{"id":11307,"date":"2006-12-14T22:21:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T22:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/great-photoshop-cs3-beta-resources.html"},"modified":"2006-12-14T22:21:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T22:21:18","slug":"great_photoshop_cs3_beta_resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/great_photoshop_cs3_beta_resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Photoshop CS3 beta resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All kinds of excellent resources are popping up with details, videos, and more coverage of the Photoshop CS3 beta. I plan to keep updating this list as I find good bits.&#160; I&#8217;ve also created a new &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/photoshop_cs3_beta\/\">Photoshop CS3 Beta<\/a>&quot; category that should help you track related info.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The crew at Photoshop User have really knocked themselves out with the PSCS3 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopuser.com\/cs3\/index.html\">Beta Preview Learning Center<\/a>.&#160; The site includes Scott Kelby&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopuser.com\/cs3\/sk_features.html\">10 Favorite Features<\/a>; videos for the Bridge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopuser.com\/?page=cs3\/videos&amp;video=bridgeloop_mk\">loupe tool<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopuser.com\/?page=cs3\/videos&amp;video=bridgestacks_mk\">stacks<\/a>; an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopuser.com\/cs3\/interview.html\">interview<\/a> with yours truly; and much more. <\/li>\n<li>Adobe&#8217;s resident mad scientist Russell Brown has taken the wraps off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellbrown.com\/tips_tech.html\">his first set of new videos<\/a>.\n<li>At PhotoshopNews.com I <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/12\/14\/closeup-with-john-nack\/\">chat at some length<\/a> with Jeff Schewe about all things CS3 (what&#8217;s new in Bridge, what&#8217;s new in the Photoshop UI, and etc.). Jeff has also posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/12\/14\/photoshop-cs3-beta-qa\/\">official FAQ<\/a> in HTML form. <\/li>\n<li>Macworld.com provides excellent coverage: Jim Dalrymple&#8217;s got an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/news\/2006\/12\/14\/photoshopbeta\/index.php\">intro<\/a>, and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/weblogs\/mwvodcast\/2006\/12\/mwvodcast2\/index.php\">this video<\/a>* I talk to Jason Snell about what&#8217;s new in CS3, after which Jason demonstrates Quick Selection, Smart Filters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoomify.com\/\">Zoomify<\/a> export, and more.&#160; Elsewhere on the site, Philip Michaels presents a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/weblogs\/mwpodcast\/2006\/12\/mwpodcast61\/index.php\">podcast<\/a> in which he talks to editors Ben Long, Kelly Turner, and Jackie Dove about performance on Intel-based Macs &amp; much more. [Update: Ben&#8217;s first look is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/2006\/12\/firstlooks\/photoshopcs3\/index.php\">here<\/a>.]<\/li>\n<li>Martin Evening has updated his popular <em>Photoshop for Photographers<\/em> with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopforphotographers.com\/pscs2\/download\/whatsnewinPSCS3.pdf\">21-page PDF<\/a> that covers the new release from a pro photographer&#8217;s point of view.<\/li>\n<li>The link may not yet be live, but Lynda.com plans to unleash a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/go\/cs3beta\">torrent of training videos<\/a> shortly. <\/li>\n<li>At Ars Technica Dave Girard posts <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20061214-8425.html\">an intro<\/a> in which he says, &quot;Despite its beta status, it has heaping portions of snappy.&quot; (We&#8217;re bringin&#8217; Snappyback, <em>yeaah<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<li>Photoshop co-architect Scott Byer <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/scottbyer\/2006\/12\/beta.html\">shares his perspective<\/a>.&#160; Regarding making PS a Universal Binary he says, &quot;It really did take that much effort, and it really wasn&#8217;t ready until recently.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/jd\/archives\/2006\/12\/byer_on_psmacte.cfm\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Former Illustrator PM\/full-time vector mensch Mordy Golding covers the release in a <a href=\"http:\/\/rwillustrator.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/pen-1206-se-special-edition-adobe.html\">special edition<\/a> of his PEN podcast. <\/li>\n<li>Adobe&#8217;s Technical Resources Manager Terry White provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layersmagazine.com\/adobe-photoshop-cs3-public-beta-preview.html\">first look<\/a> for Layers Magazine, demonstrating the new Vanishing Point, among other features. <\/li>\n<li>Colin Smith goes into all kinds of detail at <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/cs3\/\">PhotoshopCafe.<\/a><u><br \/>\n<\/u> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m missing some good stuff (it&#8217;s flowing fast and furious!), so please feel free to pass along additional links via the comments. [<b>Update<\/b>: See also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/12\/mo_betta_photos.html\">Round 2<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Sick of me yet?? I feel like I&#8217;m becoming the Rachel Ray of PMs: chatty and overexposed.<\/em>.. <em>\ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All kinds of excellent resources are popping up with details, videos, and more coverage of the Photoshop CS3 beta. I plan to keep updating this list as I find good bits.&#160; I&#8217;ve also created a new &quot;Photoshop CS3 Beta&quot; category that should help you track related info. 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