Photoshop CS3 Beta released

[rogue_designer]

Especially good for those of us with intel mac's - the new Beta for Intel native Photoshop CS3 was released today. You'll need a serial number from a liscensed version of photoshop to use it for more than two days.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_photoshop

Early reports are that it shows significant improvments on intel-mac's over CS2. I'll run a time test comparison later.

Cheers.

 

[Pherdinand]

looking forward to that comparison, rogue.
The CS i currently have running on mac book is a tad slow in some things like starting up, saving tiff's and such.

 

[Valder]

The CS i currently have running on mac book is a tad slow in some things like starting up, saving tiff's and such.

I'm pretty happy with those speeds. I was running CS2 on my ATA drives while I was waiting for my new SCSI320 card, but once I switched my system back to SCSI drives those slow times have went away. Just wondering how much this upgrade will cost us.

I'll have to check out the Beta to see if it is worth it.



Darrin

 

[Pherdinand]

Well, the mac book i have has a core duo 1.85 (?) processor, 1G RAM and a pretty good HD, and still the same CS runs considerably faster on my lower-equipped Windows machine at the office.

 

[physiognomy]

Especially good for those of us with intel mac's - the new Beta for Intel native Photoshop CS3 was released today.

Thanks for sharing the news & the link... I have been hanging out for this ever since I got my macbook! Not sure I'll be able to work a full version into my budget any time soon, but I'd love to try the beta.

Peter

 

[rogue_designer]

I've only had time for one basic speed comparison test.

The test is to create a new document - 8x10 inches, 300ppi, RGB, white background.

Filter>Noise>Add noise>400%, Uniform, Monochromatic

Filter>Blur>Radial Blur>Zoom, 100%, Best (start timing when you hit apply filter)

My G5 at work was the benchmark.
CS2 - Dual 2Ghz PowerPC G5/2GB ram = 57 seconds

Testing on my intel mac powerbook pro 15"
CS2 - CoreDuo 2Ghz Intel/2GB ram = 78 seconds

CS3 (beta) - CoreDuo 2Ghz Intel/2GB ram = 48 seconds

So pretty good speed improvement. Looks like some good new features too. I'll report more when I have a chance to play around.

 

[physiognomy]

...You'll need a serial number from a liscensed version of photoshop to use it for more than two days...

Just to clarify... It needs to be a licenced copy of PS CS2... Crap, we only have CS here in the lab 🙁 :bang: 🙁

Peter

 

[wyk_penguin]

Actually, what additional features did Adobe put in it.

 

[rogue_designer]

Actually, what additional features did Adobe put in it.

Non-destructive filters for starters. 🙂

A decent summary can be seen here: http://www.photoshopcafe.com/cs3/CS3.htm

 

[IGMeanwell]

The Black and White adjustment is a great new feature

I think they kind of started that in Lightroom (great black and white editor in my opinion)

Although Elements 5.0 is on my list right now, as it has the healing (masking) tool that I love for blemishes ... the one thing that lightroom doesn't have

I still will probably keep lightroom as long as possible as it is so fast and easy for RAW files

 

[Pherdinand]

Looks good. Almost twice the speed! Thanks Rogue.
Ah hell, i also don't have a CS2, only CS :O

 

[ffttklackdedeng]

Could you guys please stop drooling?! I'm on a G5 / CS2 currently and don't need Intel / CS3 GAS.. 🙂

 

[Pherdinand]

if they were not changing to Pentium, i could never afford a Mac.
Better said, I could, a second hand one, and I would always be five years behind. 🙄