“Adobe will launch Adobe Creative Suite 3 at a special event in New York on 27 March, the company confirmed this morning,” Jonny Evans reports for Macworld UK.
Evans reports, “The company will be celebrating the global launch at the event, which will be webcast live at 8.30pm UK time.”
“The company remains reticent regarding the features and applications within CS3, but has released a teaser video to help build further anticipation,” Evans reports.
Adobe’s “What is in the box?” teaser video:
“Adobe last week confirmed plans to make an entry-level version of Photoshop available online as a hosted web service,” Evans reports.
Full article here.
Fsckin’ finally! Better ridiculously late than never, we guess.
Related articles:
Prudential upgrades Apple Inc., expects Leopard release end of March – March 05, 2007
Adobe’s Creative Suite 3.0 to power sales of Intel-based Macs in 2007 – November 07, 2006
Some Apple Mac loyalists turn against Adobe – November 01, 2006
Adobe manager lashes out at loyal Mac-using customers – October 31, 2006
Apple and Adobe at war? – October 06, 2006
How long must we wait for Adobe to produce Universal applications for Apple’s Intel-powered Macs? – August 21, 2006
What a stupid video.
The video is for cubicle workers, not creative people out to change the world. I hate it.
Yup…that’s not much of a video…Is it supposed to show 3D? or group integration or uh….what exactly?
I want to see something I haven’t seen before that makes me wonder…”How’d they do that?”
and THEN I find out it’s done with a new function in the software…
Maybe all the innovation is gone at Adobe and swallowing Macromedia simply took too much for them to create something truly new.
Does this video address my concerns over how well Photoshop will run on the new Intel chips?
NO!
Pile of shite!
That video is rubbish. If you’re not going to show off the product then you can at least be cool or novel. That thing is just a load of people chucking some boxes around again and again, and again, and again, and so on.
Did anyone else notice that several times the “box” looked like the SBOD? They’re trying to warn us to not get our hopes up!
This video shows how Adobe has been working too long in the Windows world. Where’s the creativity? This video sucks and does nothing to make me excited about the product.
What about Photoshop Elements for the Mac- version 5?
“MacDailyNews Take: Fsckin’ finally! Better ridiculously late than never, we guess.”
What was the big dilemma? Oh yes, forgot. You guys all went out and dumped your PowerPC macs overnight and got stuck with the first generation Wintel, err – Mactel “solution” from Apple. Your Photoshop speeds suck, but hey, you can run Windows! Yippee! Of course you’ve only spent the last year and half talking about how great of a deal it was to move over to Intel chips and how great things are with Boot Camp and the ability to finally get fully Microsuck on your macs. Despite the extra cores, other than ripping a CD or launching a handful of specific tasks, the dual-core G5s in our office continue to outperform and outproduce the Intel MacPros. Yeah, its all Rosetta, right? Performance per watt. Keep drinking the Kool Aid. Give it about 3 more generations of Intel chips and you’ll finally be there – kind of like the folks who got duped into buying the Core Duo only to find that it was just a test chip for the Core 2 Duo. Soon to be the Core 2 Duo 2 probably.
Better ridiculously late than never, I guess.
Oh my god. That has got to be the lamest video I have ever seen in my 15 years in the Macintosh industry. Adobe has lost any creative/innovative edge that they may have once had.
– Scott
I hope there are better multimedia features in CS3!
CS2 sucks at creating interactive content.
So, is CS3 just a glow in the dark box?
I wanted UB versions of Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, and all they’ve been working on is a glow in the dark box!
No wonder it took them so long…
Wow ….. that video is really lame ….
The cubes are computer pixels. That’s a good idea.
But they are throwing them around for too long.
Apple should go ahead an raise the price of the Mac Pro. Now that everybody will be ordering it it would be a good way to avoid demand outstripping supply.
I just don’t see what purpose that video serves from a Mac or Windows PC perspective.
I’m waiting for news of the other, non-CS3 applications (stuff from Macromedia) – DreamWeaver, Fireworks, Flash, Director…
It’s about time.
I can’t wait to hear the new features of InDesign and Illustrator. Both have some many opportunities for improvement!
Hmmm, this in relation to the Prudential note gives me hope that Leopard will be making an appearance in a couple of weeks!
I want Actions in InDesign… man my life would be easier if I could program Actions in InDesign…
In the video, he’s firing up an old G4… is this a sign?
CS3 is going to be spectacular, guys. Really. You’re going to love it.
-c
MW: ‘woman’ (of leisure)
Just in time for Leopard and a new lineup of Mac Pros.
What’s in the box?
It’s about goddam time!
NOW I can git me one a them MacBook Pros!
Just in time for Leopard to break it (fixed that for you JohnE). Then Adobe will act all surprised.
That was stupid. That guy walked up to his desk and turned on an Old G4 Mac. Does that mean CS3 will work on non-Intel Macs?
MacDailyNews Take: Fsckin’ finally! Better ridiculously late than never, we guess.
MDN, pull your collective heads out of your asses… It’s perfectly understandable to complain about the delay in the full releases of Universal Binaries, but entirely another thing to whine like the little babies you guys tend to about an entirely NEW major product revision… I have been using Photoshop CS3 Beta sinc the day it came out and it’s been brilliant, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the revamped suite was as easy.
Did anyone else notice that was G4 tower under the desk at the start of the ad?
Sheesh!!! And I thought the big attraction to CS3 was that it would be Universal / Intel native!!!
At least they could have used a G5 tower – that would have been all-but indistinguishable froan Intel Powermac.
Losers!
I’m sure Apple has been working with Adobe so that this key product (for both Apple and Adobe) fully supports Leopard. Perhaps the release date is meant to coincide with the release of Leopard. Now, that would make a big splash.
Regardless of what’s in the stupid box, this release can only help Mac sales. High end users currently on Winblows who have been looking to jump ship will now have more of a reason to do so.
But, a round of Mac refreshes and the release of Leopard would help things out, too.
“That was stupid. That guy walked up to his desk and turned on an Old G4 Mac. Does that mean CS3 will work on non-Intel Macs?”
To answer your question, yes. PowerPC support will not be dropped by Apple or developers for several years.
Yes, because they showed an old G4, that’s a sign about what hardware will be supported.
{/satire}
Come on, people. It’s a damn commercial.
CS3 is a universal binary and will run just fine on a G4, G5, and a Mactel.
You will need 10.4.8 or later to run it, however.
-c
MW: ‘girl’ (interrupted)
>MacDailyNews Take: Fsckin’ finally! Better ridiculously late than never, we guess.
If only Apple let Adobe in on their developments much sooner. Maybe they could’ve done CS2 development as Universal Binaries.
Sad!
… but we’re almost there so…
Happy!
CS2 came out before the Intel Macs were even introduced. There is no way it could have been done.
I’m loading the latest build of Photoshop now, it’s looking really good. AND, I get my new iMac this week (finally!) and since I have almost 300 pictures to edit, I’ll be putting them both through their paces in the next couple of weeks. This is it! The wait is almost over.
-c
ChrissyOne I believe you. My only complaint is the waste of time spent on watching such a useless Ad. The creative genius that thought this up should either be fired or should smoke more pot. It was pretty lame and it took them forever to solve the Rubick’s cube.
>ChrissyOne: There is no way it could have been done.
Absolutely no way?
@ Buster
Well, you can bet the Adobe hired an ad agency to do this spot. I have to say, it goes on too long, and plays the trading boxes a bit too hard. The workgroup a version tracking features are what we’re trying to play up here, but yeah, I think it kinda falls flat. I didn’t see this ad until I saw it here, and it didn’t rally do much for me.
However, I’ve been working on PS 10 builds for weeks now and I can tell you that they are indeed impressive. ACR is going to change a lot of people’s workflows (it’s already changed mine). I learned Lightroom because I have to support it, but it hasn’t taken long to fully adopt it as a vital part of my editing cycle. I think people will find a lot more value in Bridge as well.
You might not like the UI at first, the palette system is reworked but it can be used the old way (for the most part). If you are willing to learn the new system, I think you’ll prefer it once you get used to it.
-c
@ MPC Guy
Not without a time machine. And it would have only delayed CS3 in the long run.
This is going to be worth it. It really is.
-c
Adobe is after MS customers – their advertising is tasteless just like their target market. We’d better get use to it, it’s not going to change for a while.
Adobe is never quick with updates/feature additions, but when they do it, they do it right.
True dat.
ummmm did anyone follow the link at the end?
< a href =”http://www.whatisinthebox.co.uk/”> what is in the box</a>
Now that is COOL!!!!!
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my blog <a href =”http://tweenbetween.blogspot.com/”>between the tweens</a>
Did Adobe hire the same creatives that Microsoft uses?
> ChrissyOne wrote: Not without a time machine. And it would have only delayed CS3 in the long run.
This is going to be worth it. It really is.
I think Adobe can build native applications without the use of time machines. They just need knowledge of the platform they’re building on. It was Apple’s choice to develop the Intel Macs in complete secrecy. Their release happened when Adobe was already finished with CS2.
So many “blame” Adobe for not releasing CS3 as a Universal Binary earlier or porting CS2 to a UB app.
The latter would’ve eaten much of whatever profit it makes on the Mac market for a even smaller fraction of users (Intel Mac owners who buy CS2).
Releasing CS3 earlier would’ve meant eating the entire CS2 development costs and throwing away any return on investment.
Apple’s decision not to keep Adobe in the know was probably necessary. It definitely left Adobe with a lose-lose PR nightmare to deal with.
On second thought, maybe your idea of a “time machine” could’ve helped Adobe, since Apple didn’t.
Native CS2 has been available on Macs for over a year now – Under XP.
If you want the fastest CS3 machine, it’s going to be an octo core WinTel box, not one of those slow old quad core Mac Pros.
I am annoyed that I spent 1:45 of my life watching that video. That did not tell me anything about the product. Grrr.