Adobe announces the immediate availability of Adobe Creative Suite 3.
For those looking to pick up PhotoShop CS3 - the essential summary is that you can pick up either the Standard or the Extended version. Yes, there's 2 versions.
The Extended version essentially adds some batch processing that may be useful to science labs for image processing and other complex tasks
The Standard version is likely to be the one that you will need for your image editing needs.
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If you're thinking of upgrading, check out full details of what PhotoShop CS3 offers here.
Beyond PhotoShop there are now a variety of packages - here's an overview of what you can expect to pick up and at what costs (note the prices below include VAT):
Design Premium (£1,655.58 - full, £703.82 - upgrade)/Standard (for designers - indesign cs3, photoshop cs3 extended/standard, illustrator cs3, flash cs3, dreamweaver cs3, acrobat 8)
Web Premium (£1,404.12 - full, £534.62 - upgrade)/Standard (for publishing and web design - dreamweaver cs3, flash cs3, photoshop cs3 extended/standard, acrobat 8, fireworks cs3, illustrator cs3, contribute cs3)
Production Premium (£1,655.58 - full, £703.82 - upgrade) (for video editing - flash cs3, premiere pro cs3, illustrator cs3, photoshop cs3 extended, after effects cs3, soundbooth cs3)
Master Package (£2,313.58 - full, £1, 444.08 - upgrade) (the whole caboodle!)
That's for those of you that need some extreme system updates - does all come at quite a price, check out Adobe's website for full details.
If you're still unsure - there will be a free trial version available soon at www.trycs3.com (it's not up yet - just keep an eye on it).