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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Available for Free Public Beta

Oh yay! New DRM!!!!

I've been waiting for that new DRM engine! That stuff never inconveniences paying customers while being no barrier to hackers and pirates.
 
Chaos123x said:
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Why doesn't Adobe just make one version of photoshop and price it at a point where mere mortals can afford it. How about somewhere between $89-$199 and throw it on the app store.


They can use all the DRM they want if they keep pricing it way out of reach of customers reach they will just crack and pirate it.

Wish apple would just end this and either buy adobe or finally unveil they're photoshop killer that's been in development forever and a day.
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If Apple bought Adobe they would drop all the professional software, drop Premiere for Final Cut Pro X (iMovie Pro) and drop photoshop for some improved version of iPhoto after dropping Aperture too. Finally they would only release the Adobe suites for iPhone.

I agree that Adobe's price structure is absurd and only encourages pirating. But Apple would not improve their products.
 
Finiksa said:
And now for the really important question.

Has Adobe finally made a version that will install on a case-sensitive file system?
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Stop being overly sensitive.

Seriously - it's a real pain to have Adobe (and Steam) not work on case-sensitive file structures.

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wikus said:
I really wonder why Pixelmator isnt more popular. It costs $30 compared to Photoshop Elements $80 and is *far* more powerful than PS Elements. It should be a no brainer....
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Or Photoline, for that matter, another good Photoshop replacement.
 
chrono1081 said:
Downloading as we speak. Its nice to see they went with a black UI.
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I have to disagree. I don't like that at all. Pro user of 15 years. White text on black is always harder to read.
Edit: OK there's an option to revert it back to light grey. Watching Lynda movies now.
 
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kirky29 said:
Don't know if there is a way to hide the background bit....if not, I don't like it.
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That was Adobe's biggest flaw on OSX and OS9 for over 10 years and they finally fixed it with CS5. Neutral background is there for a reason (although it's not so neutral in CS6 anymore) and reason is color grading and correction. If you have a colorful desktop background like you do with juicy blues and yellows it would be really hard to correctly adjust blue and yellow because your eyes will constantly be referencing the desktop wallpaper. In all honestly you should really be adjusting using the number values especially if in CMYK but you always want to see what are you doing.

Having a desktop as background like it was before CS5 is a wrong way to do things, sure you might like it that way but its not a proper way.

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kevinfulton.ca said:
Yeah, it's more of a straight up photo editor and not for vector art. For that I'm still on Illustrator, but trying to find an alternative for AI is much tougher.
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If pen tool is your thing you might want to check out CorelDRAW X6 there are some kick ass improvements in vector manipulation. And the best thing is you can always save it as .Ai and open it in Illustrator without any problems.

Also you might want to check out VectorScribe and XtremePath plug-ins for Illustrator for greater path manipulation
 
-hh said:
Skip upgrading is a frugal thing ... but be careful with it: Adobe has caught on to it and has changed their upgrade policies - - already, CS (ie, CS1) has been cut out of eligibility for later versions...

...and with them dropping in CS 5.5 in the sequence, I'd not be surprised if CS3 isn't eligible for CS 6.

If I were you, I'd take a look right now to see what the upgrade requirements are for CS5.5 ... if it is CS2, you'll probably be okay in taking the risk that 6 will allow upgrades from 3 ... but if 5.5 is already on 3, then I'd bet beers that your 3 is going to get dropped for 6 and CS4 will be the latest upgradable version.


Of course, being on a campus, you could just look at buying a new "Student version" as another less-than-full-cost option...


-hh
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Adobe added eligibility for CS3, which is where I'm at, and CS4 though only through the end of the year.
 
Once you actually have PS though it's not *that* bad updating every couple of years.. it's just the initial cost that seems steep.

I think it's worth it, Photoshop is so ridiculously feature-filled and useful for arty stuff. Part of my wishes they'd combine it and illustrator and make it the one-stop application for illustration/art/photo stuff.
 
AdeFowler said:
Did the lighting effects plug-in make it back to the Mac version? I see it’s in the Window’s version with a new interface.

Edit: answered my own question; it's back in the Mac version.
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That's good to know, thanks. :) It's the one thing that keeps me flipping from 64 to 32 bit mode on PS CS5.
 
I wonder what happen to that anti-blur feature that was demoed a while back. Where you can take a fuzzy picture and un-fuzzy it.
 
mozumder said:
Pretty sure the Aperture team went to work on iPhoto for iPad.. it does a lot of the same things.

Meanwhile, I pretty much work exclusively in Aperture now. So good.

Don't really do excessive special fx in Photoshop, and plugins work fine in Aperture. Lightroom is always catching up.
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True. Aperture is good, but I would prefer things like lens correction to be built in - I don't like using a plugin for this.
 
Chaos123x said:
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Why doesn't Adobe just make one version of photoshop and price it at a point where mere mortals can afford it. How about somewhere between $89-$199 and throw it on the app store.
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I'd LOVE a PS version that is like the old 7 or even 6, for $99. They don't need to smack it up with professional-jiggery-pokery: a few filters, able to change color, paint, draw, scan, export, DONE. Ever since 7 they have just been bloating it with stuff that fewer and fewer people actually use. Currently I have CS3 and see no reason to go further with the graphic suites. Only InDesign and Acrobat with new eBook functions are worth a look, to me.
 
wikus said:
One of the most annoying things Adobe did in CS5 was the removal of being able to zoom in/out with the scroll wheel while using the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

Anyone who does precise selections knows what a pain in the ass it is now. Hopefully CS6 will fix that.
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pen tool ftw
 
Have they fixed Radial Blur yet!!!!!????? With a preview on the image or larger thumbnail? 10 year standing feature/bug request.
 
Renzatic said:
Pretty much like it was in CS5, cept a little squarer and a lot more blacker. :p

I like the fact that it separates all the documents into their own windows on the Windows task bar. Instead of just maximizing the program, I can click it and go straight to a specific document now.

Edit: For the 5 of you here who are interested, this is what it looks like under Windows.
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I like your texture map!
 
Looks like the crop tool has gotten the long needed overhaul.

You can crop by aspect ratio now (and don't have to use the rectangle tool with transform).
 
The new erodible brushes are interesting, although I'm not sure how practically useful.

I know Adobe is trying to compete with Corel Painter in this category but they have a LOOOOOOOONG way to go before they even come close to what Painter offers.
 
New DRM?

They're rolling out new DRM...that's great! /sarcasm

I guess that means they didn't take the time to make actual useful features like supporting "versions" in OSX Lion. :confused:
 
wikus said:
You can kiss expose goodbye as Mission Control sucks a$$. The elimination of 'all windows at once' (real expose) makes it impossible to drag an object from illustrator, enable expose by hitting a hot corner, selecting the desired photoshop document/window by hovering over it and dropping it in place. This doesnt require any key strokes on the keyboard and not even a single click on the mouse, just drag, hit hot corner, hover and drop.

If Adobe is to have any blame put on them, Apple is equally at fault for failing miserably with Mission Control.
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Why hover to a hot corner and then look for the right photoshop document among possibly many other applications when you can just hover directly to the photoshop icon in your dock which then shows you every Photoshop document/window.

Your problem sounds like you are attempting to use the wrong methods to accomplish things when an easier way is available. Mission Control works really well if you use everything as it was intended. The same problem existed for those who wouldn't adapt to the old exposé when it was released.
 
mixel said:
Once you actually have PS though it's not *that* bad updating every couple of years.. it's just the initial cost that seems steep.

I think it's worth it, Photoshop is so ridiculously feature-filled and useful for arty stuff. Part of my wishes they'd combine it and illustrator and make it the one-stop application for illustration/art/photo stuff.
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That's kind of why I'm tempted to cave in, but I'm not...They really screwed me around and I have a long memory.
 
Ahhhhh! I had to stop the video! She regularly makes four inflections in one sentence. Stop talking like that!!!

Sorry everyone. Carry on.
 
wikus said:
Pixelmator is a sweet app. A great 'in-between' choice for those that need more options than Photoshop Elements but not nearly as many as the full version of Photoshop.

However, no professional is going to use Pixelmator in a studio environment. Clients, agencies, studios, etc all use Photoshop, its the gold standard.
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lol... I remember attending the Aperture premiere in NYC when it first came out. I was sitting behind some (un-named) ad execs who where complaining about Adobe and hoping Aperture was something they could incorporate in their workflow. I remember one exec saying to the other "Just use elements, it's does 90 % of what we do on a day to day basis". Who knows if they did, but the conversation did stay with me.

I use Pixelmator. It does 90% of what I need to do everyday. Print is dead, everything is online. With everyone watching expenses, its an easier sell to buy 100 seats at $29 than Adobe's bloated and almost yearly costs.

BTW, Pixelmators content aware heal tool is better than Adobe's.

I'm passing on the bloat... again...
 
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