. Does
anyone know if
the entire CS is being published in April 07?
They've been remarkably quite about the rest of the suite, we still
don't even know what apps from Adobe 7 Macromedia are going to be
carried forwards...
Apparently Adobe says CS3 is such a massive upgrade that they do
not want to
honour their upgrade policy for recent buyers of CS2.
There's a certain amount of truth in that, as far as I know it's been
pretty much re-written to be MacIntel & Vista compatible.
And BOY does it make a difference on an Intel Mac! CS2 launch on a
MBP is 20-25s, CS3 is 4-5s.
Now, because I opened the package, I may be stuck with old software
and no
options but to buy it again to get the CS3 version.
At the very worst you'd have to buy an upgrade, like the rest of us
who have older copies of CS2. I can't believe that Adobe are insane
enough to make everyone buy Photoshop again from scratch. There are
likely to be all sorts of different bundles, though, what with
LightRoom, Bridge etc.
Ian
P.S. On a slightly related note - anyone who has even a slight
interest in photography should download the trial versions of both
Apple Aperture and Adobe LightRoom, very interesting to analyse from
a GUI design perspective...
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