D-Bone
Dec 15th '06, 11:04 AM
Adobe has officially announced the public beta of Photoshop CS3 and you can almost hear the MacIntel users salivating. It's difficult to conceive of a more-anticipated program for professional pixel pushers on the Mac so let me help ease the pain by assuring people that it indeed exists. The beta will also be available to Windows users and reportedly runs fine on Vista.
Mac users get a true Mac OS X Universal Binary of Photoshop and everyone gets a spiffy new icon to boot. It's no secret I wasn't a fan of the older CS2 icons, which still kill me with their relative similarity and holistic medicine vibe, so this is a welcome change for me at least.
Now the bad news: it won't be posted until tomorrow, December 15, and unlike the public beta of Lightroom, it requires a valid CS2 serial number. That serial number is used to get a beta CS3 license for the installer and if you don't have that, then it is installed as a two-day demo. This isn't the beta love-fest that many were hoping for?it's mostly a gesture to those Mac customers who have been waiting to demonstrate that Adobe values their support and patience. I'd love to see the final product released yesterday too, but I can't even get a Universal Binary of screenshot program Snapz Pro X. Adobe has done pretty well considering immensity of the Photoshop code base. Still, there are bugs in the beta and Adobe has made it clear that they do not intend for it to replace a copy of Photoshop CS2 in day-to-day work.
Read More: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061214-8425.html
Mac users get a true Mac OS X Universal Binary of Photoshop and everyone gets a spiffy new icon to boot. It's no secret I wasn't a fan of the older CS2 icons, which still kill me with their relative similarity and holistic medicine vibe, so this is a welcome change for me at least.
Now the bad news: it won't be posted until tomorrow, December 15, and unlike the public beta of Lightroom, it requires a valid CS2 serial number. That serial number is used to get a beta CS3 license for the installer and if you don't have that, then it is installed as a two-day demo. This isn't the beta love-fest that many were hoping for?it's mostly a gesture to those Mac customers who have been waiting to demonstrate that Adobe values their support and patience. I'd love to see the final product released yesterday too, but I can't even get a Universal Binary of screenshot program Snapz Pro X. Adobe has done pretty well considering immensity of the Photoshop code base. Still, there are bugs in the beta and Adobe has made it clear that they do not intend for it to replace a copy of Photoshop CS2 in day-to-day work.
Read More: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061214-8425.html