Adobe Creative Suite 3 Products Overview
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You can learn more about all the Creative Suite 3 standalone applications and bundles in my Adobe Creative Suite 3 Products Overview.
Creative Suite 3 is the largest release in Adobe's 25-year history, and represents what the company calls "the best of Adobe plus Macromedia." The public is invited to attend a live Webcast of the Creative Suite 3 lunch event taking place today in New York City. To attend, visit http://www.adobe.com/go/cs3launch at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time.
One big change in the release of Creative Suite 3, is that Adobe is no longer allowing users to upgrade from any older version to the current version. To qualify for upgrade pricing, you must currently own a product that is not more than three versions old. The only exception to this is for users of Premiere or Premiere Pro, who can upgrade to Premiere Pro CS3 or CS3 Production Premium from any older version.
Historically, Adobe has allowed free upgrades to to the current version to users who purchased the previous version after the official announcement date of a new version. That means if you are currently a user of a Creative Suite application that is more than three versions old, it would be a good idea to purchase a CS2 upgrade right now, so you will get a free upgrade to CS3 when it begins shipping in April.
Adobe did not answer my questions regarding cross platform licensing, so at this stage it appears as though the licensing policy has not changed--Macintosh and Windows products will be packaged separately.
I'll post more news as it comes up... meanwhile, check out the products, and feel free to post your comments and questions.
• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Products Overview
• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Discussion
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Note — your CS3 Discussion link is not working. I’m curious to know if it corrects the InDesign Windows Vista problem of translating Pagemaker files so they can be opened? CS2 on XP did a great job but doesn’t work switched to Vista. Of course Adobe didn’t support Vista with CS2 either so it does little good to complain.
Rich, the link should be working now. I don’t know about InDesign, so your best bet would be to ask in the forums or wait for the trial.
Dear Sue, Thanks for the heads-up. It pushed me into action. I ordered the upgrade to Photoshop CS2 (just Photoshop, not the whole suite) for $152.99 with free shipping from Amazon. I appreciate your keeping us informed!