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Adobe announces Photoshop CS3 Beta

December 14, 2006 by in Apple,Downloadable with 12 Comments

As predicted Adobe today announced that on Friday morning they will release a beta version Adobe Photoshop. Adobe is typically tight lipped about product launch dates and features before their launch, but only recently giving us mere mortals a peak behind the curtain.

Photoshop CS3 reportedly brings major enhancements to the Adobe Bridge file browsing system (Never used it). Here is the catch, this beta will only be available to users of Photoshop CS2 with a valid license key, and the Universal Binary will require a G4 (1GHz or higher), G5, or Intel processor with at least 512MB of RAM.

No word yet on when the beta will expire, but I’m sure it will be announce tomorrow.

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UPDATE: It seems that Adobe has staged the downloads

“A licensed copy of Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite 2, Production Studio, Adobe Web Bundle, or Adobe Video Bundle is required to use this technology beyond a two-day trial period. After installation you will be prompted to enter a CS3 beta serial number for Photoshop. To obtain a beta serial number, visit www.adobe.com/go/photoshopcs3beta_serialnumber and enter your CS2 serial number. Although the beta is available only in English, all language versions of Photoshop and the products mentioned above qualify to participate.”

Here are the direct download links, but be reminded you need a serial number to use the beta.

Mac – http://trials.adobe.com/pub/esd/labs/photoshopcs3/adobephotoshop_10_12-14-06.dmg
Windows – http://trials.adobe.com/pub/esd/labs/photoshopcs3/adobephotoshop_10_12-14-06.exe


  • http://quatre.wordpress.com Matthew Rodgers

    Now if only I had a few extra hundred dollars to buy CS3. Oh well, I guess I’ll just stick to theGIMP. Yeah.

  • Websnap

    Woo hoo, Government Jobs!!!

    The only perk of a boring job…

  • Brandon

    Oh man I can’t wait to try it out, I have a Macbook and want to use Photoshop, CS2 works fine but its a tad slow and makes the fans go top speed.

  • Justin

    Mah…CS is good enough. a speed boost would be nice though..

  • chad

    I was at a photoshop conference with Bert (if you know photoshop, you know Bert) and he actually said he was beta testing 4 and basically playing with alpha of CS4 … apparently according to him, CS 4 is going to CHANGE THE WAY people use photoshop, and revolutionize the industry.

    for those unaware of “Bert” http://www.bertmonroy.com/

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    Get while the speed is GOOD – Downloading at 2.5MB (Yes MegaBytes) a second.

  • Andrew Clark

    my serial wont work in it…..

  • http://is.derekpunsalan.com Derek

    Why am I not surprised that a quite a number of current CS2 users will be sorely disappointed when they try and plug their serial numbers in?

  • Kevin

    The link provided is just dumping me onto the generic Adobe download page. Anyone having any luck recently?

  • Cynic821

    “#
    Kevin
    2 hours, 43 minutes ago

    The link provided is just dumping me onto the generic Adobe download page. Anyone having any luck recently?”

    im having same problem

  • http://www.jasonsteele.net Jason

    You have to register before downloading photoshop CS3. That is probably why the link isn’t working. Try this link

    https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Fphotoshop

  • Cynic821

    Ahh, that did it. Thanks JASON! I already had an account, just forgot that i did, when i went to register said my email already was registered. LOL. took a few trys to remember the password.

    Thanks again.

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