Adobe announces "Creative Suite 2" (new Photoshop, etc) for late May 2005

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/



New features HERE:

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/newfeatures.html

Premium version (Windows) is $1,199.00 and includes Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Adobe InDesign® CS2, Adobe Illustrator® CS2, Adobe GoLive® CS2, Version Cue® CS2, and Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional. Upgrade from Creative Suite 1 is $549. Upgrade from Photoshop CS or 7.0 is $749.

Standard version (All of the above EXCEPT GoLive and Acrobat) (Windows) is $899.00. Upgrade from Creative Suite 1 is $349. Upgrade from Photoshop CS or 7.0 is $499.

[Wickerman]

1. What, no Premiere?

[MrModerate]

2. Glad I don't have to pay for it . . .

My company will -- I don't use a tenth of the features in PhotoShop, Illustrator, and InDesign (and probably less than half in Acrobat), but Oh, that tenth! I can't live without it.

[Redstone]

3. I'll stick with the older versions,

they run on System 9.

Redstone

[ET Awful]

4. Also, the upgrade for just Photoshop CS2 (without the rest of the

suite) is $149 from any previous version of Photoshop. That's a hell of a deal if, like me, you have an old license for 6.0 or something kicking around.

http://store.adobe.com/store/products/master.jhtml;storesessionid=X43BLLXO3UYC1QFI0IKRT5GAVDJBIIV1?id=catPhotoshopUpgrade

I plan on buying the upgrade as soon as it comes out.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. I made the mistake of buying the component upgrades one at a time...

...so I don't get the "suite" discount, even though I own everything in the Suite (although I have Acrobat Standard, not Pro).

We also need to recognize the fact that if Adobe is doing this, it's almost a GUARANTEE that Macromedia will be unleashing "MX 2005"...new versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks...Freehand too, probably, but I think they've lost that particular battle. I know a lot of Adobe Illustrator users, but know very few Freehand users.

:toast:

[ET Awful]

6. Photoshop is all I really ever use or need though.

I don't really use the other products ever. The only one I do use is Acrobat, and I really don't see a need to upgrade that, as I don't use any of the advanced features, I just use it for quick PDF creation on the fly (which I can actually get freeware to do).

If I needed the other products, I'd be right there with you getting the suite, but I don't really need it :).