Dreamweaver remembers the path to the Photoshop source file you can reopen it for modifications in Photoshop by pressing Command-double-click (Mac) or Control-double-click (Windows). Dreamweaver asks how you want to save your image (Figure 2), then places it on your Web page. (A portion can be a selected part of the image, or one or more image layers.) Then you switch to Dreamweaver and paste. You begin by opening an image in Photoshop and copying all or a portion of the image. However, Dreamweaver CS3 does integrate well with Photoshop CS3. To see a larger version, click on the image. Unless you have an eagle eye for user interfaces, you probably won’t notice much difference in Dreamweaver CS3’s look. There’s been no facelift to make it similar to its new siblings, such as Photoshop CS3.įigure 1. If you ever want to uninstall one or more applications in the package, Adobe warns that you must use the Setup program, because simply dragging applications to the Mac Trash won’t completely accomplish the job.įor the most part, Dreamweaver CS3’s interface looks the same (Figure 1). On both Mac and Windows, you must use Adobe’s Setup application you can’t simply drag a folder to your hard disk on the Mac, as is now the standard method of installation. Installation was uneventful, though it took quite a while approximately 45 minutes on a 2.5 GHz Dual G5 Power Mac (and a similar time on my Windows machine and MacBook, which both have Core 2 Duo processors). I installed Dreamweaver CS3 as part of the CS3 Web Premium package. In my informal tests, I experienced a noticeable increase in performance with Dreamweaver CS3 versus Dreamweaver 8 running on the same Intel-based MacBook. Mac users will welcome the news that Dreamweaver is now a Universal binary, which means that it runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
To run Dreamweaver CS3, you’ll need Windows XP or Vista, or Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later.
While Dreamweaver continues to be the tool of choice for professional Web designers, some owners of the previous version, Dreamweaver 8, may strain to justify the upgrade cost for Dreamweaver CS3. In the process of bringing Dreamweaver into the fold, Adobe has made some welcome changes to the program, but they are mostly evolutionary, not revolutionary. In CS3, two Adobe programs, GoLive and Image Ready, have been replaced by Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS3. Adobe’s massive Creative Suite 3 launch brings together the programs formerly owned by Macromedia, which Adobe acquired in 2006, with Adobe’s own suite of design and Web tools.