[For those of you that already have Photoshop, Illustrator and In-Design, upgrading to CS3 is up to you. If you have a licensed older version, and want to upgrade, then call Adobe regarding the upgrade cost to CS3 - it may or may not be different. If you don't own the Adobe Suite, then below certainly applies to you, and it is a very good deal. If you have a new Intel-based Mac, I highly recommend CS3 as it has been rewritten for the Intel Mac. Example: your professor requires a textbook, you find a different edition on-line used. The content is basically the same, but the page numbers and introduction are different, and a chapter or two have been re-written. The professor refers to certain page numbers for coursework and discussion, so you have to do a little extra leg work to connect your older edition numbers to the class discussion. If we all were on the same version, it would make life easier for all of us, but frankly, neither I nor the GTF's have CS3 either.
Having said this, I expect everyone will have the Adobe Suite installed on their computers by next week. ]
Just after our intro lecture today, I received some very good news about a special upgrade path for education purchases. If you purchase CS2.3 after March 27th, but before the CS3 shipping date, you can upgrade for free (you will have to pay a "media charge" for documentation and shipping historically around $20-25). NOTE: be sure to hold on to your receipts and any other documentation for the free upgrade - you will have to fax this in.
To purchase, you can try the Digital Duck as well as Adobe.com. The third rep I spoke with at Adobe suggested purchasing through on-line education retailers. I have used Academic Superstore in the past, and the Adobe rep suggested Journeyed or CampusTech.
This is actually an amazing deal. The Creative Suite 2.3 Premium costs about $399 and you will get the free upgrade to CS3 Design Premium which would otherwise be $599 (you will have to pay for "media charge" and shipping). This is what I have been told by Adobe's customer service, as hard as this is to believe. Buy now before CS2.3 is gone.
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I just bought a copy of CS2.3. Is it possible to share licensing to save money?
Regarding the comment from y_ho, if you can share licensing, will both users be able to make the upgrade to CS3?
I was wondering in regards to your insistance that we purchase CS3, what are some of the major differences between CS2 and CS3?
cs3 has some new features as well as a better integration of both the ex-macromedia to adobe, which makes design more fluent. http://www.zoom-in.com/blog/2007/03/first_impressions_top_5_stando.php lists some of the new features of CS3. the interface of CS3 is a little different, which might mean teaching the 150 something students of us would be a little hard if half of us had CS2 and half had CS3.
here's the link, it got cut off.
FYI - It is not legal to share licensing to save money. CS3 has been rewritten to run natively on Intel Macs. For PC users, CS3 promises to have much better intergration between programs.
I've found they have the Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 premium at www.techhead.org for only $199. This seems way too cheap. Is there some catch I'm missing? Will they still upgrade?
Hugh and TeachHead Shoppers -
Woah, that does sound too good to be true. I would call Adobe sales and verify that TechHead is a licensed education retailer.
i called, and they don't think it's an authorized seller.
I purchased from TechHead (OETC) and it supplies a coupon code with the software that you call and give to Adobe for your serial number for student licensing/installation - it worked fine.
Before everyone jumps on jroth1's lead -
the issue is not if the software they are selling works, but if Adobe will honor the free upgrade to CS3. Y_ho called and you can read that response.
I have given my recommendations and let you all know what I have been told from Adobe, what you do from here is up to you.
What if we already have CS2? What do you recommend?
how are we supposed to find out what time our class meeets tomorrow?
im wondering which class we're supposed to go to tomorrow also?
how do we find out?
Just wondering when Sections meet? I was put in Section 4, so does that meet at 8am or 10am on Thursday?
Do we need Adobe CS3 Design Premium, or Adobe CS3 Design Standard? Or does it not matter?
Danielle -
You only need CS3 Design Standard. But if you are upgrading to it from CS2.3, then I am told you will get Premium which includes standard plus Dreamweaver and Flash. For this course, we will only use Photoshop, Illustrator, and In-Design.
I need to drop this class b/c nothing is going right for me.
What do I do?
Hahahahhaha. Oh my gosh, seriously though. This is not working out. At all.
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