Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade :: Education by Design Store

Editorial Review
- Marketing Information: Adobe Photoshop CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Graphics/Designing - Software Name: Photoshop CS3 - Upgrade - Features and Benefits: Work more productively: - Efficient and flexible work environment: - Streamlined interface and palette management - Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3 - Custom menus, shortcuts, and workspaces - Streamlined workflow: - Better raw image processing - Enhanced PDF support - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom support - Improved printing experience - Presets - Peak performance - Automated production - History palette and Edit History log - Wide range of supported formats - Adobe Device Central CS3 - Zoomify export for high-resolution web display - Third-party solutions and resources Edit with unrivaled power: - Nondestructive editing: - Smart Filters - Smart Objects - Professional color and tone control: - Color-correction enhancements - Black-and-white conversion - Improved Channel Mixer - Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support - Intel
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Customer Reviews

Painting with Light

2008-07-19
What a joy to use and what an expansive artistic reach this permits. I may never learn all the tricks and details, but I am sure going to try.

A Photographers New Testament

2008-07-06
Elements is awesome, but Photoshop is worth the extra dollars if you're a serious photog. The lens correction filter is amazing--and I'm still learning the newer additions. Very powerful, too--it will automate adjustments on so many images at one time without a slowdown. Gotta have it--

Had to upgrade, but happy that I did

2008-05-15
As an amateur photographer I don't have to keep up with the latest cutting edge version of Photoshop. The main reason I had to upgrade to CS3 was to be able to review and edit Canon Raw images from a Canon 1D Mk III DSLR. This is my only big gripe with Adobe is that the Raw file format does not appear to have changed, but because the camera model number in the metadata was different Photoshop/Bridge CS2 refused to show thumbnails or open the Mk III's .CR2 files.

So, I had to upgrade to CS3 which cost about $200, which is much better than having spend $600+. At first, I didn't see much of a difference. Sure, there is a different color scheme for the PS and Bridge applications, some stuff has been moved around a little on the screen, but nothing big.

Then I find the feature that made me happy that I had upgraded. Adobe Camera Raw ("ACR") now lets you manipulate JPEG images to almost the same degree as Raw images. You can do limited white balance correction, straightening, cropping, and sharpening of JPEG images--non-permanent changes just like with Raw images. White balance correction is limited to "As Shot", "Auto", and "Custom", though this limitation is understandable as JPEG images don't normally contain color temperature information. However, using the "Custom" option with a test-shot of a white-card now makes correcting the white balance for JPEGs a breeze. Plus, the ability to straighten and crop JPEG images so quickly in ACR is a feature I wish I had had a year ago.

All these changes to a JPEG image are non-permanent meaning the original image is still there (you can verify this by viewing the image with another application, e.g. Windows Explorer with Thumbnail View). The changes you make using ACR appear to be stored in the JPEG file itself as a new metadata section. Caveat: Only applications that can see and use this metadata will render your changes on the screen so right now that is only going to be Adobe applications.

CS3 Upgrade Review (Windows Vista)

2008-05-02
A good upgrade if it weren't for the unforgettable "printer driver" bug under Vista.
Unless you want to suffer from horribly slow performance, you will need to install a "default printer" driver (there are links to more info on this in the Adobe support forums).
Why Adobe has not made a patch available for this is hard to understand.
Until they do, I cannot give more than three stars to this, otherwise fine, upgrade.

Really worth the upgrade

2008-03-29
I upgraded from CS and it was really worth it. It's not only that there are a lot of new features but they really improved the existing features a lot.

Significant Upgrade--for the Bridge Alone

2008-02-25
- Marketing Information: Adobe Photoshop CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Graphics/Designing - Software Name: Photoshop CS3 - Upgrade - Features and Benefits: Work more productively: - Efficient and flexible work environment: - Streamlined interface and palette management - Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3 - Custom menus, shortcuts, and workspaces - Streamlined workflow: - Better raw image processing - Enhanced PDF support - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom support - Improved printing experience - Presets - Peak performance - Automated production - History palette and Edit History log - Wide range of supported formats - Adobe Device Central CS3 - Zoomify export for high-resolution web display - Third-party solutions and resources Edit with unrivaled power: - Nondestructive editing: - Smart Filters - Smart Objects - Professional color and tone control: - Color-correction enhancements - Black-and-white conversion - Improved Channel Mixer - Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support - Intel

Powerful, but Complicated

2008-02-15
The power of this product cannot be denied, but it is incredibly complicated and frustrating at times. I don't think adobe even considers the concept of user friendliness or intuitive features, yet I am in awe of what it can do. Even with an instruction book I still want to tear my hair out sometimes.

Photoshop CS3 Review

2008-02-13
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade
I've been a Photoshop user for a long time, beginning with version 4. Version CS3 has me more excited than I can ever remember with a new photoshop version. I really like being able to open JPEG's and TIFF's with Camera RAW. I shoot pictures with two digital cameras, one of which can shoot RAW images as well as JPEG. The other shoots JPEG only. Another advantage is everything seems faster with CS3, especially Adobe Bridge. Bridge comes with a new version also and is included with CS3. The new Bridge has new features like the downloader, batch renaming, etc. Amazon's price was competitive and the normal delivery was almost as fast as next day delivery.

Just the Best

2008-02-12
As always I hear some people trash the new upgrades. I have been using Photoshop starting with 5 and I have never had a problem downloading or using it. CS3 has many new things to learn and will take some time to pick up on the many tricks but I am excited to start this new venture. If you are a serious user, CS3 is for you.

Great Product, but....

2008-01-20
Everyone knows that Photoshop is the best in its field. The program is awesome. The only beef I have is with Adobe's customer service. Setting aside the usual issues that require calling the manufacturer, this program, like anything else from Adobe, occasionally stops working for no reason. You get an error message saying that you need to reistall the program (which takes a good long time and MIGHT work), or call customer service. If you call Adobe's customer service, you get to talk to someone on the other side of the planet named "Bob" who is very polite but completely worthless.