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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Available for Free Public Beta

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 did that then they would have to do the same for illustrator and indesign too.

Adobe do have a lot of problems with CS because of lack of competition but that is not due to a single product. It is the full suite and their cross compatibility.

At this point a company would have to have an app to compete with every part of the CS and give them better integration than adobes offering while also beating adobe on their weak point of interface inconsistency.

There are a few promising developers out there working on software that competes with a single part but currently none offering the full package creative professionals need.
 
It's about friggin time for that non-destructive crop tool. Took 'em long enough, but I'm really happy about that. Hopefully it'll see and work with any crops done in LR4, too.
 
kurosov said:
If apple did that then they would have to do the same for illustrator and indesign too.

Adobe do have a lot of problems with CS because of lack of competition but that is not due to a single product. It is the full suite and their cross compatibility.

At this point a company would have to have an app to compete with every part of the CS and give them better integration than adobes offering while also beating adobe on their weak point of interface inconsistency.

There are a few promising developers out there working on software that competes with a single part but currently none offering the full package creative professionals need.
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True, but wasn't the bulk of Adobe's products created for the print world? ( Lets put Flash aside as this was Macromedia... and we know where that is going).

Do I really need CS to create apps or other web/digital material?

If a front cover for the New Yorker can be created and published in the app Brushes... it says allot about our industry that continues to chase this model. The model that we need a CS suite to be competative.

In my opinion, this "old school" mentality is just wasting money.
 
TMay said:
Adobe added eligibility for CS3, which is where I'm at, and CS4 though only through the end of the year.
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So CS6 is being leveraged as a "Buy it NOW!" for CS3 ... and CS4 also?


Dang. Looks like I'll be stuck buying one license for now (2012) for my CS4, and given this trend, Adobe will force my two CS5 licenses into upgrade whenever CS6.5 or CS7 comes out.

(Yes, I know that CS allows two "Desktop+Laptop" installs...problem is that that allowance doesn't span OSX-to-Windows, so I still need to have two licenses at work, plus I don't want to have any questions possible regarding work-vs-home "software theft", so that's why there's a third).

-hh
 
Video: yep, I'm not getting the point of that either.

Blur tools: none of the examples that I've seen look realistic; quick, but not realistic. Better results would still need good masking or, better still, proper DOF during image capture in the first place.
 
kevinfulton.ca said:
morespce54 said:
Not suicidal, for sure. But have you ever tried exporting a Pixelmator file in PS, then having somebody else work on it in PS and open it back in Pixelmator? No, right, you can't open a PSD in Pixelmator! ;)
Even if you could, the PS specifics would be ruined.

Don't get me wrong 'tho, I love Pixelmator and wish the whole industry would switch but until then... :)
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As I've mentioned before I've yet to open a PSD file in Pixelmator that hasn't opened just fine. Nor have I, or any clients, experienced any troubles with a PSD file that I've exported from Pixelmator. Not saying it will never happen, it's just that I have yet to experience it. It really depends on your workflow if it will work for you though. For mine there's been no issues............yet :D
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I guess so as I haven't yet been successful in opening a PSD at all in Pixelmator. ;) I guess it depends on what PS version or what filter/vector mask/layer style you use (I don't know, I'm not the one you do the PS work... I'm the one who needs to work with those files ;))
 
EGlasheen said:
True, but wasn't the bulk of Adobe's products created for the print world? ( Lets put Flash aside as this was Macromedia... and we know where that is going).

Do I really need CS to create apps or other web/digital material?

If a front cover for the New Yorker can be created and published in the app Brushes... it says allot about our industry that continues to chase this model. The model that we need a CS suite to be competative.

In my opinion, this "old school" mentality is just wasting money.
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I think this is a great point. While there will be the status quo of the centralized model of creating products (massive editing shops) for a while, we're seeing a lot of independent folks and with it the willingness to try other tools and get results in different ways. While being independent may mean that you still have to grab CS suite for some of your work, the ability and freedom to try other perhaps more niche products and support smaller development shops bodes well for innovative solutions.
 
Yo, did anyone notice this?
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Not really on-topic, but I think this is a MacBook Pro we haven't seen yet, because it seems to be quite thin.
I own one 2011 15" so I know what I'm talking about, and that looks like a bigger MacBook Air if you ask me...

Other than that, cool, downloading right now, curious, but looks good on that video. I hope it's a bit compatible with ML DP2, because that's what I'm running at the moment. Will probably report in a few hours.

(I'm sorry for breaking the page width with the huge pic, am willing to do something about it if someone can tell me how)
 
Does anyone else notice, adobe taking the transition from cs5.5 to cs6 in the same wrong direction as apple did with finalcut studio x? It looks very compact and not like how the 5 series was. And the video; is that premier only or is edge gonna be worked in the mix also?
 
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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Then why not use "gimp"? It is free and has a huge feature set, a costomisable user interface and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and other OSes.

And it's open source so can be modified by anyone

More at www.gimo.org
 
morespce54 said:
I guess so as I haven't yet been successful in opening a PSD at all in Pixelmator. ;) I guess it depends on what PS version or what filter/vector mask/layer style you use (I don't know, I'm not the one you do the PS work... I'm the one who needs to work with those files ;))
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We both have our reasons and we both know what we're talking about, so lets just drop it. And for the love of god STOP WINKING AT ME IT'S CREEPING ME OUT!! LOL!!
 
vladi said:
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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In CS5 they gave an option to turn it on, now by default it's on and no way to hide it? - if you like it thats fine, I personally don't and would like an option to hide it.

It just feel like it's taking up too much space now.

My personal opinion. :)
 
I hope the new DRM does not barge in on my workflow or cause problems e.g. when you lose web connection.

Would be too bad if you had a legal copy of Photoshop, and then it freezes because the DRM acts up.
 
Roessnakhan said:
Why would Adobe get unreleased Apple products?
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Not to mention actually violate an NDA by showing it in a video to the public?!?

Renzatic said:
To test their new software on for compatibility and performance sake? Even at Apple, it's not totally unheard of situation.
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I doubt that they need unreleased hardware to do that - I would imagine they are more concerned with the OS than hardware that likley isn't much different. They don't have every computer that Dell makes to test Windows versions of the products - they frame it under a set of system requirements that leaves room to grow. Nothing that Apple is going to release is going to affect Photoshop.
 
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