To Desire an Empire

Adobe has done something they have never done before. They have released a fully public, though beta, version of their famous photoshop graphics editing program. This comes as a beta to their CS2 update named CS3. The reasoning behind the release…to provide native support for Mac based Intel chips for Adobe’s CS2 customers.

The Windows version of the beta will also be available for download.

To install the beta you just need a valid CS2 serial number which will last until after the final product ships (Spring ‘07). If you don’t have a CS2 serial number the beta will expire in 2 days. Adobe stresses that CS2 is still the current shipping version and CS3 is offered as a beta only with no support or warranties of stability.

Download at http://labs.adobe.com

On top of this the folks (Colin Smith) over at PhotoshopCafe.com have offered a launch site to go along with this release offering reviews, articles, tutorials, tips, videos, discussion forums and links to all the important places! Don’t be shy in the forums either they love participation.

I’d also have to add that PhotoshopCafe was crucial to my early stages of web design. I learned the in’s and outs of Photoshop from Colin’s mind boggling yet incredibly simple to follow tutorials. Then perfected techniques through the help of his forum members via critiques. Thank you Colin for always staying on top of things.

Learn more about all this at PhotoshopCafe.com

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