The new SoundBooth application will help clean up soundtracks with new visual editing tools. Able to work with real-time digicam feeds, and with a green screen tool that can handle virtual studios, CS3 Production gives podcasters and web video producers the same tools as their broadcast media colleagues, simplifying editing tasks. Perhaps the most surprising part of the CS3 announcement is the arrival of a suite of video tools, CS3 Production. A premium bundle includes Photoshop CS3 Extended and Illustrator CS3. Dreamweaver CS3 adds AJAX tools, with support for Adobe's Spry framework. Fireworks CS3 has moved away from image creation, and is now a web site prototyping tool. The biggest change for all the web tools is closer integration with Adobe's design applications, and Photoshop layers can now be imported directly into Flash. Flash CS3 adds support for ActionScript 3.0, introduced with Flex and the Flash Player 9. However, it is the CS3 Web bundle which fully merges Adobe and former Macromedia products together. All the suites include Adobe's workflow tools, Bridge CS3 and Version Cue CS3, as well as support for the Connect web conferencing package. The Standard package only includes the print design tools. The CS3 Design Premium package now includes Dreamweaver CS3 and Flash CS3 alongside InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Acrobat 8 Professional and Illustrator CS3, mixing web and print design in one package. Photoshop also includes a new user interface, intended to give Adobe's creative applications a common look-and-feel, which should reduce learning curves - and training costs. A public beta revealed many of its new features - though Adobe has kept its 3D and video support for a new high end version, Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Designers using the latest Macintosh hardware should see significant performance improvements - as native Intel code will mean tools like Photoshop are no longer running through the Rosetta emulation layer.Īdobe's flagship product, Photoshop, has had a significant update, and now links 2D and 3D art, print and web, and still and video.
Mac OS X users will find universal binary versions of most applications, though some tools have yet to move from Windows to Apple hardware. Six new bundles have been unveiled - including a Master edition that bundles 12 different applications.Īdobe's chief executive Bruce Chizen described the launch as giving Adobe's users "the creative license to engage audiences across virtually every medium. With new versions of nearly every single one of its creative tools, Adobe's Creative Suite 3 (CS3) launch is the company's biggest in its 25 years.
Adobe has unveiled the first upgrade in two years of its flagship design software suite, which accounts for more than half of the company's overall revenue.