Adobe Creative Suite 3 was launched with a large media event in New York City last Tuesday, March 27; the webcast is now available in its entirety online. Catch it here as well as some commentary from someone who watched the event.
The new Suite-mate brings new features, new look, and new capabilities for the mobile realm
The announcement of the Creative Suite 3 constellation has settled a great many user questions about the near term, and perhaps arguably one of the most wondered about was simply which Macromedia products would be admitted to the Suite.
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I am really impressed by how Adobe has adopted Dreamweaver, added some cutting-edge technologies, then made it easier for everyone to create great websites.

Isn’t it ironic that, when Adobe bought Macromedia, it suddenly had two competing web design applications on its hands—Dreamweaver and its very own GoLive? There was a lot of speculation what might happen, and for awhile it seemed GoLive might stick around as some sort of web design app for hobbyists and novices. Now we know that GoLive has gone the way of LiveMotion and Dreamweaver is the application Adobe will champion for web designers. I haven’t had a chance to see a Dreamweaver CS3 demo other than what’s been on the webcast, but I do have the latest information on the new application—and I’m dying to get my hands on it.
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For some time there has been a video podcast devoted to the Adobe Creative Suite 2 family and today the first episode for Creative Suite 3 is here!
Join host Terry White for a special episode covering the all new Adobe Creative Suite 3 Family. See the latest enhancements and new tools. Check out the new sleek interface. You will also learn what’s new in each of the Suites. Not only has Adobe been working hard on the new versions of familiar applications like Illustrator and Photoshop, but it has also been hard at work integrating the former Macromedia products like Dreamweaver and Flash.
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New Design Collections in the Adobe® Creative Suite 3® range offer improved stalwarts and powerful new tools to enable creation for the print and the mobile world
The new range of the Adobe® Creative Suite 3® family is showing its growth. Now more than merely Creative Suite Standard and Pro, it has blossomed into a rather formidable array of packages aiming to appeal to and satisfy the needs of creatives in many spheres, not just print.
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Six packages and thirteen standalone applications—which ones do you need? Let us show you what’s in each.

Click here to see a graphic of the checklist, detailing packages and what they offer. Note that Adobe OnLocation and Adobe Ultra are available only in the Production Premium package.
Get your creative juices (and your creations!) moving with new Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software for Mac and Windows!
Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software, the successor to Adobe Production Studio, allows you to create visually innovative work for film, broadcast, web, mobile phones, and other portable devices. New releases of Adobe’s post-production and graphic tools are combined with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional and intuitive new audio tool Adobe Soundbooth.
If you design across media and need all the power Adobe has available, then Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3 Master Collection is for you. It has everything you need to design for print, web, video, and even mobile!
One of the most anticipated Adobe Illustrator upgrades ever is right around the corner. Gone are Venus and the Illustrator flower icons, and in their place is a simple “Ai†icon denoting Illustrator’s default file format. The rest of the changes in Illustrator, however, are not simple, and features like better Flash integration and new Live Color, as well as lots of improvements in interface and efficiency, make this a must-have upgrade. Things that make you go “hmmm†they aren’t…these are things that make you go “Wow!â€
This is the big one, the first Adobe web software suite with the Macromedia apps—not counting the transition package we’ve had over the last several months. Adobe has finally put their mark on the Macromedia stable of apps.
Media Lab invested a lot of effort in improving SiteGrinder, and it shows.
Last year I reviewed SiteGrinder— a Photoshop plug-in that builds fully-functional webpages from Photoshop files—and found the product good but not great. I had problems recreating some parts of the website and building my webpage with a bunch of properly named Photoshop layers seemed counterintuitive. My conclusion was that SiteGrinder was a good tool for creating graphically intensive webpages but became harder to handle if pages were more complex.
Photoshop is sporting a new slogan to go with its latest news.
Has anyone seen this page on Photoshop’s 20-year history and its new “Extended” family?
Not only does it define Adobe’s approach to the digital imaging market and its positioning of the Photoshop brand, it also gives away a new slogan for the product:
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Photoshop CS3 will be available in Standard and Extended versions, each one suited for specific market segments.
Adobe Systems made big news recently by announcing that the upcoming Photoshop CS3 will be available in two versions. This is news because, while applications such as Photoshop Elements have been around awhile for non-professional consumers, this is the first time Photoshop itself has been segmented in this way—and unlike Photoshop Elements, the newest Photoshop is for specific professional users. From the Adobe website:
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CS3 is finally here, and it’s highly anticipated since it’s the first Intel-native version of the suite for creative professionals.
Adobe Systems has announced that Creative Suite 3, the software many creative professionals use (including Photoshop and now Dreamweaver and Flash) will be formally announced on Tuesday, March 27. Here is the link from Adobe’s website, and here is one from MacRumors.com, which does a good job of pulling details from a variety of sources. Note that this is only the formal announcement—CS3 won’t be shipped until later (I’m thinking mid-April is the most likely time for release—it’s not long after the event, but CS3 has been on the burner for awhile and parts of the lineup [Photoshop, Lightroom] have been in beta form for some time now).
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