Adobe Announces Photoshop Extended Version

Two Photoshops? Yup. It’s official; when CS3 ships (sometime this spring), there will be, for the first time ever, two editions of Photoshop: a Standard and an Extended edition. (That’s why the splash screen on the free Public Beta Preview version of CS3 says “Standard Edition”—so you knew there had to be some other version, right?). Photoshop CS3 Extended has all the features of the Standard version plus an extended feature set (Adobe hasn’t revealed the exact features quite yet—they’re saving it for the official launch event announced yesterday to be held in New York City on March 27, 2007). In Adobe’s press release today (which I’m honored to be quoted in) they did reveal that the Extended version includes “…a new set of capabilities for integration of 3-D and motion graphics, image measurement and analysis. Photoshop CS3 Extended also simplifies the workflow for professionals in architecture, engineering, medical and science.” For more info, check out Adobe’s press release or the special page on Adobe.com