“Adobe is working hard to release Creative Suite 3 before the end of year, sources have recently disclosed. While internal documents originally pointed to a release date in the first-half of 2007, Adobe is making a big push—and receiving significant help from Apple—to get the software package into customer hands this year. For Mac users, Creative Suite 3’s most notable feature will surely be native support for Apple’s new Intel-based systems,” Ryan Katz reports for Think Secret.
“While a 2006 release for Creative Suite 3 is by no means guaranteed, and likely would not arrive until the mid-to-late fourth quarter, it would jibe with Adobe’s intentions of revamping its major applicatons every 12-18 months, which Think Secret reported in 2004. Creative Suite 2… was released in April 2005,” Katz reports.
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Adobe: no native Intel Mac support until 2007; Photoshop could be 14 months away – February 01, 2006
ni-hi-hi-hiiiiiiiiiiice!
now i have a reason to buy a macbook pro… thanks adobe
MDN word: head
as in
“i want to give steve jobs…”
uh… did somebody call?
I really hope Adobe is able to release CS3 this year with the UI re-think and simplification.
The Apple threat is driving them to simplify the suite, which is great, and I think keeping Steve happy is important nowadays after the Aperture shot across the bow.
I really am looking forward to CS 3, and if it is this year, it prevents my boss from taking the crazy (and great) deal Quark offered us. (They are being very aggressive with companies who buy a lot of seats and trying to take advantage of the delay from Adobe.)
Dear God,
Please make the Pen tool in Photoshop and Illustrator work the same in both Illustrator and Photoshop. Please make the pen tool work the same way it did in Photoshop 7. I hate the functionality loss in CS2.
Please restore the Selection Info that was available in Illustrator 8!!! so I can figure out what the pixel resolution of placed bitmap images is. I hate the functionality loss that occurred in version 9, but has never been restored.
So shalt thou ask,
So shalt . . .
Aww, screw it! Who the hell am I kidding?
This is Adobe we’re talking about. Formyson’ssake, there’s no way I’ll be able to light a fire under their asses.
Your on yer own.
That God’s an IMPOSTOR!!!
No effin’ way that God can’t properly contract a “you’re”!
Phony!!!
I fart in your general direction!
God’ll get you for that, Lisa.
Adobe sucks just a little less tham M$!!!
Thank you Tommy Boy. Good points. It’s pretty frustrating to lose those “little” productivity features. As far as pen tools working the same, I also think it should be standardized. I wonder if the separate application teams ever meet with each other to discuss intuitive and consistent user experience…
[ While we’re at it, how about making Illustrator as stable as v5.5 and make it actually create simple, SMALL vector based files again. ]
Could you imagine Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign running as smoothly as Final Cut Pro or other Apple SW? I hope this (CS3) represents a major step up for these major Adobe products. After buying Macromedia, they pretty much own the creative app market. A move to eliminate the accumulated bloat and genuinely improve platform specific functionality (using core image where possible) would prove that they are not going to use their size to bully the end user (and add confidence/motivation to those creative app using PCers thinking of switching).
I would love to see identical functionality throughout CS, like the point increase/decrease on the text size in Illustrator. I’d love for that to be in PS too. Those types of things should be exactly the same in PS, Illustrator, and ID. GoLive too where applicable, but it wouldn’t always be. I really can’t understand why that hasn’t happened yet.
Don’t strain yourself now, Adobe!
How would it ‘jibe’?
They’re releasing a new version every 12-18 months and last quarter 2006 would be about 15-18 months after the April 2005 release of CS2…
now i can wait for the latest version of photoshop, thanks adobe
could be just to stop people getting pissed off.
ill beleive it when it happens.
RS, it would ‘jibe’ because it would be within the usual time window, as opposed to arriving in Q12007, which would be more than 18 months.
Adobe “rushing” on anything makes me go a big rubbery one. This is a company that can’t create a stable release in a regular time window, let alone doing a massive code rewrite and “rushing” it.
It had to happen though, PS’ code hadn’t been truely updated since they moved from 68k to PPC and it was seriously inefficient. Hopefully since they’re used to making PS “boot twice as fast on windoze” that we’ll get some benefit’s in performance as well as features out of this release.
I also agree that consistency needs to be one of adobe’s highest priorities, it’s sad when they need to take cues from iLife, that suite bundled on new macs.
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Kudos to Adobe.
I take back all the nasty things I said about them.
Please make the Pen tool in Photoshop and Illustrator work the same in both Illustrator and Photoshop. Please make the pen tool work the same way it did in Photoshop 7. I hate the functionality loss in CS2
I hate the fact that I don’t have the functionality of CS2, in fact CS already was a step in the wrong direction in terms of tool selection – a royal pain in the butt – but at least it dudn’t have activation.
I’m gonna run CS for 3 or 4 more years just for that.
One has to wonder if their original forecast for a release in 2007 wasn’t just a bluff so they could get the “significant help from Apple.” We all know that the successes of Adobe and Apple in the creative market are highly interrelated.
I hope they bring back Streamline. There’s nothing on the market quite like it.
No kudos to Adobe – it looks to me like they are being pushed and shoved to do it by Apple. Hence the ‘significant help from Apple’.
I too preferred the tool set in Photoshop 7 over the CS version, although I am getting more use to it now.
Still…I would welcome back the original. Much easier!
This would be nice. I am not buying a new Mac until Adobe Photoshop is ready (And how about Flash…and the others?)
I didn’t notice this last night, but Katz said, “”…it would jibe with Adobe’s intentions of revamping its major applicatons every 12-18 months, which Think Secret reported in 2004. Creative Suite 2… was released in April 2005,”
Actually, Adobe stated in their press release (see it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/pdfs/intelmacsupport.pdf) that their cycle is 18-24 months, not 12-18 months. Semantics perhaps, but hopefully we’ll still see it this year.