stunsworth Posted December 14, 2006 Share #1 Posted December 14, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just read on the LUG that a beta of CS3 will be available from Adobe from Friday. PC and Mac - universal binary - will be available. It sounds as if you need a current serial number to activate the beta. Don't know when it expires or what's in it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 Hi stunsworth, Take a look here Beta of Photoshop CS3 available from the 15th of Dec. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
cbretteville Posted December 14, 2006 Share #2 Posted December 14, 2006 Universal binary? Ther might be hope for us yet. My licences are all Windows and currently there is no way to change that short of buying a full new license. Now that I've experienced how badly Windows can mess up prints that goes through the Windows spooler (yes colour managed ones too), I really want to change my workhorse to a Mac, but license costs have made that a no-can-do. - Carl Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
canlogic Posted December 14, 2006 Share #3 Posted December 14, 2006 Universal binary? Ther might be hope for us yet. My licences are all Windows and currently there is no way to change that short of buying a full new license. Now that I've experienced how badly Windows can mess up prints that goes through the Windows spooler (yes colour managed ones too), I really want to change my workhorse to a Mac, but license costs have made that a no-can-do. - Carl Thats not true! I called Adobe and was told to download a special form from their website. I did and filled it in and then faxed it to them. It cost me I think $8 to have the Mac version of CS2 shipped to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted December 14, 2006 Share #4 Posted December 14, 2006 Tim, That is news to me. Good news. Thanks for posting this. I might just look into getting one. - Carl Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 14, 2006 Share #5 Posted December 14, 2006 I did the same thing Tim, I called them an they completely switched my license from PC to Mac and sent me a new CS2 for Mac and Acrobat Professional also that i had registered . You need to fill out a form of destruction to your copy of the PC software, basically throw it away for good. It cost me 20 dollars because i put a rush on the CD delivery . My hat is off to Adobe on this one , made the pain of switching systems a little less painful on the pocket , not by much but it helped . Bought a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro. There went my MF money. LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share #6 Posted December 14, 2006 Hi Carl, 'Universal Binary' is refering to the Mac version. The newer Macs use Intel hardware, whereas the older ones use Power PC. A universal binary has code for both types of hardware. This doesn't mean it can run on a PC. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted December 14, 2006 Share #7 Posted December 14, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Steve, it was a little too good to be true.... anyways with today's revelation that I can have my licenses swapped for a Mac lisence I'm happy. - C Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted December 14, 2006 Share #8 Posted December 14, 2006 Just read on the LUG that a beta of CS3 will be available from Adobe from Friday. PC and Mac - universal binary - will be available. It sounds as if you need a current serial number to activate the beta. Don't know when it expires or what's in it. Lets hope they get the registration thing worked out. When CS2 came out, I downloaded it and ran it in demo for a while. When the demo expired, it broke my installation of PS7. I think I had to do a reinstall of PS7 or call Adobe. It was I while ago and I can't remember. I eventually bought the CS2 upgrade. All I can remember is licensing problems in regards to the demo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted December 14, 2006 Share #9 Posted December 14, 2006 Lets hope they get the registration thing worked out. When CS2 came out, I downloaded it and ran it in demo for a while. When the demo expired, it broke my installation of PS7. I think I had to do a reinstall of PS7 or call Adobe. It was I while ago and I can't remember. I eventually bought the CS2 upgrade. All I can remember is licensing problems in regards to the demo. I agree. Adobe's license system is too complicated for its own good. I know software houses have to protect their copyright material but there is overkill. CS3? Damn. I'm only just getting to grips with CS2. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdai Posted December 14, 2006 Share #10 Posted December 14, 2006 The Photoshop licensing works very simply IMO ... when you install it, you activate it online with one click, before you move your license to another machine ... all you need to remember is unauthorize the first machine when you stay online then you'll be able to activate it on the second. There's absolutely no need to call anyone, email anyone ... the transfer of license from PC to Mac or vice versa is exactly as described by Guy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted December 14, 2006 Share #11 Posted December 14, 2006 Just read on the LUG that a beta of CS3 will be available from Adobe from Friday. I had been under the impression that Lightroom was going to be Adobe's replacement for CS2. Isn't there some redundancy here? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted December 14, 2006 Share #12 Posted December 14, 2006 The Photoshop licensing works very simply IMO ... when you install it, you activate it online with one click, before you move your license to another machine ... all you need to remember is unauthorize the first machine when you stay online then you'll be able to activate it on the second. There's absolutely no need to call anyone, email anyone ... the transfer of license from PC to Mac or vice versa is exactly as described by Guy. I was referring to demo versions nuking the licensing of your legit copy. I think when I bought the upgrade from 7 to CS2, even the paid for CS2 would not install because it was saying my demo expired. In the end, it required a call to Adobe, which is not all that easy. Lotus 1-2-3 was the worst of the software companies regarding Licensing, and you see where they are now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter41951 Posted December 14, 2006 Share #13 Posted December 14, 2006 I had been under the impression that Lightroom was going to be Adobe's replacement for CS2. Isn't there some redundancy here? Lightroom is a RAW converter only. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted December 14, 2006 Share #14 Posted December 14, 2006 I had been under the impression that Lightroom was going to be Adobe's replacement for CS2. Isn't there some redundancy here? So far, lightroom only manages your images and converts the raw. there are no image manipulating tools in it yet other than just exposure, curves sharping and other RAW conversion related functions. I hear they may put a clone tool in the next version of Lightroom for dealing with dust on the sensor. I think LightRoom fits in the image managemnt segment. You tag/keyword/IPTC your images in LightRoom and then hand them off to the editor (person/client) or send them to Photoshop and manipulate them yourself. It also has some cropping and printing options, but I have not bothered with printing through it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdai Posted December 14, 2006 Share #15 Posted December 14, 2006 Lightroom is primarily a photographer's workflow solution. I actually suspect that Adobe was only motivated to develop Lightroom as a counterstrike against Aperture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdai Posted December 14, 2006 Share #16 Posted December 14, 2006 I think when I bought the upgrade from 7 to CS2, even the paid for CS2 would not install because it was saying my demo expired. In the end, it required a call to Adobe, which is not all that easy. That's strange, Rob ... I did the same and never had an issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsteve Posted December 14, 2006 Share #17 Posted December 14, 2006 That's strange, Rob ... I did the same and never had an issue. Did you run the CS2 demo until it expired? Get your PS7 working again and then buy the update? I am on Windows, so it may be an OS thing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdai Posted December 14, 2006 Share #18 Posted December 14, 2006 Can't remember exactly, Rob ... I run it on PC and Mac. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcRochkind Posted December 14, 2006 Share #19 Posted December 14, 2006 Lightroom is a RAW converter only. Two reasons why it is more: (1) all of its image-manipulation tools work on any image file, including JPEGs, and (2) it does much more than conversion (library, web sites, slide shows, printing, etc.). Finally we can use exactly the same workflow for both RAWs and JPEGs! --Marc Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrc Posted December 14, 2006 Share #20 Posted December 14, 2006 I'm also a big Lightroom fan; I think Adobe is positioning it as the photographer's basic tool, with PS moving more and more toward photo-art or photo-illustration, where you actually break photos apart and recombine them. Lightroom, I believe, will in the next couple of years do almost anything a "straight photographer" would ask, including importing, basic darkroom-style manipulations, indexing, archiving, web-prep and printing. I doubt that it will even get involved too deeply with layers, with selections, and so on. In any case, I have both LR and CS2, and find myself working more and more in LR. I'm looking forward to the LR commercial release which shold be shortly after the first of the year. JC Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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