Adobe officially announces CS3

[mkeefe]

Adobe has posted the official info on all of the CS applications. Go take a look and get ready to move into the next generation of development and design.

Adobe CS3 Family (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/)
Web Suite (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/web/)
Design Suite (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/)
Production Premium (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/)
Master Collection (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/mastercollection/)

Also don't forget to watch the CS3 event later today... 3:30 EST

[Edited on 3/27/2007 by mkeefe]

[PNeal]

The upgrade pricing is better than I thought it was going to be :D

[Hermie]

I don't know yet. I bought CS and updated to CS2 and now i have to update again!!!

What are the better things in Dreamweaver CS3! Is it just because it's adobe now? And yes i would love to work with Fireworks again but i make my own buttons now with Photoshop and Image Ready. Flash still doesn't appeal to me.

If i buy a suite kind it still has a lot of programs i don't use, simple because i got other programs to do it for me.

I still need a lot of thinking to do....

[rAyVoLvEz]

Any ideas whats new in Dreamweaver CS3? I've Dreamweaver 8 Professional Educational and in fact the entire 8 Professional Suite (which includes Flash 8, Freehand 8, Fireworks 8) which was bundled with my Acer laptop.

What will be the most important difference between Dreamweaver CS3 and Dreamweaver 8? Anyone with any ideas? I care only about Dreamweaver, not so much of Flash(I think its AS3 in Flash CS3?)


Edit: I think the validation check for CSS will be a real baby to use and the complete CSS support will be really cool.

The drive to upgrade if I can, for my educational version, would be... Cross Platform support and the complete CSS support.

From a recent project, I find that Dreamweaver's design view seems to emulate the possible view of IE, instead of standards compliant browsers like Firefox and Opera. Especially when Tables are used, IE's Tables behaviours differ from FF and Opera and Dreamweaver emulates that of IE, which doesn't make my life any easier when tables were implemented for some heavy content page in my recent project. For those with IE and Firefox, you can see what I mean by going to this site : http://www.nanyangjc.org/~lep/honourroll.htm
You will notice a big empty space after the last content from the bottom in IE and in FF/Opera, the space left is pretty nothing much.

I'm not quite understanding the part on the integration between Photoshop Files and Dreamweaver though, at least from what I'm seeing in the video.

Oh and the FLV support! That would be real cool. Now I'm tempted for Dreamweaver CS3 upgrade. Gonna think and wait for any upgrade prices.

Still very comfortable with Photoshop CS2, not sure if I'm in or gonna do any upgrade to CS3. CS2 does what I need and satisfies me enough.

I see that some programs got ousted with this info, well and kind of shocking to me was the oust of Freehand. GoLive disappearing wasn't a surprise. I know that a fair amount of graphic/DTP/Layout people uses Freehand. So now, I guess InDesign is the standard to stick with. I'm glad I made the decision to spend time to self learn InDesign back then instead of Freehand which never seems to agree with me.

So now the question, who's upgrading?

[Edited on 3/27/2007 by rAyVoLvEz]

[mkeefe]

I will be updating the complete suite, no question about it.

Matt

[kiwicolin]

Me too. And I need to get mac and windows.

Features are here

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/cs3/pdfs/CS3_Web_Workflow_Guide.pdf

[uk2usadaz]

Looks like its the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium $599 + Fireworks $149 for me. Upgrade from my existing CS2 (2.0) Premium Suite to CS3 Premium.
Why is is more money to upgrade form (2.0) then (2.3)

[Edited on 27-3-2007 by uk2usadaz]

[TechZsue]

i think i'm burned out on upgrades...but would love to hear some reviews from those of you who are going for it:D

[Hannu]

Cooking some pasta and making some snacks... and tuning in for the release :cheers

[scottperezfox]

I think I'll have to add a paypal button to my site because I have no money for upgrades.

[Hannu]

20 mins till announcement (or am I totally wrong with the timezones)

[TomM]

For me, it's Design Standard.

[kiwicolin]

Watching live now - the video feed is screwed up for the screen, hopefully they will fix it soon

[TomM]

I'm seeing it.
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/launchevent/webcast/

[Hannu]

Watching here in Finland, too. A little service break now.

But that Photoshop CS3 looked fast :o

[uk2usadaz]

Watching here too, but its screwed up!

[PNeal]

I don't know about ya'll, but the intermission music is starting to make me sleepy...

[uk2usadaz]

When does the cookies come round.

[mkeefe]

Back on now, the monkeys in the back got it fixed.

Matt

[Gankstah]

I only got to catch the end the konica minolta guy was here working with me on option sets for folding/bookbinding

[Jacunivac]

Colin,

As a former user of LiveMotion after I read the piece on John Nack's blog about Photoshop CS3's integration with Flash (http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/images/ps_into_flash.jpg) I guess it's time to learn it. Where is a good place to start? Books, video, etc.?

Thanks,

Jac