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Adobe Unveils Creative Suite CS4, GPU Accelerated Photoshop
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True and not so true. Ive worked in larger shops but the smart ones always budget for upgrades. Now whether you deploy them is a different story. In my dept. I will purchase the upgrades for all the machines. But I dont deploy them all untill its been tested on a single machin pref by prisoners
LOL!This is exciting news. With CS4 I will be able to add funny captions to pictures of cats faster than ever.
Blame Apple for no x64 on OSX, not Adobe
Had Apple not broken its promise to deliver Carbon 64 support in Leopard, you'd have CS4 x64...
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/04/photoshop_lr_64.html
Note that Leopard betas had Carbon 64 support - then it was withdrawn....
Had Apple not broken its promise to deliver Carbon 64 support in Leopard, you'd have CS4 x64...
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/04/photoshop_lr_64.html
Note that Leopard betas had Carbon 64 support - then it was withdrawn....
I call it CS 3.5.
The only "wow" feature is the GPU for Photoshop. Just only Photoshop?
1) Why not enable GPU on all CS softwares
2) There is no 64bit in mac yet (only on PC).
3) Carbon API? It's still too bloated and I'm sure it is on CS4.
4) Little improvement? How about big improvements plus more features! ha
If you passed those above, then i'll considered it "cs4" and will buy it. I think I'll wait for CS5 or CS9 unless they fixed those things
Thank you.
The only "wow" feature is the GPU for Photoshop. Just only Photoshop?
1) Why not enable GPU on all CS softwares
2) There is no 64bit in mac yet (only on PC).
3) Carbon API? It's still too bloated and I'm sure it is on CS4.
4) Little improvement? How about big improvements plus more features! ha
If you passed those above, then i'll considered it "cs4" and will buy it. I think I'll wait for CS5 or CS9 unless they fixed those things
Thank you.
Or 109,000 floppy disks!
The embargo? I missed something big apparently?
I prefer 114 CD's instead (give or take 50).
I'll check those out especially Inkscape. Thanks!! It'd be nice if they have INDD alternative.
No because if you want a laptop to run CS4 you better be buying a MacBook Pro.
The new MacBooks are very likely to have the next gen intel integrated graphics chipset.
You're officially upgraded so you should be fine to upgrade from CS3 Design Premium. According to the price sheet, you can upgrade to CS4 DP for $599.
Jeremy
Or 109,000 floppy disks!
I am running a beta of the CS4 Master Collection and it took five DVDs. Install time was maybe an hour, which is a lot better than CS3, and it launches and runs faster overall as well. I like how CS4 performs compared to CS3.
Jeremy
An 8800 GT can handle everything in CS marvelously well.
The iMac will run Photoshop and all the other programs just fine as long as you have a decent one. You won't be getting the sort of performance you can get from a Mac Pro, but it will run more than good enough for the vast majority of iMac users. Anybody depending on the programs for serious high-end professional work beyond this, though, will have a Mac Pro (and that won't be tough considering the money they can spend on the products).
They'll probably have other upgrade options. They usually do. Check the product pages at Adobe's website and you should find a complete listing somewhere (unless they haven't gotten around to posting it yet). I think they still offered educational upgrades (to educational editions) with CS3.
Despite its bugs, sluggishness and X11 interface, I find Inkscape to be the only usable vector graphics program for OS X - apart from possibly Illustrator because there's no way I could ever afford that.
Others I have tried are Lineform and Intaglio (both pretty, but very poor feature sets), and EazyDraw (well featured but buggy and hideously unintuitive IMO, although the developer has assured me he's responding to some of this feedback).
SL
I just bought CS3 about a month ago... do you think it's worth it to get the upgrade?
I mainly use PS and Illustrator...
I mainly use PS and Illustrator...
Then what...
Just what the hell were you hoping for?
There are tones of new features... Have any of you actually went through all the "new features" sections of all apps?
- Search speech in Premiere (incredibly useful for captioning professionals and general timing purpose)
- Content aware stretching in photoshop (we've seen it before but it's right into Photoshop! Imagine how much time it will save)
- Paint on 3D object
- Export 3D objects to After Effects
- Soundbooth for Mac
- Export After Effects Comp into Flash seamlessly
- Live view in Dream Weaver
- Canvas rotate in Photoshop
- Smooth viewing tools in PS
- Great improvement to the Adjustment Layer, masking functionality
...
and it's just from the top of my head. Just what are you missing?
Overpriced yes. No cocoa. But This is major upgrades...
There are so many new features...
Have you even tried PS CS4 yet? I did and love it. I feel like they went into my mind and added all those MINOR changes that makes MAJOR changes to your workflow: In the save for web dialogue, you don't have to press Apply anymore when you resize!!!!!! FINALY.
Anyway... I guess it's just my opinion. I'm REALLY curious to see what kind of stuff you were wishing to see.
Just what the hell were you hoping for?
There are tones of new features... Have any of you actually went through all the "new features" sections of all apps?
- Search speech in Premiere (incredibly useful for captioning professionals and general timing purpose)
- Content aware stretching in photoshop (we've seen it before but it's right into Photoshop! Imagine how much time it will save)
- Paint on 3D object
- Export 3D objects to After Effects
- Soundbooth for Mac
- Export After Effects Comp into Flash seamlessly
- Live view in Dream Weaver
- Canvas rotate in Photoshop
- Smooth viewing tools in PS
- Great improvement to the Adjustment Layer, masking functionality
...
and it's just from the top of my head. Just what are you missing?
Overpriced yes. No cocoa. But This is major upgrades...
There are so many new features...
Have you even tried PS CS4 yet? I did and love it. I feel like they went into my mind and added all those MINOR changes that makes MAJOR changes to your workflow: In the save for web dialogue, you don't have to press Apply anymore when you resize!!!!!! FINALY.
Anyway... I guess it's just my opinion. I'm REALLY curious to see what kind of stuff you were wishing to see.
CS 3.5, Mac OS 8.7
You stole the words out of my mouth.
I really wish the bigger players would start adding a little extra value to their major releases (so we'd have version 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, etc...), instead of a major new version (along with a couple of patches) every couple of years, and that's it. Otherwise, if the new product doesn't add enough reason to upgrade, they lose out all together until someone decides to upgrade a few versions down the line (or move to another product entirely).
When Mac OS 9 came out, about the only thing that seemed overly useful was the iTools integration. Yes, there are a couple of other nice features to OS 9, but nothing quite to the level to make it leaps and bounds better than OS 8.
You stole the words out of my mouth.
I really wish the bigger players would start adding a little extra value to their major releases (so we'd have version 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, etc...), instead of a major new version (along with a couple of patches) every couple of years, and that's it. Otherwise, if the new product doesn't add enough reason to upgrade, they lose out all together until someone decides to upgrade a few versions down the line (or move to another product entirely).
When Mac OS 9 came out, about the only thing that seemed overly useful was the iTools integration. Yes, there are a couple of other nice features to OS 9, but nothing quite to the level to make it leaps and bounds better than OS 8.
For you this is a worthy upgrade. IMO Indesign's use of gradients has been more robust than illustrator and that is an issue. If i want to stroke a font w/ a gradient in illustrator i have to create outlines. Also indesigns new Effects pallette that allows you to provide effects/transparency to each part of the element is genius and robust.
I had almost completely dumped illustrator, save for logo design in all of my layouts. I have the feeling with multi-artboard and better gradient control, it may get back into the rotation. Also, I hope they fixed the bog. It is the only slow app on my Mac Pro. Even printing lags.
Seems like if you own CS3 you should get cheaper prices than cs2/CS and they should be cheaper than something before that. Otherwise it just encourages people to pick up a $50 copy of some out-dated software on ebay and upgrade. Also, it doesn't make me want to get the latest, having CS3. Almost burns you a little for getting the latest and supporting them.
Ill - yes IMHO Pay $199 and get the ill upgrade
Photo - no IMHO
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<hr>Call up Customer Care and ask if you are eligible for a free update.
I don't see why not.
But seriously folks, (not the quoted fellow) quit complaining about the price. Software development isn’t cheap. Sorry, but that’s the way it is. If Apple came out with a PS alternative, and put the same amount of research that Aldus/Adobe slaved over for so long, I would be very impressed.
You cannot employ a group of high schoolers for coding a complex beast like PS. A minimum of four years of school plus plenty of experience miiight get you in the door. Couple that with Google and other software/app vendors who all want talent from a very limited pool, and the competition (cost) gets fierce (expensive).
I guess if Adobe outsourced their entire San Jose operations to India and charged $25 bucks for less feature updates some of you would still complain.
Besides, if you really use the tools effectively, you can do some pretty wicked things across various mediums (web, print, video etc) and one project will pay for the ENTIRE master collection, hardware, and cash on the side to buy up some fonts.
I still have my PS2.5 floppy, I wonder if I can get the upgrade to CS4 Extended?
But seriously... now that I'm a student again the price is very enticing.
InDesign alternatives
Has anyone considered other layout apps, such as Stone's Create, or Multi-Ad's Creator?
Has anyone considered other layout apps, such as Stone's Create, or Multi-Ad's Creator?
I would like to know the answer to this as well. My friend and I are in the same situation and would like to know our options for CS4. Adobe doesn't seen to be 100% clear on this.