There was some excitement a couple of days ago when it appeared that Adobe was giving away the entire CS2 suite along with license keys for free. It turns out they were just shutting down the registration servers for the product and giving paid customers a chance to download it with keys that wouldn't need to be activated over their servers. I'm always up for a new version of Photoshop, though it seems like CS6 just came out. I'm still getting the hang of it, since they made some pretty big changes with it, particularly with managing shapes and vector masks.Although Photoshop CS6 was just announced, we are already hearing rumors about the features coming in the upcoming CS7 release. Adobe Systems was once traditionally very secretive around the launch of their new products, but they have officially announced a 24-month release cycle for all their creative suite products, with smaller 12-month releases on a per-product basis (depending on the updates needed).
We are tracking the latest Creative Suite 7 news and rumors from Adobe. As Adobe just announced CS6 earlier this year, we still don’t have much news on the new features expected to come in CS7. However, after the latest earning call, Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, gave clear indication that major Create Suite versions will be released every other year in Spring. The mid-releases (like the next CS6.5 point release), will become available one year after the initial release on select versions that require an upgrade. For those on the Creative Cloud, you’ll see upgrades added automatically to your membership as soon as they are released (usually before the traditional boxed versions come around).