Customer Reviews

Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

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UPDATE...YOU WANT THE CS4 VERSION. THIS IS THE PREVIOUS VERSION....I purchased CS3 Design Premium the first day it was available. It installed without any issues on my computer. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium. I could list all the wonderful features but you can go to Adobe's website for that. I will just say that I am very impressed with the quality of this product. As with any professional grade software there is a learning curve. If you are new to any of the programs in this suite, Adobe's "Classroom in a Book" series will get you off to a good start. And Amazon sells them at a great price. You can also get excellent training DVDs from Total Training. Also, an Intuos3 professional pen tablet makes it so easy to draw, edit, select, erase etc. P.S. I am still laughing about the added comments. I'm just certain that check from Adobe will be here soon.

Consistently impressed by the wealth of capabilities available in the Creative Suite product line. Releases are well packaged and the support behind the product, including a huge community of users, gives you more than you can imagine. Great investment.

Spent 4-6 hours doing installs, reinstalling, and making multiple phone calls to Adobe. Talking with techs and customer support. Product did not install properly under Vista. Installed finally, but not fully working today. My packaging has a "sticker" on top it (like an after-thought) regarding windows Vista compatability.

Product is still not working properly. Activation is a nightmare - Internal error 2739, starting regservers via command prompts, uninstall , turn off UAC, reinstall, activating the right application (s), and it still doesn't work right.

I am sorry I wasted my time and jeopardized my career on MS Vista and Adobe Creative Suite compatability issues in a work /production environment. I should have waited. I give the combo 5 stars under frustration and a waste of time/money.

Of course, your install may go smoother. I can only talk from personal experince with a sample of one machine.

What can you do? Adobe owns the graphic design world, but they come through with absolutely brilliant products. I always wait a while before I upgrade to the next CS version so they can work all of the bugs out. The programs have a new elegantly designed interface with more friendly and intuitive features. A few things seem to be missing, for instance; I can't find the pre-set duotones in PhotoShop. A training DVD is included that I refer to on a regular basis, but it could be indexed better. I like the choice free stuff, too.
Amazon had the best price.

Still haven't unlocked the full potential of this product. Bridge is a new addition for me that is a great asset with raw photos - adding metadata that can be applied to all photos in a folder or on your computer. Photoshop has some new cool features as well, the best being that it can now handle raw. Played around with illustrator and feels as good as the old version. Now if I could get as good with dreamweaver and flash... well back to studying.

Like the other CS suites this is what you would expect from Adobe. Unlike the other CS suites this one has some bugs on the install. When installing (I tried multiple times) every program installed just fine except Illustrator. Illustrator would error out and no matter what I did I could not get it to install. In going into groups on the Internet I have found that this is a real problem. Interestingly enough the program is not always Illustrator--for some it is one of the other programs in the suite. The problem, however, is the same--you have a suite with a missing program. Some who have installed the suite have had no problems installing everything. Some have gone through elaborate means to finally get theirs to install. Adobe's solutions up to date to not help in the slightest.

Bottom line--great programs. . .good luck on the install.

Works as expected - upgraded from CS1 to CS3. Solid upgrade, well worth the cost.

This was the definitive upgrade so far from Adobe. The integration between Photoshop CS3 and Dreamweaver is awesome. Also between Photoshop and Flash, being able to import PSD files (with all the layers) has made life a lot easier. My advise to other web designers, buy the upgrade immediately!

It is a huge program so make sure you have a good desktop or laptop with some of the latest chips and space. It works as it should, as with any new version it had and has it's bugs and I get all the updates automatically and have had no issues with my HP desktop or Sony notebook each with vista home prem and all works fine. Yes, at times if you are tryong to run several programs it may slow down but common sense and knowledge of how to use this suite would be the best bet. Remember you can download and trial it for 30 days can't beat that verses the various reviews here and elsewhere.

I had CS2. It was great. I am currently making new plan about our website. The new CS3 is good to combine, photo shop, Ilustrator with Flash and dreamweaver in one package.

Some of the features from Dreamweaver / Flash combinated in Ilustrator and photoshop. This is very cool.

The interface now is better. Once I get used to one of the application, I can use them for most of the other applications too.