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Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Pricing and Upgrades

Shagrat said:
Note that the only combination of Photoshop and Dreamweaver is (natch!) the Master edition...

good pricing guys...the only two items I would ACTUALLY want, and I would have to buy the lot.
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Not sure where you're basing this off of...If for some reason the rumors do end up being true, then you could get both photoshop/dreamweaver in the web bundles.

I think the prices are pretty competitive overall. I was spending more when buying products from both Adobe and Macromedia as individual companies.
 
nkadlac said:
Not sure where you're basing this off of...If for some reason the rumors do end up being true, then you could get both photoshop/dreamweaver in the web bundles.
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There's conflicting information on Amazon. The matrix chart shows the Web Premium without Photoshop, but their description mentions having Photoshop, so we won't know for sure until Tuesday.
 
I can get "the works"--Web Premium bundle--for $500 (upgrade). Everything I need (and more).

I am happy :) This (upgrade) pricing seems LOW to me.
 
kinless said:
There's conflicting information on Amazon. The matrix chart shows the Web Premium without Photoshop, but their description mentions having Photoshop, so we won't know for sure until Tuesday.
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The Matrix shows Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended in the Web Premium.

So there are 3 bundles with Photoshop CS3 Extended and 1 bundle with Photoshop CS3.

Photoshop CS3 Extended is regular Photoshop CS3 + 3D and Video features.

See: https://www.macrumors.com/2007/03/08/adobe-photoshop-cs3-extended-coming-soon/
 
So who is planning on buying the Master Collection?

I probably will end up doing it.....just got to convince my wife..haha.

I'm also planning on buying a refurbed MBP 17inch. Hopefully I can put that off a little until Leopard comes out.

Anyways..yeah..i'm going to be broke soon.
 
Shagrat said:
Note that the only combination of Photoshop and Dreamweaver is (natch!) the Master edition...

good pricing guys...the only two items I would ACTUALLY want, and I would have to buy the lot.


Now where's that Photoshop Killer that Apple have had up their sleeves for the last few years????
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What are you talking about? All the Premium packages include Dreamweaver.
 
Be prepared to sell your first born to afford these packages! Jokes aside, I'm glad they included PS3 Extended in the Web package. When I'm ready to sell my soul to the devil, I think I'll get that one.

I hope the benchmarks for CS3 are more than good for C2D MBPs. This is my only Intel Machine:eek:

Tax return -> Bank -> Save up to move out?
Tax return -> CS3 Bundle -> Better design tools?

Decisions, decisions...
 
Master Collection May Be My 2007 Christmas Present From A Rich Relative

Rhema said:
So who is planning on buying the Master Collection?

I probably will end up doing it.....just got to convince my wife..haha.

I'm also planning on buying a refurbed MBP 17inch. Hopefully I can put that off a little until Leopard comes out.

Anyways..yeah..i'm going to be broke soon.
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I may. But if I do it may be the last time. That's a lot of money — even at the academic level — to rationalize for only a couple of years. I'll be happy to get the first UB edition and proably live with it for at least two systems worth of time. Maybe when 10.7 LION ships I'll "upgrade" again. But maybe never. State of the Art may be more than I'll ever use. Right now I'm thinking of delaying the decision for at least 6 months just to see what it's all about and if I really need more than the late PPC versions with Rosetta. I mainly only use it for ImageReady anyway. I'm back on the first CS and never missed CS2. Also still on Studio MX 2004 and never missed Studio 8.

I'm starting to think of the Master Collection as a 2007 Christmas present from someone in my family who can afford it.
 
arn said:
The Matrix shows Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended in the Web Premium.

So there are 3 bundles with Photoshop CS3 Extended and 1 bundle with Photoshop CS3.

Photoshop CS3 Extended is regular Photoshop CS3 + 3D and Video features.
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Aye, I'm as blind as a bat. My eyes like to skip over the grey lines. Thanks for pointing that out, Arn.

Still, I wish they had a bundle without the extended. I don't need the 3D/Video stuff, but whatevs. I guess it's still cheaper than if I bought PS, DW, Flash, and Acrobat separately. Those are the only apps I need.
 
davester said:
Adobe appears to have graduated from the Microsoft Vista School Of Confusing Upgrades.
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No kidding! And it looks like they didn't miss any school days when it came to the pricing classes either.

And DreamWeaver... bleh... they should be paying people to use that train wreck of an app. :mad:
 
Is Contribute CS3 going to be a Universal binary? (Contribute 4 wasn't).

Seems like Production Premium supports only the Blu-Ray format-no HD-DVD export unlike DVD Studio Pro.
 
I don't know that I've ever seen a software path quite this tangled before; it would appear that Adobe wants its customers as confused and flustered as possible!
 
I hope someone from Adobe visits MacRumors.

It is not so much the pricing but the bundled combinations that are just totally terrible.

I am really depressed regarding this release and the pricing.

Adobe needs to take another look at their customer relationships and logic.

inkswamp said:
No kidding! And it looks like they didn't miss any school days when it came to the pricing classes either.

And DreamWeaver... bleh... they should be paying people to use that train wreck of an app. :mad:
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What Don't you Like about Dreamweaver?

It' code is basically clean now, not like older versions, and the interface is generally okay. Besides, for most web designers, the interface is meaningless as we write most of our own code.
 
Can academic suites be upgraded or is it a fresh buy each time?

Wasn't Adobe one of the companies complaining about Apple switching to Intel and forcing yet-another recompile? This seems like a boon for them-- even people who wouldn't need whatever new features there are will be upgrading just to run full speed on their hardware... With these kinds of prices, I think the hardware change will be getting them more buys than just a few extra features in already full-featured apps.
 
Adobe Home Basic....Adobe Home premium...Adobe Business....Adobe Ultimate would *actually* be less confusing.
 
Makes me laugh seeing the price differences between England and America. I'll have to pay £1264 for Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Design (with Flash) here, which is nearly $2,500. I wish your software was that cheap here!
 
Applenewb said:
Adobe Home Basic....Adobe Home premium...Adobe Business....Adobe Ultimate would *actually* be less confusing.
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Yah this is just terrible for those of use trying to stay on the edge -- the project combinations basically force the master upgrade
 
In the non-existent chance that the UK pricing manager for Adobe is reading this, I'd like to remind them that the £:$ exchange rate is presently 1.9648. And no, you can't truncate the digits after the decimal point (although you probably will).

Anticipating another Adobe Brit-rip-off...

SL
 
dante@sisna.com said:
I hope someone from Adobe visits MacRumors.

It is not so much the pricing but the bundled combinations that are just totally terrible.

I am really depressed regarding this release and the pricing.

Adobe needs to take another look at their customer relationships and logic.
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Until there's a reasonable competitor out there, Adobe can set their prices how they wish. These are necessary tools for professionals. Notice the insane difference between upgrade and full package pricing? They know that people would be just fine sticking with an outdated version, so they cut back the price there and still get the continuing revenue.

To some extent this makes sense-- there is a lot of value in these mature apps, but there's only a small amount of incremental value in the upgrade. First time buyers pay for all of the engineering in the product and upgraders are paying for what changed since their last purchase.

The people that get burned by this are the hobbyists. If you're not making money by using these apps, you really can't justify the price. That's one of the reasons I also find the package contents so offensive. There are a lot of people who would want Photoshop and the web tools but Adobe makes this really difficult and expensive.

Here's hoping that someone out there is realizing how much money could be made by competing in this space and comes in to keep Adobe honest.
 
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