Got a result from Adobe!

Made a couple of phone calls to Adobe this morning and ended up with a very pleasing result!

A few years back we purchased Dreamweaver 4, then upgraded it to Studio MX (PC). Hasn't really seen much use, as work ended up concentrating on retail rather than web sales. As Adobe bought out Macromedia, and we have no original Adobe products, wasn't sure of the upgrade paths we had. Not only that, would like to use Photoshop on the Mac now.

As we have a suite of Macromedia products, we can use that to upgrade to Creative Suite 3, of which we will probably get Web Premium!

So the result is:-

A Creative Suite for an upgrade price from a Macromedia product.
Moving platform from PC to Mac.
Licensing agreement to put on both a desktop AND a laptop machine.

What we will end up will is a full retail box version (not upgrade box!) of :-

Photoshop CS3 Extended
Illustrator CS3
Acrobat Professional 8
Flash CS3 Professional
Dreamweaver CS3
Fireworks CS3
Contribute CS3
+ others

all for £534.

Will be ordered in a couple of weeks or so. Now I've got yet more learning to do!

That's a result? That's more like a week touring Europe on my bike (motorcycle), all in Adobe sure don't do themselves any favours, or any of the UK punters for that matter! As long as YOU are a happy bunny, that's all that counts
I got PSP X2 for less than £40 last week, I thought that was expensive, but no, it was a result


Serendipity (Mick)

Well... I know what you mean, it is well overpriced.

The way I looked at it was updating our web suite got us Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3 and Acrobat Pro for free! All for less than the price of a standalone Photoshop.

We had Paint Shop Pro V7 years ago, and if it was only the one bit of sw needed, definately would have had that or Elements over Photoshop. Seeing as though we are planning to do a lot of web work now with our photography, updating the web suite and getting Photoshop for 'free' was the icing on the cake!

In a business environment - not overpriced at all
We have the Premium Creative Suite 2 here and I've used it all. In fact the InDesign part paid for itself in one job... so that means Photoshop effectively came for free

I know it doesn't help home users - but Photoshop Elements is, IMHO, an excellent package that allows a very easy migration to Photoshop in the future. And for doing layer-based non-destructive editing I haven't found anything faster than PSE or PS



Like the OP, we took an upgrade path and Adobe were extremely helpful
Matt