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Tuesday 27 March 2007, 9:36 AM
Adobe's CS3 update--what do you think?
Today Adobe finally let everybody else in on the details of what's coming in Creative Suite 3, the update to Photoshop and other software. There'll be not one, but six--count 'em--versions of the package, set to ship at different times this year, as well as 13 standalone apps.
As for price, CS3 packages range from about £830 to £2,300, with upgrades coming cheaper.
That's a hefty chunk of cash. So is it value for money? Photoshop can now handle some video image editing, and several applications have a more Web-friendly sheen. Is that what people want? Tell us what you make of it here, and you might win one of our warm ZDNet UK hats going to the five best posts.
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£830 to £2,300 eh? As a personal user, I don't honestly think I'll want to spend this much money on an upgrade. I did spend a lot of money on getting Photoshop CS2 and it has all the features that I need for the moment.
Maybe in another 8 years time. I made Photoshop 5.5 last a long time and I'm planning to make CS2 last as well.
To be fair, those are the prices to buy off the shelf. If you're upgrading, it's a lot cheaper: CS3 Web Premium costs £534.62 if you already own a copy of CS Standard 2.0.
Looking at Adobe's online store, it can be a bit of a tangle to work out how much it will cost you to upgrade: It all depends on which particular product or package you already own. I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few people get the price they need to pay wrong.
It depends on what you want to do. For a very long time I thought that Photoshop 3 was all I would ever need. When I started working on websites I just had to upgrade. Today customers start asking me for video editing. So I am serously thinking about upgrading to the master suite.
