Those of us familiar with the taste and feel of Photoshop should get ready for new flavors in the art of digital imaging. According to Adobe Systems, Photoshop Creative Suite 3 will be released into two different flavors at the end of this month. Adobe has highlighted the two editions of Photoshop CS3 and revealed that the Extended edition will expand the limits of digital imaging. Photoshop CS3 Extended will include all the features of Photoshop CS3 but also a breadth of advanced capabilities.

"We never imagined that Photoshop would someday help make major motion pictures, let alone save lives," said John Loiacono, senior vice president of the Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe. "Whether it's a video producer texture editing the backdrop of a movie or a researcher counting hundreds of cancer cells, diverse industries are already relying on the professional standard in digital imaging."

Users will be able to edit three dimensional and motion-based content with Photoshop CS3 Extended. Adobe informed that the extended edition will harness the Photoshop image-editing set of tools and paint engine and apply them to 3D and motion graphics. Both Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended will be available come March 27.

"Film and video specialists can perform 3-D model visualization and texture editing, paint and clone over multiple video frames. Animators can now render and incorporate rich 3-D content into their 2-D compositions. Graphic and web designers can create an animation from a series of images - such as time series data - and export it to a wide variety of formats, including QuickTime, MPEG-4 and Adobe Flash Video," Adobe explained in a press release.