Part 3 of our “What’s in Photoshop CS4″ Series
Jan. 15
6:24 am
Here’s the third part of our 4-part series on Photoshop CS4. There are a few funny moments as you can tell we start to realize that we totally misjudged how long it’s going to take to cover all the new features, but I guess most importantly, it starts to uncover the depth of functionality that Adobe really put into this upgrade. Hope you enjoy part 3.
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Maybe, you must do a 9 minutes recording. You can’t put all features in 8
hi scott !
greetings from austria ! (sorry for my bad english)
i love your videos……funny, informative
you and matt are great !!!
you guys are so silly…
Another quality segment, lovin’ this series (and getting antsy for photoshop world Boston).
Enjoying the videos, but I doubt if this will change the minds of the 85-90% of the current CS3 owners that are still to upgrade. The upgrade simply does not represent good value. Further, as a photographer who uses Lightroom/Aperture and that 90% of my workflow is contained within those applications, there really is no compelling reason to upgrade. Sorry but thats the way it is.
I do like the contact sheet feature in Bridge, but I wish it had more options for saving the file, like downsizing the ppi, compression ect. Not just high & low quality. I absolutely love the new way to re-size the brushes though, you can even change the hardness/softness too—Sooo much better then before!
Nick,
I guess I am in your 10-15% of CS3 owners who were compelled to upgrade (although prior to these videos
).
By far the most amazing improvements were the offloading of memory intensive tasks to the video hardware, content aware scaling and the organization/grouping of frequently used panels/adjustments.
Brandon,
“By far the most amazing improvements were the offloading of memory intensive tasks to the video hardware, content aware scaling and the organization/grouping of frequently used panels/adjustments.”
Precisely why the upgrade is not worth the money! 85-90% of Photoshop CS3 users cannot be wrong. Sadly I WAS – I upgraded! The new features are fine but simply not worth the dosh. A Waste of money!
Adobe are concerned that many most users have not upgraded. The push here is an example of how they are attempting to create interest. If you haven`t upgraded and If you are a photographer, save your money for the upcoming Aperture and Lightroom upgrades.
Hmm, I do not see how the Lightroom/Aperture combo allows you as much flexibility as Photoshop. You must not do much post processing, which is fine but it seems odd to post a comment here if that is true.
Everyone has their opinion, but I am willing to pay for significant performance boosts, hands down.
Nick,
You keep stating that 85-90% of CS3 users are not upgrading. Where are you getting that number? Is it perhaps just anecdotal based upon your views and that of your friends/colleagues/internet contacts? Only Adobe really knows how many CS3 users are upgrading, and I would wonder how you would be privy to their data.
Listen to this:- http://www.thedigitalstory.com/blog/
“I do not see how the Lightroom/Aperture combo allows you as much flexibility as Photoshop.”
Well …. along with all other decent photographers (Scott Kelby for one …..) around 85 -90% of all PP is conducted in Lightroom (or Aperture). I do export to PS occasionally but only for Lab colourspace, to stich Panos., and to blend (rarely). All of that can be achieved in CS3. I raely spend more than 2-5 mins per image in PP. I do not need more time because the images do not require more and LR/Aperture are fast.
In the near future I doubt if many photographers will spend time at all in PS. They simply will not need to. Photoshop was never designed as the tool of choice for photographers was it? We sort of adopted it.
The fact is CS4 is not worth the money to upgrade for photographers.
Nick,
It sounds like you went searching forums for a fight. Why leave negative comments about photoshop in a photoshop blog? If it is not for you, move along. Your comments are neither constructive nor helpful.
I am not looking for a fight, that is my opinion based on huge experience. Just because this is a Photoshop Blog does it mean you have to leave positive comments? That really would be inane.
Nick is such an idiot. One of those guys who start things in forums.
I just discovered the carousel feature in Bridge. Let’s lobby hard to get it into Lightroom!!
In CS3 Bridge would slow my old Powerbook G4 1.5GHz way down. And sometimes PS would open it up without asking. Now it’s more than usable — no more spinning rainbows.
PS is also much less CPU intensive, much more responsive — even though I don’t have a GPU that it can take advantage of. Most of the Designer Suite is faster with the exception of sluggish Fireworks, which is a grave disappointment.
And as you guys mentioned earlier, the new (excellent) user interface shaves minutes off every hour of production time.
Reason to upgrade –> Speed Speed Speed!
May I have your attention?! Nick and 85% of his friends are not upgrading, thank you.
I use Lightroom and it’s a great cataloging system as well as an overall correction tool. I use it daily. But when I have clients that want to make changes or clean things up, etc.. I use Photoshop to do the things I can’t in Lr. It then becomes a need for speed!
It’s the UI that makes it worth the money. It saves time in so many ways and I think that it DOES represent a good value, for the fact that I consider my time very valuable. One thing that has been hasn’t been mentioned yet is the app Configurator, giving you the ability to create your own custom panel, it’s fantastic!
If Adobe had given us a Bridge 3 that worked the way it was suppose to work,
I would have probably upgraded, but instead they want me to buy a new better Bridge,
that should have been a free upgrade because of all the problems B3 had.
Times are tough, the digital era is a vicious circle of, “faster, better, here’s your software”, oh, sorry, we haven’t worked out all the kinks, is not the chosen path I’m taking anymore.
Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me Three times. Shame on me.
PS. Photoshop is the greatest program ever to be invented for photographers, graphics,
etc. just be fair with us.
In the last parts of the video Dave mentions you can scale the brush holding down modifyer keys (either Ctrl or Option.) Is this a feature only available in PS Extended? I have CS4 with the standard version of PS and I cannot get this to work.