To upgrade 2 CS2 or wait?

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Daniel_Ulysses
Jul 20, 2006
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Hola

I have CS1 and I’m thinking that it’s time to upgrade to CS2…

But…Should I upgrade to CS2 or should I wait to CS3?

I used Photoshop, AI, and Golive in a daily basis (Maybe GL less) One of my goals to this next 5 months, is to learn at least the very basics of InDesign.

This is one of the reasons of this questions.

I suspect that PS, GL and AI, are or have a few changes –from CS1 to CS2– but because I don’t know –NADA– nothing from InDesign, I will learn the newes version if I wait, but how long do you thing that it may take Adobe to come out with CS3?

So, Should I upgrade to CS2 or should I wait to CS3?

Thanks

Daniel Ulysses
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John Joslin
Jul 20, 2006
An 18 month cycle would mean October 2006 but I have seen statements attributed to Adobe giving May 2007.

I can’t speak for the other CS applications but, for Photoshop, I would definitely wait for CS3.
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Thee_DarkOverLord
Jul 20, 2006
Actualy the step from CS to CS2 is a very big step, bigger I would guess than the step from CS2 to CS3 will be, but who knows?
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Bernie
Jul 20, 2006
Something to consider is when CS3 is released… will it be compatible with your version of OSX – if you’re on a Mac platform that is.

Edit: whoops, I realized this is a Windows forum:)
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Don_McCahill
Jul 20, 2006
A Mac intruder … get him.

🙂

Seriously, I also am on CS1, and will wait for 3. To buy a year before a new versions is due just seems pointless … you could have been using it for a year or so now for the same money.

(Also, I am hoping Flash and/or Dreamweaver or something else good gets thrown into the bundle.)
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John Joslin
Jul 20, 2006
I know there is a lot of new stuff in CS2 but a lot of it comes under the heading "Wow! That’s really cool!" Then you do a few tutorials and promptly forget it because you never actually need it for your work.
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Thee_DarkOverLord
Jul 20, 2006
My main reason for upgrading was a "Wow" factor, perspective clone. Something I use every other day, and it saves me hours of work a week
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deebs
Jul 20, 2006
For me, the answer is: wait.

I wouldn’t mind CS2 at all (the full Suite)

Equally I have high (as in very high) expectations now that Adobe and Macromedia are one.

I hope and anticipate a first joint venture product that is and should be awesome and lives nicely on Vista 64 bit.
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Daniel_Ulysses
Jul 21, 2006
Hola to all

Thanks for your advice. One concern that I have is:

What about GoLive?

Do you think it’s still going to be there?

I don’t know, I’m not very good at web design or html, but I have learn to "move" around GoLive and "smart objetcs" so I’m kind of concern.

Thanks

Daniel Ulysses
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Don_McCahill
Jul 21, 2006
It sounds like GL will continue, but in what shape or manner is another question. Dreamweaver is the jewel in the crown, and Adobe will overlay their user interface to it, and then promote it as the main web platform. GL will probably continue, but perhaps like PageMaker has continued in spite of the attention lavished on InDesign.

Perhaps there will be a niche created for GL, perhaps it will be the simpler home program and DW will be the pro tool.
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Bob Levine
Jul 21, 2006
Pagemaker is a discontinued product. Adobe has made no official statement I know of about GoLive.

Bob
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John_Waller
Jul 21, 2006
Adobe has made no official
statement I know of about GoLive.

John Nack’s blog is as official as it’s got so far, isn’t it Bob?

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/05/future_of_gl_and_fh.htm l

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Regards

John Waller
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Bob Levine
Jul 21, 2006
I’d say so.

Bob
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Lawrence_Hudetz
Jul 21, 2006
Try the 30 day free trial. I did, and decided that a couple of elements were worth while: Bridge instead of Browser
Surface Blur
Barrel Distortion Correction
The Perspective Clone tool

These are what I noted, but, I didn’t upgrade. Why? My computer isn’t up to the task, and I haven’t upgraded that yet. If you are running a fast computer with at least 1G ram and a separate Scratch disk, that will be less of a problem.

The other factor is that while these tools are nice, they are not making a difference in successful outcomes to my work.

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