From a recent Adobe partner session... Kevin O'Connor: It would be great if we could make typography behavior as similar in PS to Illustrator and InDesign as possible. For example, In InDesign and in Illustrator, when you are typing, you can stop typing and get the selection arrow by hitting the Escape key.In Photoshop, when you are typing, and you want to end your typing, if you hit the Escape key, it DELETES what you typed.There is NO UNDO, and you have to do it over again.If you have spent 10 minutes carefully crafting a typographic element in Photoshop, kerning, adjusting the size and leading, and getting it perfect, and then you hit Escape, you then utter unprintable words. ... View more

Because the cloud is an extra component layered together with the traditional applications, there's more involved there and it wasn't ready at the same time. ... View more

No, actually CS6 is released today! ... View more

This reminds me of Google Reader's recent oversimplification... er I mean redesign.   Most users didn't like it and still don't.  Why water down and remove useful features like "reply to"?  Adobe software users are a pretty sophisticated bunch and typically things go in the opposite direction - providing more power and functionality over time. There also seems to be more open/dead space around each post when viewed in Chrome... in Firefox things look better, though not sure why there is such a difference.  <== Need to clear browser cache of previous content and this is fixed. ... View more

If it works like it has for previous CS launches, then you would also be able to pre-order the new release, but not download it yet as John mentions...  Product availability and free trials would follow in May. ... View more

Here's some more news Sharon... it's official — Adobe Creative Suite 6 will be launched on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 — so not too much longer to wait...   After all the sneak peeks they slipped out in recent months, you know it had to be soon ... View more

Well, not too much has changed - nobody can really tell you for sure, but the estimates given above are probably still pretty accurate for CS6 sometime in the spring. ... View more

John T Smith wrote: When I went to the Adobe section of the store... it said there were no products... which could mean they sold everything and are waiting for a new order from Adobe... or could mean they are waiting for CS6 Like I said, not an announcement from Adobe, but odd that a sales site used by several Universities would be completely out of product Hey there John - that is a bit odd, but it sounds like the first explanation (waiting for order restock) because it's likely the CS6 release is still a ways out Congrats on your retirement today! (BTW, Adobe now considers documents dated within the past six months "current," so you may still be able to get that education discount down the road.) ... View more

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/636210 Thank you ... View more

Yes, that's correct - though it may be new to some folks because for several years it was "three versions back"...  But Adobe's upgrade policy has just changed. ... View more

tekwrite1955 wrote: Well it SAYS I need to login to download but I AM logged in and it does not allow me to! Hi, that kind of thing is not uncommon and typically means something has gotten crossed up with the login and session cookies that Adobe sets - and it’s solved by clearing the cookies & cache on your browser and restarting, or trying a different browser, or sometimes trying a different computer and/or Internet connection.  If that still doesn't solve it, some have also had success by logging out, creating a new Adobe account ID, and following the steps one more time.  Hope this helps! ... View more

Hi John, the continued snarkiness maybe isn't so attractive, and perhaps this dialogue is less than interesting or relevant for the good folks here...  I see no point in retreading what I just said so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree - but please know that in over one year of running our site, your missive is the very first of its kind and is vastly outnumbered by scores of positive comments and feedback.  If I took an hour I could put together pages of it, but I think people here would rather see this conversation wrap up. What's interesting is that earlier on up in this thread there was another odd exchange between posters - maybe there's something in the bits here. ... View more

Hi John, I'm sorry you feel that way.  In fact, there are two posts above in this very thread that don't "plug" anything, if you just scroll up a little...  We're trying to fill a need here with the site and if you don't agree that's certainly your prerogative.  But I can assure you there are many, many, many other folks who have been grateful for the help, downloads, answers, videos, savings, insights, and other assistance that we've been providing, and their comments on the blog speak for themselves. Further, if you ask longtime Forum leaders like Bill Hunt and others about how helpful we've been here over the past three months, you'll get a very different and much more positive reaction... (e.g., here and here and here)  And last week Adobe's VP of Engineering for the Creative Suite sent a surprise personal note, "I appreciate all you are doing to improve the experience for CS5 customers."  Adobe is a big company and sometimes they cannot easily move with the speed and nimbleness of a smaller site to address and answer emerging customer service needs and questions. If there's one issue, it's that it takes a lot of time and research to put together our content and it's far easier to refer interested readers to our site, than to carefully recreate a new and complete article local to Adobe Forums that duplicates the content.  I can understand how that might seem like an issue - so once again, my apologies if you're unhappy.  Fortunately, it seems there are many others who have benefited. Be well and have a good weekend. ... View more

genphotosaz wrote: Well are we getting close to the actual release date. Anyone heard anything Might be a good time for an update on this, as it could be just around the  corner now...     http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-lightroom-3-release-date-looking-soon.html Possibly within a matter of weeks. ... View more

Actually the official, authentic Adobe  CS4 free trial downloads remain available for all products and platforms (Windows/Mac) if needed, it's just a matter of finding the proper places to look on Adobe's servers. ... View more

I hear you Bill, and although I don't know for sure, I don't think it was deliberate on Adobe's part...  I just think it was the crush of CS5.  After CS4 got released into the teeth of an economic maelstrom in 2008, Adobe probably wanted to marshal all available resources and bandwidth to help ensure CS5 was a smashing success... For the last major product cycle, it was Lightroom 2 that got released just ahead of CS4, so there it happened to work out the other way around. The good news here is we have two betas now for LR3 so a pretty good idea of what will be coming down the pike in (hopefully) another couple months. ... View more

Yes, you make a good point. I figured out the separation/clarification between what's buzzing now and what's formally coming Monday, but certainly it wouldn't hurt if Adobe put a link to the Buzz/videos site on the Launch page, sort of a change-of-address forwarding link if you like. ... View more