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Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Standard [Mac] [OLD VERSION]

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I suggest checking your local college computer store for deep student level pricing, you can probably get this software for HALF what you would pay for here. If you have no other options to legally buy this software, then of course, this is a great deal.

This is another great release from adobe, and a must have for any photo or design professional. I am seeing a trend in the industry with graphics creators switching away from outdated competitive products and standardizing their shop on the Adobe suite, whether it's Photoshop and Bridge for images, or InDesign and Illustrator for layouts.

Be careful!

Adobe seems to have gone out of their way to infuriate their long time customers through an arcane, illogical and ultimately deceptive upgrade offer. You can spend hours on their website trying to make sure that you have the required products for an upgrade. Besides the obvious CS1 and CS2 versions that will let you successfully install CS3, you see listed everywhere you can upgrade from Macromedia's Studio MX or Studio 8 all over their website and marketing materials. Well, guess what? If you buy any of the print focused CS3 Design Suites you can't use the Studio MX or 8 serial numbers! After a long phone call with a polite Adobe rep who had to spend quite a bit of time himself checking with others to make sure the information was right, I was told that the ONLY CS3 upgrade package that will work with the Studio serial numbers are the CS3 Web Design packages. Not the regular print focused Design packages.

By the time I got off the phone I was totally perplexed at their lack of logic not allowing Macromedia Studio customers who use Freehand to upgrade to a product that has Illustrator included. If you buy CS3 Design Standard or Premium and expect to upgrade from a Macromedia Studio package you can get stuck with an unusable upgrade that costs nearly $400.

I've been working with Adobe's products for since beta testing version .7 of Illustrator over 20 years ago. Obviously, I've been a supporter of them for a very long time. Today I walked away from Adobe furious.

This is just what I was looking for. And it's comforting to know that it's legit, it's the real thing. It was great because I could track where the package was at and it was fast. Thanks so much!