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Adobe Master Collection
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It’s Christmas here in my little hole in the world. My copy of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection has arrived. Huge thanks to Adobe and the Adobe Certified Experts managers, I now have all the latest versions of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Flash, Dreameaver, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere, Soundbooth, Encore, Bridge, Version Cue, Device Central, Adobe Stock Photos, Acrobat Connect and Dynamic Link. Whew!
To install the entire suite of tools requires over 22GB of hard drive space - huge yes, but these days it is hard to get a new CPU with less than 100GB. Unfortunately this particular desktop I wish to install the Master Collection on has a wee-little hard drive capacity of 38GB. What’s worse is that only 20GB of space is currently free. Time to upgrade. Since the processor, RAM and video card are still up-to-snuff technology-wise I may simply upgrade the hard drive to a 350GB Seagate or similar. This will require backing up and transferring the entire OS and all currently installed programs. Not exactly how i would want to spend several precious hours on any given Sunday but, it is what it is.
Once installed, my biggest plan is to experiment with animation techniques involving Flash, After Effects and Photoshop. There so much I want to do and so little time to actually do it - more to come…
Thanks Adobe!
Hey Chris, just got mine too yesterday. My boyfriend was drooling all over the package. I told him he couldn’t have it. (evil laugh) It’s all mine I tell ya, it’s all mine. LOL
I am showing one of your presos at next months meeting. Do you have any new ones now you have the book out? Would you consider answering questions via Connect after we watch one?
KCWebCore manager
Dee
Dee Sadler at Sep 14, 07 at 5:52 pm
Soooo Chris, you only had to win “who Wants to be a millionare” 70 times to get that package? Thats a good deal. LOL
Well done in scoring that lovely lookin box of goodies!
Smidget at Sep 15, 07 at 2:08 am
Dee: when is your meeting next month? Email me privately when you can. The only new videos I have recorded are available on DVD in association with photoshopcafe.com and Colin Smith - I blogged about it a few weeks ago - scroll down a bit
I will be away at the Best in the South West conference from Oct 7-15.
-chris
chris at Sep 15, 07 at 3:14 pm
Ok tux when do you want me to start begging. You know you need an apprentice to do your clipping paths and masking for you.
I can live in your garage and i can help you grow your empire into a flash school where i can then get a great fulltime position!
I get along with kids and animals and i put the toilet seat down when im done.
Zee
Mrzee at Sep 18, 07 at 8:58 pm
Hey, I am getting CS3 along with a new mac at the same time. Which would you recommend for running the programs, a macbook pro or imac? Plan on using flash and after effects…
Thanks,
Chris
Chris Jones at Oct 9, 07 at 3:40 pm
Chris, really pleased you’ve got you Master Collection - not something I intend to buy until Adobe gets it’s pricing policies in UK & Europe sorted out.
I logged on to the UK stire and found the prices to be the same in British pounds as they are in US dollars. Probably marketing in Adobe forgot to check the exchange rates recently!
Hey, perhaps you can send them a link to http://www.xe.com/ucc/ so they can check. Last time I did it was 2 USD to 1 GBP.
At the current prices advertised on the different Adobe stores it seems I must pay $2,888 for Adobe Design Premium as opposed to $1,799 in the States - wow! that’s a $1,000 mark-up!
Until Adobe play fair with it’s UK and Euro fans then I’ll move over to open source tools…
James at Oct 30, 07 at 3:05 pm
Chris Jones: I would get whatever Mac is better - which I believe is the Pro - I’m not a Mac person YET - I am tired of PCs and really would like a Mac - but after pricing out a top of the line model it would set me back well over $3000 uS - and for less money I could get a Cintique. Too many toys too little time.
James: yeah this is a common grudge when it comes to pricing overseas - I don’t remember the exact reason but Adobe doesn’t just decide to raise the price for overseas customers - it has something to do with taxes. If i find anything out more specific I will let you know.
chris at Nov 20, 07 at 5:20 am
Thanks for your reply chris - appreciate it!
I can assure you it’s nothing to do with taxes in the UK - the prices I quoted are before tax.
It’s only really about price fixing - you good people in the States are lucky enough (or rather worked hard to get…) to have strong anti-trust laws that make many companies think twice before fixing prices.
In Europe, and especially the UK, the law is no were near as fair to the consumer as it is to big business.
Apple & Adobe raise their prices in the UK for one reason only - they can!
Even when the European Commission gets involved - the recent changes at iTunes UK being a prime example - and the prices are moved to a fair position - Apple have a good old moan and try and put the blame on other companies.
Their reasoning is simple - Apple will charge more - because everyone else in the UK charges more.
That’s called price fixing and Steve Jobs would find himself paying a hefty fine if he tried that kind of skewed thinking back in the States.
James at Jan 16, 08 at 8:14 am