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Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 launch confirmed for March 27 “Adobe Systems will officially roll out its highly anticipated Creative Suite 3.0 software bundle at a special event in New York City on March 27, the company confirmed on Monday. (Via AppleInsider.)
[Update: This news has been clarified to state that Adobe will be announcing the ship date on March 27th. The actual ship date will be later this spring.]
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 will be sold for $299. (I wonder how much Aperture’s price drop played into this) and will be available mid-February.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 is now available for pre-order at a special introductory price of $199. It will not be packaged or bundled with Photoshop CS3. But yes, Adobe seems intent on keeping Photoshop in the name even though everyone is writing about it as “Lightroom” after the first mention. Go figure.
(Via John Nack on Adobe.)
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A revised beta build of Bridge CS3 is available on Adobe Labs. If you’re running the public beta of Photoshop CS3, you should get this new beta. I believe you can even download it if you’re not.
The new version includes better support for multiple display, a new flat view, an improved loupe tool, and fixes a memory leak.
(Via John Nack on Adobe.)
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Adobe has announced it will introduce on Friday a beta version of the Universal Adobe Photoshop CS3 software to ‘enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Appleís new Intel-based systems.’ The beta, first previewed in early September, is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as w…
Pretty exciting news for the Mac users out there wanting Photoshop to run Universal sooner rather than later.
(Via MacNN.)
Sphere: Related ContentAdobe Announces Fireworks Private Beta For those thinking Fireworks was a goner. (Via creativepro.com.)
Ben Long at completedigitalphotography.com has just released version 3 of his Photoshop Action Pack, a collection of Automator Actions that allow users of Photoshop CS and CS2 to drive Photoshop from within Apple’s Automator. Packing a total of 85 separate actions, version 3 of the Action Pack now lets users process Camera Raw files from within their Automator workflows, allowing them to use Automator to drive their raw photography pipeline.
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Sphere: Related ContentAccording to Macsimum News, which translated an article from MacGeneration, Adobe announced that it would cease development of FreeHand and GoLive during last week’s Adobe Live event.
The two applications are the first causalities from the Macromedia acquisition. Fans of the applications have been hoping against hope they would continue on. Although, the news shouldn’t come as much of a shock considering Illustrator and Dreamweaver seemed like the obvious contenders to survive. Illustrator because of its long lineage with Adobe and tight integration within the Creative Suite. Dreamweaver for its popularity in the Web development community and apparent edge over GoLive in terms of development features and performance.
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Adobe Says GoLive and Freehand Are Not Being Discontinued
(The emphasis on the word “support” is my doing. I just find the choice of this word interesting as opposed to using the word “develop”.)
Be sure to read the entire post to get the complete context, but I’m getting the impression that this is Adobe’s attempt at letting us down easy.
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