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Adobe Unveils Creative Suite 3 Lineup
by , 12:15 AM EDT, March 27th, 2007
Adobe announced its new Creative Suite 3 product lineup on Tuesday, including Photoshop CS3, InDesign CS3, Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, and Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. The applications are all Universal Binary allowing them to run natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, and are scheduled to ship in April.
InDesign CS3
The new version of Adobe's professional page layout application adds several features to help improve design workflows including Multi-file Place, enhanced Quick Apply, Advanced Find/Change, and fast frame fitting. It also includes improved table and cell styles XHTML export to Dreamweaver CS3, automated bullets and numbering for lists, text variables, support for Photoshop effects, and more. InDesign CS3 costs US$699.
Photoshop CS3
Adobe's reworked image editing application includes non-destructive Smart Filters, a Quick Selection tool, a Refine Edge tool, automatic layer alignment and blending for layers with similar content, Vanishing Point with multiple adjustable angle perspective planes, Black and White conversion, and more. Photoshop CS3 is priced at $649.
Illustrator CS3
The new version of Adobe's vector-based graphic application adds pre-build document profiles, a new Crop Area tool, a Live Color tool that lets users change colors and automatically update them in Photoshop, new Live Trace and Paint tools, enhanced typography, Flash CS3 integration, and more. Illustrator CS3 costs US$599.
Adobe Device Central CS3
Adobe also unveiled Device Central CS3 - an application that lets designers simulate displays from a wide range of portable electronic devices including cell phones to see how images and layouts will appear to end users. The application includes a test environment to simulate how applications will perform or how Web sites will appear on different devices, and Adobe plans to release regular profile updates as new devices are released.
Adobe Device Central CS3 is included with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Extended CS3, Illustrator CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Creative Suite 3 Design Standard and Premium, and Creative Suite 3 Web Standard and Premium.
Adobe's Creative Suite application packages include:
Creative Suite 3 Design Professional - $1799
- Adobe InDesign CS3
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
- Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
- Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Creative Suite 3 Design Standard - $1199
- Adobe InDesign CS3
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Creative Suite 3 Web Premium - $1599
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
- Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
- Adobe Fireworks CS3
- Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
- Adobe Device Central CS3
Creative Suite 3 Web Standard - $999
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
- Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
- Adobe Fireworks CS3
- Adobe Contribute CS3
- Adobe Device Central CS3
Observer Comments
Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:25 am Subject: What about upgrades?
CS3 Web Standard at $1k, Dreamweaver alone is $399 and isn't that amazing GoLive is also $399. Will you look at that; both are owned by Adobe. This is what you get when you don't have competition. Big corporate web developing departments may be happy, but I guess those of us working with smaller companies or doing freelance and casual work are SOL.
Hey developers; There is a market for an inexpensive web editing tool that will manage sites (HTML, templates, links and some CSS) and not a lot else FOR A REASONABLE PRICE. . A lot of us don't need or want or can pay for all the fancy tools.
Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:56 am Subject: No GoLive!
Quotegeoduck wrote:
CS3 Web Standard at $1k, Dreamweaver alone is $399 and isn't that amazing GoLive is also $399. Will you look at that; both are owned by Adobe. This is what you get when you don't have competition. Big corporate web developing departments may be happy, but I guess those of us working with smaller companies or doing freelance and casual work are SOL.
Hey developers; There is a market for an inexpensive web editing tool that will manage sites (HTML, templates, links and some CSS) and not a lot else FOR A REASONABLE PRICE. . A lot of us don't need or want or can pay for all the fancy tools.
I guess you can still buy it standalone, but I don't see GoLive in any of the CS3 suites. I will have to see if they revised DreamWeaver enough to entice me away from GoLive.
QuoteSir Harry Flashman wrote:
I don't see GoLive in any of the CS3 suites.
I went out to the Adobe online store to get the stand alone pricing for GoLive and Dreamweaver. Only Dreamweaver has been included in CS3. There has been a lot of speculation that Adobe was going to drop GoLive completely. I have been hoping that they would take a 2 tier strategy with Dreamweaver being the professional tool and GoLive the personal one. I'm now starting to suspect that GoLive is not long for this world. <sigh> I guess I'll be sticking with GoLive 6.0 for a while.
Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:31 am Subject: I would prefer
Quotegeoduck wrote:QuoteSir Harry Flashman wrote:
I don't see GoLive in any of the CS3 suites.
I went out to the Adobe online store to get the stand alone pricing for GoLive and Dreamweaver. Only Dreamweaver has been included in CS3. There has been a lot of speculation that Adobe was going to drop GoLive completely. I have been hoping that they would take a 2 tier strategy with Dreamweaver being the professional tool and GoLive the personal one. I'm now starting to suspect that GoLive is not long for this world. <sigh> I guess I'll be sticking with GoLive 6.0 for a while.
I would prefer that they let DreamWeaver wither and improve GoLive. To be sure I am speaking a prematurely, or immaturely as the case may be, and have not yet looked at the new DreamWeaver. I really need to see if they fixed up it or if they did little more than put lipstick on it.
I have grown to appreciate things like Smart Objects and InDesign's "package for GoLive."
Hell, they should just put the DreamWeaver splash screen onto GoLive and it would be a win-win situation. We would get to keep GoLive and the other camp would think that they have an improved DreamWeaver,
Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:44 am Subject: Well I looked at the new DreamWeaver
Just the info and video, no hands on, but it looks like they incorporated some of stuff I liked about GoLive as well as some new stuff. In fact it looks quite "spry" and I will be giving it a try when I upgrade sometime later this spring.
I will probably opt for the Design Premium suite as it includes InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Bridge, as well as PhotoShop and DreamWeaver.
Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:04 pm Subject: GoLive Standalone ....
Ugh. I couldn't stand GoLive (in the CS2 Professional Suite). I went back to Dreamweaver MX (not MX 2004 - I love these naming schemes) after a couple weeks of trying to get used to GoLive. I suspect the new versions will integrate with Dreamweaver the way you like the integration with GoLive.
That said, many more serious web developers I know hate Dreamweaver. I guess it's like Illustrator/Freehand/CorelDraw: Difference of preferences.
- Jon
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