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Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta

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After countless months of waiting, Adobe has finally announced that it will be releasing a Beta of the new Photoshop CS3 on Friday, December 15th. As expected, the release is a universal application, meaning that it will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Adobe stated that this is an exciting time for the Mac and that Adobe wanted to help smooth out the transition to Intel-based Macs with a preview release of Photoshop CS3. Adobe gives us more info about the new Photoshop Beta.

Packed with new features, Photoshop CS3 beta also includes a pre-release version of a major upgrade to Adobe Bridge, as well as a preview release of the all-new Adobe Device Central. Photoshop customers can use Adobe Device Central to design, preview, and test compelling mobile content, created specifically for smaller screens. This new tool, integrated in the Photoshop CS3 beta, simplifies and accelerates the creation of mobile content through a preview environment and built-in device profiles.

 

To utilize Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, customers require a serial number from either Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Creative Suite® 2, Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio, Adobe Design Bundle, Adobe Web Bundle or Adobe Video Bundle. Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta is available in English only. Customers who have a valid serial number for all other language versions of qualifying Adobe products can download the software. Without a serial number, users can still download Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, with the product expiring after two days. Customers must register online with Adobe or have an existing Adobe.com membership account to access the software.

The System Requirements for Mac are OS X 10.4.8 or 10.5, a 1GHz G4 or G5, or an Intel-based Mac with 512 MB of RAM or more. Adobe will also be releasing a version for Windows XP.

 

Update: The Photoshop CS3 beta has been released. You can download it here.

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kuruu

kuruu 1

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using two day trial.

FancyNatra

FancyNatra 0

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ok, finally installed and all works except stupid ppc plugins. grrr!

 

see my sig for system specs. I'm using a manual install with semthex beta8 and SMBIOS

 

Nice.Thx.What was the point?

How can i fix it?

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suleiman

suleiman 0

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if you're only using the 2-day trial, then does your original install of CS2 work or no?

kuruu

kuruu 1

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Nice.Thx.What was the point?

How can i fix it?

 

sorry, just posting for information and comparison. I thought it might be video card related, but ceynox has similar specs to you...

 

 

if you're only using the 2-day trial, then does your original install of CS2 work or no?

 

yes, but not simultaneously... ;-)

FancyNatra

FancyNatra 0

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sorry, just posting for information and comparison. I thought it might be video card related, but ceynox has similar specs to you...

Allready tried it with both gfx cards.no luck.

Menno

Menno 18

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wow, 684 MB those universal releases really are twice the size for both architectures ;)

D/Loading it right now, guess appleinsider was right.

Proteo

Proteo 1

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Another success story ;)

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John the Geek

John the Geek 0

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Sounds like a kernel Extension problem.

 

Are all of the extensions in your /System/Library/Extensions folder current? Run an Apple System Profiler report and save it as "System Profiler (4.0 XML)" so we can compare Extensions and Frameworks. We'll need to see this for a working iHack and a crashing one for comparison.

 

Also, anything in the Console logs? Console.log? System.log?

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Infamous

Infamous 0

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Here's my System Profiler XML:

 

system profiler xml

 

latest Semthex kernel (beta8 I guess), GMA950 graphics

 

CS3 Beta does not work.

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kuruu

kuruu 1

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Here's my System Profiler XML:

 

system profiler xml

 

latest Semthex kernel (beta8 I guess), GMA950 graphics

 

CS3 Beta does not work.

 

 

here is mine. cs3 working a charm.

 

Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload this type of file

 

hmmm, it won't upload uncompressed xml.. interesting.

noir_s_Computer.zip

Edited by melchior
John the Geek

John the Geek 0

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Awesome.

 

I see a lot of reasons for it not to work in there. Lots of Framework dependencies not linked. However, I'll need to see a working one to get an idea of wether those breaks are usually there or not. It sounds like we have two sets of extensions, and one is not working. If we can narrow it down to a specific extension, you may have a chance of fixing this pretty easy.

John the Geek

John the Geek 0

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here is mine. cs3 working a charm.

 

 

Forgot to attach it, huh?

 

:(

Infamous

Infamous 0

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Someone please post the working system XML of System Profiler...

 

Thanks for the effort John.

John the Geek

John the Geek 0

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here is mine. cs3 working a charm.

hmmm, it won't upload...

 

 

Right Click, Create Archive of...

 

Attach the Zip file

ceynox

ceynox 0

Posted (edited)

Sounds like a kernel Extension problem.

 

Are all of the extensions in your /System/Library/Extensions folder current? Run an Apple System Profiler report and save it as "System Profiler (4.0 XML)" so we can compare Extensions and Frameworks. We'll need to see this for a working iHack and a crashing one for comparison.

 

Also, anything in the Console logs? Console.log? System.log?

 

In the attachment... Apple System Profiler

CeYNoX_s_Computer.zip

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PascalW

PascalW 0

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Works great here, hopefully there comes a keygen within 2 days.

Infamous

Infamous 0

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I'm comparing the kexts from working and not working machine, but it's over my knowledge......

dvil

dvil 24

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The culprit is the AppleSMBIOS.kext, I changed to the original one released by Mifki and Photoshop CS3 is working nicely on my system.

 

Cheers.

Infamous

Infamous 0

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So Paulicat's SMBIOS isn't working with CS3 :hysterical:

 

Awesome, thanks!

Simania_NL

Simania_NL 0

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Another success story here and its blazing fast compared to CS2 :hysterical:

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I'm on a P4 SSE3 with Semthex kernel beta 8.

PascalW

PascalW 0

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The culprit is the AppleSMBIOS.kext, I changed to the original one released by Mifki and Photoshop CS3 is working nicely on my system.

 

Cheers.

 

Nope I have it too and CS3 just works.

Schweppes

Schweppes 0

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Could you send me the original AppleSMBIOS please ?

 

I will try it

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dvil

dvil 24

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Nope I have it too and CS3 just works.

 

I just tested back to back between the two SMBIOS versions and with Paulicat's Photoshop keep crashing all the time. So maybe the problem is a hardware software combination, in my case the Mifki kext solved the problem, but maybe the same is not valid for everyone.

 

 

Cheers

 

 

P.D. This also solve my Soundbooth problem !!!

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FancyNatra

FancyNatra 0

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The culprit is the AppleSMBIOS.kext, I changed to the original one released by Mifki and Photoshop CS3 is working nicely on my system.

 

Cheers.

 

Thx dvil.Works here too with older SMBIOS.Great! :happymac:

Edited by Flamaszter
Schweppes

Schweppes 0

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Could someone post me the AppleSMBIOS that needs to get Photoshop working please ?

 

THANX!

 

FLAMASZTER i have a very similar hardware configuration. Maybe you could help me!

Edited by Schweppes

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