Photoshop CS3: Adobe Spits on Apple
Well, I’ve downloaded and installed the Public Beta version of Photoshop CS3 (which also includes Adobe Bridge CS3). Better than that, I’ve also downloaded the FREE video tutorial for Photoshop CS3 Beta, which taught me one thing, very, very clearly:
Adobe really HATES the idea of Apple taking business away from them.
A while back, six programmers at Adobe jumped ship and started working for Apple, and created Aperture, which is one of my favorite programs. It’s optimized for professional photographers, and it’s hard to learn (because it uses such advanced new concepts), but it’s really fast and easy to use, once learned. I took some classes, and I love it. It does not compete with Photoshop in any way.
Adobe DESPISES it, though - They want all of that pro-photographer business for themselves. Right around the same time that Apple announced Aperture 1.0, Adobe announced Lightroom, which directly competes with Aperture.
Now that I’ve taken the free Lynda.com tutorial for Photoshop CS3 Beta, I can see that Adobe is folding everything in Lightroom into the Adobe Bridge software that works with Photoshop CS3. Bridge is identical-identical-identical in operation to Aperture. Other than the shape of the magnifying glass (square vs. round), Bridge CS3 steals Apple’s ideas, down to the very tiniest details. I mean seriously - It’s time for Apple’s famous lawyers to start filing papers in court. I’m boggled - I haven’t seen such a blatant interface-theft case since Windows 1.01.
Other than that, I haven’t done much hard-core evaluating of Photoshop CS3 Beta’s speed. I’ve been letting other folks do the heavy lifting, so far. It seems to work fine on MY MacBook Pro, but I haven’t got any hard jobs to throw at it, so close to the holidays. I’m also aware that it has all sorts of issues, so I’m in no rush to be on the bleeding edge, quite yet.
I’ll keep y’all posted on any progress that I have made, though. Watch this space for further developments.
