Looks like Photoshop's gonna get a good bunch of both new and revisited features in CS5, as it seems from their videos. Productivity++
Don't you think that's a bit dramatic?
If THIS demo of the new content aware fill feature is any indication of CS5 it's going to be well worth the money.
I too was impressed. I'm definitely getting LR3 but the demo has me considering an upgrade from CS3
I really hope that by this point, CS5 will have SOME application that opens Animated GIFs. That's been missing since ImageReady got the boot in CS3.
Agreed. I think Flash is the bane of the internet. I'm glad Steve has taken a stand against it.
Well, I have news for you: Flash runs perfectly well on the vast majority of the world's computers, including all my Macs.
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3672&p=6Well, I have news for you: Flash runs perfectly well on the vast majority of the world's computers, including all my Macs.
I'm not saying Apple is right with their position on flash on the iPhoneOS. But Adobe definitely need to do their homework on OSX.
Silverlight doesn't seem to have a problem playing fullscreen video on my Mac. If MS can do it, it's not Apple's fault.there's a very good reason why Flash is not as optimized for Mac OS X. i'll let you research it on your own since i'm tired of this debate, but i'll give you an important clue: it's apple's fault.
there's a very good reason why Flash is not as optimized for Mac OS X. i'll let you research it on your own since i'm tired of this debate, but i'll give you an important clue: it's apple's fault.
or not lock yourself into apple's walled garden and deliver your cross-platform applications across the vast majority of PCs and internet connected devices.
Don't bother. It won't get through their skulls.
The world's most advanced operating system runs Flash the crappiest of them all. The world's most advanced operating system doesn't run CS4 in 64-bit. The world's most advanced operating system is still using an old OpenGL implementation (2.x, while the rest of the world moved to 3.x one year ago!) meaning 3D applications (e.g. Maya) run like crap.
End of rant.
... I don't use CS nearly as much as I used to, so...
Adobe charges way too much for over-bloated crap that's not much different from the previous versions.![]()
Yes, but this one will finally be 64-bit based. That's a pretty decent change and hopefully will improve the performance.
Flash is nothing more than Adobe's own attempts at creating a walled garden, if but a larger one, to control web content.
that's like accusing C or Java development of attempting to create a walled garden. Flash IDEs are proprietary software developed by Adobe, but Flash content is freely accessible and distributed. Flash developers are not forced to submit their work to Adobe for approval, this is even true for Adobe Air developers who want to sell their ActionScript programs via Adobe's Air Marketplace.
Except C is a programming language with an opensource compiler. Java also has an opensource counterpart.
http://openjdk.java.net/
So no its not like accusing C or Java to be creating a walled gardern.
Flash is 100% proprietary while most programming languages have opensource counterparts.
Adobe Flex is a software development kit released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.
The Adobe® Flex® 4 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes the Flex framework (component class library) and Flex compiler, enabling you to freely develop and deploy Flex applications using an IDE of your choice.
Flex is proprietary. Just because you release an SDK doesnt make it opensource. Releasing the sourcecode makes it opnesource.
you are correct, but it's free and cross-platform, which (in returning to my point) is more open than Apple's Intel-Mac-Only Xcode tools for native iPhone/iPad development.
[EDIT] perhaps Adobe will open up Flash in the next few years in order to compete with WebGL / HTML5.
Flash is 100% proprietary while most programming languages have opensource counterparts.