No 64-bit Photoshop CS3

Adobe plans to build a 64-bit version of its flagship image-editing software, Photoshop, but the upcoming CS3 version isn’t the place to make that plan a reality. “At some point it will make sense to do a 64-bit version. That wasn’t this time around,” said Photoshop co-architect Scott Byer in a blog posting last week, addressing feedback on the public Photoshop CS3 beta asking for a 64-bit version. Issues involving technology, performance and support mean that Photoshop will remain 32-bit software for the time being, Byer said.

I don’t really see a need for a 64-Bit version of Photoshop, but I’m not exactly an editing pro either. It would have been nice to have a 64-Bit version to coincide with the 64-Bit Vista, but we can’t have it all. By the time CS4 comes around it will probably become more of a concern as newer PC’s will likely have a 64-Bit OS and having 4GB of ram or more wouldn’t be considered an oddity.