means they can don shields and take my flak or praise ealier in the cycle…but assuming its a strict beta, unless theres a serious bug then i expect the feature set will be locked down.
Photoshop CS3 looks good so far. It looks familiar, and the new features are intuitive enough to grasp.
Bridge CS3 I’m still struggling with. 🙁 First I need to get the interface working like CS2 did, and that is turning out to be a Chinese puzzle. I’ll go get some sleep and try again tomorrow.
few things found so far…obviously not finished, but all the same, feedback is feedback
whats new doesnt show up on the PC version
warp still cant move bezier handles after a free transform, no way to add new handles
some filters allow the image to be moved after smart filter has been applied and the image gets updated, some dont, the effect is locked
now it seems all the filters i’ve come across can be re-invoked with cmd f (nice)
radial blur centre is image based on the smart filter, it ignores the selection centre, which is a different behaviour from when its normally applied…not so nice…but could be useful if it does mean moving the image afterwards to get the same effect, but could make the same effect impossible
radial blur hasnt been touched
image doesnt recenter in full window mode when you turn pallettes on and off (nice)…at least on the PC it doesnt
paths havent got anything new and theres still the hoop jump needed for them not to be transformed when a selection is active
Brush cursor options are limited to icon or precise – no brush size "circle".
Trying to move pallets (panels?) to a second screen – Info and Navigator turn into blank white rectangles when moved to the top of screen with no way to bring them back – have to go back to default workspace and try again. If these pallets are moved into the center area of the screen, or anywhere except the very top, they’re fine.
Mac Pro with 2 GB of RAM and the stock Nvidia card.
Brush cursor options are limited to icon or precise – no brush size "circle".
That’s a MacTel only issue that is being worked on. Folk still using PPC based Mac’s should find that resizing the Brush is dynamic and smooth (no more stabbing the square backet keys) 😉
I’d downloaded and installed on a Mac G4 laptop, but when I enter my CS2 serial number, I’m told it’s not valid. I doublechecked the number. It’s right.
On Mac Intel, PS warns about plug-ins not loaded at startup: those are for PPC only (except Watermark). I removed them from Adobe plug-ins folder to get rid of the message.
This thing totally rocks on a Mac Intel, nearly 3 times faster than my CS2 version on Retouch Artists Speed Test (57 sec vs 2 min 44 sec). I saw a post on Ars Technica forum from a guy doing this test in 29 sec on its MacPro 3 Ghz
The fade out effect when ckicking on the Finder and the PS GUI hides is really nice.
Smart sharpen has now options for sharpening certain types of blur
In preferences, graphic card is listed (for hardware video acceleration I presume), a range of available memory is recommended in the settings. More info about the scratch disks
A lot of little improvements here and there Much more new features than CS 2 when it hit market I think
I’ve downloaded & installed and have a quick question about import, specifically from an Epson 1640XL. I’ve downloaded and installed the latest driver, but I get a message that the TWAIN plugin is not loading since no TWAIN devices were found:
"Installed TWAIN devices: NONE"
The scanner works nicely in all of the other apps that I use (CS2 included).
Any clues about a solution? I realize this is a beta, so maybe that feature isn’t ready for prime-time yet.
I can’t install Beta CS3 because of the follow System Check message: "Installation cannot continue until the following applications are closed: TWAINBridge"
Still cannot get a correct color from color picker when; The curser is in precise mode and you click and drag off the image. But I guess these are Adobe vs Apple issues.
In reply to the "use the scanner software"…. That does work, but in my work-flow, I’m usually NOT doing composite/multi-layer images – it’s typically digitizing for patrons, so I’m only working on one image at a time. The extra time to jump between applications, while minimal, would add up over time.
Regarding plug-in running under MacIntel & CS3, you’ll -NOT- be able to run any legacy plug-ins except under Rosetta until those plug-ins are updated to Universal Binary by the developer… See Scott Byer’s blog: <http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/12/beta.html>
Update on the scanner import issue. Despite the fact that epson labels the drivers for some of their scanners as ready for intel macs, they ARE NOT universal binaries. If you read the fine print, only the drivers for a certain few scanners are actually unibin. Well, hopefully epson will step up and make them all unibin by the time CS3 is finalized.
The Adobe site will not accept my CS2 serial number. I get the following reply:
"Sorry, but the serial number you entered is not eligible for the Photoshop CS3 Beta download. Please try your Photoshop CS2 serial number again, or, if you do not own a license for Photoshop CS2, you can purchase one on Adobe.com and use the serial number to download the Photoshop CS3 Beta."
The serial number is from a Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, bought in Europe. Are there any limitations for European users?
The Adobe site will not accept my CS2 serial number. But I get the following reply:
————————- Sorry, but the serial number you entered is has already been used for the Photoshop CS3 Beta download. Please try your Photoshop CS2 serial number again, or, if you do not own a license for Photoshop CS2, you can purchase one on Adobe.com and use the serial number to download the Photoshop CS3 Beta. ————————-
Strange… as I have a CS2 package containing an eleven volume license serial number?
Anyone knows how to reach Adobe? Customer Service apparently "died" 🙂 (All i got was +30 minutes of easy listening. Ussh).
I have PS CS2 registered in the US and verified in MY ACCOUNTS. When trying to register CS3 beta with the CS2 serial number I also get rejected. NEED A HELP ANSWER as Customer Service said they don’t have any answers to this problem, and I said I would pass the word not to call them. We entered the serial number as a cut/paste from MY REGISTRATION and as a manual entry but both were rejected.
The Adobe site will not accept my CS2 serial number. I get the following reply:
There were some issues with the download pages found overnight, which is why the links from the Adobe Labs front pages aren’t there yet. It is being worked on.
I read your blog entry <http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/12/beta_1.html> late last night regarding the Rosetta/plugin/brush cursor issues, and I appreciate your candor. Keep writing, and we’ll keep reading!
I might suggest to others here that (If they don’t already visit regularly) they should bookmark John Nack’s (Senior Product Manager for Photoshop) blog. It’s a good bet that as announcements are made, his blog will be the first place to carry them.
Just one disappointment: Tthe History palette in the CS3 Beta still does not have separate scroll bars for the Snapshot and State sections.
Any hope that this can be fixed before CS3 finally ships because this is a feature that I desperately NEED as you and I discussed on the day that CS2 shipped.
Glad to see that the cursor issue on the Mac-Intels is known and being worked on. It does load faster on the Intel-Mac and seems to be smoother in almost every aspect.
Disappointments…. Warp is really no better than CS2.. I was hoping for more control.
Still can’t link a Smart Object to a layer mask. REALLY wanted that one.
Nice work guys. Really! It’s obviously a big step forward despite my measly disappointments.
Please post bugs that you find (and read the release notes first to see if it’s a known problem) via the bug report forms in the Photoshop or Bridge CS3 forums.
I find that the auto palette-hiding can be a little tricky if you like to keep your Dock in the right-hand margin of your screen
The trick is to hide the Dock. I’ve set it up that way from day one. It stays totally out of sight at the bottom of the screen and it pops up when I move the mouse to the bottom. I can’t imagine putting up with the Dock any other way.
I wonder if final Mac PS CS3 Palettes minimize and close buttons will remain on the right side? (a la Windows). I’ve twice already accidentally closed a palette while trying to access its menu.
