The beta version of the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 is now here. You need a CS2 serial to be able to use the beta. If you don’t have a serial you can download a demo version that will work for two days.

In the early hours of Friday, Dec. 15, a public beta of Photoshop Creative Suite 3 will be made available for download on Adobe Labs, the developer website used to showcase emerging technologies and beta software. This new Photoshop release is the first version to run natively on Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers. Many creative professionals working in art, photography and video favor the Macintosh platform. However, the performance of Adobe’s flagship product has suffered since Apple made the switch from PowerPC processors to Intel processors earlier this year. In addition to its availability as a universal binary application for Mac OS X, the beta release will be compatible with both Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.