Adobe CS3 Design Suite

Picked up a copy of CS3 Design Standard this week, and so far I am truly excited. I've been using CS2 on my MacBook Pro for about a year now and it's been absolutely horrible. Crashes, slowness, bugs - I am so glad to get rid of it. Illustrator in particular I am having a good time with which seems to be much quicker and stable than previously which is all I wanted. Feature wise it's light, but I'd rather have stable and fast than 100 new features. I'll review this product over at my other blog Illustrator Hacks, as soon as I get it back up :).




This package differs from previous version in that ImageReady is no more and Adobe Acrobat Pro is included which I have no problem with. It is odd Acrobat was the only application not to get the icon face lift. It seems pretty unanimous that the icons are really boring and not that attractive. It looks kind of cool lined up on the dock though. Designer Adam Betts apparently was offended enough by them to redesign them himself and offer a full icon replacement package. Check it out here.