OK, I am normally not into hyperbole about new software. Last time I installed a piece of Adobe software (Adobe Elements for Photoshop and Premiere 5.0), I ended up logging onto their Web site and sending not so nice emails to any address I could find. But Adobe CS3 Web Premium edition is different.

I was prepared for the installation to be a major headache. However, the 4.1 GB of programs installed smoothly, it even updated by Adobe Acrobat 7.0 to the new 8.0. Now I was truly amazed. As I lo0ked at the new Photoshop, it activated all the software in one shot. In an hour and thirty minutes it was all done and no crashes, no searching the Internet for fixes to installation problems. I was in shock and truly awed. This is the way to get a long awaited software marriage (Dreamweaver and Photoshop) off to a great start. Adobe is not paying me to say this, but with CS3 I think they have a real winner.

I am so full of praise because I have been so down on Adobe as I watched Acrobat become less useful and more problematic with each version and Photoshop (my first love) become so expensive and cumbersome in CS. But today in CS3, Photoshop is zooming. Try the zoomify application on a map with the new Photoshop to see what I mean – awesome.

Here is the Adobe CS3 Web site

It comes with a disk of training videos and be sure to order the books. Stacked up they represent about two feet of “I never-knew-that reading".