“More than one year after Think Secret first reported details of Adobe Photoshop CS3, sources recently disclosed that as development enters its final months features have remained true to what was Adobe originally planned,” Think Secret reports.
“For many Mac users, the most notable improvement Adobe will be delivering with Photoshop CS3 is native support for Intel-based Macs. Sources stressed that the new version of Photoshop, which sports an upgraded and more responsive interface, continually exceeded their performance expectations, including on PowerPC hardware,” Think Secret reports.
“With version CS3, Adobe seems to have improved on virtually every application Photoshop is employed to handle,” Think Secret reports. “Adobe has previously said it is targeting the release of Adobe Creative Suite 3 for the second-quarter of 2007. Sources recently corroborated that date, saying an announcement in March or April seems reasonable given the current status of development.”
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This is exactly what I would expect to happen now that they’ve been forced to dump all their legacy 68k code and do everything in XCode. I can’t wait to see how much faster it is. Photoshop has always seemed slow to me, even on a G5.
This can only be good news for Apple. Be prepared for a flurry of hardware purchases when Photoshop goes native on Intel.
At this point who gives a fu<k??
BOYCOTT ADOBE!!!!!!!!
PHOTOSHOP IS FOR PUSSYS!
Adobe doesn’t like its customers people! – Time to abolish them.
Aperture FTW.
http://www.apple.com/aperture/
I am a full time photographer and owner of the largest studio in our South Florida area. I can tell you right now that Aperature is nearly worthless. I own Apple stock and 7 macs, and I am a believer in Apple. Why Apple released Aperture is a big question for me.
Aperture isn’t an alternative to PS, idiott. Does it support spot color channels? How would I edit an alpha channel?
Sure, Adobe is starting to suck almost as bad as Quark but neither infantile temper tantrums like yours or reasoned pleas aren’t going to change decades of established workflows overnight, or in the next ten years. The best we can hope for is that CS3 will be the overpriced bug fix/update it promises to be.
“I can tell you right now that Aperature is nearly worthless.”
Please elaborate–I’d like to know more. Links to forums/articles?
A faster better Photoshop will be welcome, but please Adobe price the upgrade to reflect the fact that most of us have had a pretty crappy time with a slooow CS2 – especially since we went Intel.
Why do you want to boycott Adobe? Because they decided to innovate rather than re-encode older software that is about to be replaced? It would make no sense to use man power on a project that would yield no money whatsoever. Most of the people that buy the new macs, and need CS2 probably already have it and therefore would not be buying it (except perhaps for a small upgrade fee).
Not only that, but I have found PS CS2 to be OK on my Intel Mac for now. Granted I am doing graphics for video, not posters. However, I asked my wife (a photographer) how she liked PS on the MacBookPro, and she said it’s great and better than on our older Powerbook (She knows nothing about the PPC/Intel stuff)..
MDN word: Face, as in, “let’s face facts, It’s better for Adobe to get their new products out rather than re-encode old ones.
As a full time Photographer as well, I find Aperture to be the most important app I use. I can sort 3000 frames in a matter of minutes. And if the shots are exposed properly, I have no need to open Photoshop.
Cheers
I’ve said this before: If the CS3 upgrade improves the speed PhotoShop as much as the increase that I’ve seen in Acrobat 8, I will be very pleased, indeed. Acrobat 8 is a revelation on Intel Macs. I had been using v6 prior to upgrading and it was almost painful to use on both my MB Pro and Mac Pro Quad Xeon 3gHz .
CS3 can’t get here fast enough, and if it as good as Acrobat 8’s improvements, all will be forgiven with Adobe.
I can only say this, after Adobe took so long with this version: it’s about friggin’ time.
The improvements ought to be substantial, as Adobe has left loyal Mac users in the lurch. They can say it was to re-write the code, and if so, I will accept that. But it had better be apparent that this was the case. My suspicions remain that they cut a Devil’s bargain with a certain software company from the Seattle area – quid pro quo – delay the rollout of CS3 until Vista was ready, and said software company from the Pacific Northwest would refrain from directly competing.
I do hope I am wrong.
I only hope that in a couple of months, I will gladly eat crow and be grateful for what they have done.
I use both Aperture and Photoshop and I think Aperture totally rocks. However, you really need the right gear: it runs lousy on my dual 2ghz G5 (1st gen) but runs great on my iMac Core 2 Duo and MacBook Pro.
But Aperture and Photoshop largely have different purposes. Aperture is fabulous for aditing, sorting, printing, arranging large numbers of images (think Wedding, Portrait, Magazine, Sports photographers). Photoshop has no peer in retouching, compositing, advanced color correcting and preparation of graphics for media (print, web, video etc).
Neither is a replacement for the other.
Can’t wait for a more responsive Photoshop. The interface has been a real drag over the last couple of versions.
Adobe had great programs. But Adobe took the route of least up-front effort for most money, like Microsoft. Adobe chose to buy competitors and do half-assed maintenance releases, like Microsoft.
Now Adobe’s major rewrite is on schedule for their initially annouced release date and the software is exceeding their own performance targets. How unlike Microsoft. Are the dark days of Adobe ending?
Who the hell thinks that Aperture can do 1/2 the things that Photoshop does. You have your head up your ass. As PC people are locked into MicroSlut, creative professioanls are locked into Photoshop. It’s just the sad truth.
i think photoshop needs a TOTAL overhaul in its UI.
I hope apple releases a competitor to photoshop. Aperture definately is not a direct competitor but they overlap in alot of areas.
The underlying technology is building all the time in aperture and I would leave Adobe behind where it deserves to be, in the trash.
The point is they didnt stay on top of things ( ie didnt move to xcode when they should have) and only did so when they had to, not only that, they’re taking an eternity to do it.
Adobes programs just feel very clunky and have done for the last 10 years, now 10 years ago you could blame the hardware, you can’t do that now.
spot color channels? I think it does that, doesnt it?
Aperture maintains (but does not display) layer and alpha channel information in PSD files.
gotta remember this software is very new, more features are coming soon.
Adobe doesn’t deserve our business anymore.
If your car called you names every morning on your way to work would you still want to drive it?
Aperture is OK if you are a wedding photographer or spewing out large quantities of that kind of crap. Photoshop continues to be king for photographers who require great control on individually-crafted images….
(ducks)
For editing large numbers of photos most pros I know use Capture One by Phase one. This is a raw conversion program that is about the best out there. I don’t know a single top pro photographer that uses Aperture. I’m sure there are weekend wedding shooters that use it. Apple should have started by buying Phase One or Binuscan for their photo application.
I sincerely hope Apple will offer a PS competitor.
Maybe just an LE level competitor. That would be hugley welcome. Because there are millions of web designers and part-time shooters who need PS for basic editing but rarely dive deeply into the layers and guts. A simple, basic PS competitor from a major source like Apple is badly needed out there.
This has happened in audio and video editing software, and it should happen now in image editing.
Adobe has opened the door to this opportunity by pissing off many in the Mac community, slowing innovation and charging arms and legs. The time is right.
BTW, Apple originally said the Intel transition could take till 2007, so Adobe is right on time. Apple was EARLY.
MW= early (I’m not kidding!)
This is getting downright morose, watching PS crawl along on my dual 800 G4, but there’s just no reason to buy that beautiful new 24″ iMac until CS3 ships (especially since all my money is in AAPL at the moment).
Well, of course there is, but I use my computer for PS about 80% of the time and it doesn’t seem like it’ll be much better under Rosetta. I waited for the Intel Macs long enough, now I have to wait another 4-6 months… {simmer}
Someone said about that Adobe is getting to be a lot like Quark was in the OS 9/X changeover days. They’re not THAT bad (no one else could possibly be that bad) but they’re sure dragging their damn feet and it’s getting old.
I wonder how many PS pros are out there waiting for this to buy a new machine. I know it’s a big number. The problem is, I know if I buy a new machine now, then Apple will go ahead and update it by the time CS3 comes out and I will have had a better machine for waiting.
{sigh}
At least my stock is going up… >.<
-c
MW: ‘ran’ (out of ideas, fell off horse, closed down company)
Capture One is a better app then Aperture. I rarely use PS unless I need to do some touch-up. It’s usually C1 to print.
Adobe—a mud house. A slow mud house at that.
Is there a competitor out there for Photoshop Elements?