“Sources have informed Think Secret of Adobe’s U.S. pricing plan for its highly anticipated Creative Suite 3 ahead of the company’s Tuesday announcement,” Ryan Katz reports for Think Secret.
Katz reports, “Adobe plans to offer six bundles with various Creative Suite 3 applications: CS3 Web Standard, CS3 Web Premium, CS3 Design Standard, CS3 Design Premium, CS3 Production Premium, and the CS3 Master Collection.”
“The least expensive of the six will be the CS3 Web Standard bundle, which will retail for $999 and includes Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS3, and Contribute CS3,” Katz reports.
“Pricing for stand-alone CS3 applications remains largely unchanged from CS2 and previous versions, with the exception of Illustrator CS3 which sees a $100 increase to $599. Photoshop CS3 Standard will retail for the same $649 price as CS2, while Photoshop CS3 Extended will cost $999,” Katz reports. “Adobe will start accepting pre-orders for Creative Suite 3 products this week.”
More info on pricing, app bundles, and more in the full article here.
Related article:
Adobe adds ‘Photoshop CS3 Extended’ version to lineup – March 08, 2007
Well, I’m an Adobe Authorized Print Service Provider and long-time customer with an opinion. The Photoshop CS3 beta has been quite fast on my personal MBP. Lots of nifty new or enhanced features especially with selection tools and filters. The new curves dialog box is nice. Bridge occasionally coughed up and broke but it was beta. I’ll be interested to see the enhancements in ID, IL, DW and Flash. We’re getting new Intel Macs soon and we depend on Adobe apps. The Studio upgrade costs are quite reasonable for our business. Your mileage will, as always, vary.
chrissy one – we DO know what’s in PS Extended.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ps_psext_info.html
if you worked there, wouldn’t you know that?
They don’t tell me anything.
;P
MW: ‘faith’
BTW, there are preproduction iPhones around the Adobe office here. Pretty cool stuff.
Either Adobe needs to beef up Elements or create a mid level version of Photoshop or Apple should get into the game.
Adobe has needed an ass kicking for some time now.
$600 for the Design Premium upgrade? Seems like a lot, but that’s actually not too bad considering it probably would have run more for all of those apps before Adobe bought MM. I’m looking forward to seeing what the new features will be in the other apps.
$600 for the Design Premium upgrade sounds pretty good to me considering all that is in there. It’s a business expense that’s recouped very quickly. The new AI CS3 is supposed to have some integration with Flash. Should be interesting.
And yet another run of posts under stolen names continues…
MDN, when are we going to get real identities around here?
And Chrissy (the real one), I agree with you..
It’s all so much bitching just because it’s expensive. “Waah.. It’s too expensive, I don’t like it, so I deserve it for free.”
Grow up, folks. Software doesn’t write itself, and professional grade software certainly isn’t cheap to produce. But you just go on stealing your music, your software, your games, your movies, all the while bitching about about the “evil corporations” and how they don’t deserve your money and “force” you to pirate.
I only hope that you at LEAST pay shareware fees to the one-man outfits out there. You do, don’t you? Those of you who don’t: 2 words. Fucking hypocrites. Proportionally speaking, you are far more despicable than Adobe or Quark or any other “big” software company trying to “rip you off”.
Because not only do you steal, but you offer NOTHING in return to benefit anyone else in the process. At least Adobe pays its employees and provides something for your money. You provide nothing and take what you want. Which is just greed, pure and simple. It’s not some grass-roots, anti-corporate, high-and-mighty campaign to level the playing field. It’s just taking what you want ’cause you don’t want to pay for it. Call it what it is.
Sorry… flame away, as usual. Call me a moralistic asshole and all that. I just find wrapping pure greed in some cloak of righteousness to be pathetic.
And as usual on a thread like this…
Any subsequent posts labeled “blucaso” will not be from me.
@ChrissyOne,
What’s with the awful new icons/logos? Can you explain?
(see my comments above)
Well said, blucaso.
Chrissy
Just one question, if you can answer, it would be a big help ..
You wouldnt happen to know what the Sys. Req. for CS3 will be, would you ?
I mean.. minimum …
Will it be UB or different for the intel and PPC ?
(Hope they told you at least that ! ) ..
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It would be nice if there was more competition to drive down the price. Still, it’s not too much for me. Adobe has so far been quite generous with their licensing, allowing up to 2 installs per license (desktop + laptop if not used simultaneously). I’m sure I’ll be upgrading, as well as keeping an eye out for alternatives.
The open source apps are a little cumbersome. I hate Gimp. Blender is kinda cool. Inkscape looks promising. On the commercial side, LineForm is a much cheaper and very capable alternative to Illustrator. No one can touch Photoshop yet, although if you’re not into all the pro features, the Elements version is quite nice (and a lot cheaper).
Did Ballmer help them set up these package options and pricing?
Thank God there is only one Leopard.
Me in June: “Gimme 1 copy of Leopard for my computer. Thanks.”
Life made simple by Apple.
Life made annoying by Micro$oft and Adobe.
@blucaso, et. al.
I think there’s a huge playing field between $1000 and free – you certainly must agree on that much.
For your info. I usually don’t like free stuff ’cause it usually tends to work like, well, free stuff. However, more and more software costing between $50 and $350 is getting the job done very well, very specifically, and therefore very effeciently.
@ChrissyOne
I love you (even though I don’t know you), but I wouldn’t wanna be ya on this MDN post. You’ve got some serious cajonas [or however you spell that word].
Oh, and in case I was being too ambiguous about feelings in the last post – Yeah, its way too expensive.
Don’t have 650? Get out the GIMP.
Oh, and I designed those icons myself, personally. {kidding} I actually hate them too, but they take 3 seconds and zero brain power to change back to the old Photoshop Eyeball, etc, so I’m not going to complain.
As for the system requirements, I’m not sure we’ve made that public yet, but here are the beta specs:
http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs3/requirements.html
Chrissy,
Do the palette header buttons, the splash screens and the document icons have the same STUPID graphics?
I can’t believe that Photoshop — PHOTOSHOP — is using a blank blue square with a sans-serif “Ps” as its icon. I thought this was the “we know all about images” company. Oh well…
I am totally not the person to complain to. When I’m using PS I’m much more concerned with *my* images, not Adobe’s.
If you want to see a seriously glorious UI, you should check out Lightroom.
Any icons have to be better than the last set. Feathers? Butterflys? Let’s see, two feathers… is that ImageReady or PhotoShop…hmmm [scratches head]. Adobe used to have some of the best icons, not they are the least ‘iconic’ icons on the Mac.
Check out the work of this guy.
Well, its official. The pricing of CS is WORSE than vista. I looked at the list an just laughed. I guess that CS will be around for a long time on my MacBook. As long as rossetta will run it.
And for those of you who make a living using Adobe tools you might be interested in:
“On March 27, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, Adobe Systems will host a webcast of the official launch of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3, live from New York City. To participate, bookmark this page and join us back here on March 27.”
@Chrissy,
I like the PS icon, but didn’t see others to flesh out the Creative Suite. Did I just miss them, or has Adam not produced icons for the other apps?
(This is the real ChrissyOne)
I do NOT work for Adobe. Repeat, I do not work for Adobe. You name stealers are so infantile.
FTR, I work EA Tiburon up here in Vancouver.
Again, not me. And I will not post any more on this topic.
MDN, can we end this crap please?
-c