Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta

[Takuro]

So removing "Application.sif" is basically just an easier way to *cough* avoid certain trial countdowns. *cough*

 

I like the new interface a lot. I've noticed that OpenGL zooming is disabled for some reason in the beta. I heard the performance is even more amazing if it's enabled. Any way to do this?

Edited December 17, 2006 by Takuro

[sigxcpu]

Yeah right. Mine does not work anymore

I've put back application.sif, restarted, message "trial has expired", closed, renamed application.sif again and it's working

 

So, the whole {censored} is to allow Flex license manager to load I think.

Edited December 17, 2006 by sigxcpu

[John the Geek]

I pulled it out before first launch / enter Sn, etc... I runs great and never asked for a SN or activation.

 

EDIT: I also "Hexed" it first too...

Edited December 17, 2006 by John the Geek

[Bruce Wang]

Removing it before the first launch seem also works on my CS3. :mellow:

 

Bruce

[39thRonin]

I downloaded and installed the Beta this weekend. While I had to chnage out the Apple SMBIOS.kext (as did most), all I can say is WOW! The icon blows chunks, but this build really shows the power of the Intel chip. :mellow:

[John the Geek]

I went to NASA and downloaded the highest resolution images of the earth uncompressed (Spherical texture map) and combined all 8 files in Photoshop. The end result was a 43,200 px by 86,400 px image that saved as a Photoshop Large Document format as a 10.1GB layered file. The flattened version is only 3.74GB. It took a while to save, even on my Quad Xeon with 6GB of RAM (CS3 only takes 3GB in Tiger) but was still a phenomenal feat. CS3 never hiccuped once! Just kept truckin' along.

 

Very impressed so far. The new Camera Raw 4.0 is nice too, as are the enhancements to Bridge.

 

=)

Edited December 18, 2006 by John the Geek

[SurferSD]

Has anyone tried running Adobe CS3 Beta through Xslimmer? I use Xslimmer quite a bit on all my universal apps to get rid of everything but the Intel architecture. I like the program so much, I actually paid for it... yeah I know... crazy...

[39thRonin]

I went to NASA and downloaded the highest resolution images of the earth uncompressed (Spherical texture map) and combined all 8 files in Photoshop. The end result was a 43,200 px by 86,400 px image that saved as a Photoshop Large Document format as a 10.1GB layered file. The flattened version is only 3.74GB. It took a while to save, even on my Quad Xeon with 6GB of RAM (CS3 only takes 3GB in Tiger) but was still a phenomenal feat. CS3 never hiccuped once! Just kept truckin' along.

 

Very impressed so far. The new Camera Raw 4.0 is nice too, as are the enhancements to Bridge.

 

=)

The Bridge stuff is greatly improved. I was seriously blown away by the speed - at least twice that of CS2...

[slowly]

Somehow i am doing something terribly wrong, i suppose. After installing PS, the icon jumps one time, nothing happens (hackintosh, tried putting another smbios , nothing worked).

 

Would someone please help me?

 

10.4.8. semthex latest, ati x1600 working, sse3 (intel915gux)

Edited December 18, 2006 by slowly

[Schweppes]

Put your system and hardware specifications.

[esmith1977]

My Photoshop says OpenGL Drawing disabled...

 

How do I fix that?

[John the Geek]

My Photoshop says OpenGL Drawing disabled...

 

How do I fix that?

 

I don't think it's working for anyone. It's either still being re-written, or it's purposely disabled in the beta.

[Schweppes]

I´ve made 2 icons for replace the original CS3 (both: Photoshop CS3 and Bridge CS3)

 

Enjoy them....

Tell me if you like it.

 

CS3_replacement.zip

[zizux]

can anyone tell me why the windows version is about 1/2 the size as the osx version?

[kuruu]

can anyone tell me why the windows version is about 1/2 the size as the osx version?

 

 

Because the os x version has PPC and Intel code.

[zizux]

Ah, makes sense. At first I thought well maybe the windows version is just compressed.

[Mr. Bond]

I went to NASA and downloaded the highest resolution images of the earth uncompressed (Spherical texture map) and combined all 8 files in Photoshop. The end result was a 43,200 px by 86,400 px image that saved as a Photoshop Large Document format as a 10.1GB layered file. The flattened version is only 3.74GB. It took a while to save, even on my Quad Xeon with 6GB of RAM (CS3 only takes 3GB in Tiger) but was still a phenomenal feat. CS3 never hiccuped once! Just kept truckin' along.

 

Very impressed so far. The new Camera Raw 4.0 is nice too, as are the enhancements to Bridge.

 

=)

 

Just....wow.

[Guest m41k]

Hi,

 

i just copied CS3 from my 10.4.8(xeon) to my 10.4.3 laptop, and this biatch is even working on that old 10.4.3

Well, so far.

 

cheers

Edited December 19, 2006 by m41k

[fredperes]

Not working in may OSX 10.4.8: "Adobe Photoshop crashed bla bla bla".

 

I´ve changed SMBIOS but the crash continues.

 

EDIT:

 

After updating OSX Photoshop now is functional! Just need a patch, crack or serial...

 

 

 

EDIT 2:

 

I downloaded a patch and now...it works great!

 

:thumbsup_anim:

Edited December 21, 2006 by fredperes

[slowly]

same here. see above post last page.

 

i wonder how it really could open normaly after install. if you take a look at the directory-structure, e.g. frameworks of the .app, the structure is a little bit beta, too. for example, the typical structure framework/xyframework/a/xyz which is dynamically loaded at startup *must* have problems at least for framework-dirs, that happen to be called 'a' instead of 'A' etc. maybe some crashes are triggered by this?

 

would highly appreciate if someone could help me.

[SurferSD]

Just so everyone is aware... I was able to "Slim" down Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta to 147MB by removing the non-intel code from the files. There is no functionality loss if any kind in the software. Xslimmer is quite a cool program... just an FYI

[oregano]

my friend downloaded it for mac:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44843577/

 

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44850963/

 

looks pretty nice, but i could make that in ps2

ill probably get it anyway

how much is it going to cost in the U.S.?

[Nickhamm]

While I am waiting on the 10.4.8 SSE2/3 AMD/Intel JaS release, I was curious if anyone with a SSE2 only processor has gotten this to work as well as everyone else. I have a Celeron 2GHzin one machine and a Pentium M in the other, and would like to run Photoshop CS3 (I run CS2 on my G3). Also, off topic a bit, but has anyone even tried to get CS3 to run on a G3 Mac (I have an iMac DV400) and if so, how is the speed compared to CS2?

[YureZzZ]

I´ve changed SMBIOS and it start working. After two system restarts mDNSResponder crashed with floating point exception. System is not starting. But only one solution for this - I've copied old smbios back. System is okay now but i can't use Photoshop.