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John Nack, Photoshop Product Manager, talks about what is unique to Photoshop CS3 Extended in a post on his Adobe blog. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended has EVERYTHING the regular Photoshop CS3 has plus extended functionality designed for certain professions that needed even more stuff.

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. – Mar. 28, 2007 – 3Dconnexion, a Logitech company, today announced that its SpaceNavigator™ device supports the recently announced Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended software editions. Delivering powerful and intuitive 3D navigation and control, the SpaceNavigator device enables creative professionals working with 3D objects in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended to simultaneously pan, zoom and rotate camera views and 3D objects.

To coincide with the official announcement of Photoshop CS3, Martin Evening has released a sample chapter from his forthcoming book: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers, published by Focal Press.

The new edition of this best selling book should be hitting the streets in Spring of 2007, shortly after the official release of Photoshop CS3.

As a special perk for PhotoshopNews readers, Martin has made his Chapter 1: What’s New in Photoshop CS3 available for free download.

The 24 page PDF, outlines all the new features of Photoshop CS3 and Bridge 2, written from a user’s perspective. It offers an honest appraisal of what will be on offer in this new version of the program, if you really want to know what’s NEW!

Adobe announces–officially–Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended

Due to ship [soon], Adobe Photoshop CS3 will sell for $649 (estimated US street price) with upgrades from Photoshop 7 and beyond costing $199 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 priced at $999 (estimated US street price) with upgrades from Photoshop 7 and beyond costing $349.