According to a press release on the Adobe site, the company is about to release a Beta of Adobe Photoshop CS3…

Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple’s new Intel-based systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista computers. The final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 is planned for Spring 2007.

The software can be downloaded http://labs.adobe.com, in the early hours Pacific Standard Time on December 15. Right now!

It appears you can try the beta for a limited time (3 days? 28 days?), but that it will be usable for a longer period if you have a valid CS2 serial number. I haven’t had time to download it myself yet, but if I find out anything more I’ll update it. If any of you get it and learn anything interesting – post a comment!

Update: Someone already posted a first preview and screen shots, too!

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