I think that CS3 was a better all-around package and I’m not surprised most people are still using it. I will wait to see if and how 5 is better.
Acrobat is extremely buggy and crashes constantly Photoshop is just annoying–crashes a LOT and I find myself trying to remember to only work in CS3 or opening a crashed file back in CS3 InDesign has problems with pdf export –I have had to save back down to CS3 many times to export for commercial print, especially with spot color.
The only CS4 app that I think (in print design) was worth the upgrade price for CS4 suite was Illustrator–it is superb. I also hope we aren’t going to be paying for a beta of CS6 or that this isn’t the final release of CS4, just named as CS5. Seems like the student prices should be the retail prices, and Adobe could take a cue from Microsoft’s Ultimate Steal program for the students, or I’m sure the illegitimate copies will be a standard for the non-academics and home users. There has to be enough ROI to justify it. I also teach at the local community college and it may be the first time in almost a decade of work there that we don’t get the latest edition until much later. We’ll have to get CS5 to stay competitive, but as the common theme is going here, the economy doesn’t foster our desire to shell out the bucks to upgrade. We get a lot of CS4 clients who are settling on CS3 classes just to get the basics. The computer learning center I teach at only offers CS3 courses and it was a difficult financial decision to graduate from CS2. I just hope Adobe doesn’t price themselves out of the lead in the design market. (So let’s just hope, that until then Adobe will hear our voices to make it more affordable even here in Europe …) And for this money, I think, I really get quite a lot back.īut of course, the time will come when I won’T be a student any more … To speak for me personally, I’m a graduate student from south-west Germany and as many already have argued: here in Europe, the CS really is much more expensive than in the US! But because I am (still) a student, I actually could have bought the CS 4 for a very cheap price: about 360 Euro for the Design Premium Suite. And there are certainly many other variables, that can interfere in this decision-process like some of these questions, as many of you already have stated above: “what versions do my clients use?”, “is it affordable for me/my company?”, “will it really speed up my workflow significantly?” etc. Of course, everyone has to choose for himself, if upgrading to CS 5 will be the right decision or not. The blog’s address is very simple: just type cs5.org ) I personally think, it’s worth checking it out and watching through some of the many videos, with quite many new features. Unfortunately there is (still) no information about InDesign CS 5, but a lot on Flash CS 5 and from the Photoshop Labs (Photoshop CS 5?) is being posted. Hello everyone! There is a blog offering quite many videos and information on the upcoming CS 5 release. What about you? I asked this question once before, last year… but now that we’re nearing springtime, what do you expect to do about upgrades this year? What I’ve heard from a number of users around the world is that they skipped CS4 and will likely upgrade later this year, right to CS5. (Note that although I may or may not know something about what is in any purported new version of InDesign, I would not legally be able to tell you anything about anything at this time… however, if CS5 does ship in April, then I can tell you that we’ll have some way fun things to talk about at the May Print and ePublishing Conference in Seattle and perhaps even at the seminars before then!) Then I notice several sites, including this one, talking about how rumors are starting to fly about CS5 shipping in April… that’s next month, folks! We don’t know how true it is, but I have to admit that the prospect of a new version is pretty exciting.
Holy moley, I disappear for a week (off to to shoot some new videos) and I come back to an In Box full of buzz! Specifically, Adobe buzz… I just wandered over to where I saw a car full of Adobe evangelists saying “we’d really like to tell you why we’re doing all this, but we can’t.” It’s the perfect buzz-generator!īut, um, it’s called “cs buzz” and so it’s pretty obvious something with the initials “C.S.” is nearing the end of its gestational period any week now.