Photoshop CS3 Extended: Adobe Photoshop to have two versions

Photoshop CS3 Extended: Adobe Photoshop CS3 to have two versions

Software company Adobe has announced that their upcoming Creative Suite 3 bundle would offer two different variants of the hugely popular Photoshop CS3 application.

Adobe has already made available a beta version of the Photoshop CS3. The company has now added that a separate edition named Photoshop CS3 Extended would also be offered.

This new edition would be targeted at new specialized markets like architecture, engineering, medicine, and science.

Kevin Connor, senior director of product management for digital imaging at Adobe spoke on this new plan: “What we’re seeing in the market has been accelerating in the last few years. Photoshop is being used in a much wider array of workflows and there’s been pressure on PS to do more in those spaces.”

Connor added: “At one point in time, we considered separate versions, but we found a lot of overlap in the features that these people needed. That led to another type of strategy for Photoshop. Rather than create a new application, Extended is a superset of features that can specifically benefit people in those markets.”

Photoshop Extended would let the users perform 3-D model visualization and texture editing. They would also be able to paint and clone over multiple video frames. Projects would be exportable to several formats including QuickTime, MPEG-4, and Adobe Flash Video.