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Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium

Upgrade, Mac - MPN: 19500232

Description: This Upgrade from CS2 Standard, Premium or Production Studio to Design Premium CS3 Suite for Mac from Adobe allows owners of CS2 Standard, Premium or Production Studio to upgrade to the Design Premium CS3 suite at a price lower than buying the full version of the software.Th... read more

This Upgrade from CS2 Standard, Premium or Production Studio to Design Premium CS3 Suite for Mac from Adobe allows owners of CS2 Standard, Premium or Production Studio to upgrade to the Design Premium CS3 suite at a price lower than buying the full version of the software.The Design Premium CS3 suite is a software bundle that is aimed at graphic designers who need to do a nominal amount of work for the web.The bundle includes Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, Acrobat 8 Professional, Flash CS3 Professional and Dreamweaver CS3. Also included are the components common to CS3 applications. The include Bridge CS3, Version Cue CS3, Device Central CS3, Stock Photos, and Acrobat Connect.The applications included in this suite are Universal Binary applications that run at native speeds on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. minimize

holy trinity for designers

Strengths:

good value for bundled apps vs. buying each separately

Weaknesses:

Acrobat's upgrade cycle isn't in sync with the rest of Creative Suite. There is a serious bug with saving Photoshop files to network servers under OS X 10.5.3

Posted 1 year ago - Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign are the holy trinity for designers. Acrobat and Dreamweaver are essential, too. It's great that Flash is now part of the suite. CS 3 includes Acrobat 8 Pro. Adobe just announced CS 3.3 which will include Acrobat 9 Pro and FireWorks CS 3, and even though I just bought CS 3 two weeks before the date of the announcement, I'll have to pay to upgrade. (Other companies allow free upgrades if you purchased the software a few weeks before a new version is announced.) Acrobat is on a different upgrade schedule than the rest of the CS 3 programs, so a similar thing happened with CS 2/Acrobat 7 and CS 2.3/Acrobat 8.

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Essential professional tool

Strengths:

Universal runs VERY VERY fast on Intel Macs, new acrobat is very user friendly, photoshop interface cleaned up or reorganized.

Weaknesses:

price, dreamweaver included instead of golive, activation system

Posted Jul 11, 2007 - This was one of the few required updates of CS in the past few versions as it was the first universal binary version of CS. CS2 would run very slow on my macbook pro, programs would launch very slow and menu response was sluggish. CS3 however is amazingly fast on my Macbook.

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Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Premium

Strengths:

Awesome

Weaknesses:

none

Posted Jun 20, 2007 - Amazing product. Shipped and arrived way before they claimed it would. I bought CS2 from Software Media as well! Adobe has outdone itself again, staying ahead of the competition and going above and beyond making it faster and easier to complete projects every day.

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