“Adobe Systems, weeks away from delivering its Creative Suite 3 version of Photoshop, said Wednesday it’s adding a second edition that expands the software’s abilities significantly beyond its traditional role of editing static, two-dimensional images,” Stephen Shankland reports for CNET News.
Shankland reports, “In addition to Photoshop CS3… Adobe will sell Photoshop CS3 Extended, the company announced here at the Photo Marketing Association trade show. The Extended version can be used to create 3D graphics, add graphics to multiple frames of video or film, stitch images together into videos, and measure and analyze images, Adobe said, and it has features geared for architects, engineers, scientists and medical researchers.”
Full article here.
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Not dead, but Apple has been much faster in its turnaround than anyone in Adobe ever imagined.
The “wait and see” turned into a “pants down” situation?
I’ll never make that mistake again.
ChrissyOne
For the record, despite my frustrations with Adobe in the past, I always appreciate your input here.
PhotoShop user since 2.0
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So your theory is there can only be one product in a given market? One video editing software package, one consumer photo-editing software package, one word processing package even…?
Of course that is utter nonsense… this is a competitive market and with Aperture, the bloated mess that is Adobe is suddenly finding its main cash cow challenged. Finally!
Have you used InDesign CS2 lately? It’s as buggy as hell, has major [unresolved] issues with FontReserve Server & CLient, crashes frequently, renders other documents irretrievable and damaged. Sound familiar? Yeah, that’s right, Quark used to be like that, particularly in the pre-OS X days – and then it brought your whole machine down too! I use it every day… so does the other 400 advertising agencies in our group. We have enormous purchasing power and yet Adobe still drags its feet. What gives? And I’ve been using an Adobe product in one form or another since the very beginning.
No, my quotes – all taken from Cnet News [do your own research] – still stand. They are not my words, but the words of Adobe itself or observers in the business field.
We on this forum shouldn’t be defending large corporations – whoever they are. If there’s a problem with company policy or attitude – even from Apple, we should challenge it
Aperture competes directly with Lightroom. But LR is way better (my opinion), I hate the Aperture interface.
But if Apple had put out Aperture 2 years ago and gaave it away free with every Mac, there would be no market for Lightroom, so Adobe probably wouldn’t have made it for the Mac. Let’s not pretend that Apple doesn’t burn its developers like this sometimes, Konfabulator comes to mind. IE is not made for the Mac any more… why? Because MS knew that everyone would use Safari (which they do). Simple economics.
But healthy competition is good for everyone, as Microsoft proves but undermining all of theirs. I think the Mac market is going to be big enough for everyone to play nice in before too long. This is the year it’s finally going to tip. Just you wait.
-c