“I’ve done some more research into the history of Adobe’s work with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I can’t speak for product teams besides Photoshop, and in the interests of time, I’m sharing what I’ve found out so far,” John Nack, Principal Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop, reports via his blog.
“It turns out that the Photoshop team has tested Photoshop CS3 on Snow Leopard, and to the best of our knowledge, PS CS3 works fine on Snow Leopard,” Nack reports.
Nack reports, “Apple and the Photoshop team worked together closely during the development of Snow Leopard, as we do during the development of every OS revision. The Photoshop QE team reported a couple of dozen problems to Apple, and I’m happy to say that Apple has fixed all the significant issues we found.”
Here are the remaining open issues we know about:
1. The blue highlight ring around PS windows displayed by Exposé is too heavy.
2. When using arrow keys to nudge the values in text fields up and down, the values now change more slowly on a Japanese OS.
Nack reports, “As I say, we have reason to expect that all meaningful issues of running Photoshop CS3 under Snow Leopard have been resolved. However, because we have not done the level of testing that true certification demands, we need to stand by our statement that we don’t officially support CS3 on Snow Leopard.”
Also, in response to Nack’s post, David Howe states, “I’m the QA Manager for Photoshop and intermittently during Snow Leopard development I have run Photoshop CS and CS2 on Snow Leopard. I’ve got them both running right now in fact. While I haven’t extensively tested them, they do install, launch, and open/save files. If anyone runs into issues with those older versions after Friday’s Snow Leopard release, I’d be interested in hearing about them. While I can’t promise fixes for any things that are found, I can try, or at least see if there are workarounds.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Richard M.” for the heads up.]
OK…how about Illustrator CS3?
Or how about After Effects CS3?
Good responce after yesterda’s PR mess.
FYI – I’m still using PS CS2. CS 3 was unusable but they did fix their feather problem in CS4.
What about CS4? Am I hosed or what?
Good news.
We’re keen on upgrading to Snow Leopard and we dropped $15k for new CS3 licenses about 3 months before CS4 came out.
We’d like to skip CS4 and go right to CS5. We’ve generally skipped every second upgrade, otherwise we spend too much learning the new software for the relatively few useful features in each upgrade cycle. (If an Adobe person is reading this I’m not saying you should add more features each time — maybe you could save them up and release more features, less often.)
David Howe = Adobe Hero
Nack has to do what he has to do, but imagine how different the response might be if he said instead:
“Though CS3 is no longer in our support window, we realize that it is crucial to a lot of Mac users, who may need to upgrade to Snow Leopard.
We are offering a $29 CS3 support-and-upgrade package, which gives CS3 users immediate access to patches for CS3 and Snow Leopard that we will be releasing shortly. In addition, we will bundle a $50 (no expiration) coupon to reduce the cost of upgrading to CS4 for these loyal users. We believe it is in the same spirit as Apple’s Snow Leopard: spend a little, get a lot.”
Extra, cautionary note: my post above is FICTION
Adobe is not offering any such thing… yet..
You know, all Adobe had to say in yesterday’s press release was: “While we have not extensively tested CS, CS2, and CS3 under Snow Leopard, they do install, launch, and open/save files. We have reason to expect that all meaningful issues of running Photoshop CS3 under Snow Leopard have been resolved. However, because we have not done the level of testing that true certification demands, officially we do not support CS, CS2, and CS3 on Snow Leopard.”
Real simple and covers all liability and support issues.
@ disposableidentity: Besides the fact that Illustrator CS4 is a horrible mess that destroys text and forced me back to CS3, the only program that seems to get regular useful updates in the CS Suite is InDesign. Tabs is the only noticeable upgrade in Photoshop CS4 and I’m not sure I like them.
I upgraded to CS3.
Major problems.
After hours of tech support they told me it would not run on Hitachi 1TB drives.
They offered no consideration or solution.
Adobe did not take care of me… a once loyal customer.
I suggested they give me my money back or give me a free upgrade to something that works.
They said that would probably not happen.
It would be nice if they gave definite word on Elements 6.
snowleopard.wikidot.com says yes with one caveat about a license number problem. Will a reinstall from original disc fix what ails it?
Good news indeed, I have CS4, but it stopped working recently for some reason, so I may have to downgrade.
Although some of the issues… how will i be able to cope with a highlight ring around my windows that is too heavy in Expose?!
And if I suddenly decide to change the language of my mac to Japanese, I don’t think I could live with slowly changing values! …Although perhaps the language barrier may be a more significant problem I have to overcome.
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Seriously though, unless I’m missing something (and forgive me if I have!), these issues aren’t really that bad, and it’s good that older versions will work.
yeah , i’m hoping sl doesn’t hose pe6 too
I DON’T CARE I STILL HATE STUPID STUPID ADOBE!!!
(^satire)
Oh, as for PSE 6, I haven’t had a chance to test it on SL, but aside from the licensing issue (which exited before SL) I imagine it will work about as well as it ever did.
All of you people who are complaining, crying, and cursing Adobe are ignoring one key point. There is no imperative need to, neither is anyone forcing you to, upgrade to Snow Leopard. Period. If continuing to use CS3 / CS2 / CS or even Photoshop 7 is important to you for the next 18 months, then you will have no problem continuing as you were with plain ol’ Leopard on you current computer. If your business / hobby is doing well enough to upgrade your machine, or buy an additional one that doesn’t come with 10.5 Leopard, then you’re doing well enough to fork out the incremental cost for a CS upgrade. End of story. Stop complaining. Dry your eyes. If you can’t afford to upgrade, then you’re either in the wrong business or you need to be using less expensive, more limited software. There are plenty of options, trust me. Adobe software is a professional-grade suite, for individuals / businesses who are good at what they do and get paid appropriately for it. I’m so sick of the “weekend warriors” and soccer moms who think just because they know how to turn on a Mac, they can suddenly become a desktop publisher, without any proper schooling or training, and feel they are entitled to professional-grade software for hardly nothing. Adobe: Fair is fair, and frankly at the moment, I agree 100% with your strategy. Don’t concern yourselves with the small minority of low-end users of your software who always want more for less. If they’re complaining about the upgrade cost, you don’t need them.
@ antmeeks
This is bullet proof logic, antmeeks. Unfortunately (and I speak from the experience of trying to convince customers of this on the phone) it never really gets through.