{ December 15, 2006 }
Photoshop CS3 beta out
A public beta of Photoshop CS3 for Windows and OS X is now available for download. If you use Photoshop on an Intel Mac, you owe it to yourself to install this immediately. The best part? After launching the app at least once, subsequent launches take about two and a half seconds on my MacBook Pro. In a word, it's fast. Damn fast.
After seeing a preview of the new palette system this morning I expected to dislike it, but after using it for a few hours it's really well done, and a big leap forward in keeping your UI clean and uncluttered. Haven't had time to kick the tires on all the new features yet, but the beta seems stable enough for production work. I'm sure I'll be using it from now until the final release arrives.
