“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
$1000 for Photoshop!
I can see the P2P networks will be busy.
Buh-bye Golive
I wonder if they’ll take a kidney.
Those new logos suck!
What happened to the feather/butterfly/flower motif from last time? Those were great. (Not to mention the old-school versions with the Botticelli Venus for Illustrator and the eye closeup for Photoshop.)
but I like GoLive… 🙁
Hmmm. Wonder what Apple has cooking in the back room.
torrent me baby
This pricing scheme makes Vista’s look tame!
Apple needs to give Adobe a run for its money in the creative realm. Slow updates, minimal changes to what the SW has done over the past 4 years, over-priced for the changes they deliver, and Quark-like in their responce and servicing of customers…
With Studio’s abounding in Apple Stores, Apple is becoming the front-line of support for Adobe’s applications. “Thanks for the free support Apple.”
Timing is perfect for Apple to bring it’s own creative software to the table:
– Better pricing
– Same abilities (with unique tools ta boot)
– Grade-A support online, phone and in-stores.
Waaaaaaaayyyyyyyy overpriced!
Damn Adobe. I feel that Photoshop CS3 extended is some BS. Of course, every freakn’ video editor I work with will own it, and I’ll be “required to upgrade”. Instead of a $199 to $299 upgrade, it’ll be $500. Just a way to increase the revenue stream…
Ahoy Comrades,
Tis’ time to get to work! For a fortune awaits us in the land of Adobe. Quick! get the supplies. A carton of blank discs and a bottle of rum.
“Quark-like in their responce and servicing of customers…”
Those, my friend, are fighting words.
But please, let the bitching continue.
as usual thats such a ripoff. they get away with it because theirs no bloody competition. i just hope they dont feel so BLOATED as the last few versions have been.
photoshop cs3 beta is better speed wise, but really, do they think to innovate? they really remind me of microsoft these days, and i dont like to say it because adobe at one stage were a really good company.
i mean when was the last time you were blown away by a new release from adobe? its always very ho hum, new logo, new box…same sh*t.
Ahoy Comrades,
Tis’ time to get to work! For a fortune awaits us in the land of Adobe. Quick! get the supplies. A carton of blank discs and a bottle of rum.
When would these companies ever learn?
“The last two collections of applications, CS3 Production Premium and the CS3 Master Collection, will be of less interest to Mac users, as some of the bundled titles only run on Windows. “
Repeat: some will Only run on Windows…
this is very very expensive for software that is used by so many people.
i would buy Photoshop at half that price, at most.
TTzz said:
“$1000 for Photoshop! I can see the P2P networks will be busy.”
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
P2P + Crack / Serials = 100% discount
For the rest of us, there are qualified alternatives…
Go to:
Gimp / http://www.gimp.org/
Blender / http://www.blender3d.com/
Inkscape / http://www.inkscape.org/
There is so much good software in the world for free, what are we paying for anymore. Save a few dollars and donate to your favorite open source developer, I know I do!
I’m a bit puzzled here. The price of Photoshop has not changed. Extended is higher. But you don’t even know what’s in Extended yet.
Anyway, please, continue.
I hope that with those prices that upgrades are free over the next decade. That is, if Adobe is still in business.
I really liked working with GoLive, too… I worked with Dream weaver and really liked golive that much better…
That sucks that they are taking it away. I am not a full fledged web designer, but I do have a couple of sites up. Most people, though, it seems prefer DW over GLive…
I am not one of them! 🙁
My disclaimer: I work for Adobe. Carry on. But my opinion is still neutral.
Shhhhhhh ! ! ! ChrissyOne is reading every word.
;- )
The previous post was not written by me.
If my opinions were neutral I certainly would not post on MDN.
DAMNIT.
all the cool video crap is int he $1k version of PhotoShop CS 3
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ps_psext_info.html
Oh, and where I work is no secret. My name is in the credits, after all.
{very slight gloating}
-c
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
I just want to know when the fake ChrissyOne will start a blog like Fake Steve.
Apparently MDN likes infantile, because they’ve chosen to keep putting up with it for this long.
Wait, I swore I wouldn’t reply to this thread. So does this make me fake too? Egads…
For all of you open-source fans out there, sure, GIMP is nice, but it can’t replace Photoshop in a Print Production environment for one simple fact. It doesn’t do CMYK. I just checked again, and found no way to make an image into anything but Indexed Colour, Greyscale, and RGB.
Unfortunately, print pros require CMYK, thus, GIMP is really gimped until such time as someone adds CMYK support. Any takers out there in coder-land?
MW=used – as in – I feel “used” by Adobe’s pricing.
blucaso, this is known as Ampar’s Syndrome.
I’m confused.
Does she or doesn’t she?
Use Breck, of course…
Can’t live without Photoshop/Illustrator so I will pay, but it comes out of my Apple budget.
ADOBE – Pricing themselves right outta the market!